2018 Giro d'Italia - STAGE 10: Penne – Gualdo Tadino 239 km

[RedheadDane]

Dumoulin in trouble.

This stage is crazy.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Dumoulin down, so now SKY and others will work hard again.... this will mean the breaks will be swallowed up.

 

[Jspear]

Dumoulin looked so chill. Just eating his bar as he waited.

 

[Red Rick]

He's between the cars, 17km to go

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Favorites waiting for Dumoulin, makes no sense.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Big screw up by Bora if the attackers aren’t brought back

 

[The Chicken]

Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

 

[Frankschleck]

Bora are idiots.

 

[Jspear]

Carapaz changing bikes again.

 

[Jspear]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

There’s no proof that Yates would have attacked earlier on Etna. He waited pretty late on Gran Sasso. I’d say it would have been similar on Etna.

 

[fantomas]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

Of course he would. Yates clearly is much, much stronger than peak Contador in 2011.

 

[Laplaz]

Mohoric is awesome.

 

[carton]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

LOL. Only 2 minutes, are you assuming he stops for coffee? No worries, though, if he can do that then he'll smash them by 8 minutes by attacking on the base of the Zoncolan.

 

[Frankschleck]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

Of course he would. Yates clearly is much, much stronger than peak Contador in 2011.

As if. Did you watch the stage? No way Yates was ever gonna take 1-2 minutes. Chavez set him up perfectly. That was close to the maxium time he would take on that stage.

 

[mojomonkey]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

Of course he would. Yates clearly is much, much stronger than peak Contador in 2011.

As if. Did you watch the stage? No way Yates was ever gonna take 1-2 minutes. Chavez set him up perfectly. That was close to the maxium time he would take on that stage.

Maybe take this discussion to the thread for that stage?

 

[fantomas]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

Of course he would. Yates clearly is much, much stronger than peak Contador in 2011.

As if. Did you watch the stage? No way Yates was ever gonna take 1-2 minutes. Chavez set him up perfectly. That was close to the maxium time he would take on that stage.

I was being sarcastic, hence the rolling eyes smiley.

 

[ontheroad]

Mohoric has this in the bag now.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Bennett should be seriously annoyed with his team after being the only sprinter to make the lead group.

 

[yetiyeti]

Sounds like Yates is just so much better than any other rider in the world (or beyond) that time gaps don't even matter at this point - he can take many minutes at will. So it's nice that he gifted the 4 seconds to Chaves. /s

 

[Frankschleck]

Re: Re:

If Chaves hadn't been away in the break on Etna then the peloton may not have even caught that very good breakaway group - they would not have had the same motivation - and there may not have been any bonus seconds or the same time gains for Yates over other GC rivals. The Michelton Scott team benefited from Chaves' efforts on that day, including Simon Yates. Which is awesome, since they are, you know, a team.

Yes, the break may have made it had Chaves not been part of it - which would have been a preferable situation for Yates as he would not have had to soft pedal on Etna and would have SMASHED all the favourites for 1-2 minutes because he would've attacked earlier.

Of course he would. Yates clearly is much, much stronger than peak Contador in 2011.

As if. Did you watch the stage? No way Yates was ever gonna take 1-2 minutes. Chavez set him up perfectly. That was close to the maxium time he would take on that stage.

I was being sarcastic, hence the rolling eyes smiley.

yeah i know, meant to react the post over by "THE Chicken" .

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

Bennett should be seriously annoyed with his team after being the only sprinter to make the lead group.

Because they worked their asses of and weren't strong enough? While Bennett has done *** all all day?

 

[fauniera]

Re:

Mohoric has this in the bag now.

Don't underestimate Denz.

 

[Red Rick]

Hansen finding new ways of being pointless

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Re:

Hansen finding new ways of being pointless

Not knowing there are two out front would explain Bora's inaction, and HAansen's attack

 

[Climbing]

What a monster!