2013 Giro d'Italia Stage 8: Gabicce Mare - Saltara 54,8 km ITT

[Escarabajo]

After all that has happened the last two days it's still back to Nibali v Wiggins!

What?????????

 

[Ruudz0r]

Very happy with the performances of Santambrogio and Pozzovivo! I expected they would have lost quite a bit more today.

 

[Escarabajo]

Henao 7th on GC!!

Oh well!! That's life, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Terrible first part, but the second part was on par.

First time sector beaten by Nibali. Second time sector beaten by Dowsett. Third time sector beaten by Evans.

Non of that is on par for the form he has claimed to have - not even close.


Anyhow, time to see how strong Astana are.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

About Wiggins being ill, that hasn't been the case, according to the sky management

 

[Magnus]

doesn't wiggins always have a relatively slow first part of ITTs?

I think he's usually "negative split" but today was just terrible with mechanical and bad descending/cornering.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

retract my statement about gesinks flat, he didnt have a flat tire, just twitter bs

 

[maxmartin]

Lolwhat? You dare accuse me of anything? Grow up, child swimming in flatnesses.

dare, who do you think you are? Another noble Sir? Can't back up your own words, backless

 

[hrotha]

Henao 7th on GC!!

Oh well!! That's life, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Why would he want to bite Kelderman.

 

[Orvieto]

As a spectator, this Giro is much more interesting at this point than it could have been. We all feared Wiggins would be 3 minutes ahead at this point. Now Sky will have to do something in the mountains. Perhaps we'll see a change of leader from them. The climbers will optimistic. Scarponi, who could have been out of it, will think he has some hope to do something. Hesjedal will have to attack. Cadel emerging as a dark horse. Racing!

 

[wwabbit]

Really really hoping that Wiggo has form. He will have to attack and if hes going well there could be some proper fireworks. If he hasnt got form it will now be a procession

Even discounting his lack of luck, he is obviously not in the same form as he was last season, whereas Nibali has definitely grown stronger. Even if he is able to keep up with Nibali on the mountain stages, I can't see him taking enough time on the MTT. I think the only hope Wiggins has is with Nibali getting tired in the final week. It's definitely advantage Nibali now but it's not over yet.

 

[maxmartin]

retract my statement about gesinks flat, he didnt have a flat tire, just twitter bs

I can see him on the podium

 

[Magnus]

First time sector beaten by Nibali. Second time sector beaten by Dowsett. Third time sector beaten by Evans.

Non of that is on par for the form he has claimed to have - not even close.


Anyhow, time to see how strong Astana are.

But he gained one minute on both Evans and Nibali didn't he?

 

[Richeypen]

About Wiggins being ill, that hasn't been the case, according to the sky management

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr they would say that either way unless they wanted to advertise that their leader was struggling. Would basically be telling other teams to attack them.

 

[gerundium]

dowsett says he put out 357 watts avg?

 

[Bala Verde]

Does anyone have the climbing times?

 

[pastronef]

mmmm Ryder must of had some problems today
on the other side Cadel is very good, and his team does not have to control the race tomorrow and before the finish on tuesday.

 

[movingtarget]

So much for the first week not being important. Ryder could have been out of it altogether without the time he gained. Yesterday's stage will come back to haunt Wiggins.

 

[gerundium]

Does anyone have the climbing times?

diff. between second timecheck and final?

 

[webvan]

Henao proves himself the real team leader. We've seen this before with Froome.

Really? Henao was not very fast in the climb, 7:15" vs 7:00" Wiggo...

 

[the asian]

Wondering what will ASIAN say? he told me Intaxausti is better than Nibali in ITT LOL

He normally is. It was an unusually bad ITT from Benat and an unusually good ITT from Nibs.

Anyway as a guy who picked Nibali for the win in every poll so far, I cannot be more happier at this unexpected success.

 

[Netserk]

Does anyone have the climbing times?

Evans 6'55
Wiggo 7'00
Nibali 7'03

 

[Magnus]

Does anyone have the climbing times?

The climbing time is from last time check to finish, so they should possible to calculate easily.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

cheering with optimism for Cadel and Scarponi now

 

[zapata]

Can't imagine wiggins attacking much. He'll finish with, or slightly behind, Nibali on every road stage. And then there's the matter of the MTT..if he is indeed ill now, and recovers greatly, he could conceivably win the race there, but I bet against it.