Giro 2017, stage 17: Tirano - Canazei 219 km

[SafeBet]

Bravo Pierro!
Happy for Cannondale.

 

[dusty red roads]

Re:

Good time to be listening to French feed even though I have no idea what they are saying.

Yes, same here - enjoying their excitement! Well done Rolland!

 

[staubsauger]

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I don't like Rolland, but this victory is well deserved.

I like him. But, i never bought into teh next great French riders. He has little strategic sense and never got good enough in TT . He is the French TVG.

I like Romain Bardet and Julian Alaphillipe way more.

I kinda like Rollands agressive racing style.

Romain Bardet certainly is a cutie!

 

[Gigs_98]

That was a pretty entertaining stage. And a great victory by Rolland

 

[Hugo87]

Rui Costa really deserves this second place, he didn't do enough to take the win. :/

 

[ice&fire]

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Costa has always been one level above Visconti and Gadret

How can you be above Team Gadret?

Attacking your teammates is above not helping them

 

[Valv.Piti]

Nicely done by Pierre-Pierre, incredibly strong attack, I didnt think he could sustain that the way he did!

 

[pastronef]

I´ve been waiting for this for almost 2 years, since he signed for Cannondale

it is great

super Pierrot!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Waiting for Anderis to celebrate this, now 2 victories in a week!

 

[Laplaz]

OMG so happy for Pierre!

 

[TomLPC]

Sad that Carlton wasn't here for this, the disappointed father of Pierre Rolland

 

[movingtarget]

Nice win by Rolland. He kept trying and it paid off.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Wasn't Rolland the very first rider to attack in the stage?

He deserved that Giro stage! Happy for him.

 

[SafeBet]

Dumoulin: "it was a hard day, we had to work to keep the jersey, but physically I was fine".

So no problem after yesterday.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Dumoulin: "it was a hard day, we had to work to keep the jersey, but physically I was fine".

So no problem after yesterday.

I'm sure if he had big problems to stay in the peloton he would have told the press

 

[HelloDolly]

What the f*** is Juan antonio talking about...he says so much and jumps all over the place ...its so gibberish

Please let Matt Stephens do the interviews...and Ashley House

 

[seldon71]

Monfort passed Formolo by a single second to go upto 12th.

13 men inside 7:17 to Maglia Rosa. Potential for interesting breakaways tomorrow... SunWeb can not really put together any kind of chase in high mountains.

 

[yaco]

Enjoyed the stage on what was a transitional stage - Kudos for Rolland for a well deserved win - Big step for a Non-English speaking French rider to join an English speaking team.

 

[perico]

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Sad that Carlton wasn't here for this, the disappointed father of Pierre Rolland

I think he is commenting on SBS or something. He's definitely doing it somewhere. I've heard him on the highlights

 

[shalgo]

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Monfort passed Formolo by a single second to go upto 12th.

13 men inside 7:17 to Maglia Rosa. Potential for interesting breakaways tomorrow... SunWeb can not really put together any kind of chase in high mountains.

As they showed today, however, they do not really need to chase. The only riders Dumoulin needs to mark are Quintana and Nibali. If anyone lower on GC attacks, then the other GC teams will eventually chase. Kruijswick had his team riding today to protect 9th on GC; you can expect the teams with riders in 2nd through 8th to do the same. In addition, Dumoulin has less of a need to chase than the other GC riders, because he knows he can make up time in the TT.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Enjoyed the stage on what was a transitional stage - Kudos for Rolland for a well deserved win - Big step for a Non-English French rider to join an English speaking team.

Don't French people have a tendency to not be English?

 

[TomLPC]

It's nice to see the cannondale team visibly emotional, Juan Antonio wiping back a tear too

 

[Carols]

Bravo Rolland and Cannondale!!!

 

[Carols]

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Sad that Carlton wasn't here for this, the disappointed father of Pierre Rolland

I think he is commenting on SBS or something. He's definitely doing it somewhere. I've heard him on the highlights

Yeah I have him on Fubo....

 

[spalco]

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Monfort passed Formolo by a single second to go upto 12th.

13 men inside 7:17 to Maglia Rosa. Potential for interesting breakaways tomorrow... SunWeb can not really put together any kind of chase in high mountains.

They don't need to, any break that threatens Dumoulin also threatens Quintana, Nibali, Pinot and Zakarin (probably even more so actually) and they shouldn't to save energy after what happend previously.