2014 Giro d'Italia, Stage 15: Valdengo-Plan Di Montecampione (225 km)

[happytramp]

Time for a new "Rate the Giro" poll.

 

[Marco Pantani]

Brilliant. This Giro delivers.

Obviously Quintana isn't at his best yet, but Aru was fantastic. Pozzo looked bad the whole climb and he was.

Lots of guys need to attack. Awesome racing to come.

 

[Red Rick]

Cadel Evans what a champion. Always, always dropping like a stone.

fixed that bit for you

 

[Rollthedice]

Fantastic Aru! Uran has the best poker face in this Giro.

 

[GuyIncognito]

vetooo ‏@ammattipyoraily 1m

#Giro, GC (Stage 15/21): 1. Uran, 2. Evans +1:03, 3. Majka +1:.50, 4. Aru +2:24, 5. Quintana +2:40.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Great... No grandpa II going to win.
Uran is the man. I´ll bet today if I get around 1:1.8 (or even a little less)
The only way to lose now is him having a crash....

 

[hughmoore]

Great stage, loved Aru's smile and joy over the finish line.


Hugh

 

[The Blues]

Aru, Duarte, and Rolland was very impressive today.
Biggest dissapointment was, by far, Pozzovivo.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Still a bit off the '12 Vuelta.

Still a week for them to get the race going though, that Vuelta was exciting in 20-minute bursts at the end of each stage, but only really the one stage that was exciting for much longer than that.

 

[luckyboy]

This is going to be best gt since 2010 Giro boys and girls

Maybe this week will be. First two were still dire though

 

[Ruby United]

I think maybe aru?

No, majka still has the white jersey

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Joined the Aru fan club today. Superb effort and great celebration!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Finally some great GC action.
Grande win for Aru, who now needs a thread.

 

[phanatic]

Aru looks like a young Nibali, great effort!

Better than Nibali I thought, more like Basso of ten years ago. (no clinic)

 

[kingjr]

Uran blew himself up, why the hell did he attack previously? Maybe he saw pozzo was bad otherwise really dumb.

No he's clever he follows politicians on twitter

 

[killswitch]

Hi guys. As expected really.

Good call

 

[roundabout]

Oh, viva Geniez!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kelderman white jersey?

Ofcourse not. Majka was in the white jersey and did better. And Aru did even far better today.

Majka will just hold on, but Aru is not far behind

 

[The Hitch]

Astana already knew Aru was going to win. THey had a pic ready for him

Complimenti da tutti noi @FabioAru1 @AstanaTeam Good Job

 

[The Hitch]

Very good call.

Well, that final climb was fun. Great stuff from Fabio Aru.

Thank you. Will brag about it later

 

[TANK91]

I told you so, i predicted it(Skip Bayless quote). I said Italy will always have a new generation comming they always do when one dies(Basso) their will be one to step up(Aru). Next breakthrough will probably be Cattaneo or Rosa in terms of climbing mountains, hope Aru can podium.

I think Uran, Quintana, Majka, Aru, Evans will be top 5. I wish people would shut up about Evans though, why guys his age are now entering further and further back to the gruppetto, Evans keeps on over achieveing would be nice for him to get props at his age.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Is this the same Fabio Aru that couldn't live with Joe Dombrowski on the big climbs, 2 years ago?

An OK finish, but really not as great as some are making out.
A few kms of action as opposed to the final km and a half.
Single mountain stages are all a bit meh.

Disappointed that Keldermerckx slipped a bit.
Hope it's not a sign of things to come.

 

[willbick]

is it just me or does quintana do the shortest attacks ever?

 

[mastermind]

Ofcourse not. Majka was in the white jersey and did better. And Aru did even far better today.

Majka will just hold on, but Aru is not far behind

ahh, ofcourse, not paying attention

 

[ILovecycling]

These GC gaps are just perfect for great 3rd week!