Giro 2017, stage 11: Ponte a Ema – Bagno di Romagna 161 km

[Anderis]

I recall Fraile doing some crazy things like outsprinting GC men on a hilltop finish for KOM points after being in a breakaway on last year's Vuelta. If there was one man in the peloton I would expect to do something like he did today, it's him.

 

[staubsauger]

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So hopefully now we wont have pages of Landa adoration ...I said this morning Faile looked stronger and he did

What a great ride and what a great rider

*Adoring Landa which apparently pisses HelloDolly off*

Aupa Mikel!!

I think Landa is a great climber but today he did not ride a wise race

But on here we get ...he is going to beat everyone, he is just stretching his legs, he is just testing himself for next week, he will drop Fraile, etc etc......it is annoying and uncalled for... Landa is not a demi God about to beat everyone every time he sticks his nose in the wind....far from it

But my opposition is not to Landa who is a nice guy but to the posters who constantly over hype him ... maybe you can understand the difference ?

Landa still just had a crash and a swollen leg 3 days ago. Still, he already was on the attack today and scored some points as a potential base for the blue jersey. If he's back in shape for the Alps Fraile & Polanc won't be anywhere near him on the cols.

Foliforov, Hirt & Dombrowski still have been nowhere so far. What's their excuse? At least Landa's got some points to build up on IF he's able to fly in the Alps!

 

[huangho]

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Just came home and have to go in 5 min. Could somebody sum up the stare really quick for me ?

The stage began.
At some point before this TD lost all his teammates.
Every rider had an attempt at being in the breakaway.
Except anyone in Canondale kit.

The road began to go uphill.
The Forum, with the exception of Hello_Dolly, became united in the belief that Landa is in fact the lovechild of Pantani and Chiapucci.
The fireworks continued, threatening a stage so good Contador fanboys would later believe he was the only rider in it.

Boonen ate some cakes somehow and surprisingly not consumed already by Betancur.

Then Gigs tuned in and nothing happened for a long, long time.
He went for a minute, someone crashed, and Movistars started fighting on the side of the road.
TJ decided he wanted to see if it's possible to attach a reverse gear to a push bike.

Pinot attacked to see if he could start a decent with enough of an advantage to remain a contender on GC (next year's). Geraint dropped. Deignan had to give up his GC to help his team leader, or some other such tactical nonsense.

Fraile was a beast in the finale.

C'est magnifique!! Bravissimo!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[HelloDolly]

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So hopefully now we wont have pages of Landa adoration ...I said this morning Faile looked stronger and he did

What a great ride and what a great rider

*Adoring Landa which apparently pisses HelloDolly off*

Aupa Mikel!!

I think Landa is a great climber but today he did not ride a wise race

But on here we get ...he is going to beat everyone, he is just stretching his legs, he is just testing himself for next week, he will drop Fraile, etc etc......it is annoying and uncalled for... Landa is not a demi God about to beat everyone every time he sticks his nose in the wind....far from it

But my opposition is not to Landa who is a nice guy but to the posters who constantly over hype him ... maybe you can understand the difference ?

Landa still just had a crash and a swollen leg 3 days ago. Still, he already was on the attack today and scored some points as a potential base for the blue jersey. If he's back in shape for the Alps Fraile & Polanc won't be anywhere near him on the cols.

Foliforov, Hirt & Dombrowski still have been nowhere so far. What's their excuse? At least Landa's got some points to build up on IF he's able to fly in the Alps!

Oh you mean when Landa let Fraile take the KOM mountain points today ?

So now he is going for KOM and is measured against Foliforov, Hirt & Dombrowski...hardly Pantani-esque

As I said my point is not about the rider but about the posters with the ludicrous ascertains that he is going to make mince meat of everyone else all the time

 

[Red Rick]

Anyone got replays from the last climb?

 

[BigMac]

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There's always a bane to Pierre Rolland. Funny, that hadn't it been Omar, it would've been Costa. Again.

Great win, seemed like a good finale. Only tuned in for the descent.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Insane win by Fraile! What a win!

Laurens de Plus is surely also something to pat attention to, he also rode brilliantly. Kruijswijk, on the other hand... disappointing.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I think we can stop expecting things from SK this Giro. Indeed disappointing, but we saw it coming. Just not there this year

 

[RattaKuningas]

I'm happy how things are going for Kangert. Managed to get back some of the time he lost yesterday because of a bad TT for his standards. 8th place and only 3 seconds between him and Jungles. If he stays consistent and avoids bad days then a very good result is possible.

 

[Climbing]

Apart from SK and GT I think Mollema was a bit in difficulty when Nibali accelerated.
TD didn't look particularly sharp, mouth open and heavy breathing, but maybe that was just an impression.
Yates didn't look brilliant either.

Anyway big chapeau for Fraile, impressive and very well deserved.

 

[Jagartrott]

Monfort two consecutive top-10s.
The end times are nigh.

 

[WheelofGear]

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Apart from SK and GT I think Mollema was a bit in difficulty when Nibali accelerated.
TD didn't look particularly sharp, mouth open and heavy breathing, but maybe that was just an impression.
Yates didn't look brilliant either.

