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Is it not the Wout Poels award?
Today Kuss award goes to Martínez.
Is it not the Wout Poels award?
If ever a photo called for a caption competition...
Bolivia is like 2000Kms away from Colombia, with 2 countries in betweenBernal: Let's stop and drink some mate de coca.
Martinez: After the finish, you snail! My one-leg grandma would overtake you!
Chris noticing what other experts have noted. It looks like Bernal was trying to feed half way up the mountain which is very weird and an indication of dropping sugar levels. The hot weather just aggravated the issue. There could be an issue of dehydration as well.
Who surprised me most today is Diego Ullissi, he came in with Berna and Caruso
As @roundabout said: Bernal was probably overconfident following Yates, and didn't dial down when he was in the red.
I guess he should have responded to Yates, but Bernal's mistake as he called, was to dig too deep into red. He should have assessed earlier and tempo'ed with Martínez. I guess he would have lost less time, and probably finished ahead of Caruso
If ever a photo called for a caption competition...
Martinez: Come and get the invisible ice cream, come on
Caruso: I'm gonna steal that invisible ice cream out of his hand.
Very surprising to me.And honestly I have no idea why. Would it not have been more sensible to save energy for today? Or did he want to get into serious mode after the rest day, because of today? But yes, his performance was really, really good, one of the most surprising yesterday.
I fear that Cassani will take him to the Olympics as a protected rider after yesterday.Very surprising to me.
When he passed me on the climb with 4 km to go he looked easy while more competent climbers like Bardet, Carthy and even Bernal looked on the limit. His shape is clearly improving as the Giro goes on. Let's not forget he only came back to racing a couple of months ago after a pretty serious health issue.
Also, this is not the first time he performs at a very high level in the Giro mountains. I remember he was 4th in Risoul 2016 (started the climb with the first group and finished only a minute behind Nibali and 10 seconds behind Chaves/Nieve).