2016 Giro d'Italia - Castelrotto – Alpe di Siusi 10.8 km MTT

[rehy90]

ridiculous

 

[meat puppet]

Nibali surprisingly slow even IF the mechanical is factored out.

And folly wins the stage. Wow

 

[Tour_de_Calvados]

So close for Kruiswijk! Nibali losing significant time, set up well for final week

 

[ILovecycling]

Kruiswijk about 2 mins on Chavito overall?

 

[markene2]

Fun stage!

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Finally, a Russian stage win.

 

[winkybiker]

And cycling loses. This is a joke. Why are these guys even there? It stinks.

 

[Eshnar]

Well I did not expect any of this XD

 

[GuyIncognito]

Well, rest day and then we'll see who is "refreshed"

 

[Escarabajo]

Wow!

So much for the experts predicting the times on this MTT. LOL.

 

[saganftw]

dumoulin same time as roglic in prologue,now kruiswijk...lotto jumbo have no luck at all

 

[Irondan]

Crazy Giro, nobody would have predicted what the leaders board shows today.

 

[jsem94]

Nibali more than 2 minutes behind Kruijswijk. He will need to do some Fuente De next level stuff to win this Giro now. Or Kruijswijk just has to crack one day, but it's looking unlikely.

 

[luckyboy]

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And cycling loses. This is a joke. Why are these guys even there? It stinks.

lol, get real. What's the difference if one of the GC guys win?

 

[DBotero]

Re: 2016 Giro d'Italia - Castelrotto – Alpe di Siusi 10.8 km

Kruijswijk so close to win.Anyway amazing ride.

 

[SeriousSam]

So some relatively low key rider comes along to beat the GC climbers at a mountain time trial. Seems legit.

 

[DFA123]

Brilliantly set up race now. Chaves, Valverde, Nibali and Zakarin all will really fancy there chances of the overall now. Four strong teams looking to attack Kruiswijk is going to make for an epic last week.

 

[Andro]

Hopefully this means Nibali just says *** it and tries some crazy attacks in the last mountain stages.

 

[cineteq]

Re: 2016 Giro d'Italia - Castelrotto – Alpe di Siusi 10.8 km

How close can you get on winning a stage, for 2 days in row!

 

[ILovecycling]

Great Giro!

Nibali to attack like crazy in the 3rd week, hopefuly chaves too!

 

[GuyIncognito]

LottoNL set the winning time in all 3 TTs but only won 1 of them

 

[DenisMenchov]

Anyone bet on Foliforov?

 

[hfer07]

did Kruijswijk just win I'l Giro?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Cycling is going to lose if this Foliforov guy wins today

24yo, formerly top 5 of l'Avenir. Was in the Nibs/Piti group on Friday and lost 24 mins yesterday. Gazprom have obviously targeted this stage with Firsanov up in the top 5 too.

But still, you know...

I know. I'm surprised too. But while he's done very little at WT level to date, he didn't just emerge at this age like Zakarin did (Zaka broke out with Rusvelo for a season beasting Eastern European races before his explosion of form in April last year with País Vasco and Romandie).

Now, the question of the justification of inviting Gazprom is obviously justified with the likes of Androni omitted, and they had been very quiet, but as I said, obviously they isolated this stage as one they can do well in. I certainly didn't think it would be as I thought they'd be best looking for a breakaway stage, but clearly I was wrong.

 

[May0maniac]

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Cycling is going to lose if this Foliforov guy wins today

24yo, formerly top 5 of l'Avenir. Was in the Nibs/Piti group on Friday and lost 24 mins yesterday. Gazprom have obviously targeted this stage with Firsanov up in the top 5 too.

But still, you know...

Last year he bet Firsanov by 1'28" in the GP of Sochi uphill ITT, 1min faster than the 2nd, he's obviously a great climber who already had great results as an U23 rider.