2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 13: Pinerolo - Lago Serrù 196 km

[luckyboy]

Roglic and Nibali never gave 100% here

Good gains for guys like Zakarin and Mollema but they won't get that from the breakaway every day. Landa and the big two still look strongest.

 

[Lequack]

 

[JosephK]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 13: Pinerolo - Lago Serrù 196 k

Awesome stage! Landa showing he is a very real threat. Zakarin awakens and takes a big chunk of time back with stage-win glory. Nibali and Roglic on something of a standoff -- not a bad stage for either one. Losers on the day: MAL and Yates.

Tomorrow should be another thriller. Will Zakarin and Landa be strong again, or will they pay for their efforts today? Something tells me the Shark is still biding his time.

For me, the surprise of the Giro so far is Yates' fading. Maybe the crash last week affected him more than we thought?

 

[Winnen]

Edit: Deleted. Lequack was faster.

 

[SafeBet]

I'm not sure Nibali and Roglic are playing this right. Carapaz is very dangerous.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Nibs and Rogla playing the long game. Clearly.

 

[hfer07]

Landani = the real winner
Zaka got the stage & time back
Nibs and Roglic are doing their own thing
Such a shame what happened to Aquaman Lopez....

 

[movingtarget]

Great win for Zakarin and a huge GC result to get 3 minutes back on Roglic. Gutsy ride by Mollema as well. Not looking good for Michelton at all while Movistar did well with Landa and Carapaz. Roglic and Nibali did what they had to do. Majka is looking pretty good as well. Be interesting to see whether Zakarin can hold his GC position for a while. He's pretty inconsistent. Lopez was unlucky. Race is looking much more interesting now for GC.

 

[jaylew]

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Carapaz the winner of the day.

Why not Zakarin? Stage win and moved up the most on GC.

Great day for Zakarin but Carapaz followed wheels all day, sat in when team mate Landa attacked, ends up putting very nice time into Nibali and Roglic, and lost only 18 seconds to Landa after all his hard work.

The camera never showed them but he also put 30” into Majka in a relatively short period of time, I’m very impressed.

Agreed. I'd give him the 2nd best day after Zakarin. Just hard for me not to give winner of the day to the guy who won the stage, moved up to 3rd on GC, and put over 3 minutes into Roglic

 

[F_Cance]

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Mollema rode well...remember he was riding to make the break and keep it going....cracked at the end but looked good too

But Zakarin benefited most from Treks work

Mollema also did more work than Zakarin. First time Zakarin took the lead was with 5k to go or so. That's how it is. He really benefited the most

 

[hfer07]

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Nibs and Rogla playing the long game. Clearly.

exactly

It might not look pretty at the moment, but the buffer they have on the others will allow them to save precious energy towards the massive last week. The problem lies on how close the others might get to them-specially Nibs if the game with Roglic carries on....

 

[glassmoon]

Rogla played it cool imho. Lots of guys just killed themselves today and I expect them to pay for it sooner or later. Landa went great but he's still miles behind and will probably suffer later too.

 

[whittashau]

I think Nibali's tactics of simply watching Rogic could very well play out. All his direct rivals have now expended a lot of energy by riding solo, but also now Rogic has several other riders he and his team have to be watchful of. The issue is UAE and their willingness to work to keep pink

 

[Mayomaniac]

That stage really did some damage.
I expect a lot of gc riders to blow up tomorrow, to me it looked like only Roglic., Nibali and Carapaz had something left in the tank, not sure about Landa.

 

[yetiyeti]

i think Roglic and Nibali are playing this right - the competition has proven they are likely to have bad days that cost them real time and the competition had to go deep to get these gains today. Tomorrow we'll see if it cost them. Plus most of these guys can't touch Roglic or Nibali in a TT, especially with the race on the line.

 

[Poursuivant]

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Carapaz the winner of the day.

Why not Zakarin? Stage win and moved up the most on GC.

