Fabio Aru 6.5w/kg

[SafeBet]

Or motorbiking.

 

[hrotha]

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Or motorbiking.

Seems all sorts of pointless for Fabio Aru, 22nd and +25 minutes down in the GC, to decide to use a motor for this particular stage.

 

[brownbobby]

Surely the most amazing overnight transformation since Floyd 2006 :lol:

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Please be BB'd to the absolute gills and cause carnage all this week oh sweet Angel. Such a shame if he goes back to bonking for the rest of the week.

 

[therealthing]

Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. He is threatening to beat Froome and Dumoulin at this rate! This is like Nibali in 2016 the speed at which his form miraculously returns.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Surely the most amazing overnight transformation since Floyd 2006 :lol:

ban inevitable
how long though?

 

[ppanther92]

Ah, he did the same in the Giro 2015 on the last rest day and nothing happened. Will be fine. Ulissi got the same treatment it seems.

 

[EroicaStradeBianche]

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Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. He is threatening to beat Froome and Dumoulin at this rate! This is like Nibali in 2016 the speed at which his form miraculously returns.

Well, Nibali was always good in TT at least. Aru not... I don't understand this performance, what's going on here? 25 min down on GT...

 

[Ripper]

That was a pretty funny performance. Fabio, the ultimate TT expert?

 

[ontheroad]

Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

 

[classicomano]

To be a fly on the wall in his hotel room yesterday.

 

[Ripper]

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Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

There needs to be a meme with Martin's reaction. That was good.

 

[gmedina]

I think the reason he did well today is that he was being almost paced by motorcycle....havent seen the video but that is the rumor

 

[May0maniac]

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I think the reason he did well today is that he was being almost paced by motorcycle....havent seen the video but that is the rumor

Probably a combination of that + home field advantage on the rest day, similar to Movistar gc riders like Valverde and Quintana who seem to gain 30W if the TT takes place on spanish soil.

 

[hrotha]

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Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

There needs to be a meme with Martin's reaction. That was good.

Nevah 4get

 

[Alexandre B.]

Flashbacks of Vino 2007.

 

[luckyboy]

Hopefully he has been watching videos of Sella 2008 for inspiration for the coming days. Would be fun to see a few ridiculous solo victories and the blue jersey.

 

[movingtarget]

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Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

There needs to be a meme with Martin's reaction. That was good.

That was hilarious.

 

[pastronef]

20 seconds penalty for drafting.
to Ulissi and Conti 2 minutes

 

[Ripper]

20 seconds penalty for drafting.
to Ulissi and Conti 2 minutes

Yup. I have a feeling if he was motorpacing the whole way, he got off super light and still got a free 60-90 seconds gifted. S'all right folks, nothing to see here.

This said, motorpacing in a TT is at least better than Aru just spinning along that close to the pointy end of a TT. If it had been all pharmacological, I'd wonder what new wonder drugs have made it into the group.

F*ck am I glad I don't aspire to race at that level anymore

 

[vedrafjord]

Will be interesting to see if he goes full Vino in the remaining mountain stages.

 

[Random Direction]

For the record: https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/998933146262474752

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

There needs to be a meme with Martin's reaction. That was good.

Nevah 4get

In fairness at that point it wasn't quite clear how out there Foliforov's time was. Boswell's reaction showed it was out there, but realistically Boswell isn't really a proven standard to judge against in an MTT in the same way as Tony Martin in a flat TT, and as ever with an MTT, most of the best climbers are in the GC mix so go late, so there weren't as many actually viable times to judge Foliforov against until the big guns all came and failed to dethrone him later on, whereas in an ITT plenty of top TT riders are rouleurs so don't contest the GC and go early, so by the time Aru went we had a lot of strong TT riders to judge against - Martin, Dowsett, van Emden, Kiryienka, Campenaerts.

I mean, Boswell was proven correct over the course of the day, sure, but Martin reacting as he did comes with a bit more authority because of Martin's history in the contre-le-montre.

 

[movingtarget]

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To be a fly on the wall in his hotel room yesterday.

The fly never survived the change in air quality...........

 

[roundabout]

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Possible restday refill, Martin's reaction was priceless. Will be interesting to see if he also refinds his legs in the mountains and goes nuclear.

There needs to be a meme with Martin's reaction. That was good.

Nevah 4get

In fairness at that point it wasn't quite clear how out there Foliforov's time was. Boswell's reaction showed it was out there, but realistically Boswell isn't really a proven standard to judge against in an MTT in the same way as Tony Martin in a flat TT, and as ever with an MTT, most of the best climbers are in the GC mix so go late, so there weren't as many actually viable times to judge Foliforov against until the big guns all came and failed to dethrone him later on, whereas in an ITT plenty of top TT riders are rouleurs so don't contest the GC and go early, so by the time Aru went we had a lot of strong TT riders to judge against - Martin, Dowsett, van Emden, Kiryienka, Campenaerts.

I mean, Boswell was proven correct over the course of the day, sure, but Martin reacting as he did comes with a bit more authority because of Martin's history in the contre-le-montre.

If Boswell knew his power output for 30 minutes he had a pretty good idea of what was needed to beat his time by nearly 90 seconds.