2018 Giro d'Italia stage 7: Pizzo – Praia a Mare 159 km

[TourOfSardinia]

QS need to step up quick

 

[Carols]

Sam Bennett!!!! Nice Win, good to see some else get there!

 

[RedheadDane]

Bennett!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Bennett wins. QS lead out not good there.

DvP embarassing sprint after a perfect leadout

 

[Laplaz]

Bennett better without Bora leadout.

 

[Valv.Piti]

This stage needed a murito somewhere....

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Finally some perfect timing from Bennett.

 

[SafeBet]

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Bennett wins. QS lead out not good there.

Not good but Viviani was in a perfect position anyway. Bennett was faster today.

 

[PeterB]

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Bennett wins. QS lead out not good there.

DvP embarassing sprint after a perfect leadout

DvP probably could not decide whether to follow Modolo to the left or Venturini to the right and that slight hesitation has cost him. And then it closed in front of him and there were a few quite close moments between some of the sprinters so little he could do to get to the front.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great sprint. Impressive sustained speed by Bennett.

 

[seldon71]

Betancur lost 23 seconds apparently. Everybody else in GC Top20 came in among the bunch (+0:00)

 

[seldon71]

And after time trial at 25 minutes back upto Etna, Wilier-Triestina managed to mass-disappear in a run-in.

Mareczko somehow managed to spring for 6th place, but he was horribly positioned and with no help from something like 800 metres out. Pitiful team, which doesn't belong in Giro (I got no problem with the rest of Wild Cards).

 

[staubsauger]

Great sprint by both Bennett and Viviani. For a slice of a moment it looked like Venturini would make it. But he simply ain't got the speed!

Wilier Triestina is such a useless team. Mareczko certainly has the power to beat Viviani if at least once he would be placed probably during the sprints.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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And after time trial at 25 minutes back upto Etna, Wilier-Triestina managed to mass-disappear in a run-in.

Mareczko somehow managed to spring for 6th place, but he was horribly positioned and with no help from something like 800 metres out. Pitiful team, which doesn't belong in Giro (I got no problem with the rest of Wild Cards).

Yep. Isreal Cycling Acadamy is much more visible and impressive so far

 

[staubsauger]

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And after time trial at 25 minutes back upto Etna, Wilier-Triestina managed to mass-disappear in a run-in.

Mareczko somehow managed to spring for 6th place, but he was horribly positioned and with no help from something like 800 metres out. Pitiful team, which doesn't belong in Giro (I got no problem with the rest of Wild Cards).

Yep. Isreal Cycling Acadamy is much more visible and impressive so far

Boivin at least contested for the former intergiro classification with Androni Giocattoli in the first stages...

 

[Red Rick]

Bennet won?

Goddamnit

 

[Breh]

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The other teams have learned nothing and will let Viviani win a bunch sprint. I wonder who makes these brilliant strategies in these other teams. Is their strategy simply lets wait for the bunch sprint and hopefully the guy who always beats us won't beat us again?

Yeah, Bora should tell Bennett; "You're trash and we don't believe in you so we won't chase the break."
Aslong as you don't have anyone in the break, you should chase. Sprinting for 1st place>sprinting for 4th place.

Not to mention Viviani could crash, have a flat, get boxed in, is taken out by Bennett sprinting like a madman,...

There are also a lot of teams with no sprinters, surely their strategy is not to just bring Viviani and Bennet to the sprint finish? I guess winning a stage is not lucrative for the teams anymore?

There are enough teams with a decent sprinter to neutralize possibly dangerous breaks. Eventhough Cavagna can probably just do it on his own.
About 6 or 7 teams have GC ambitions so they don't care.
Legs are still pretty fresh aswell, the break will get its chance later on.

Bennett just showed us Viviani can be beaten fair and square.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

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This stage needed a murito somewhere....

This stage was fine. A great sprint stage; no dumb corners. Really let the sprinters measure up.

The stages in Israel needed something, and next Thursday Friday don't need to be a flat stage duo, but I think this non-complicated sprint stage was well placed.

 

[wirral]

Betancur lost 23 seconds.

 

[movingtarget]

Good win by Bennett. Clean sprint.

 

[movingtarget]

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Betancur lost 23 seconds.

Which means he will probably do well on the next hard stage..........

 

[seldon71]

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Yep. Isreal Cycling Acadamy is much more visible and impressive so far

Boivin at least contested for the former intergiro classification with Androni Giocattoli in the first stages...

Hermans showed up fighting in Etna, too... He was both aggressive and finished with a respectable 11th position at 40 seconds back.

Ditto to Ciccone (Bardiani).

But Wilier-Triestina is only out there for Mareczko and they can not even steer him to adequate position - actually no other Wilier-rider finished in a 80+-strong bunch again today. Next one came in 1:19 back which just shows that poor Jakub was completely alone in a decisive moments.

And that after whole team spent their time on a "Sunday ride" at gruppetto throughout Sicily. :redface: :redface: :redface:

 

[Valv.Piti]

Betancur must really have messed up, probably creating a little gap at around 1-2 sec up to De la Parte and Sepulveda who were the last riders in the peloton before the split....

Oh gosh Carlos.

 

[tobydawq]

A remarkable fact about Bora's season so far:

They are 13th on the victory ranking but they have only won WT races so far and it is only QuickStep who have won more WT races than them.

 

[seldon71]

Morkov lost that one for Viviani. He had a position to prevent Bennett from getting Elia's backwheel, but relented to more determined rider.

....I'm not saying it was bad decision in a wider picture. Bennett wasn't to let up so it could have ended in a pile-up if Michael didn't budge...