2016 Giro d'Italia, Stage 18: Muggiò - Pinerolo (240 km)

[Taxus4a]

It is a good stage for Valverde, but days where Movistar go crazy to blow up everythig and take so many risk is 1 among 100. Ithink he will try to keep the pòdium and the last stages are better for Chaves than for Valverde at o hight altitude...

 

[manafana]

interesting stage one to stress out lotto a little anyway

 

[jsem94]

Valverde win is obvious.

 

[Samamba]

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Wellens ftw, he's been saving his legs so far

No, he's just not good enough uphill this Giro. There will always be a better climber than him in a breakaway, probably even more than one.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Belkov ftw. Somehow.

 

[Tank Engine]

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Wellens ftw, he's been saving his legs so far

No, he's just not good enough uphill this Giro. There will always be a better climber than him in a breakaway, probably even more than one.

Are you serious or did I dream the first mountain stage?

 

[Samamba]

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Wellens ftw, he's been saving his legs so far

No, he's just not good enough uphill this Giro. There will always be a better climber than him in a breakaway, probably even more than one.

Are you serious or did I dream the first mountain stage?

He won against f*cking Didier, Zhupa & Bisolti... half of the peloton can win against these guys. He did great to be in that breakaway but apart from that, that stage win was a piece of cake. If a break makes it tomorrow, there will always be a better climber in it than Wellens. I really hope I'm wrong, but he didn't convince me this Giro. He blew up Friday on the first climb and Saturday on the second or third climb. He need to be way better if he wants to have a chance against guys like Ulissi, Henao, Dombrowski, Visconti, Roche... who are probably going to try to be in the break tomorrow.

 

[The Barb]

Astana will surely put someone in the break, both for the Teams Competition and to salvage a stage win from Nibali's disappointing campaign. I hope it's Scarponi (50-1). His form is plainly outstanding and I'm confident he'd ride away from any other breakaway candidate on the final climb. I hope Astana do this rather than save him for the next couple of days to try to shepherd Nibali onto the podium.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

Roche ftw

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Kangert FTW

 

[The Barb]

NZ TAB odds ... I'm tossing up between numbers 29 and 32.

 

[StryderHells]

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Anyone has a clue to how Urán is feeling at the moment? Bronchitis over soon?

If he actually has Broncitis then he won't be able to do anything other than try and follow wheels for the rest of the race

 

[RattaKuningas]

If it comes down to GC then I think that Valverde should win it.

 

[Scarponi]

NZ TAB odds ... I'm tossing up between numbers 29 and 32.

Charge that phone

 

[Carstenbf]

NZ TAB odds ... I'm tossing up between numbers 29 and 32.

Haha, a laugh with the morning coffee. Thanks!

Predicting a win from the break. Visconti, Kangert or Pirazzi maybe.

 

[Scarponi]

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Astana will surely put someone in the break, both for the Teams Competition and to salvage a stage win from Nibali's disappointing campaign. I hope it's Scarponi (50-1). His form is plainly outstanding and I'm confident he'd ride away from any other breakaway candidate on the final climb. I hope Astana do this rather than save him for the next couple of days to try to shepherd Nibali onto the podium.

I have a 5er on him. Slim hope though

 

[Gigs_98]

The last 30 kilometers should be very interesting. Pra Martino is a great ascent, the descent is technical and the short ramp near the finish should be entertaining as well.

 

[Ricco']

Break:

Axel Domont (Ag2r), Davide Malacarne (Astana), Stefan Küng, Daniel Oss (BMC), Moreno Moser, Ramunas Navardauskas (Cannondale), Gianluca Brambilla, Matteo Trentin (Etixx), Olivier Le Gac (FDJ), Andrei Solomennikov (Gazprom), Roger Kluge (IAM), Sacha Modolo, Matej Mohoric (Lampre), Pim Ligthart (Lotto), Genki Yamamoto, Gianfranco Zilioli (Nippo), Nikias Arndt, Albert Timmer (Giant), Christian Knees (Sky), Pavel Brutt, Jay McCarthy, Ivan Rovny (Tinkoff) and Julen Amezqueta (Wilier).

Already with a 5 minute lead.

 

[Vroome.exe]

Brambilla and Trentin in a big break. Reminds you of anything?

And Rovny there too! Could be fun.

 

[Samamba]

Dissapointed about the break. Not a lot of decent climbers.
Brambilla probably wins this.

 

[RattaKuningas]

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Dissapointed about the break. Not a lot of decent climbers.
Brambilla probably wins this.

I don't think that break will make it to the end.

 

[Orbit501]

Lol, Modolo in the break again. Wouldn't he better practicing how to win sprints instead? You know, sprints where there's barely a sprinter left in the race.

 

[Samamba]

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Dissapointed about the break. Not a lot of decent climbers.
Brambilla probably wins this.

I don't think that break will make it to the end.

Who's gonna catch 26 riders?

 

[RattaKuningas]

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Dissapointed about the break. Not a lot of decent climbers.
Brambilla probably wins this.

I don't think that break will make it to the end.

Who's gonna catch 26 riders?

On 2nd half of the stage most of them probably won't be able to contribute because of the walls and steep climbs. Gap can come down very quickly then which I belive will be the case.

 

[BalearicBeats]

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Lol, Modolo in the break again. Wouldn't he better practicing how to win sprints instead? You know, sprints where there's barely a sprinter left in the race.

Maybe he hopes to make it over the climbs before the break gets caught. He even has his leadout man Mohoric with him