2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 20: Feltre - Monte Avena 194 km

[Forever The Best]

Rojas leading peloton on Manghen...
Just as I say, Astana finally(!) takes the pace.

 

[RattaKuningas]

Finally Astana is doing something. Let's see if it creates any chaos.

 

[rick james]

Astana train

 

[Rollthedice]

It's on!

 

[Climbing]

It looked like Caruso was waiting, just an impression.

 

[Rollthedice]

Ok, Movistar gone.

 

[rick james]

Fresh tarmac, looks a dream to cycle on

 

[Salvarani]

Bilbao and Cataldo infront

Lopez will surely attack towards the end of this climb

 

[TomLPC]

It's a terribly lonely sport sometimes, Primoz

 

[Salvarani]

Yates dropped

 

[Rollthedice]

Zeits Soviet machine.

 

[Pantani_lives]

I'm beginning to think Yates isn't that good in the high mountains. His wins in the Giro and the Vuelta were mostly in the middle mountains. His collapse last year was also in the high mountains.

 

[rick james]

Hirt ups the pace

 

[Squire]

Re: Re:

"He doesn't want to attack 100k out then explode at the end, that's not going to impress anyone, there's no point attacking on this climb and losing everything, he could win the stage today"

Well it would impress me

Who cares who won 2015 Gent-Wevelgem (it was Paolini btw)? That was the day everybody realised Jürgen Roelandts is the greatest. I think he finished 7th, but his ride was an all-timer.

Pantani's attack tdf stage 16(?) 2000 made me a cycling fan.

Still love that kind of spiteful, angry cycling. I can't even recall off the top of my head who won, and at 8 years old I didn't realise that he never really stood a chance that day, but Armstrong cracking at the end, then launching a prolonged invective at the man with the bald head and big ears is all I really remember from that years race.

Virenque won after his tête-de-la-course companion Heras overshot a corner in the final kilometres. The Pantani attack was just the appetizer, everything that happened afterwards was amazing, too. Armstrong being overconfident and cracking, Heras being a beast, Ullrich on the move and changing his bike at the top of Joux-Plane. That stage was possibly the best day of cycling I've ever watched. Being a young fan who was just discovering cycling also helped etch the memories into my mind, of course.

 

[IndianCyclist]

totally exploded

 

[Salvarani]

Carthy dropped

 

[Highlander]

Is Kirby watching a different race than everyone else? He claimed that NIbali was isolated although Pozzovivo was clearly still in the group and then claimed that Pozzovivo made an effort to get back into the field despite the fact that he kept riding in the same spot.

 

[rick james]

Sivakov still there, just hanging on

 

[bigcog]

Blimey, just what we wanted.

 

[Salvarani]

Majka dropped

 

[Winnen]

Mollema cracking

 

[Carols]

You gotta love Astana!!

 

[rick james]

Superman goes

 

[sir fly]

Saso mange on Passo Manghen.

 

[Climbing]

Nibali popping, didn't look indeed!