Ben O'Connor: Baby face becomes conqueror

[pastronef]

he went too deep and blew. f@ck! I was veeery happy seeing him there chasing with Thomas. but the Giro is still long. fingers crossed

 

[SafeBet]

O'Connor said after the stage he felt he was the second strongest in today's stage but also the dumbest. Spot on on the second claim, but we love him for that. More to come later this week.

 

[Cookster15]

I think O’Conner showed enough to prove a) he’s in good form and b) he can do well this Giro providing he doesn’t try to match the great one again.

But he didn’t completely crack like, for example, when Cadel Evans tried to follow a rampant Rasmussen and Contador on PdB in 2007 TdF. On that day Evans blew and lost nearly two minutes in the final 5km. Lost the TdF by 23 seconds.

 

[movingtarget]

He won't make that mistake again at least in this race.

 

[Netserk]

I think O’Conner showed enough to prove a) he’s in good form and b) he can do well this Giro providing he doesn’t try to match the great one again.

But he didn’t completely crack like, for example, when Cadel Evans tried to follow a rampant Rasmussen and Contador on PdB in 2007 TdF. On that day Evans blew and lost nearly two minutes in the final 5km. Lost the TdF by 23 seconds.

O'Connor was 94.6 % as quick as Pogi on Oropa and 13th fastest on the climb.

Evans was 95.9 % as quick as Contador on PdB and 7th fastest on the climb.