Giro D'Italia Stage 20: Alba - Sestriere (190km)

at1withmyself

Final Day in the mountains to roll the dice but with a short time trial tomorrow will some need to keep something in the legs. Surely anyone outside the top 3 in GC will give something ago.

Big break with some Trek riders for Nibali maybe?

Riders in the break are:

Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R La Mondiale),
Andrea Vendrame (AG2R La Mondiale)
Jan Tratnik (Bahrain McLaren),
Filippo Fiorelli (Bardiani),
Kamil Malecki (CCC),
Elia Viviani (Cofidis),
Davide Ballerini (QuickStep),
Mikkel Frølich Honore (QuickStep),
Pieter Serry (QuickStep),
Tanel Kangert (EF Pro Cycling),
Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ),
Simon Guglielmi (Groupama FDJ),
Davide Cimolai (Israel Start-Up Nation),
Matthew Holmes (Lotto-Soudal)
Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes (Movistar),
Davide Villella (Movistar),
Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (NTT),
Matteo Sobrero (NTT),
Julien Bernard (Trek Segafredo),
Nicola Conci (Trek Segafredo)
Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates)

dahat

Any way to access the GCN app through an xbox? Tv adds annoying plus phone screen needed for various other sports!

neris

Hope Ineos & TGH do something today and put pressure on the 2 sunweb boys

dahat

dahat wrote: »

Any way to access the GCN app through an xbox? Tv adds annoying plus phone screen needed for various other sports!

Don't think the GCN app is available on consoles. The Eurosport player is though, probably not much use to you.

Did GCN roll out the web player to everyone yet? Could try that with Edge on the Xbox perhaps.

lawrencesummers

Do they Attack on the last day In the Giro or not like the TDF?

dahat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Don't think the GCN app is available on consoles. The Eurosport player is though, probably not much use to you.

Did GCN roll out the web player to everyone yet? Could try that with Edge on the Xbox perhaps.

Web player has been rolled out, should work fine with Edge one would think. Thanks!

at1withmyself

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Do they Attack on the last day In the Giro or not like the TDF?

Kind of yes in this case as tomorrow is a ITT but normally no if its a road/sprinter stage

dastardly00

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Do they Attack on the last day In the Giro or not like the TDF?

Well the final stage tomorrow is an individual time trial so the GC riders will give it 100%.

A lot of years the final stage in the Giro is a stage that ends in Milan and there would be a similar approach to the TDF with no GC riders attacking each other.

Dodge

If there was 3 seconds lead, they’d absolutely attack on the last day (if not a TT)

at1withmyself

Just Denis, TGH & Hindley at the front, everyone else dropped and still another ascent to go after the current one!

neris

Dennis pulling TGH & Hindley away from Kelderman

wirelessdude01

Dennis telling Hart to relax with that hand gesture.

neris

Dennis can't control this from the front for another 27k

Richard Hillman

Dennis will roll off at the start of the last climb like the last time

at1withmyself

Nice bunnyhop from Hindley there at what 60kph!

breezy1985

neris wrote: »

Dennis can't control this from the front for another 27k

Its Ineos anything is possible. Believe in miracles as Lance used to say

Inquitus

Meh I thought this was yesterday stage thread, as its stage 20 today

Inquitus

Wow looks like TGH is going to win the Giro, as things are going at the moment, Wilko out the back and Hindley TT's terribly. Currently TGH has 30 seconds in the bank for the TT, which is probably enough on its own.

velo.2010

Hatch giving us a 'This is Your Life' rundown on Geoghegan Hart at the moment.

Dodge

Hindley has to attack now. Only chance Sunweb have if winning is him putting minute(s) into Geoghegan Hart

Inquitus

Dodge wrote: »

Hindley has to attack now. Only chance Sunweb have if winning is him putting minute(s) into Geoghegan Hart

Agreed, Jai needs about a 30s buffer on TGH ahead of tomorrow.

retalivity

C'mon Hindley, do something!!!

CantGetNoSleep

Kelderman could still take this

at1withmyself

Great to still see Joao going for the podium!

Inquitus

at1withmyself wrote: »

Great to still see Joao going for the podium!

