2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 10: Ravenna - Modena 147 km

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Haha, i was one of two who voted for Démare.

I was the other - I assumed Tonton had picked him too. Good pick!

It was more a gut feeling, that this could be his day.

 

[Robert5091]

That looked a couple of nasty crashes - hope Moschetti is ok. He looked really groggy. Ackermann looked pretty beat up too - would not surprise me if he goes home.
Ventoso gave it a good go - I was cheering for him. Chapeau Demare & the new breakaway king ( two 100 km plus breakaways and maybe one more tomorrow) Sho Hatsuyama!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Nice win by Demare. A good way to finally get off the mark for the season. He may not have top tier acceleration but he can still perform in a long sprint.

I hope Moschetti is ok. It looked like Ackermann clipped someone’s wheel and went down first?

 

[Tonton]

I was starting to think that Nono '19 was a mediocre vintage, and abracadabra. Nice win, and bias put aside, when opening it up from afar, he really looks powerful. Excellent lead-out.

 

[Ludwigzgz]

Chad Haga, they say that these data are from today
do you think this is possible ?? :surprised:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7GpppwX4AACV9B.jpg

 

[King Boonen]

Yes.

 

[Red Rick]

*** MS were consistently joking about how easy and boring today was in the backstage pass

 

[silvergrenade]

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Chad Haga, they say that these data are from today
do you think this is possible ?? :surprised:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7GpppwX4AACV9B.jpg

Meh...Chad is 135 Watts.
Which means all the GC riders would also have similar power averages for the stage.
How is this design even testing GC riders for the entire 3 weeks?
Stage 13 is the first MTF. That's insane. Even the Tour does a better job. :Neutral:
Hoping something happens on Thursday. They should probably go bonkers having snoozed for 14 days anyway

 

[SafeBet]

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I have never heard of such a thing as de-training before today when Yates mentioned it (resting/training lightly the last week toward a GT) and then not really putting in big efforts in the first week apart from stage 9 (and the 12 minutes on stage 1), but it somewhat made sense to me. I think its a thing you at least gotta consider when training for a GT - if it has a light beginning, you can maybe go a bit harder the week leading up to the event.

Lopez, Landa and a few others were also "detraining" and that's why they cracked in San Marino? I think the explanation lies in 200km + stages apparently boring and easy but with lots of bad weather, about 15.000 m elevation combined (didn't check but read somewhere), a few light crashes for some and then the big day in San Marino with real bad rain, weather and a brutal effort. The hard men survived, Roglic proved to be tough, Nibali we knew and suprise Mollema. The others didn't, Yates the most striking example.

Mollema is not a surprise. He's top notch in the first two weeks of a GT.

 

[spalco]

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Chad Haga, they say that these data are from today
do you think this is possible ?? :surprised:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7GpppwX4AACV9B.jpg

Haha, 132W average, I think even I could have managed that.

 

[Red Rick]

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Chad Haga, they say that these data are from today
do you think this is possible ?? :surprised:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7GpppwX4AACV9B.jpg

Haha, 132W average, I think even I could have managed that.

He's also a big dude. Smaller dudes probably did even less