So well deserved!

blimey

Dumoulin was shitting himself till he saw 60 seconds at the 1k mark.

Superb stuff. Well deserved. My nerves are shot! 🙂

Best Grand Tour for years, justice for Doumilan! Wow.

Italian organisation!! even at the end those splits / target times were wrong, he won by 30-odd seconds in the end!

Dumoulin was shitting himself till he saw 60 seconds at the 1k mark

Not for the first time in this race.

fantastic bike racing

Must admit, I didn’t really fancy the idea of a last day TT but it turned out to be great viewing. I guess there’d always be riders ragging it for places, even if the leader was out of range all along

Fantastic finish. Gutted for Yates and Pinot, but a well deserved win for Tom

Laurens Ten Damme just casually dropping the f-bomb there 😀

Fantastic race this year. Deserved winner.

Hmmm.

I wonder just how much Dutch Beer will be drunk tonight.

Gotta love Tem Dams attitude, another super cool Dutchman.

Steve Cummings barely containing his excitement there.

Well deserved winner – so glad Quintana or Nibali didn`t get it.

Was surprised to hear he has signed up till 2021 with Team Sunweb – I thought he would have made a superb addition for Team Sky; a super domestique for Froomey … and a natural successor too.

1. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) 90hrs 34mins 54secs
2. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +31secs
3. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain) +40secs
4. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +1min 17secs
5. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +1min 56secs
6. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/AG2R) +3mins 11secs
7. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek) +3mins 41secs
8. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) +7mins 04secs
9. Adam Yates (GB/Orica) +8mins 10secs
10. Davide Formolo (Ita/Cannondale) +15mins 17secs

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqbYMQaLOI[/video]

I thought he would have made a superb addition for Team Sky; a super domestique for Froomey

Is that something to aspire to? I see no reason why he can’t beat Froome. Though I do wonder if Sunweb have jumped in with the first offer before he won, and got inundated with offers for more money elsewhere…

Would he have won if Sky were challenging for GC in the last week ? As for Tom vs Froome, Froome is not so vulnerable in TT as Niro and Nibbles (and has the stronger team)

Well done Tom , a worthy champion .

Brilliant that Tom won it! Super consistent and far classier than the other two.

a GT the domain of the all-rounder again! hurrah!
imagine if G/Landa hadn’t been taken out. could have been even more exciting!

Goddammit, Eurosport have punted the highlights to 10pm, is there anywhere to watch them online?

(apologies, I’m sure this came up earlier but I’m not going through 25 pages!)

thats a wrap
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etbj-zBSHG4[/video]

Was surprised to hear he has signed up till 2021 with Team Sunweb – I thought he would have made a superb

Inrng, who usually knows his sh1t, says there’s an extended contract on the table but TD hasn’t signed it yet. He be mad to before a GT, but it’d be cool if he did as it would be nice to see an upstart team grow alongside a GC contender like Orica with Chavez and the Yates brothers seem to be.

Great day for Dutch cycling – stage and overall at Giro, Vos also won today and CX star Matthew VDP came second to Shurter in MTB XC world cup.

13fm – look on steephill.tv. They usually have something you can watch.

Thanks Stevious, I found Cycling Weekly’s 5 minute round up, probably enough since I knew the result anyway!

Great result for Tom. I would like to see Landa given a good CG opportunity before long.

Gullen wins An Post Ras

Wonder how he’d have faired in today’s TT….

Woop! Woop!

Massive thanks to Klunk for the summaries/previews. Top work, really top work.

So pleased for Tom D, seems to be a decent racer, a believable racer. Good for him!

Wonder how he’d have faired in today’s TT….

Beat Van Emden and Jungles at the worlds last year. Though as last day of a 3 week GT he’d probably not have gone as well.

Nice write up on cyclingnews…

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dumoulin-i-never-expected-to-win-the-giro-ditalia/

Dumoulin, however, had other priorities on Sunday evening, as shadows began to lengthen over Piazza Duomo. “Next up is beer, barbecue. That’s my future,” Dumoulin said. “Beyond that, I’m not thinking.”

Be some party!

Be some party!

A bunch of cyclists at the end of a 3 week tour. It’ll last til about 10pm, they’ll all have about 2 pints then everyone will be completely flaked out!

Good win though, I’m pleased he got it. A bit different to the usual procession of the same half dozen names. I wonder how G would have got on were it not for that big crash…?

The Greatest Show on Earth, how things used to be, 1974 Giro

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-cBrdd9mgw[/video]

and 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRmYQ8—tk
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRmYQ8—tk[/video]

Is simon yates doing le tour?

a_a, yes, and I think both Yates’ are down for the vuelta (though that’s a way away)

Sunweb go all soppy 🙂

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QU_4tXFYfo[/video]

love the vintage vids ^^^ especially the bit where the rider is bending his forks back into shape after a crash 🙂