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Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 4: Avola – Etna 170 km (Tuesday, May 10th)

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wheresmybrakes

wheresmybrakes

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If Yates is going for GC then he needs to learn his lesson and not go all in at the beginning of the race only to collapse towards the end. It's a long race. Yes, stage wins are nice, but try and leave them for towards the end. Saying that, BE may be expecting him to have a really bad day so getting all the stage wins in early gives them some good vibes.

Fortunato for the win.
 
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Mayomaniac

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Bavarianrider said:
This should be a mountain TT. Perfect mountain and road for that. Would have produced beautiful pictures. Would have made the race a lot more interesting, as well.
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That would have been interesting. I've also always said that a climb with lots of hairpins, but shallow gradients and lack of action like Montevergine should be used as a MTT. On such a tempogrinder the rouleurs would actually put significant time gaps into the lightweight climbers.
 
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wheresmybrakes said:
If Yates is going for GC then he needs to learn his lesson and not go all in at the beginning of the race only to collapse towards the end. It's a long race. Yes, stage wins are nice, but try and leave them for towards the end.
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That's a more difficult decision than you make it appear. If you are in excellent form in the beginning of the race and it looks like you could gain significant time on your rivals, is it smarter to keep your energy for the final week where your rivals may be stronger or do you try to capitalize on your advantage? Clearly, there's some trade-off, but it's not like waiting for the final week is always the best thing to do.
 
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Fantastico said:
That's a more difficult decision than you make it appear. If you are in excellent form in the beginning of the race and it looks like you could gain significant time on your rivals, is it smarter to keep your energy for the final week where your rivals may be stronger or do you try to capitalize on your advantage? Clearly, there's some trade-off, but it's not like waiting for the final week is always the best thing to do.
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I agree, we aren't talking about some crazy long range attacks, only abbout striking when the Iron is hot.
 
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Mayomaniac

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Bolder said:
An uphill TTT sounds like a Race Design Thread fantasy...but I'm game for it.

I'd also like to see another Criterium International two-fer, with a morning TT and afternoon road stage...
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Well, it's a better idea than a downhill TTT...
The UCI banned half stages in gts or word tour races in general, otherwise I'd like to see a mid length TTT as stage a in the morning to put some fatigue in the legs before a short stage b that is pretty much nothing but hills.
 
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New bike for Carapaz. No gold bike anymore?

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wheresmybrakes said:
If Yates is going for GC then he needs to learn his lesson and not go all in at the beginning of the race only to collapse towards the end. It's a long race. Yes, stage wins are nice, but try and leave them for towards the end. Saying that, BE may be expecting him to have a really bad day so getting all the stage wins in early gives them some good vibes.

Fortunato for the win.
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If you have form you need to capitalize on that. Obviously attacks from far are very energy consuming especially regarding 3-week race but if Yates can gain 30 seconds by attacking i.e. 3-4 km from the line he should do it.
 
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