Anyway big chapeau for Fraile, impressive and very well deserved.

Who looked great then?

 

[WheelofGear]

Is it just me or is Dumoulin actually better on the very steep climbs (at 9%+ like Blockhaus) than the hard but not brutal climbs (at 7-8% like Oropa)?

He is an odd rider. I actually think Quintana will be able to do better on Oropa than Blockhaus.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Damn the next 4 stages are underwhelming. After 4 days of good racing, we can expect a couple of very dull ones. Even Oropa and Bergamo are flat for the most part.... they could definitely have done a better job there.

 

[May0maniac]

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Is it just me or is Dumoulin actually better on the very steep climbs (at 9%+ like Blockhaus) than the hard but not brutal climbs (at 7-8% like Oropa)?

He is an odd rider. I actually think Quintana will be able to do better on Oropa than Blockhaus.

A bit like a Dutch Mauri Melcior.
Yeah, the Oropa stage should be longer or have another climb at the start and the Lombardia stage should be a proper Lombardia stage.

 

[WheelofGear]

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Damn the next 4 stages are underwhelming. After 4 days of good racing, we can expect a couple of very dull ones. Even Oropa and Bergamo are flat for the most part.... they could definitely have done a better job there.

Bergamo has the potential if a guy like Nibali (or someone else) wants to test his legs.

Oropa is Richie Porte's wet dream which mean it's boring.

 

[yaco]

Freire well and truly the best rider today - Out with Landa for half the stage and he still sprints for victory - Awesome ride.

 

[yaco]

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Is Orica defending Yates gc position? :lol:

A bizarre move - Nothing to be gained because Yates was safely in the pink jersey group - Plaza should have been allowed to go for the stage - After all Plaza carried the pink jersey group for the last 8km - Anyway Yates should have been in the break - Poor day for Orica.

 

[yaco]

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Thomas could have lost a lot more, couple of days to recover now, i can't believe people think deignan shouldn't be called back.

Of course Deignan should have been called back when Thomas is off the back of the Pink Jersey group.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Is it just me or is Dumoulin actually better on the very steep climbs (at 9%+ like Blockhaus) than the hard but not brutal climbs (at 7-8% like Oropa)?

He is an odd rider. I actually think Quintana will be able to do better on Oropa than Blockhaus.

A bit like a Dutch Mauri Melcior.
Yeah, the Oropa stage should be longer or have another climb at the start and the Lombardia stage should be a proper Lombardia stage.

The weirdest thing with Mauri was that he was fine on the inconsistent and steep stuff in Asturias and Cantabria, but absolutely dreck at getting a good rhythm going on the low to mid gradient climbs that normally suit riders such as him (as evidenced by tempo climbers like Nozal in later years). The reason that's strange is that all of those climbs in that Vuelta were in Catalunya, his home region.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Do not think 7% climbs are a weakness for dumoulin. However any multitude of climbs and a severe attack by movistar is another thing.

 

[May0maniac]

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Is it just me or is Dumoulin actually better on the very steep climbs (at 9%+ like Blockhaus) than the hard but not brutal climbs (at 7-8% like Oropa)?

He is an odd rider. I actually think Quintana will be able to do better on Oropa than Blockhaus.

A bit like a Dutch Mauri Melcior.
Yeah, the Oropa stage should be longer or have another climb at the start and the Lombardia stage should be a proper Lombardia stage.

The weirdest thing with Mauri was that he was fine on the inconsistent and steep stuff in Asturias and Cantabria, but absolutely dreck at getting a good rhythm going on the low to mid gradient climbs that normally suit riders such as him (as evidenced by tempo climbers like Nozal in later years). The reason that's strange is that all of those climbs in that Vuelta were in Catalunya, his home region.

Yes, nobody understands the Mauri thing, he was the cycling version of the Voynich manuscript.
A bit of Topic, but do you have the profile of that 290km long stage of the 1991 Vuelta, Libertine?

 

[Anderis]

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Damn the next 4 stages are underwhelming. After 4 days of good racing, we can expect a couple of very dull ones. Even Oropa and Bergamo are flat for the most part.... they could definitely have done a better job there.

I've realised a couple of days ago that the whole route is much more underwhelming than I inidially thought. Not many stages suited for long-range attacks and tactical moves.

 

[Carols]

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Apart from SK and GT I think Mollema was a bit in difficulty when Nibali accelerated.
TD didn't look particularly sharp, mouth open and heavy breathing, but maybe that was just an impression.
Yates didn't look brilliant either.

Anyway big chapeau for Fraile, impressive and very well deserved.

Who looked great then?

Narito and Pinot

 

[Climbing]

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Apart from SK and GT I think Mollema was a bit in difficulty when Nibali accelerated.
TD didn't look particularly sharp, mouth open and heavy breathing, but maybe that was just an impression.
Yates didn't look brilliant either.

Anyway big chapeau for Fraile, impressive and very well deserved.

Who looked great then?

Narito and Pinot

Those for sure.