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Majka is only at 5'30 from Yates. It's way more dangerous than King. The breakaway has already 8 minutes. Interresting.

Half of them don't want to pull, there's no way the others will want to push hard and gain time.

Re: Re: He tried in the first week to evaluate his form, built form. But he also lost 2'30'' and knows he won't have a real shot at winning, even podium. I don't think it's a dumb move. If he targets the GC until Madrid he will do a top10, top5 at best. He may prefer to target some stages and...

Pinot doesn't want to target the GC I think. He may prefer a stage victory + good preparation for WC and IL than a 5th place in Madrid.

MS has Haig (20th at 4'29 on GC) in front. But I don't think the break will stay grouped for a long time. Half of them (Majka, Haig, Fraile, Pelizotti, Henao, Rolland, Anacona) won't work at all.

Wow i'm first. I put more time than usual to make my team. If expect to have 5 men in the top10 in Madrid (Quintana/Uran/Buchmann/Mas/De La Cruz). I'm pretty confident for 4 of them but worried for De La Cruz. But he's a popular pick he won't make a big difference.

Pelizzoti made a poor attack at the foot of the last climb (5k to go). He was quickly taken back before Teuns and then Alaf & kwiatko attacked. Nibali attacked under the flamme rouge, but that didn't last more that 200m. EDIT : well i'm not 100% sure it was pelizzoti with 5km to go, but it was...

About the Thomas's crash, it's really silly because there was only 2 curves in that prologue. It's not that he would have won even 10 seconds riding aggressively. To take the risk to fall heavily and to be out of le Tour just to gain 2 seconds in the dauphiné looks very stupid to me. Maybe he...

Why this innovation has popped just yesterday ? Why has ASO not spoke about it already ? I really don't get it. Either the different groups start with a large gap (say 1 minute or more) and this has a big influence on this particular stage, but also on all the preceding 16 stages because every...

Re: On the other hand, he only does WT events, and as he's becoming better he's given less opportunity by the big guns. Plus, he has zero pro win, even no top3 in WT if i'm not mistaken. He may miss something to be on top.

Re: Re: The best chance of a QS stage win today remains a sprint. I can't see them avoiding a very probable win to secure the point classification they have few chances to lose. And the best way to secure it could be to win today. And I'm not really sure Bennett wants it. Anyway we'll see if...

I don't get why this should be an obvious breakaway stage. Yes there is a serious climb at the start but : 1) it isn't that hard : bar a km at 7,5% at the start, it's only 3 km near 7,5% near the summit. Much easier than the climb at the start of stage 10, where bennett managed to remain with...

Bernal on the Vuelta, Buchmann, Latour & Roglic on the Tour. I can't see Carapaz or Wellens doing it on this Giro, except if there is a LOT of DNF, or more probably if they manage to be on several 10+ minutes breakaways. I think Dennis has more chance than them to manage a top10 in Italy...

I sent my team this morning, this will be my first CQ game. I know very little of the CQ ranking, so i don't expect much, but it will be fun :)

Pinot could target the Giro, and still go to the Tour and target stages. That's what he's done this year, but he felt ill at the tour. It's the best for every body : - same program than last year, so the preparation should be at least better - he is at the tour, to please sponsors, but don't...