Giro 2017, stage 19: S.Candido/Innichen - Piancavallo 191 km

[Forever The Best]

2012 levels pathetic.
Chapeau to Pinot/Zaka/Pozzo.

 

[deValtos]

Crazy race!

Go Tom!

 

[aarononymous]

you guys know quintana has attacked more than anyone with Giro GC wise?

 

[portugal11]

Pinot is so close!!! And he was the best today

 

[Irondan]

The entire top GC guys are all exhausted, except for Pinot it seems. Pinot in Pink on Sunday?

Could very well be...

 

[Arredondo]

Dumoulin + 38 seconds on Quintana now

 

[BigMac]

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how many kms left?

5 or so for the gruppetto.

 

[woodburn]

This could be like Vuelta 2015 where Dumoulin doesn't even finish on podium if he cracks tomorrow.

 

[KGB]

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Honestly, with the way Quintana is climbing, he might crash out the top 4 in that TT

I start to pray for that rest of the week.

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Dumoulin is still the favourite

Yeah, but if he loses any more time tomorrow he won't be.

They still need to put another minute into Dumoulin tomorrow. He looked absolutely spent but the others don't have much more to give either.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[wolvie15]

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Dumoulin is still the favourite.

No longer so sure. He has no team he can rely on. HE is likely to lose more time. Everything will be decided on Sunday's TT

 

[DFA123]

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Well, the pink jersey surely won't be breaking the group tomorrow like it was the case today.
The uphill finish and a tt is what's left.
And the ascent isn't exactly the hardest one.

For sure someone will try something on Grappa, either ascent of descent. That will be the key test for Dumoulin I think. He just can't get dropped there.

 

[nerian]

man... quintana is such a polarizing rider to support.

When he's on, its beautiful to watch, the attacks, the acceleration.

When he's feeling normal, he waits til the 3rd week or the last 5km which is pretty boring to watch and rather predictable.

When he's off, he waits for a domestique or just follows the wheel and doesn't do work until the last 500m where he will sprint to the line for whatever reason, so frustrating to watch.

 

[Jelantik]

wow.. Dumoulin might remember the word he dished out yesterday... what a turn out today. I guess he was a bit cocky with yesterday's comment.

 

[aarononymous]

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Tomorrow will be fireworks.

Tomorrow will be a bloodbath

 

[laurensde+]

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Honestly, with the way Quintana is climbing, he might crash out the top 4 in that TT

I start to pray for that rest of the week.

Classy

 

[Irondan]

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you guys know quintana has attacked more than anyone with Giro GC wise?

Has he? Or are you guessing. Because I'd say that Zakarin has attacked just as many times or more.

 

[vedrafjord]

It's like the 2011 Tour - it's going to remembered as an amazing epic close race based on the last week because it's so backloaded but the first two weeks were pretty meh.

 

[deValtos]

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Horrible to see Nairo gets rewarded by racing so negatively.

Bad shape or not.

I think that's harsh. The other side of the same coin is that he's putting in an amazing battling performance to haul himself into pink, despite not having the legs.

Sitting on Nibalis wheel to gap him at the end? Meh, not interested in that style.

 

[fauniera]

Re: Giro 2017, stage 19: S.Candido/Innichen - Piancavallo 19

Pinot will win this Giro.

 

[Irondan]

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man... quintana is such a polarizing rider to support.

When he's on, its beautiful to watch, the attacks, the acceleration.

When he's feeling normal, he waits til the 3rd week or the last 5km which is pretty boring to watch and rather predictable.

When he's off, he waits for a domestique or just follows the wheel and doesn't do work until the last 500m where he will sprint to the line for whatever reason, so frustrating to watch.

Nail.. Head..

 

[BullsFan22]

Re: Giro 2017, stage 19: S.Candido/Innichen - Piancavallo 19

See how important the bathroom break on stage 16 was?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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This last week is just so, so hard. I've never seen the likes of NIbali and Quintana just physically incapable of attacking on a climb even when they have an open goal like that in front of them.

They weren't physically incapable any more than Pinot, Zakarin or Pozzovivo. They were very tired, but so are those who did attack. They were just deeply afraid of going, failing and giving the other man the chance to bury their chances. Fear is the issue.

 

[Red Rick]

He's not all that polarizing to me.