Aye respect to him, he needs to get a lot of time back on Wilko mind!

neris

Not a bad bad domestique is Ronan dennis

griffin100

Hatch is starting to become hard to listen to, I’d nearly prefer Carlton at this stage. Hatch reminds me of Phil Liggot

lennymc

does tgh get the pink jersey due to 2 stage wins? edit -cos they are on the same time now arent they?

neris

Sweet little baby Jesus that was good

breezy1985

griffin100 wrote: »

Hatch is starting to become hard to listen to, I’d nearly prefer Carlton at this stage. Hatch reminds me of Phil Liggot

Lots of similarities to the Liggott days

wirelessdude01

lennymc wrote: »

does tgh get the pink jersey due to 2 stage wins? edit -cos they are on the same time now arent they?

Comes down to the nano seconds who wears pink tomorrow.

velo.2010

HIndley was poor in that sprint. Might be just too much for Kelderman to come back in the TT. What would have happened if the planned stage had gone ahead? I think Hindley would have dropped TGH, but we'll never know.

Doc07

neris wrote: »

Dennis can't control this from the front for another 27k

He sort of did!

Inquitus

Doc07 wrote: »

He sort of did!

That he did, very impressive ride from Dennis!

Dodge

Doc07 wrote: »

He sort of did!

Yeah, but they didn’t pull out any time on that second climb. The initial burst did it and then the gap stayed the same. Odd really

TGH odds on now

Jai Hindley in Pink

neris

Hindley in pink but tgh on same time on 2nd

Inquitus

Helluva a TT tomorrow, standings after stage 20:

TGH very short price with the bookies now.

Inquitus

glasso wrote: »

TGH very short price with the bookies now.

Not surprising, he is a much better TTer than Hindley, what odds do they have him at?

wirelessdude01

Having something to fight for sometimes leads to people out doing themselves.

Remember Julian last year in the tour.

Inquitus

Inquitus wrote: »

Not surprising, he is a much better TTer than Hindley, what odds do they have him at?

varies.

1/7

2/9

Just looking to gauge the winner.

Inquitus

glasso wrote: »

varies.

1/7

2/9

Just looking to gauge the winner.

Aye, he probably needs to crash tomorrow, to fail to win the Giro!

dastardly00

Just keep in mind that Hindley was 49 seconds quicker than TGH in the Stage 1 ITT

Inquitus

dastardly00 wrote: »

Just keep in mind that Hindley was 49 seconds quicker than TGH in the Stage 1 ITT

TGH was 1min15s quicker than him on the Stage 14 ITT however:

Stage 1 ITT:

46

Jai
HINDLEY
SUNWEB TEAM
16:39
-
01:15

126

Tao
GEOGHEGAN HART
INEOS GRENADIERS
17:28
-
02:04

Stage 14 ITT

13

Tao
GEOGHEGAN HART
INEOS GRENADIERS
45:04
-
02:24

34

Jai
HINDLEY
SUNWEB TEAM
46:19
-
03:39

Mr. Cats

Inquitus wrote: »

TGH was 1min15s quicker than him on the Stage 14 ITT however

Stage 1 times were really affected by wind direction which changed during the day so hard to make any conclusion unless you know if they had the tail wind or not (presumably Hindley did).

Also at stage 1 TGH was a support rider for Thomas, probably not as bothered at that point for his own time.

Raoul Duke

glasso wrote: »

Also at stage 1 TGH was a support rider for Thomas, probably not as bothered at that point for his own time.

Thinking the same thing. I wonder how much he regrets not giving 100%. If indeed he did knock it back a little.

breezy1985

Raoul Duke wrote: »

Thinking the same thing. I wonder how much he regrets not giving 100%. If indeed he did knock it back a little.

Surely Hindley would be thinking the same thing?

breezy1985

breezy1985 wrote: »

Surely Hindley would be thinking the same thing?

Kelderman was well down the list of GC fancies compared to Thomas.

He hadn't done anything of any note in years.

Raoul Duke

breezy1985 wrote: »

Surely Hindley would be thinking the same thing?

True​