Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 17: Canazei - Sega di Ala 193 km

[Rollthedice]

Dan Martin descending masterclass incoming.

 

[HelloDolly]

Remco doing his best Froome impersonation

 

[Red Rick]

9% too steep
7.5% alright

 

[KZD]

The peloton slowed down but its still a nice recovery from Remco.

 

[Eclipse]

Maybe they just got Remco to drop and ride a steady pace so he wasn't suckered into trying to overdo it if someone pushed on here, and then when the bunch didn't really go fast he came back on. Weird one though

 

[BlueRoads]

Evenepoel comes back... is the real problem for him the irregular racing rhythm?? Maybe he can do amazing numbers as long as they are steady? Surely DQS must have calculated that in and realized in training, or is that too hard to simulate at all?

 

[perico]

Remco the new Tommy Voeckler

 

[Fantastico]

Nah, he's just riding his own pace.

If the GPS is correct, the peloton has lost about half a minute to the front again, so maybe Remco is just riding a more steady pace.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

You can tell that Remco is the first of a generation that's grown up with Froome.

 

[Lequack]

Lol Remco dropped and said "wait what am I doing, I'm Remco!"

 

[Rollthedice]

Nibali preparing descent madness.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Remco doing his best Froome impersonation

It reminded me a bit of Sastre, who was often dropped early, only to crawl back some time near the top of the climb.

 

[dercuforever]

Undropped

 

[HelloDolly]

Mikel Nieve giving Remco a chance

 

[roundabout]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

 

[Bonimenier]

He was obviously waiting for Almeida to drop back to pace him, but decided to do it himself when that didn't happen.

 

[Red Rick]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

Trying to catch him if he falls off the mountain uphil.

 

[Anybody_but..]

You are trolling.
His bike is just compounded of magnets thats why must follow the cars so close.

 

[Savant12]

Keep it together Dan.

 

[HelloDolly]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

Well that was the way they were riding when Almedia was supporting Remco earlier in the Giro

 

[Mayomaniac]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

"That's what Masnada told me to do during our training camp."

 

[Lequack]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

Almeida called him back up (as opposed to Remco calling him down)

 

[carolina]

"I will support Almeida (by riding 200 meters behind him for most of the climb)"

He must have learned that from Masnada.

 

[Eclipse]

Crappy timing for a Ciccone mechanical

 

[Climbing]

Well, at least Vincenzo was useful