2016 Giro d'Italia - Stage 14: Farra d'Alpago–Corvara 210 km

[ice&fire]

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When is Rai going live today?

According to cyclingfans.com there's live video starting at 12:30 CET. I guess they'll show the usual chat and video from the departure before the real race.

 

[Popchu]

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34 riders breakaway apparently.

Formolo, Pirazzi, Wellens, Roglic and Plaza among them.

Edit: no Formolo / Pirazzi

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Saturday, 21/05/2011 - Igor Anton wins at Zoncolan

Saturday, 21/05/2016 - Igor Anton wins at Corvara

Aupa Fuji!

Would be extremely funny, also because 2011 one day after Anton won, Nieve won the queen stage, so this time one day after Nieve wins, Anton could win the queen stage

That stage was epic, the one Nieve won, but Antón cracked badly that day... I had so high hopes after his show in 2010. Does anybody know what the explanation was for cracking that hard after being on of the best climbers in the race previously? He was nowhere to be found in the last week if I remember correctly.

Anyway, I want one of the favourites to win in a solo. Getting slightly tired of the big teams gifting stages away, particularly Movistar.

 

[Squirbos_19]

Break of the day:
Axel Domont, Hugo Houle (Ag2r La Mondiale), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Nicola Boem, Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani - CSF), Darwin Atapuma (BMC Racing), Moreno Moser, Nathan Brown (Cannondale), Kanstantsin Siutsou (Dimension Data), David De La Cruz, Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep), Sergey Firsanov (Gazprom-RusVelo), Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling), Diego Ulissi, Valerio Conti, Sacha Modolo, Manuele Mori (Lampre-Merida), Tim Wellens, Pim Ligthart, Maxime Monfort (Lot Soudal), Carlos Betancu, José Herrada (Movistar), Damiano Cunego, Giacomo Berlato (NIPPO-Vini Fantini), Ruben Plaza (Orica GreenEDGE), Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin), Egor Silin, Rein Taaramae (Katusha), Twan Castelijns, Primoz Roglic (Lotto NL-Jumbo), Christian Knees, Nicolas Roche (Sky), Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo), Matteo Busato, Daniel Martinez (Wilier-Southeast).
Via http://www.cyclingpro.net/

 

[The Barb]

Strong and sizeable break. Great chance for Plaza, Firsanov, Betancur in particular.

 

[Samamba]

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Strong and sizeable break. Great chance for Plaza, Firsanov, Betancur in particular.

Betancur? He was miserable yesterday.

I would say Firsanov vs. Domont vs. Siutsou

 

[Popchu]

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Strong and sizeable break. Great chance for Plaza, Firsanov, Betancur in particular.

Betancur? He was miserable yesterday

Yes, don't know what was wrong, but that was not his 'normal' level. Two days earlier he survived in a select GC group, so I hope he can reach that level today.

 

[togo95]

How come Visconti missed this break? Is he going for the KOM jersey or not?

 

[murali]

I was hoping for igor anton to enter the break

 

[ice&fire]

RAI sport 1 has already started the chat show

 

[The Barb]

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Strong and sizeable break. Great chance for Plaza, Firsanov, Betancur in particular.

Betancur? He was miserable yesterday.

I would say Firsanov vs. Domont vs. Siutsou

I think it would be foolish to read too much negative into that regarding his chances today. He is one of the top 3 chances from this break.

 

[pink_jersey]

With Siutsou there they don't stand a chance.

 

[Samamba]

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How come Visconti missed this break? Is he going for the KOM jersey or not?

A bit disappointing. Let's hope Denifl will try to steal some KOM points cause if Cunego takes all today the battle for the blue jersey is already over.

 

[pink_jersey]

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I was hoping for igor anton to enter the break

He's going for Zubeldia award this year. I bet he will finish somewhere between 15-20 without getting any camera view all race.

 

[Orbit501]

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With Siutsou there they don't stand a chance.

They need to have a word with him.

 

[The Barb]

Conflicting info about whether Formolo is in the break. Big chance if he is.

 

[bassano]

I hope break does not win, I put bet to Nibali win stage today

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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How come Visconti missed this break? Is he going for the KOM jersey or not?

A bit disappointing. Let's hope Denifl will try to steal some KOM points cause if Cunego takes all today the battle for the blue jersey is already over.

Idunno tho, as long as Denifl does steal a bunch of GPMs from Cunego he may still be in it, after last year when it was Bananito vs. Beñat all the way, then Gio had a bunch of leftover points from earlier in the race and trying to protect Beñat, got in the break on the day with the Cima Coppi, took that to suddenly vault up the standings, then just took a couple more high profile mountaintops with his strong sprint to take the jersey.

 

[Red Rick]

How many meters of altitude gain today?

Anyway, break will probably take it

 

[Kwibus]

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I hope break does not win, I put bet to Nibali win stage today

34 riders in the break. Slim chance the winner won't come from it.

Allthough only 1 Astana rider could suggest high pace from the in the mountains. Not too sure about all the riders except Fuglsang and Scarponi in the mountains. They have been dissapointing so far.

 

[StuyvenFan]

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Roglic will earn his second Giro stage win today.

 

[Txrt]

Ruben Plaza is such a good rider for this type of stages...

 

[Brullnux]

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How many meters of altitude gain today?

Anyway, break will probably take it

Almost 5500m. So a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

 

[HelloDolly]

There will be a selection on the Giau but maybe wont stay away becasue of Kanstantsin Siutsou is only 5mins 36 ahead of pink and htere will be others in top 10 chasing...they will have to get him to go back or someat

 

[Brullnux]

Astana should've put Fugslang in the break just to see what happens. With such a big break it took quite a long time to actually get the names out so it might've forced Movistar to work like crazy to bring it back.