Great day for Zakarin but Carapaz followed wheels all day, sat in when team mate Landa attacked, ends up putting very nice time into Nibali and Roglic, and lost only 18 seconds to Landa after all his hard work.

The camera never showed them but he also put 30” into Majka in a relatively short period of time, I’m very impressed.

Agreed. I'd give him the 2nd best day after Zakarin. Just hard for me not to give winner of the day to the guy who won the stage, moved up to 3rd on GC, and put over 3 minutes into Roglic

Yes, that’s true.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Mollema rode well...remember he was riding to make the break and keep it going....cracked at the end but looked good too

But Zakarin benefited most from Treks work

Mollema also did more work than Zakarin. First time Zakarin took the lead was with 5k to go or so. That's how it is. He really benefited the most

Mollema and Zakarin were both contributing equally once there were no more Trek riders left

 

[sir fly]

Looking at the standings, seems that racing-friendly distribution is still on.
Gaps wide enough between pre-race favourites to try from far out.
Yesterday Lopez and Landa, today Zakarin and Mollema, we'll see tomorrow.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 13: Pinerolo - Lago Serrù 196 k

On another note, how brilliant is this looking for the next week. Completely unpredictable but so many great mountain stages to come and time gaps big enough to make sure riders will keep attacking. Today was absolutely great and tomorrow might be even greater. And don't even get me started on stage 16. We had to wait for way too long but man this is gonna be an awsome 2 week race.

 

[jaylew]

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Roglic and Nibali never gave 100% here

Good gains for guys like Zakarin and Mollema but they won't get that from the breakaway every day. Landa and the big two still look strongest.

Maybe. I don't know. I think Nibali and Roglic were more on the limit than that. Not sure about Mollema but I think Zakarin would have been somewhere in the Carapaz/Majka/NIbali/Roglic vicinity if he hadn't been in the break. And Carapaz and Majka look to be at least as strong as Roglic and Nibali. I'd add Lopez as well - he's a bit harder to judge because of how his day went with the mechanical.

Iow, I don't at all think that Nibali and Roglic look like the clear strongest at this point but time will tell.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Mollema rode well...remember he was riding to make the break and keep it going....cracked at the end but looked good too

But Zakarin benefited most from Treks work

Mollema also did more work than Zakarin. First time Zakarin took the lead was with 5k to go or so. That's how it is. He really benefited the most

Mollema and Zakarin were both contributing equally once there were no more Trek riders left

But Mollema was contributing early on and at the end onto the climb...he did most of the pulling once Brambilla went first and then later when Ciccone went ..just saying he put alot into it ..it may back fire

 

[Laplaz]

Surprised by Simon's poor performance. Thought he would have been better.
Chapeau Zaka and TGBM, big balls today!

 

[Pirazziattacks]

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i think Roglic and Nibali are playing this right - the competition has proven they are likely to have bad days that cost them real time and the competition had to go deep to get these gains today. Tomorrow we'll see if it cost them. Plus most of these guys can't touch Roglic or Nibali in a TT, especially with the race on the line.

Roglic I can understand, Nibali not so much. He's almost on par with Carapaz now and certainly won't be counting on the final TT to make the difference.

 

[Stingishere1]

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I think Nibali's tactics of simply watching Rogic could very well play out. All his direct rivals have now expended a lot of energy by riding solo, but also now Rogic has several other riders he and his team have to be watchful of. The issue is UAE and their willingness to work to keep pink

Yes, tomorrow Roglic will not stay at the wheel of Nibali: he must close attacks

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well what a stage that was!
Landa, Zak, Carapaz back in the game

But to me, sorry Nibali fans, don't shoot me, but I think he *** himself. Roglic is totally fine with this situation. It wasn't up to him to put hard pace. He has the TT and tries to save as much as possible for the 3rd week. If Nibali wanted to really hurt him he should've tried to lose him or go with Majka/Carapaz. Tbh I think Roglic is not worried about Landa or Carapaz etc