2015 Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 5: Esanatoglia - Terminillo

[PremierAndrew]

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Pinot is not an abysmal ITT-er anymore

It's still not great. Amazed by how much he's improved his descending skills though more than anything else. Watching him downhill constantly made me nervous, a bit like pretty much every Sky rider these days...

 

[May0maniac]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

Voeckler is even worse.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

Voeckler is even worse.

Froome is not far behind!

 

[DBotero]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

With his ugly style he dropped "the greatest and most stylish cyclist that ever rode a bike",i think is a good compromise. I suppose you never saw Escartin riding.

 

[May0maniac]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

With his ugly style he dropped "the greatest and most stylish cyclist that ever rode a bike",i think is a good compromise. I suppose you never saw Escartin riding.

He dropped Coppi?

 

[webvan]

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Pinot is not an abysmal ITT-er anymore

He never was, he did have a tendency to start a bit fast though (TDS 2013 if memory serves), but he worked on it a lot this winter and it shows.

 

[Arredondo]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

With his ugly style he dropped "the greatest and most stylish cyclist that ever rode a bike",i think is a good compromise. I suppose you never saw Escartin riding.

Who is that?

 

[Joelsim]

Pinot has never been a bad TTer, not the best but certainly top 20 in every race. He has never been anywhere near as bad as Purito, which is something I really don't understand. Purito...if he had wanted to win something then you would imagine he would work on his really weak point.

 

[del1962]

Just watched the race, if Pozzovivo, Yates, Pinot and Contador had been prepared to work together, then they would have been closer to Quintana and Mollema, also Purito and Uran would not have got back

 

[May0maniac]

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Just watched the race, if Pozzovivo, Yates, Pinot and Contador had been prepared to work together, then they would have been closer to Quintana and Mollema, also Purito and Uran would not have got back

Yes, Mollema was also very smart and a went at the right time, he wasnt bettter than those guys but toay he was smarter.

 

[Bushman]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

With his ugly style he dropped "the greatest and most stylish cyclist that ever rode a bike",i think is a good compromise. I suppose you never saw Escartin riding.

I know, and I did praise him in my post, didnt I? It was just an observation regarding his style.

BTW im too young to have witnessed Escartin, unfortunately.

 

[May0maniac]

RAI was so embarassing, the wanted to give Quintana a new nickname and called him L'azteco, how ignorant can you be?
They even asked him how he likes that nickname, I like Alessandra De Stefano but asking him that question was pretty bad.
Hell, they might as wel call him the cowboy...

 

[Eshnar]

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Mollema must be the ugliest climber in the entire peloton. His style is awful.

Great ride by him, though. Should hold on for 3rd in GC.

With his ugly style he dropped "the greatest and most stylish cyclist that ever rode a bike",i think is a good compromise. I suppose you never saw Escartin riding.

Who is that?

Bugno, by a mile. (For the style I mean)

 

[Kwibus]

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RAI was so embarassing, the wanted to give Quintana a new nickname and called him L'azteco, how ignorant can you be?
They even asked him how he likes that nickname, I like Alessandra De Stefano but asking him that question was pretty bad.
Hell, they might as wel call him the cowboy...

The aztec? Oh dear god, that is shameful indeed.

 

[phil-i-am]

Alessandro must have read that Aztecs had lived in precolombian America

 

[greenedge]

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Just watched the race, if Pozzovivo, Yates, Pinot and Contador had been prepared to work together, then they would have been closer to Quintana and Mollema, also Purito and Uran would not have got back

Pozzivivo had recently had surgery and was probably content to just stick with Contador, same for Pinot. For Yates it was his first ride glued to the wheel of a GT great, he's too inexperienced to assume responsibility for the chase.

 

[roosink]

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I didn't see it, but it's good to see Purito is really back and it's good to see Quintana killing it again.

The TT will be interesting for the lower regions of the top 10, because it's very close and most of them are abysmal TTers. It would be hilarious if Poels could move up a few places by becoming 70th in a TT or something; but considering he only needs a few seconds on Purito, Pozzovivo, Yates or even Pinot he could do something with a bit of Etixx TT magic.

Expect Poels to ride a reasonably good time trial, I'd say top 20. He was awesome in the Giro's individual time trial last year and he is in good shape again.