2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1: Jerusalem - Jerusalem ITT 9.7 K

[Laplaz]

Great job Tom! Omg this will be a great Giro

 

[Valv.Piti]

What a horrible day for Froomey. Good for the race!

 

[HelloDolly]

Froome does not look good at all in the race of truth

Surprises Yates, Pozzo & Betencur......but a long way to go

 

[Koronin]

Not fully surprised as Dumoulin is still great at the TT's and even though he does race for GC I still think of him more as a TT specialist in the way Indurain was a TT specialist that also won many GCs. I did Dennis had a great shot at winning this stage (which still wasn't wrong as he did have a great shot at it). It looks like Schachmann is the next up and coming top TT specialist.

 

[bigcog]

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A good part of today’s results is that Astana and Sky will have to go bonkers in the mountains.

Here's hoping, I think Dumo won't be able to stay with Lopez.

 

[EroicaStradeBianche]

Looking forward to Pozzovivo vs Dumoulin for the overall

 

[Koronin]

Should be another interesting/fun Giro.

 

[woodburn]

Dumoulin says team not planning on defending jersey. Guessing Sunweb will try to drop it soon.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

For the whole Giro, great results. We will have carnage. After today's morning, I'm so happy with Froome's result.

 

[Arredondo]

Great outcome, it's bodes well for the rest of the race!

Hopefully Froome doesn't struggle too much in the upcoming days. He's lucky the first tough stage is on tuesday.

Great performance from Pozzo, Betancur and Yates!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Nobody's beating that.

Wrong :razz:

 

[Kwibus]

Will be hard to get rid of it in israel with most likely sprint stages, but breakaway will be populair once they reach Sicily.

 

[Samamba]

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Will be hard to get rid of it in israel with most likely sprint stages, but breakaway will be populair once they reach Sicily.

I think Campenaerts will try to get some boni's.

 

[memyselfandI]

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Beautiful ride from Dumo but means absolutely nothing in 3 week race. Just useless energy waste from team if they try to keep it even a bit.

Froome probably took zero risk after hitting the deck hard.

Betancour crazy Würtz Schmidt and Conti super 93ers :twisted: .

 

[Valv.Piti]

Poels with a decent performance, I think he will be good to go, maybe not from Etna, but will be close to top level in the last week.

 

[Samamba]

Simply an awesome job from Dumoulin.
Also positively surprised by Campenaerts. I was thinking he was a bit too ambitious thinking he could beat both Dennis and Dumoulin, but he proved he made another step forward this year and is really close to the absolute top of TT'ists. And this wasn't even the perfect parcours for him.

 

[movingtarget]

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What a horrible day for Froomey. Good for the race!

Not that horrible. Could have been much worse but the race is already more interesting as you say.

 

[sir fly]

Good results for the rest of the Giro.
Too early to pull any sensible conclusions, but Dumoulin, Pozzo, Yates look the best. We'll see how much the crash affected Froome and if Aru and Lopez are slightly off the pace or it was just a matter of time trialing.

 

[movingtarget]

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Good results for the rest of the Giro.
Too early to pull any sensible conclusions, but Dumoulin, Pozzo, Yates look the best. We'll see how much the crash affected Froome and if Aru and Lopez are slightly off the pace or it was just a matter of time trialing.

Looking at Froome's knee and the bandages under his skinsuit it definitely cost him. He recovered quite well in the second half. Pozzo and Betancur were better than expected. Pinot will be quite happy with that time probably.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

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What a horrible day for Froomey. Good for the race!

After today's accident? Decent performance. He might be out of the race.

 

[yaco]

Have to be a small chance that a break can get one of the next two stages - Not many sprinters here, so its up to these teams to bring back the break.

 

[Red Rick]

Prologues generally don't say too much about form honestly.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Normal prologues no.
But this was a hard, technical and hilly short TT. So it says a bit more than you let on Rick.

Positive for Froome is that Poels seems good.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

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Normal prologues no.
But this was a hard, technical and hilly short TT. So it says a bit more than you let on Rick.

Positive for Froome is that Poels seems good.

Congratulations! But we will see.. next week.. :razz:

 

[movingtarget]

The only real surprise was Froome not rounding out the top 3.