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Giro D'Italia Stage 3: Enna to Etna (150km)

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    #62
    Coneygree
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    Pity Vlasov abandoned as he might have done something once Fuglsang typically falls away.

    Surely Nibali has to fancy his chances now. It would be a nice story if Kruijswijk won after his bad luck a few years back. Almeida is still a decent price!


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    #63
    Dodge
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    Video of the Thomas crash

    https://twitter.com/salxber/status/1313113236552777730?s=21


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    #64
    Dodge
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    Another angle

    https://twitter.com/salxber/status/1313114965620994051?s=21


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    #65
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    There were loads of bottles on the road, wtf?

    He looked like he came down really hard there.


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    #66
    lissard
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    Now that was bad luck - taken out by a stray bidon.


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    #67
    Inquitus
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    Dodge wrote: »
    Video of the Thomas crash

    Looks pretty nasty for a neutral zone crash, bidons everywhere.


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    #68
    EC1000
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    One stray bottle is understandable - there were loads of them on a narrow street??


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    #69
    lissard
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    It looks like they all came from inside the peloton. Didn't even look bumpy, very strange. Thomas must have killed an Italian Albatross in a former life - he has no luck in this race whatsoever.


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    #70
    Bambaata
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    Crash didnt even seem that bad but why the hell were there so many stray bidons!!


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    #71
    G1032
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    Ouch. That looked a very nasty crash. He hit the the road hard there.


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    #72
    at1withmyself
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    Bambaata wrote: »
    Crash didnt even seem that bad but why the hell were there so many stray bidons!!

    I must have watched a different one then you, poor lad went down hard and that looked painful.


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    #73
    at1withmyself
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    Dodge wrote: »
    Incredible stage. Honestly thought the Giro was between Thomas and Yates and they’re both gone already

    I was the same as you, after stage 1 I was ready to write it off but in true Giro style its only kicking off!


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    #74
    G1032
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    Surely riders weren't jettisoning bidons in the neutral zone?? But the road didn't look too bumpy or bumpy enough for bidons to fall out of the cage?


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    #75
    Eamonnator
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    Bambaata wrote: »
    Crash didnt even seem that bad but why the hell were there so many stray bidons!!

    There was a little stretch of cobbles just before the crash. I think that bottles were thrown out of cages on that stretch and were still being knocked about after the cobbles.


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    #76
    Mefistofelino
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    Plus there's a sharp dip onto the cobbles


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    #77
    velo.2010
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    Rotten luck for Thomas... he doesn't deserve it.

    The riders and organisers are at odds with each other other rider safety, street furniture etc. One simple thing they could do is pick one type of bottle cage and bottle design thats safe and secure and stick with it; team bottles and neutral service bottles should all be the same design.


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    #78
    MPFGLB
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    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Tomorrow stage is the one to watch


    Need to see if Thomas and Yates have any competition


    Well that turned out to be true ..about the one to watch anyway

    Really strange about Simon Yates
    In fact both Yates brothers have now gone to GTs in top form and come out pretty early and were dropped
    They usually rally to win stages but their GT ambitions are very strange


    Just few years ago MS were the prospective team to win GTs with both Yates and Chaves and now ?

    Maybe they will go back to being a TTT and sprinters team ..they had more results when they were


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    #79
    Raoul Duke
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    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Well that turned out to be true ..about the one to watch anyway

    Really strange about Simon Yates
    In fact both Yates brothers have now gone to GTs in top form and come out pretty early and were dropped
    They usually rally to win stages but their GT ambitions are very strange


    Just few years ago MS were the prospective team to win GTs with both Yates and Chaves and now ?

    Maybe they will go back to being a TTT and sprinters team ..they had more results when they were

    I wouldn't rule Yates out yet. He's not that far behind and he might have time to find his legs again. The standard at the top isn't that great and are catchable for an in-form Yates.


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    #80
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Raoul Duke wrote: »
    I wouldn't rule Yates out yet. He's not that far behind and he might have time to find his legs again. The standard at the top isn't that great and are catchable for an in-form Yates.

    You very much get the sense when looking at the group of 'favourites' yesterday that they're a level below the top GC riders. It will certainly be interesting to watch because it feels like it's entirely unpredictable!


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    #81
    Inquitus
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    Raoul Duke wrote: »
    I wouldn't rule Yates out yet. He's not that far behind and he might have time to find his legs again. The standard at the top isn't that great and are catchable for an in-form Yates.

    Did you watch the Mitchelton Scott youtube summary of the stage, they looked genuinely shocked when Yates was dropped.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl61SAqSCw0&t=0s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl61SAqSCw0


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    #82
    CantGetNoSleep
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    Could we yet see Thomas, Froome and Bernal on the same GT team this year at the Vuelta?


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    #83
    Dodge
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    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    Could we yet see Thomas, Froome and Bernal on the same GT team this year at the Vuelta?

    Carapaz too. Doubt it but would be funny


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    #84
    CantGetNoSleep
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    They can hardly go in with Froome as sole leader in any case given how disastrous their GC form has been


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    #85
    Dodge
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    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    They can hardly go in with Froome as sole leader in any case given how disastrous their GC form has been

    Fractured pelvis for Thomas so he won’t be going to Vuelta


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