2014 Giro d' Italia: Stage 14 Aglie - Oropa (162 km)

[Dekker_Tifosi]

in your dreams

oh cmon even you have to admit Kelderman climbed far more impressively than you imagined.

 

[The Hitch]

Can't overlook Evans. Gained time on the leader who he showed he can drop.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

oh cmon even you have to admit Kelderman climbed far more impressively than you imagined.

see Keldermann thread

 

[murali]

Battaglin!!!! what a sprint.



watching this stage made up for all the lousy flat stages before this one.

WOW!!

 

[luckyboy]

 

[GuyIncognito]

This painted a picture. Tomorrow we find which are patters and which are likely one offs

 

[Gloin22]

oh cmon even you have to admit Kelderman climbed far more impressively than you imagined.

That wasnt the original point lol

 

[Kazistuta]

Todays stage did a serious effort to make up for the lack of interesting racing the last two weeks

Battaglin: Wauv, just wauv!

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

oh cmon even you have to admit Kelderman climbed far more impressively than you imagined.

who cares except always you. when real mountains start kelderman can't follow the real climbers (1500+ metre climbs) till now all we have had were middle mountains

 

[ILovecycling]

quintana is much better than he feels himself. I saw how surprised he looked at the finish when he dropped pozzo

I saw it too,fortunately its Giro and there are lot of mountains left.

I loved everything about this stage. Roll on the rest of the race!

me too

 

[The Hitch]

No one's talking about Majka and he's in 2nd

You're right that people aren't talking about the guy who's in second, but it ain't majka.

 

[Netserk]

Great stage today, as good as it could get really.

 

[rainman]

Awesome stage, Quintana so cool at the finish. Maybe he'll be more confidant now.

 

[Lupi33]

Can't overlook Evans. Gained time on the leader who he showed he can drop.

he road a smart race today
knows his limitations

i see it as a race in 3 and Uran is no longer one of them

 

[kingjr]

Ideal situation, the strongest climbers have still some minutes to catch up, and the (today) least impressive climber has the maglia rosa.

 

[Eshnar]

I was about to commit suicide at 50 km to go.
In the end it was a good stage.
They should have put more pressure on Uran though...
PS: So much for the last-hope-of-cycling Quintana...

 

[The Hitch]

Is tomorrow harder?

 

[classicomano]

Poels pulled a Froome there on the finish too bad he probably has to sacrifice his own GC for Uran somewhere in the next couple of stages.

 

[kingjr]

And hats off to Battaglin, true patience, saved himself some strength for the last k.

 

[scholar]

Todays stage did a serious effort to make up for the lack of interesting racing the last two weeks

Quoted for truth.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Is tomorrow harder?

Flat until the final climb which is pretty damn brutal
I've waited years to see it used again.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Can't overlook Evans. Gained time on the leader who he showed he can drop.

Yeh thats what I thought but his odds have gone from 12:1 to 21:1 ???

 

[Lupi33]

Ideal situation, the strongest climbers have still some minutes to catch up, and the (today) least impressive climber has the maglia rosa.

he looked in distress though
not a good sign this early in the race

 

[hfer07]

goddamn- at last- what an amazing stage!!! - a bit gutted by Pantano- he truly fought to the very end-gave everything - bu that's cycling- the entire peloton crumbled on that climb- Nairo is back!!! Pozzo looking good too- Rigo & OPQS did a horrible job controlling the race-Evans following as always & Hesjedal coming back to life too!!!

3rd week will a massacre!!!

 

[The Hitch]

he road a smart race today
knows his limitations

i see it as a race in 3 and Uran is no longer one of them

Evans sure as hell doesn't have a better chance to win this than Uran.