After Parma the wind is coming from the left according to windy.com. Should be strong enough for echelons. Don't know if anyone tries in the rain.
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Are we going to have a break of twenty riders?
Nothing like getting up at 5:45AM to watch a race and there are no pictures....well every once in a while we see cyclists.
Wow a group of 20+ are off the front. Anyone who can win the Giro?
Or Conti gets another run with the maglia rosa after 2019.Good opportunity for somebody like de Marchi, Quinten Hermans or Edet to get a Visconti '08 run in the maglia rosa while the main threats manoeuvre themselves behind. I'd also say Taaramäe, but 4km at 10% with a 2km run-in to the line sounds an awful lot like Xorret del Catí, and 12 years on that's still my defining memory of him.
Good opportunity for somebody like de Marchi, Quinten Hermans or Edet to get a Visconti '08 run in the maglia rosa while the main threats manoeuvre themselves behind. I'd also say Taaramäe, but 4km at 10% with a 2km run-in to the line sounds an awful lot like Xorret del Catí, and 12 years on that's still my defining memory of him.
Edit: spalco, Oliveira is at +32" so he's best placed. De Marchi is the better climber though.
Big group of 25, but the break was made in the flat, so we will se how many of the remain one hour laterAre we going to have a break of twenty riders?
Good opportunity for somebody like de Marchi, Quinten Hermans or Edet to get a Visconti '08 run in the maglia rosa while the main threats manoeuvre themselves behind. I'd also say Taaramäe, but 4km at 10% with a 2km run-in to the line sounds an awful lot like Xorret del Catí, and 12 years on that's still my defining memory of him.
Edit: spalco, Oliveira is at +32" so he's best placed. De Marchi is the better climber though.
Because non of the other teams would let the break go?Makes you wonder how none of the GC contenders sneaked in the breakaway under these conditions.
The absence of overall danger makes things a bit cleaner.