2019 Milano-Torino: 179 km

[Broccolidwarf]

Someone on DD must have told the others he has diamond legs today, otherwise they would not be riding like that.

Fingers crossed it's Valgren

Disappointed again

 

[Broccolidwarf]

5 COL 9679,21
6 SLO 9266,40
7 ESP 9050,50
8 GER 9013,66

Your points don't match the UCI nations ranking - is it a different ranking, and what is the source?

https://www.uci.org/road/rankings

 

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Your points don't match the UCI nations ranking - is it a different ranking, and what is the source?

https://www.uci.org/road/rankings

the UCI Nation Ranking is a "running classification" over one year. So (as I said) I have manually removed the points from 2018, as they will not count in the end anyway

 

[Pricey_sky]

Gaudu, Woods and Valverde just ahead of Yates and Bernal.

Now Gaudu and Woods have a gap, less than 1k to go.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Can never understand why they don't make valverde work, he's wheelsucked all the way. Well done.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Fully deserved that by woods, worked his ass off for it.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Woods with a great win, put distance into Valverde and just held on at the line. Yates 3rd.

 

[sir fly]

Thought Valverde's experience would be decisive, but it was Wood's strength at the end.
Congrats.

Maybe Gaudu should have been more patient and save more for the finish.

Entertaining racing.

 

[Carols]

Wow Woods, Finally!!! He has looked so promising these last few races and Delivers!

 

[RedheadDane]

That was brilliant.

 

[Sestriere]

Finally Woods, nice one. Almost managed to bottle it with his runner's tactics, but being the strongest by a distance was just enough.

 

[Singularitarian]

what a battle on that climb... impressive Woods to trade attacks with others all the time and then managed to distance Valverde in the last 300m to avoid being outsprinted... hats off

 

[Rollthedice]

Woods the strongest. Valverde good for GdL. Still unclear who will win Lombardia but after this I'd say Birdsong and Bernal are not among the contenders.

 

[DNP-Old]

My boy Kevin Rivera is flourishing, I'm so proud.

 

[tobydawq]

Can never understand why they don't make valverde work, he's wheelsucked all the way. Well done.

Where is this coming from wrt today? Because he was behind Bernal for 200 metres when Gaudu and Woods lifted their feet from the throttle for a little while?

He certainly pedalled just as much as the others to get to that finish.

 

[Blanco]

Woods the strongest. Valverde good for GdL. Still unclear who will win Lombardia but after this I'd say Birdsong and Bernal are not among the contenders.

I think the strongest are Rogla, Woods and Valverde, but I would never underestimate the old fox Vincenzo! These are my picks.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Impressive win by Woods, who had one extra acceleration after doing a lot of effort during the climb.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Well deserved win for Woods!

 

[Angliru]

Can never understand why they don't make valverde work, he's wheelsucked all the way. Well done.

They and he know that if they come to the final kilometer with him they will likely lose so they have to attack as Gaudu and Woods did. How do you make him work?

 

[del1962]

Just caught up with the race, nice win by Woods, can he do what Pinot did last year?

 

[Vesica]

Nice win by Woods, really deserved. Already strong in Emilia and by far the strongest today.

 

[tobydawq]

Marc Hirschi with a casual top 20 within a minute of Woods.

Seriously this is the most unfortunate year for a 20 year-old (now 21) to break through with regards to hype generation.

 

[Rollthedice]

Just caught up with the race, nice win by Woods, can he do what Pinot did last year?

No. Lombardia is an entirely different beast. It took Pinot 3 editions to be in the final mix , the best legs in the world in October and only one man to drop on Civiglio in order to win. It's impossible to gain a fairly large advantage on Civiglio on a larger group of elite climbers so that an average descender can keep a reasonable distance to stand a chance on the last climb and finish it off. Woods has no proper descending skills.

 

[SafeBet]

Woods the strongest. Valverde good for GdL. Still unclear who will win Lombardia but after this I'd say Birdsong and Bernal are not among the contenders.

Milano Torino is not a race that favors Bernal at all. He was 10th last year here but then was very impressive in Lombardia. Endurance will matter a lot more on Saturday.

 

[Rollthedice]

Milano Torino is not a race that favors Bernal at all. He was 10th last year here but then was very impressive in Lombardia. Endurance will matter a lot more on Saturday.

He was very impressive last year on the Sormano descent and that's about all.