Giro 2017, stage 18: Moena - Ortisei 137 km

[Mr.White]

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Amador and Anacona went too slow and allowed Tom back. Damn.

Or Dumoulin went too fast

 

[KGB]

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Quintana and Nibali will drop TD by 2 mins on Pontives!111!1111!11!!!

TD will following on last climb Quintana even with toilet paper roll in one hand.

 

[Mr.White]

I think Dumoulin will bleed, but not enough...

 

[Ikbengodniet]

Plaza back at it again!

 

[IndianCyclist]

Astonished by Orica. They have very few mountain domestiques yet they somehow manage to survive til the last climb

 

[Forever The Best]

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Amador and Anacona went too slow and allowed Tom back. Damn.

Or Dumoulin went too fast

Dumoulin brought the others with him as well, so it's more likely that the domestiques went too slow.

 

[Kwibus]

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Absolutely no surprise that guys who were spent in the break (Amador, Plaza) aren't gaining time on the leaders.

All of them got dropped. Commentators suggested they waited, but they simply got dropped.

 

[rick james]

Yates better deliver after the show from his team

 

[Arredondo]

Props for Tejay for riding well today!

 

[Kwibus]

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Amador and Anacona went too slow and allowed Tom back. Damn.

Or Dumoulin went too fast

Dumoulin brought the others with him as well, so it's more likely that the domestiques went too slow.

Quintana didnt have the balls to go for it alone.

 

[meat puppet]

Don't see dumoulin losing much. It is simply the most efficient to just TT up the climbs, and this becomes more pronounced in the era of powermeters as long as the chaser does not panic and just keeps pushing the w/kg target programmed to his computer.

 

[deValtos]

As if this group can stop the legendary TJ!

Comon lad!

 

[Forever The Best]

Pathetic stage, this.

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Yates better deliver after the show from his team

He's gaining time on Jungels as we speak.

Anyone know what the gap is right now?

 

[Arredondo]

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Yates better deliver after the show from his team

The story of this Giro: Orica to steal the show during the day, leader Yates to not deliver.

 

[phil-i-am]

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Yates better deliver after the show from his team

Formolo and Jungels are dropped. That's why Plaza was pulling so hard.

 

[woodburn]

Dombrowski proving again he struggles on downhills.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Absolutely no surprise that guys who were spent in the break (Amador, Plaza) aren't gaining time on the leaders.

All of them got dropped. Commentators suggested they waited, but they simply got dropped.

Exactly, Sky had to set a hard tempo in the break because the gap was only 2 minutes. They were already cooked when Quintana attacked and that's why the gap has remained around 40-45s

 

[Climbing]

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Pathetic stage, this.

More about TomD being the strongest.

 

[Ataraxus]

Ultimate conclusion.
Nairo and Movi don't deserve to win this GT.

 

[46&twoWheels]

Time for Quintana and Nibali to detonate a bad lineage of Escherichia Coli

 

[Ricco']

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How far behind is Jungels btw?

He doesn't seem far, based on the moment he starts climbing and descending (judging by the live data), compared to the maglia rosa.

 

[meat puppet]

Quintana would have been caught if he went alone. I know the idea is appealing and romantic, but getting caught is the realistic outcome.

 

[WheelofGear]

Tejay and Landa, haha!

Landa is gonna smoke him.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Pathetic stage, this.

More about TomD being the strongest.

And the doms who would have helped Nairo being weakened severely by the break