Giro 2017, stage 18: Moena - Ortisei 137 km

[DFA123]

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Now the entire strategy of putting men is the break is destroyed

Eh? Quintana still has two men with him to drive a hard pace and set up another attack on the next climbs. They'd have been dropped by know if they didn't go in the break.

 

[Red Rick]

Super important descent. Lets show the same 10 commercials of products we want to ritually burn instead of said descent.

~Eurosport

 

[WheelofGear]

Zakarin and Pozzo should try on the next climb. Dumo wouldn't chase them.

 

[Ramira]

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Doms set too slow a pace, we'll see what that took out of Dumoulin I guess

Indeed. Still 50km to go.

Honestly I could see that taking less out of Dumoulin than Quintana and Nibali. Both of them actually attacked, Dumoulin just set a solid pace and caught up because he's far better than the domestiques.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Is this all movistar can do.. Dumoulin will smoke them on the last climb.

Even Froome would have problems with this Dumo!!

 

[Climbing]

Bah, Giro over.

 

[DFA123]

Dumoulin had to work a lot on this climb but this is going absolutely perfectly for him. He isn't only back in Quintanas and Nibalis group, both have no teammates left now so if they want to drop him today it will have to be mano a mano

I think both Nibali and Quintana have multiple teammates still with them.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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

They looked cooked in the break before Nairo attacked. Sky had to set a higher tempo to keep the gap.

 

[dacooley]

Nairo and Nibs should put in one more attack on steep section of the next climb,

 

[Forever The Best]

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Bah, Giro over.

This.

 

[LaFlorecita]

T _O_ M

 

[Kwibus]

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It's funny how people applaud Cataldo for working with Nibali, while they attack any team for working with any Sky rider ever.

Ofcourse it's not right, but thats what friends tend to do.

 

[Andro]

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If Cataldo was able to bring Nibali to Movistar guys then the pace had to be slow for sure.

Yeah, Amador was cooked.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Lol... they should have gone at the first climb of the day
Now TD will limit his losses or even hang onto them.

Come on, these riders are not machines!

 

[papisimo98]

i wonder how many times TD has that in him. it may not happen today, but as we saw in the vuelta 15 it adds up when you are always all alone fending for yourself.
makes for great racing. love the giro!!!

 

[deValtos]

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I still lol at how the Giro handed Porte a 3min penalty for having a rider from another team changing the wheel but a dude from another team like cataldo riding on the front for another rider .... :lol:

Do you really not see the difference? I mean, besides the fact that one is against the rules and the other isn't...

Ofc I see the difference and understand why you can only punish one. None the less having a rider from a different team hammering it on the front for the sole purpose of aiding the other team really annoys me. It's unfair on the other GC riders. Way more than having a guy change a wheel, that's why I bought it up. :lol:

 

[Escarabajo]

The Giro is haging on another dump!

 

[Valv.Piti]

This is only happening because the stage is shorter than 139 km!!!

If they cant drop Dumo on Pontives it will be hard.

 

[Andro]

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i wonder how many times TD has that in him. it may not happen today, but as we saw in the vuelta 15 it adds up when you always all alone fending for yourself.
makes for great racing. love the giro!!!

The tempo set by Amador was so slow Cataldo was able to bridge. Tom might not have spent that much energy.

 

[Rollthedice]

Dumourain the machine.

 

[Ataraxus]

Tom D between Zakarin and Krujswijk in the descent.

 

[deValtos]

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It's funny how people applaud Cataldo for working with Nibali, while they attack any team for working with any Sky rider ever.

Ofcourse it's not right, but thats what friends tend to do.

It's *** honestly. Ain't going to be cheering for people that do that. Essentially legal cheating because you can always argue he's riding for himself. When he isn't.

 

[Forever The Best]

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This is only happening because the stage is shorter than 139 km!!!

If they cant drop Dumo on Pontives it will be hard.

Long stages are horrible!!111!!
Riders don't attack on long stages !!1111!1!
Lol.

 

[Escarabajo]

And now the descends making the difference, go figure!

 

[capuldemetal]

nairo caught the orica train?