Giro 2017, stage 18: Moena - Ortisei 137 km

[lartiste]

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Polanc gone, he could lose a lot today.

he one or two guys with him, let see whether they can help to limit loses ...

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Polanc gone, he could lose a lot today.

he one or two guys with him, let see whether they can help to limit loses ...

If he's dropped already, he'll probably lose 15 minutes today.

 

[dick the quick]

18 guys at the front, if I counted properly:
Anacona, Amador, Berhane, Cataldo, Deignan, Dombrowski, Foliforov, Fraile, Hirt, Landa, Pedersen, Plaza, Rosa, Rosskopf, Siutsou, Stuyven, van Garderen, Villela

 

[Rollthedice]

Fraile just dropped Landa for the KOM.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No attacks... that means they will wait on the final climb. Gardenia is normally too simple

 

[bigcog]

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jeez who's commenting for english eurosport? is that the infamous Kirby? guy doesn't have a clue most of the times.

Rob Hatch

He is far better than Kirby, be grateful for small mercies.

 

[RattaKuningas]

I think that something will happen on next climb though.

 

[python]

i see nibs attacking w/2 km to the top of gardena, then mad dash down...a flight over di pinei, mad down again and an all out climb to the finish...i see only quintana capable of matching him on the down hill.

if according to my expectation, both can gain up to a minute on dumo...zak may attack earlier to offset his poor downhilling. then, it's 4-5 gc guys duking it out from far away

 

[ontheroad]

Nibali to go nuclear today. He loks in better shape than Quntana after the 2nd rest day and is the main threat to Dumoulin. If Dumoulin is still wearing pink after today he will be happy with that.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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i see nibs attacking w/2 km to the top of gardena, then mad dash down...a flight over di pinei, mad down again and an all out climb to the finish...i see only quintana capable of matching him on the down hill.

if according to my expectation, both can gain up to a minute on dumo...zak may attack earlier to offset his poor downhilling. then, it's 4-5 gc guys duking it out from far away

I think that Dumoulin is a better descender than Quintana.

 

[phil-i-am]

Gardena might be shorter than Pordoi and Valparola but is a bit steeper (if you exclude the first kilometer) and ridden after those two. I think Yates will try to bridge to Plaza. Quintana should try to give it a go with Amador and Anacona ahead but he most likely won't..

 

[Inquitus]

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i see nibs attacking w/2 km to the top of gardena, then mad dash down...a flight over di pinei, mad down again and an all out climb to the finish...i see only quintana capable of matching him on the down hill.

if according to my expectation, both can gain up to a minute on dumo...zak may attack earlier to offset his poor downhilling. then, it's 4-5 gc guys duking it out from far away

I think that Dumoulin is a better descender than Quintana.

Aye Dumoulin had the fastest descent of all the main GC guys on Stage 16

 

[ice&fire]

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i see nibs attacking w/2 km to the top of gardena, then mad dash down...a flight over di pinei, mad down again and an all out climb to the finish...i see only quintana capable of matching him on the down hill.

if according to my expectation, both can gain up to a minute on dumo...zak may attack earlier to offset his poor downhilling. then, it's 4-5 gc guys duking it out from far away

I think that Dumoulin is a better descender than Quintana.

Quintana lost very little to Nibali descending the Stelvio. The question is if Dumoulin will start descending at the same time than those two.

 

[WheelofGear]

I want to see some GC riders attack on the next climb.

 

[topcat]

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I want to see some GC riders attack on the next climb.

Don't we all?

 

[phil-i-am]

Descents are not hard enough for Nibali to make a difference. Grappa descent, however...

 

[python]

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i see nibs attacking w/2 km to the top of gardena, then mad dash down...a flight over di pinei, mad down again and an all out climb to the finish...i see only quintana capable of matching him on the down hill.

if according to my expectation, both can gain up to a minute on dumo...zak may attack earlier to offset his poor downhilling. then, it's 4-5 gc guys duking it out from far away

I think that Dumoulin is a better descender than Quintana.

Quintana lost very little to Nibali descending the Stelvio. The question is if Dumoulin will start descending at the same time than those two.

that was my recollection too - about 10 seconds or so. also if memory serves me right - i had not seen any official intermediate results - dumo was behind nibs/quintana about 1:20 by the last hilltop in that stage 16 and about 2:15 or so at the finish...

all from my recallection of the on-screen timing. which sometimes is crazy due to ceing fed from the gps updates...

 

[spalco]

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that was my recollection too - about 10 seconds or so. also if memory serves me right - i had not seen any official intermediate results - dumo was behind nibs/quintana about 1:20 by the last hilltop in that stage 16 and about 2:15 or so at the finish...

all from my recallection of the on-screen timing. which sometimes is crazy due to ceing fed from the gps updates...

No, as far as I remember, Dumoulin lost a bunch on the last 1 or 2 km of the ascent and then kept the gap stable down into the finish.

 

[SlickMongoose]

Orica appear to have lost Yates?

 

[vcampbell]

Where is Dumoulins tandem partner, Ten Dam?

 

[SlickMongoose]

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Where is Dumoulins tandem partner, Ten Dam?

Dropped.

 

[Rollthedice]

Time for some serious business.

 

[RattaKuningas]

Finally Movistar doing something.

 

[Dukerojo]

TD is alone and now Movistar are working

 

[glassmoon]

hey Gigs, get off the TV porfavor.