2015 Giro d'Italia, stage 1: S.Lorenzo al Mare – Sanremo TTT

[Eshnar]

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Is there a link to the intermediate times? Gazzetta sucks. A document with numbers only would be fine as long as it works and get updated.

I'm using this one... ofc is not optimal http://www.tuttobiciweb.it/?page=live&cod=17

 

[sir fly]

Looks like it's going to be way off my 18 minutes estimate.
The map is deceiving. Lots off twists on the narrow path.

 

[Electress]

Re: 2015 Giro d'Italia, stage 1: S.Lorenzo al Mare – Sanremo

http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raiSport/dirette/ContentItem-4c8e671f-8f4f-4944-be7e-ad1838660caf.html
as long as it works, this is awesome.

Working for me ! Cheers! Get to practice my italian when I can no longer stand the Sky love-in on eurosport.

 

[Netserk]

So Ulissi was dropped by his team? That's bad, I had high hopes for him in the first week.

PS: Thanks Eshnar.

 

[Squirbos_19]

Androni with 20:29

 

[Jspear]

Androni gets 20:29

 

[Eshnar]

Nippo 11:16

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Jspear you are always a couple of secs late posting the time. Others are faster...

 

[Flamin]

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Looks like it's going to be way off my 18 minutes estimate.
The map is deceiving. Lots off twists on the narrow path.

Lots of twists?? there looks to be mostly (soft) headwind though.

 

[rune1107]

http://www.cyclingfans.com/giro-d-italia/live Intermediate times here Just scroll down to where it says "Giro TourTracker"

 

[Jspear]

Astana 19:39

 

[Netserk]

Cataldo is taking the longest pulls for Astana. Landa is basically skipping turns, he just rolls through. Would be easier to get better information if the pictures didn't constantly break up.

 

[Jspear]

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Jspear you are always a couple of secs late posting the time. Others are faster...

Check Astana.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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Jspear you are always a couple of secs late posting the time. Others are faster...

Check Astana.

Did. Nice job this time.

 

[TheGreenMonkey]

BMC carrying a rider. Atapuma?

 

[Rollthedice]

Aru was the first across the line? Seems like a good time for Astana.

 

[Eshnar]

Trek 10:58

 

[Jspear]

Can't tell who but Trek just dropped someone.

 

[sir fly]

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Looks like it's going to be way off my 18 minutes estimate.
The map is deceiving. Lots off twists on the narrow path.

Lots of twists?? there looks to be mostly (soft) headwind though.

Don't tell me the road through the town isn't twisty.
If it makes only 10% of the such a short route it knocks the average massively.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

haha- 3 weks of exploring parts of your body. Great quote

 

[TheGreenMonkey]

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Can't tell who but Trek just dropped someone.

Young Australian Calvin Watson.

 

[manafana]

Re: 2015 Giro d'Italia, stage 1: S.Lorenzo al Mare – Sanremo

great idea for an opening time trial, would been pretty interesting as an ITT too crowds been decent enough with all great viewing points

 

[Poursuivant]

Kirby not doing the Giro?!

 

[vedrafjord]

I'm really looking forward to the team time trial fad to die out. Even prologues were way better. Ideally you need head to head racing, but still some form of time gaps.

I was in an urban hill climb event last year that used to be a straight time trial, but was changed last year. The new format was: groups of two or three riders would have a straight race up the hill, with the winner going through to the next round until there were only 2 left in the final. I came second overall, shouldn't have tired myself out doing the over 30's competition too...

What if there was a similar stage i.e. riders split into groups of maybe 4? not too big anyway, and a load of mini races run on a very short hilly stage (1 classics type climb etc). Everyone would get their own time (wouldn't get same time for coming in less than a second down), could seed on last year's results and have the big GC guys last. Or just go on reverse order of the numbers so that riders 1, 11, 21, 31 were last.

Obviously you could get some advantage from drafting but the gaps would be tiny over a 21 stage grand tour.

 

[Squirbos_19]

Vini-Fantini with a decent time of 20:23