Giro d'Italia 2017 STAGE 21: Monza – Milano 29.3 km ITT

[mavmav]

This will be a tt long remembered. Im pretty sure it will come down seconds.

Some people seem to convinced of the outcome, but I'm certainly not. After 3 weeks of racing fatigue will play a big role and I think Tom certainly is Pretty much dead, but I've also seen others struggling. I think there might be some upsets today.
Tom is dutch afterall and the dutch tend to fail when it matters.

He isn't.

Watch his interviews. You can tell.
Look up his power output over the last 10K yesterday (at the end of a very tough mountain stage). It shows.

Fatigue is highly overrated on such a TT. He still has the aero advantage. He still has the power advantage.

 

[SafeBet]

Oh and it's very hot. They say 30° but it feels like more.

 

[BullsFan22]

Re: Re:

Not to be a jerk, but the starting times have been available since yesterday.

My gratitude to those who were aware of this and posted the info here. Oh, wait...

It was not evident on the Giro site, or a google search, before I went to bed or when I first got up.

Notice the date and time:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2017-giro-ditalia-stage-21-time-trial-start-times/

 

[Tonton]

Re:

I rode the middle part of the TT this morning. As I said, very wide roads, panflat, there's a slight headwind when you get out of Monza heading towards Sesto San Giovanni, maybe a couple of kms.

From then on, plenty of buildings along the road so wind shouldn't be a factor.

Funny note: I wasn't far from Bob Jungels when he did his recon of the route. Don't know if he was going full gas but I have never felt so useless on a bike as today

Wow! Lucky you!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Fonzi decides the publicity value of wearing a maglia nera outweighs the inevitable fine.

But with his name, surely the black leather jacket/white t-shirt/slicked back hair would have got more publicity for the same fine.

 

[perico]

What would be a comparable upset at WorldTour level to Dumoulin losing this to Quintana/Nibali/Pinot/Zakarin tomorrow? It's very hard to think of anything so unlikely

1981 Giro finale
Basically this situation with just 2 men, the odds on favorite got beaten not just on GC but on the TT stage itself by the climber.

More recently, Gesink contriving to somehow lose the 2010 Tour de Suisse in the TT after easily "winning" it in the mountains

Lemond's world record time trial in 1989 to win the Tour by 8 seconds

And it only happened because Fignon was injured which kept him up all night and meant he couldn't even warm up.

That famous clip of Fignon finishing the TT and falling to the floor crying in anguish at losing? He thought he'd won, he was crying because of the pain from the injury.

Corrected.

If Fignon had cut off his ponytail he would've won as well, but hindsight is 20-20.

Or if Delgado had shown up at the start on time...

 

[Squire]

The English speaker is really butchering the names. So far Bilotski and Bisitov have gone down the start ramp.

 

[Climbing]

Rai just reported that Tom Big Mouth is starting with a 58 x 11.
That seems absurd, but of course he won't use the 11 clearly.

 

[lenric]

It's not a technical route and being flat I see no wrong.

 

[Roku]

It is important to note that, if i'm not mistaken, Laurens Ten Dam had only participation in the Giro until this year.

It was the year 2009, while he was riding for Rabobank. That year he was the best domestique for a GC contender that would eventually win the Giro... the great Denis Menchov, who, like Dumoulin, cemented his win with an astonishing performance on the main ITT of the race, winning another mountaintop stage, suffering a bit on Blockhaus, on an edition that featured another climb to a volcano (Vesubius). He wore the maglia rosa for 9 days, just like Dumoulin did on this year. The race finished with another TT, as you might know.

Curious, isn't it?

 

[Tonton]

Re:

Fonzi decides the publicity value of wearing a maglia nera outweighs the inevitable fine.

But with his name, surely the black leather jacket/white t-shirt/slicked back hair would have got more publicity for the same fine.

I hope they spare him the fine. Cool guy.

 

[Tonton]

58X11 is insane. That's a very big club to wield. Tom means business.

 

[perico]

I forgot Foliforov was even at this Giro. Big time fail this year after promise shown here in 2016.

 

[sir fly]

58X11 is insane. That's a very big club to wield. Tom means business.

I won't believe till I see.

 

[hfer07]

so.... best times should be under 30' it seems

 

[Red Rick]

so.... best times should be under 30' it seems

That's nearly 60kph. Good luck with that. Might see 53-55, but not more.

 

[wirral]

58X11 is insane. That's a very big club to wield. Tom means business.

Rabofail awaits. Oh, the inevitability.

 

[hfer07]

so.... best times should be under 30' it seems

That's nearly 60kph. Good luck with that. Might see 53-55, but not more.

my bad

should be around 32'-33' then

 

[Climbing]

Well clearly he won't push the 11, the chain would be too oblique anyway.

 

[May0maniac]

58X11 is insane. That's a very big club to wield. Tom means business.

I won't believe till I see.

He probably won't use it, Francesco Moser said that he probably picked that kind of gearing to have a better chainline/chain alignment on the smaller gear of choice.

 

[BullsFan22]

If there's one thing the Giro organizers need to improve on it's the live timing/GPS.

 

[alspacka]

Re: Re:

Not to be a jerk, but the starting times have been available since yesterday.

My gratitude to those who were aware of this and posted the info here. Oh, wait...

It was not evident on the Giro site, or a google search, before I went to bed or when I first got up.

Well, I appreciated it man.

 

[wirral]

If there's one thing the Giro organizers need to improve on it's the live timing/GPS.

http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/live/

 

[spalco]

Hm, 34 minutes is really short. Hopefully dumoulin can find a minute somewhere ...

 

[alspacka]

Van Emden always looks very smooth. Time will stand for a good while now I think. Have some sympathy for these guys who've ridden 3 gruelling weeks just for today.