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Well done Hugh for smacking that idiot fan. Hugh had been shouting at the fan without any response.
It's hard enough trying to climb up something that steep, without a pedestrian, running alongside, blocking and filming the race.
I've Almeida in my dream team and have loved watching him plug away to keep in contention, great effort.
Hindley looks ever so slightly the strongest climber to me at the moment. But blimey, there's barely a silver rizla between them.
My dream team seems to be descending much like Niballi! Hopefully some fireworks tomorrow.
thermonuclear
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Carapaz, Hindley and Landa did their best or at least top 3 best climbing performances of their career, pushing huge watts 6.20 w/kg for 36 minutes on Santa Cristina after they had done 14.63 kj/kg/h (mega fatigue) for 5 hours and 20 minutes before the climb.
nibali would have won that if his bars were not 6 miles wide #danbigham
The scenery is fab. We've been skiing in Aprica, Passo Tonale and Folgarida. Lovely to see these areas in the spring.
Looks to be a good breakaway group.
Bugger, Yates abandons. He's been towards / off the back all day
https://twitter.com/GreenEDGEteam/status/1529463222935379970
The scenery is fab.
Isn't it! That descent into the clouds was spectacular.
Almeida now out. My team is about to nose dive (even more than it has done).
out ? how's that ?
Covid
Robbie McEwen and Dan Lloyd are a great commentary double act.
The scenery is fab.
Italy does do good scenery. Looking forward to the Dolomites in a couple of days, that'll be spectacular.
Some lovely descents... that last one would be epic on my Supermoto. !
I didn't know that about Sonny Colbrelli either !!!! That was a shock.... and a shame.
Went for Yates and Almeida, typical
Now only a successful Nibali do or die can save my team
I too went for Yates and Almeida.
After being in the top 3 for days and days I'm now plummeting without them.
the gc race is kinda like 3 super domestiques duking it out, none of them quite have the knock out blow to floor the others. and Richie Porte is out the back with 100km to go.
he's stepped off with gastro enteritis! tough riding ejecting liquid from both ends !!
It got a bit dusty in here when Richie stepped off.
At the age of 37, its his last Grand tour.
The Dolomites really are stunning. 😍
Shame that there's really bugger all else happening here. Nice scenery but the riders are basically playing a waiting game, there's no big GC battle.
agreed - they'd better do some racing soon (some domestiques - and Nibali - seem to be popping which might help)
scenery is magical - we skied at Arabba one year and it is amazing round there
boom!
Boom! Hindley looking good.
Carapaz has blown completely
Hats off to Covi too.
Hats off to Covi too.
He absolutely deserved that. Great ride although he definitely benefitted from the fact that no-one behind was really riding until the very last couple of km.
Surprised how much time RC lost so quickly. One slight advantage might be that he gets his own Ineos skinsuit tomorrow instead of the less "fitted" pink one provided by the organisation but I doubt that's enough to make up 90" over a 17km course.
I was waiting for more analysis of the moment he 'blew' as it almost looked like he had been impeded, i.e. the gap suddenly went from a couple of metres to ten...
Also - after the kerfuffle in the final corners of yesterday's stage, why was the runner up complaining so vociferously when he appeared to be giving the stage winner an MvdP style 'thumbs up' as he crossed the line? Was it supposed to be ironic?
well ridden lad!
A good Giro with some cracking days.
5th and last in the STW mini-league...I'll take that. 😁
A good Giro with some cracking days.
Some quite entertaining days in the mountains, even if the GC battle was quite subdued until the end.
Seemed like the breakaways had more luck than normal, overall. Lots of chat about it being a hot and gruelling race, maybe some connection there?
A convincing win for Hindley in the end, and I look forward to seeing Bora mixing it up in future GC contests. They were a breath of fresh air.