2019 Giro d'Italia, stage 7: Vasto - L'Aquila 185 km

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

Gaviria abandons.

Anybody knows if he got ill or did the team possibly decide the Maglia Rosa was priority no. 1 now, so he went home? Doesn't really make sense otherwise as there are still three sprint stages ahead of the mountains.

No news so far.

Apparently he has pain in his left knee.

Yeah, there has to be something wrong. Even if the team decided not to care about anything other than pink, they wouldn’t send him home. He’d be let do his own thing in the sprints and otherwise asked to help out.

 

[King Boonen]

Gap coming down, this is absolutely brutal!!

Zinoviev, agreed, it must be enough to not risk him. Otherwise just let him ride, surf wheels and see what he can do.

 

[Laplaz]

Re:

Biggest GC threats in the break?

Bilbao, Izaguirre and Carthy

 

[HelloDolly]

Nice stage ...making it hard now was what I wanted rather than waiting for 3rd week

I guess alot of riders also want ot move back into top10 on GC

 

[Rollthedice]

Pozzo sent to do some work. Nibali had a fixation with Bilbao at Tour of the Alps while Sivakov was getting away, somebody has to tell him MAL is the leader.

 

[Climbing]

No way you let Izaguirre and Bilbao go, for sure.

 

[Rollthedice]

Anyway TBM is about to annihilate the break.

 

[Rollthedice]

Average speed close to 50km/h

 

[Climbing]

Giro in Abruzzo is always lively, my region after all.

 

[Laplaz]

De Plus abandons

 

[Pharazon]

Re:

De Plus abandons

not good for Roglic

 

[King Boonen]

Sun comes out and engines are getting blown. That's a massive loss for Roglic.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re:

De Plus abandons

Did he crash at some point?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Riders dropping like flies in this Giro.

 

[King Boonen]

Re:

Giro in Abruzzo is always lively, my region after all.

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is pretty much the only wine I like

 

[King Boonen]

Re: Re:

De Plus abandons

Did he crash at some point?

I don't think so. Jumbo avoided most of the carnage so far didn't they?

 

[Pharazon]

Re: Re:

De Plus abandons

Did he crash at some point?

speculation he was ill yesterday

 

[Climbing]

The peloton absolutely exploded.

 

[Red Rick]

I love no breakaway days.

Tomorrow is 240km.

Yesterday was 240km

Sunday's TT is gonna a be one with tired legs.

 

[King Boonen]

Awesome start to the stage.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re: Re:

De Plus abandons

Did he crash at some point?

He's been sick since the first stage, the day after the prologue.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Re: Re:

De Plus abandons

Did he crash at some point?

speculation he was ill yesterday

Not speculation. He was ill already for a few days. Straight after the first time trial

 

[Amazinmets87]

Re:

I love no breakaway days.

Tomorrow is 240km.

Yesterday was 240km

Sunday's TT is gonna a be one with tired legs.

Riders still attempting to breakaway

 

[King Boonen]

Formolo and Majka going off the front?!

 

[Salvarani]

Formolo!