Giro d'Italia 2015 stage 19: Gravellona Toce–Cervinia 236km

[ILovecycling]

Vaiii Ivan!.....where is Zam when we need him

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Basso is Saxo's last man standing (besides Contador, of course)

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Re: Giro d'Italia 2015 stage 19: Gravellona Toce–Cervinia 23

Might have been posted before, but this was the Cervinia stage winner in the 2012 giro:

That is Andrey Amador and Leopold Konig. They were fighting for breakaway honours then. Now they are in the top ten in the Giro.

Jan Barta Hesjedal attacked that day

Whoops! They were in the same team though, plus I always mix them up.

 

[Kokoso]

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Vaiii Ivan!.....where is Zam when we need him

Somewhere out there?

 

[ILovecycling]

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Basso is Saxo's last man standing (besides Contador, of course)

Rogers just for bottles

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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I can't recall when I last saw a team this strong in the mountains.

SKY. Dauphine 2012 - the Morzine stage.

 

[Alcanelo]

Mick Rodgers is back...what a champ

 

[More Strides than Rides]

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Basso is Saxo's last man standing (besides Contador, of course)

Nevermind, miss-sighted.

Steepest part of the climb now, 12%. If anythings going to happen, it'll be now

 

[Escarabajo]

Come on Landa, what was that BS you were talking about yesterday?

 

[Jelantik]

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astana is very impressive. I wonder if nibali team's is better than this. If this is their B team, oh my..

 

[Alcanelo]

Re: Giro d'Italia 2015 stage 19: Gravellona Toce–Cervinia 23

astana is very impressive. I wonder if nibali team's is better than this. If this is their B team, oh my..

That's the thing...Astana will not be better than this at the tour

 

[ILovecycling]

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I can't recall when I last saw a team this strong in the mountains.

SKY. Dauphine 2012 - the Morzine stage.

where Quintana crushed whole famous train?

 

[ggusta]

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I can't recall when I last saw a team this strong in the mountains.

Strange how they keep losing time.

 

[Stilletto]

anyone in top 20 abscent?

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Vaiii Ivan!.....where is Zam when we need him

He was not joking when he said he expected to be stronger in the last days

 

[Carols]

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who is left for Astana & Tinkoff? is it Cataldo pushing since the foot of the climb?
What was the feeling in the Tinkoff meeting?

astana; zeits, tira, lulu, landa, aru and dunno.
ts - bertie, rogers..basso

ts meeting: olga tried to make joke.. no one laugh..then a long silent of akwardness. it was so weird meeting w/ none of riders said anything. that's the gist of it.

Thanks

 

[ggusta]

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Mick Rodgers is back...what a champ

he went back to the car

 

[ILovecycling]

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Vaiii Ivan!.....where is Zam when we need him

He was not joking when he said he expected to be stronger in the last days

Yea,so different from Alberto

 

[DenisMenchov]

Kruijswijk FTW!

 

[Publicus]

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I can't recall when I last saw a team this strong in the mountains.

Strange how they keep losing time.

Their strongest guys just aren't stronger than Contador. That happens. Having a team ride like this in the mountains though is impressive. I suspect they will have 5 riders on the final climb

 

[Stilletto]

Trofimov looing cooked?

 

[Ramira]

Re: Giro d'Italia 2015 stage 19: Gravellona Toce–Cervinia 23

astana is very impressive. I wonder if nibali team's is better than this. If this is their B team, oh my..

I'm not sure the A team will be that much stronger, especially in the high mountains. Though there are some very good riders that aren't here, with Fuglsang and Taaramae (and possibly Scarponi) being the foremost climbers and riders like Boom and Westra being just very strong. If a few of the Giro riders are still on form for the TDF the team will be quite a bit stronger, otherwise I don't think the difference is huge.

The main thing is the strength of other teams though. Sky and Movistar will be a lot stronger in the Tour, and the simple addition of Majka will mean Tinkoff-Saxo will be stronger too (CAS and Kiserlovski shouldn't hurt either). So even if Astana is stronger in the Tour than it is now, it won't be able to do the same things.

 

[DBotero]

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Astana is not dropping anybody important and people keep saying they are so strong.They look like this because other teams sucked hard in this Giro,especially Tinkoff and Sky.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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I can't recall when I last saw a team this strong in the mountains.

SKY. Dauphine 2012 - the Morzine stage.

where Quintana crushed whole famous train?

Well it was Quintana and Evans also got a couple seconds on the descent. Yet they were 4 SKY riders in a 9 rider group.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Astana so strong they are losing time to Visconti