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

[Amazinmets87]

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Mandatory stage across the Po Valley, which has been the worst trend of recent Giro route designing. I'm ok having one of these stages, but two in a row? Terrible.

Weather should be good today. Even warm.

I agree two back to back is a little much. Good thing today is short and flat finish whereas tomorrow is long and false flat. Gives opportunities for versatile sprinter skillsets to contest.

 

[sir fly]

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Why does CIMOLAI get capital letters?

Davide without Goliath doesn't show much.

 

[Singer01]

I'm literally going to watch the last 500m.

 

[gunara]

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Why does CIMOLAI get capital letters?

Davide without Goliath doesn't show much.

Isn't it Golia?

Ugh, it's very hard to invest any real interest in this Giro. Eventually I will, but it's so late.

 

[Bolder]

Why not make it a US-style criterium? You'd get some good action, fans could see multiple laps of their heroes mixing it up, breakaways could lap the field etc...maybe even make it an evening start?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Viviani lost all interest after that ruling. I´ll go for Ackerman. Bora has been in form with these sprints.

Don't make excuses for him. He's simply been beaten by riders who were better on the day.

Viviani for the win.

 

[Arked]

Still waiting for Giro to begin...

 

[wheresmybrakes]

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Still waiting for Giro to begin...

Have to agree, it's been quite underwhelming so far. It looks like a 3 week GT is gonna turn into a 10 day stage race, then all of a sudden it will turn into the best GT for years and the first week or two will have been forgotten.

 

[Arked]

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Still waiting for Giro to begin...

Have to agree, it's been quite underwhelming so far. It looks like a 3 week GT is gonna turn into a 10 day stage race, then all of a sudden it will turn into the best GT for years and the first week or two will have been forgotten.

That's what I'm hoping for. Giro rarely disappoints after all, and it has a lot of catching up to do this year.

 

[silvergrenade]

Roglic to attack on the 50% section which starts at KM 0. Oh wait!
Meh....Really boring first 13 stages.
I dont want to watch another TdF like GT.

 

[Laplaz]

Moschetti will win this stage

 

[Breh]

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Still waiting for Giro to begin...

2,Primoz Roglic 0s
10,Pello Bilbao 1:42s
11,Vincenzo Nibali 1:44s
12,Bauke Mollema 1:45s
14,Bob Jungels 2:18s
16,Hugh John Carthy 2:46s
17,Davide Formolo 2:52s
18,Rafal Majka 2:53s
19,Sam Oomen 3:12s
20,Richard Carapaz 3:16s
22,Ilnur Zakarin 3:32s
24,Simon Yates 3:46s
25,Tanel Kangert 4:01s
26,Pavel Sivakov 4:11s
27,Miguel Angel Lopez 4:29s
28,Esteban Chaves 4:30s
30,Mikel Landa 4:52s
31,Tao Geoghegan Hart 5:08s

 

[Arked]

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Still waiting for Giro to begin...

2,Primoz Roglic 0s
10,Pello Bilbao 1:42s
11,Vincenzo Nibali 1:44s
12,Bauke Mollema 1:45s
14,Bob Jungels 2:18s
16,Hugh John Carthy 2:46s
17,Davide Formolo 2:52s
18,Rafal Majka 2:53s
19,Sam Oomen 3:12s
20,Richard Carapaz 3:16s
22,Ilnur Zakarin 3:32s
24,Simon Yates 3:46s
25,Tanel Kangert 4:01s
26,Pavel Sivakov 4:11s
27,Miguel Angel Lopez 4:29s
28,Esteban Chaves 4:30s
30,Mikel Landa 4:52s
31,Tao Geoghegan Hart 5:08s

Two time trials plus crash fest. Not my favorite parts of stage racing.

 

[Climbing]

In the meantime horrible news, Vegni said that Gavia is looking "good", 60% chance of it happening…
Knowing how much of a pussy he is, that pretty much confirms Gavia cancellation…
Almost admitted plan B is nowhere comparable…
Just cancelled the vacation I had for that day (I'm not joking).

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Cool stage. Best design

 

[Rollthedice]

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In the meantime horrible news, Vegni said that Gavia is looking "good", 60% chance of it happening…
Knowing how much of a pussy he is, that pretty much confirms Gavia cancellation…
Almost admitted plan B is nowhere comparable…
Just cancelled the vacation I had for that day (I'm not joking).

Relax and " take it day by day". That stage is a national emergency, it is inconceivable that it will be canceled. I can imagine a conversation between Vegni and Nibali last year:

- Caro Vincenzo, fancy a double Stelvio with some fresh cream on top?
- Mauro, it's getting a bit boring, don't you think?
- Then how about Gavia-Mortitolo combo?
- Sounds better, but if there's too much snow?
- There is never too much snow for you Vincenzo.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Why not make it a US-style criterium? You'd get some good action, fans could see multiple laps of their heroes mixing it up, breakaways could lap the field etc...maybe even make it an evening start?

Because that wouldn't take them from Ravenna to Modena?

 

[Robert5091]

Go Sho!

 

[Laplaz]

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In the meantime horrible news, Vegni said that Gavia is looking "good", 60% chance of it happening…
Knowing how much of a pussy he is, that pretty much confirms Gavia cancellation…
Almost admitted plan B is nowhere comparable…
Just cancelled the vacation I had for that day (I'm not joking).

https://www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/21-05-2019/ciclimo-quante-neve-gavia-ma-tappa-passera-3301803997903.shtml

Not looking too bad I would say...

 

[Climbing]

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In the meantime horrible news, Vegni said that Gavia is looking "good", 60% chance of it happening…
Knowing how much of a pussy he is, that pretty much confirms Gavia cancellation…
Almost admitted plan B is nowhere comparable…
Just cancelled the vacation I had for that day (I'm not joking).

https://www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/21-05-2019/ciclimo-quante-neve-gavia-ma-tappa-passera-3301803997903.shtml

Not looking too bad I would say...

I just listened to Vegni's interview live and you don't talk percentages if you're convinced that Gavia will happen.
Let's hope he's just being prudent, but I wouldn't bet on it. Actually I did just best on the opposite.

 

[Eshnar]

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I just listened to Vegni's interview live and you don't talk percentages if you're convinced that Gavia will happen.
Let's hope he's just being prudent, but I wouldn't bet on it. Actually I did just best on the opposite.

He's talking percentages because he is just as you said... he doesn't want to commit and say they are gonna race it period. :lol:

 

[spalco]

Is it still snowing on the mountains?

If there's no new snow, it should easily be managable imo assuming the temperature is acceptable.

Anyway, it was always a gamble, wasn't it?

 

[fuiers]

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I just listened to Vegni's interview live and you don't talk percentages if you're convinced that Gavia will happen.
Let's hope he's just being prudent, but I wouldn't bet on it. Actually I did just best on the opposite.

He's talking percentages because he is just as you said... he doesn't want to commit and say they are gonna race it period. :lol:

What stage are we talking about here?

 

[Red Rick]

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I just listened to Vegni's interview live and you don't talk percentages if you're convinced that Gavia will happen.
Let's hope he's just being prudent, but I wouldn't bet on it. Actually I did just best on the opposite.

He's talking percentages because he is just as you said... he doesn't want to commit and say they are gonna race it period. :lol:

What stage are we talking about here?

Stage 16

 

[Robert5091]

If it's over 0C it should melt some, which looks like the road would be passable.