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is there time bonus in the TT ?
Tom should take that back in the TT
A hard call. Based on the opening TT Dumoulin would gain 80-90 seconds on Yates but we don't know what effect the cumulative fatigue of two weeks' racing has had on either of them. Makes for a very interesting TT on Tuesday.
Tomorrow's stage is also lumpy. I'd expect them both to attack Dumoulin - he cracked here last year.
We'll then see how relative things are on Tuesday. If Froome comes into form before a rest day and a TT he could prove very dangerous .
tomorrow
I can see Sky/Froome tapping out Dumoulin on Tre Croci and then Froome doing his latest descending trick onward tbh.
I’m actually excited to watch tomorrow’s stage, could be fireworks and really light up the Giro with multiple contenders. I’m also wondering if Aru could come back.
Tomorrow looks like the kind of stage that late-career contador would have set fire to
I’m really hoping both Tom and Froomidge don’t catch Yates 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Just watched the highlights, great rides from all three of them tbh. Tomorrow looks like anything could happen!
I’m really hoping both Tom and Froomidge don’t catch Yates
'Froomidge'?
great rides from all three of them tbh.
think they'll all be pretty satisfied with the days work..... Froome might of hoped to gain more time on Yates & Tom but will be pleased he had better legs, Tom will be glad to keep it around the 30 seconds when he could have easily lost a couple of minutes on that brute. Yates probably thinks now if he can stay on or close to Froomes wheel he won't lose the Jersey to Him but would have liked more time on Tom.
Great and brutal battle. 2 Brits at the top, awesome!
I feel really sorry for George Bennett. He had a serious mechanical at the base of the Zoncolan and had to wait for a replacement bike. Lost over a minute standing round due to the chaos of no support cars on the climb. I think he ended up taking Gesinks bike eventually and stormed up the climb passing most of the field and did one of the fastest times of all up. The TV coverage missed it all. Still only lost less than 2 minutes to Yates and is still 8th on GC. Go George! Just need a bit more luck on the remaining climbs.
Still some tough climbing to come next week too. I'm certainly rooting for Simon but the TT?
but the TT?
after a rest day too, easy to blow up on, they'll be plenty of nervous riders.
very tentative on the downs , bunch of girls! he who dares dies 😉
Yates attacks
froome in trouble here
and again, here hoping
Froome a minute back on pink.... this kind of panache in the pink will win the lad a lot of fans
he's a man on a mission! flying ! keep it on the road boy!
Yates is giving it some, Dumoulin getting a bit of an armchair ride from the others in the chasing group
Tomorrow looks like the kind of stage that late-career contador would have set fire to
or a young Yates !!!
Toms having to work now though !
froome is gone here blimey!
He's absolutely smashed the pro peloton here! (he kicks out a lot of power for a lightweigh! )
Tom gone
Toms gone from the chasers come on Yates you can win it here
no one can live with him, mind blown
wow!!!!!
Good ride by Tom to get back in
yep he's a gutsy rider
he's got the 2 minutes he said he needed!
Whats italian for chapeau?
Capello ?
Well that was a nice days racing. Good fight from Tom but Simon Yates is a man possessed.
And he's British to boot!
Great ride form him there, is he lined up to do the Tour Double?
Looks like Froome over committed yesterday, tough day for the Sky domestiques as they normally give it all for victory
Blimey, what a ride, long range solo attack in the leaders jersey with no team mates in sight, proper old school racing.
Pleeeeeease be clean, please please please!
looks like an ultegra & 32 out back on the Yates bike (though he never leaves the big ring crafty!)
Yates does seem to be smashing it every day.
he does seem to be gauging his efforts well though, more opportunistic taking of the time bonus on offer than “smashing it” 3 well timed efforts have paid big dividends !
besides there are 2 pan flat sprinters stages up next before the Zoncolan saturday will give him (and his team) a chance to sit in let qsf do all the work.
I think we can safely say he smashed it today !!! One of the finest Stage race performances from a Brit
Cracking stage today - really hoping Yates can hold it to Rome. We're flying out there on Friday for the weekend - can't wait!
Wow well done. Froomes done.
Holy Mahloli ☝️👀
Just how Awesome is this guy? Only the second guy to take 3 stages in Pink.
Folklore being written, featuring an English Bloke.
And for the first time ever we know that they don’t just switch brothers mid-race
featuring an English Bloke
Surely he is virtually an honorary Italian by now? To win your third stage in pink on a stage like that, in that manner kind of makes you a bit of a legend in your own lifetime no matter what the result in Rome. If he wins in Rome they will have the passport, a garage of prancing horses, a beautiful woman and the pope ready to pursued him to change allegiance.
I still think he is will have his work cut out to still have pink after the ITT on Tuesday but whatever it's going to make it a brilliant last week. Dumoulin vs Yates really is a dream toe to toe to watch for the spectator.
So for the TT Dumolin put 20s into him over 9km, this one is 34km with 2:11 in the bag. So 3.8s/KM vs 2.2 in Stage 1?
18, 19 & 20 still look like they will suit the climbers too with uphill finishes on some decent hills
So for the TT Dumolin put 20s into him over 9km, this one is 34km with 2:11 in the bag. So 3.8s/KM vs 2.2 in Stage 1?
Yes, on paper Yates looks very safe but fortunately sport is not always that easy. I guess it depends how much Yates has had to burn himself to get the results and how much he can recover tomorrow. Dumoulin too for that matter. But TTing is a funny old thing - people who are proper good at it can hold their form much longer that the rest and gaps open up more at the end of the course. Stage 1 was a testing little lumpy prologue that looked more like an individual crit. Tuesday is a proper testers course.
I 'think' barring accident it's Yates' to loose from here but it would be great for sport if it's a proper fight all the way.