Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 15: Tolmezzo – Sappada 176 km

[vedrafjord]

Yates, the "bad TTer" the one in the TT position, with "good TTer" Dumoulin and "sometimes good TTer" Pinot sitting up on false flat and nearly doing track stands.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

According to the live data, Tom is putting out the same Watts as Yates (with about 15% more bodyweight)


Tom now gone. Great win for Yates.

 

[webvan]

Dumoulin done

 

[mosh1992]

Carapaz just cooked Dumoulin.

 

[Oude Geuze]

You guys really think Dumoulin would not ride if he was strong? He’s cooked like the rest and realize they all need to work together.

 

[Rollthedice]

Dumo dropped.

 

[dgodave]

Re:

Yates will get caught on the last "easy" climb.

OK. So much for my foray into tactics.

From here on out I limit my commentary to hill towns and castelli.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yates cruising to giro.
I think Dumoulin is letting his emotions get the better of him today and it's costing him a bit on the road. However reality is Yates is just way too strong.

 

[The Chicken]

Dumo ****ed!!

 

[Inquitus]

Tom got done over good and proper there lol

 

[Scarponi]

Dumo crumbled

 

[DFA123]

I think Pinot and Pozzovivo should be riding against Dumoulin now. Yates is uncatchable for them now barring something unexpected, they should focus on getting some time against Dumoulin.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Ouch, everyone riding away from Dumo. GO TOM!!

 

[gregrowlerson]

Froome group regaining time on the poorly organised five man group.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

And ofcourse the biggest wheelsucker of all, Carapaz.

Dumoulin toasted

 

[Climbing]

Re:

Now we're seeing the kimd of gaps everyone expected on the Zoncolan. Excellent race.

That is because this year design is perfect, Zoncolan hard stage to tire legs, then proper hard well designed Sappada stage.

 

[Salvarani]

lmfao Carapaz fooled them

 

[silvergrenade]

Re:

It's actually quite simple.

Yates is FAR stronger than the rest.

Dumoulin and the others are ALL near their limit,so NOBODY wants to do the work. They are all saving themselves and thus losing.

Even if Tom is at his limit he has to ride on the front.
Its HIS race to lose.
Instead he's whining about other riders not working while himself doing nothing

 

[Hayabusa]

And there goes Dumoulin's Giro. He really needs to pull out an epic TT performance now.

 

[TMP402]

Re:

It's actually quite simple.

Yates is FAR stronger than the rest.

Dumoulin and the others are ALL near their limit,so NOBODY wants to do the work. They are all saving themselves and thus losing.

As soon as they started working they started making inroads.

 

[burning]

Well, that's why he was not working. He's dead

 

[mosh1992]

They just gained 15 seconds with that attack...

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Yes, Dumo is done.

 

[The Chicken]

Yates fading? NOOOOooooo

 

[SlickMongoose]

They've just taken 10 secs out of Yates (if you believe the timer),