Giro 2017, stage 14: Castellania – Oropa 131 km

[SeriousSam]

Will be very interesting to see whether Dumoulin time trials the climb or whether he's going to try and stick to Quintana's wheel this time.

 

[Red Rick]

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Will be very interesting to see whether Dumoulin time trials the climb or whether he's going to try and stick to Quintana's wheel this time.

Should definitely go TT mode if Quintana attacks.

Could it be a viable tactic for Sunweb to absolutely drill the flat 120km's of the stage, assuming it hurts Quintana more than Dumoulin? Downside is you leave Movistar a little fresher to drill the climb a wee bit harder and the break isn't taking bonifications

 

[Climbing]

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Oropa 1999, Pantani full ***:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygIxoSi_h4

Disgusting, but kinda magical, wasn't it?

 

[King Boonen]

Quintana needs to psh the pace and finish in front of Tam. If he gets time great but he needs to make him hurt.

 

[Rollthedice]

What about Landani?

 

[Red Rick]

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What about Landani?

Landani should spend the next week showing he should be at least a co leader in the Vuelta (or show other teams they should offer him a contract ASAP)

Winning by 2 minutes would do that nicely.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Pinot most likely winner for me and I'd expect FDJ to ride accordingly. Wouldn't be surprised to see Fraile hang on to the favourites and beat a lot of them in the finish

 

[meat puppet]

Re: Re:

Will be very interesting to see whether Dumoulin time trials the climb or whether he's going to try and stick to Quintana's wheel this time.

Should definitely go TT mode if Quintana attacks.

Could it be a viable tactic for Sunweb to absolutely drill the flat 120km's of the stage, assuming it hurts Quintana more than Dumoulin? Downside is you leave Movistar a little fresher to drill the climb a wee bit harder and the break isn't taking bonifications

Dumoulin should defend in an itt mode, yes.

As for sunweb trying to wear quintana or movi out by riding a flat approach hard, well, no point really. Quintana will be mostly hiding in the peloton doing less than 150watts at, say, 80-100bpm,ie mostly pure revovery pace apart from short fluctuations in speed that happen regardless of who is driving the peloton.

 

[Laplaz]

Quintana needs the time bonus, so Movistar will go mental.

 

[dutchdescent]

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Thomas to pull a Jesus, somehow reviving himself in the race by the dark forces of dangerous vodoo from the deep forests of Haiti, powering through the flat road of the Po valley and leading the bunch with close to 20 minutes before cracking spectaclarly on the steep gradients of Oropa, desperately in need of carbohydrate, while in some sort of trance, conniously whispering un-understandable and unimaginable things to himself to keep the pedals going.

He didn't finish the stage and disappeared from planet earth for a good 6 months, the legend has it he has he went to heaven where he was told by Coppi, with a cat-shaped body, to start riding on wet-cobbles and sip triple by the Belgian landside again. And so he started eating normal food again and never go hungry to bed again, not sleeping in stupid tents in altitude and definitely never-ever sleeping in a camper-van.

Your story reminds me of this: https://rutube.ru/video/ab6bea35ae4e496d00db53dab4d76f5b/

I lol'ed at this so much. Brilliant!

 

[gregrowlerson]

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Where do you find inspiration from, Valv?
Alcohol or...?

Take it to the Clinic

 

[classicomano]

Tom will pull an Ugrumov today and destroy Quintana.

 

[Marco Pantani]

Nairo for the win, taking 20 seconds and the stage.

 

[Red Rick]

If forms are similar to Blockhaus, I have a hard time seeing Quintana drop everybody when he needed a bunch of accelerations to break Nibali and Dumoulin stayed withing half a minute. He takes that kind of time to break somebody again and the climb will be way over. Also, no false flat to shed half the peloton.

 

[jens_attacks]

landa to demolish pantani's record


duh

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Tom will pull an Ugrumov today and destroy Quintana.

_O_

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

20 minute effort suit Dumoulin, a bit like that Vuelta finish where he beat Froome.

If Quintana/Nibali win time at all it will be < 20s

 

[klintE]

Nairito says: "It will be hard to beat Marco Pantani's time on Oropa." :twisted:
https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/865888885154488320

 

[spalco]

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Oropa 1999, Pantani full ***:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygIxoSi_h4

Disgusting, but kinda magical, wasn't it?

Definitely magical, especially with the excitement of all those people watching on the side of the road.

 

[Climbing]

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Nairito says: "It will be hard to beat Marco Pantani's time on Oropa." :twisted:
https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/865888885154488320

No ***...

 

[roundabout]

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Oropa 1999, Pantani full ***:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygIxoSi_h4

Disgusting, but kinda magical, wasn't it?

Definitely magical, especially with the excitement of all those people watching on the side of the road.

Not really. He was never far behind (and certainly not 30 seconds like some say) and the team was very strong in the chase.

 

[Orbit501]

Pinot to leapfrog Mollema today.
Could well win the stage as well. Yates sure to have a dig at some point too.

 

[Red Rick]

I'm pretty sure everybody is gonna wait for what Movistar is gonna do first

 

[sir fly]

Dumo glued to Quintana's wheel!

 

[Orbit501]

Gazprom queuing up ready to go in the break. Wonder if Foliforov fancies another MTT today?