2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km ITT

[fuiers]

Somebody said that the Giro route sucked this year. I dont agree 100% but this TT madness just pretty much killed the GC. Who knows maybe the mountains will be hole lot different with these gaps and we get proper racing early on.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Campenaerts losing with such a small margin effectively made the whole bike change situation less comical

 

[Pricey_sky]

Harsh on Campenaerts, but a great TT by Roglic. Nibali very solid and a loss about as expected.

Yates, Lopez and Landa have work to do, but at least they have the terrain to do it with the route being so backloaded.

 

[spalco]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

Obviously if a rider is simply the strongest uphill, downhill and on the flats, he can't be beaten. But if there's any opening, Nibali is in a good position to pounce.

 

[Poursuivant]

You can’t say GC is dead when we have had not even one proper mountain yet, there’s a long, long way to go.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

Remember when nobody could decide who of roglic, dumoulin, yates and bernal would win this giro. Feels like that was hardly more than a week ago...wait...

 

[glassmoon]

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Official: Campanerts lost the TT on that bike change.

to be fair to Rogla's effort thogh, Victor rode the flat part without the rain...

 

[Valv.Piti]

But, but... time trials are boring..

Some might still think that, but we will see fireworks from stage 12 on now because of this.

 

[Rollthedice]

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OUT OF THIS WORLD.
But Nibali in line or better than predicted.

I always said it will be around 1 minute loss. He usually delivers when he's in form. Big surprise with Yates though. Nibali will take care of Roglic later.

 

[SafeBet]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

If Roglic doesn't fade, there is now way anybody in the world even take one second from him.

 

[Koronin]

After today does Astana ride for Bilbao and does Movistar ride for Carapaz (well will Landa actually do that regardless of what the team wants?).

 

[Valv.Piti]

Roglic
Nibali +1:44
Mollema +1:55
Jungels +2:18
Formolo +2:52
Majka +2:53
Carapaz +3:16
Zakarin +3:32
Yates +3:46
Kangert +4:01
Sivakov +4:11
Lopez +4:29
Chaves +4:30
Landa +4:52

Wow. Considering how little action we have seen, this sets the stage nicely for all out warfare from the likes of Nibs, Yates, Astana and Movistar.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

So curious how Roglic will perform in the mountains now. Could be anything between he loses pink before the 2nd rest day and he wins the first two mountain stages as well. And I don't even know what I find more likely

 

[Valv.Piti]

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After today does Astana ride for Bilbao and does Movistar ride for Carapaz (well will Landa actually do that regardless of what the team wants?).

Both Bilbao and Carapaz will have free reigns to do whatever now I think. That was always the case for Carapaz unless Landa was flying (which we still dont know), but Bilbao will probably have a free role. Still, lets not overreact with 4 incredibly hard mountain stages and lots of other opportunities.

 

[HelloDolly]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

If Roglic doesn't fade, there is now way anybody in the world even take one second from him.

Yes thanks for that from the university of the bleeding obvious

If Yates , LAnda (if he can get his act together) and MAL attack and this is how Roglic may fade ...esp after a few very hard days

Otherwise we can all turn off the TV now
But the Giro is the Gior and we can expect the unexpected

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

If Roglic doesn't fade, there is now way anybody in the world even take one second from him.

If Roglic doesn't fade at all given how consistently strong his form's been

 

[repre]

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Everyone but Mollema, Nibali and Jungels just got murdered in GC.

Wondering if Astana is start riding for Bilbao now - unless Lopez has had a technical during the TT.

Vino said today on russian ES, that they'll ride for Lopez not matter what.

 

[Salvarani]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

Still a long way to go.

Nibali still has a big chance to win this imo.

 

[Sestriere]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

If Roglic doesn't fade, there is now way anybody in the world even take one second from him.

Not one hard mountain has been climbed in this Giro, so don't really know where that's coming from. He might very well no fade but just be outclimbed in the high mountains. In Tirreno, he was dropped by Adam Yates when the race got really tough, and Roglic was in top shape then.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Roglic
Nibali +1:44
Mollema +1:55
Jungels +2:18
Formolo +2:52
Majka +2:53
Carapaz +3:16
Zakarin +3:32
Yates +3:46
Kangert +4:01
Sivakov +4:11
Lopez +4:29
Chaves +4:30
Landa +4:52

Wow. Considering how little action we have seen, this sets the stage nicely for all out warfare from the likes of Nibs, Yates, Astana and Movistar.

Unbelievable. A few days ago there seemed to be four equal favorites and now if Nibali, who wasn't even one of them, wasn't there I'd argue this race is over. This race hasn't even been massively chaotic so far yet somehow this happened

 

[topt]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

If Roglic doesn't fade in the last week, there is no way that Nibali is going to take 2 mins plus from him in the mountains. Quite the opposite, actually, from what we've just seen.

If Roglic doesn't fade, there is now way anybody in the world even take one second from him.

Yes thanks for that from the university of the bleeding obvious

If Yates , LAnda (if he can get his act together) and MAL attack and this is how Roglic may fade ...esp after a few very hard days

Otherwise we can all turn off the TV now
But the Giro is the Gior and we can expect the unexpected

there is no reason to follow them, he should just follow Nibali

 

[Alexandre B.]

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After today does Astana ride for Bilbao and does Movistar ride for Carapaz (well will Landa actually do that regardless of what the team wants?).

Both Bilbao and Carapaz will have free reigns to do whatever now I think. That was always the case for Carapaz unless Landa was flying (which we still dont know), but Bilbao will probably have a free role. Still, lets not overreact with 4 incredibly hard mountain stages and lots of other opportunities.

Bilbao always ride like he has a free role anyway.

 

[Salvarani]

If Roglic smashes everyone in the first mountain stage it will be pretty detrimental to the rest of the race, if it not already were after this ITT. The others will ride conservatively for podium against each other instead of tryna break Jumbo and Roglic.

Landa, for example, is better off going for KOM and stages. Maybe get invited back in with gaining back time from a long break or something.

 

[ice&fire]

The moment one of Yates, Lopez or Landa moves ahead in the mountains, Mollema will defend whatever top-10 place he is in.

 

[JosephK]

Re: 2019 Giro d'Italia stage 9: Riccione - San Marino 34.7km

Surprises of the day (for me) . . . Vincenzo Nibali (VERY strong TT in bad conditions); Simon Yates (he really faded on the hill, wow). Roglic about as expected -- really strong throughout the stage, paced himself well and killed everyone on the final section. Nibali is a very real threat to win it all, at this point.