Surely he could bring his own pink suit along - once you've developed a posh material it can't be that hard to make a different coloured one, can it ?Yes that was me. Endura spent thousands on optimising everything about Quintana's skin suit (special fabrics, placement, seams, etc.) so going to the Giro sponsors suit, despite it being made for him, will still cost him seconds.
(after all, we'd all have been expecting NQ to be in pink and needing to defend)
Grrrrr TT's boring as watching paint dry.
But this I'll watch the last hour of, Obvz.
Surely he could bring his own pink suit along
Santini pay a lot of money to sponsor the jerseys. I believe you have to wear the official sponsors suit if you are in a jersey.
a bit err late 🙂
bloody great lump/ridge/chasm in road !!!!! 😯
otherwise very fast smooth roads
so were looking at 34 mins @ 51kph, is it long enough for tom to gain the time ?
Last TT was 50 mins and Tom put 2 mins into Nibali, Zakarin, Mollema, Pinot and Quintana. Speeds are higher so the gaps will be smaller but a minute isn't an unreasonable expectation in about 35 mins.
2seconds/km is what people keep quoting Dumopoo will put into NQ
jeez burned past him ! 😯 looks like a big mans course!
2seconds/km is what people keep quoting Dumopoo will put into NQ
1.8 s/km is what he needs to put into Quintana if he is to overhaul his lead. I think he managed over 4 s/km in the previous ITT.
those bonus seconds from yesterday would have been very useful
Flat/gentle decline and high speeds mean that power and aero are the major things - no incline to give the lighter rider any help.
I'm going 2 minutes TD > NQ
<crosses fingers>
Thing is at those speeds aero is a huge factor and Quintana is tiny and an awful lot of work has gone into making him very slippy. Dumoulin would probably prefer a rolling course.
Pure power course imo, and TD has ~100W more to play with
Jos Van Emden 6.1
not to forget theres another 2 riders for Tom to worry about (not including those behind).
Pure power course imo, and TD has ~100W more to play with
Tom really should do it... but Quintana has pulled out some surprisingly good TT results late into stage races.
not to forget theres another 2 riders for Tom to worry about (not including those behind).
And Pinot is a better time triallist than the last TT stage suggests. He had a shocker. I reckon he'll beat Nibali into second place with Quintana down in fourth or maybe even 5th if Zakarin has a really good one.
van emden is absolutely battered - that's a good benchmark for the day, 33.08
as an aside for those watching on Eurosport, why do they keep advertising the Tour of Azkaban which according to the advert finished 3 weeks ago?
Get rid of it, show the one from the Israeli tourist board a bit more (in general I don't like 'Israel' but for some reason I enjoy the advert)
for some reason I enjoy the advert
can't possibly think what that reason would be... 😀
I'm hoping the instagrammer who came up with that idea was involved or credited
https://www.instagram.com/muradosmann/?hl=en
It's "why do they have an ad break every 10 minutes?"
... as well as "must go to Tel Aviv" 😀
... had forgotten that - Yates/Jungels. That's a tough one for Yates
Yates sounds resigned to losing to Jungles.
Top 5 so far looks encouraging for Dumoulin.
sky abandoning marginal gains - safety pins on their numbers ?
looks like all the sky riders get the 3d printed ti bars 😯
Niro pushing 56-11 😯
Does anyone else have to do the 5,4,3,2,1 countdown.
I always F it up, forgetting to go thumb back up on three. Very amateur.
Four more chances to get it right.
Gaaaghhh!
3 more
Tom is up, he is well slammed for a big guy !
Pinot looks ragged at the first chicane 🙂
Jungles going well, not looking good for Yates.
Oof.....no bad legs so far
tom is flying !
Hope Quintana's chain snaps
2 seconds down on Van Emden at the first checkpoint. Fast.
Saying Pinot already 26s down on Dumoulin. He's done for the win then.
Kom op Tom!
Kom op Tom!
(I thought saying it twice would help)
Oooof that is big. Reports that Dumoulin averaged 60 kph to the first split.
Tom has the hammer down now.
only made ca half of the time to Nibali so far; if he's trying to get the seconds to put them under pressure and then cling on he'd better have the keys to his suitcase of courage handy!
