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

[Waterloo Sunrise]

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Nicolas Portal, Team Sky DS: "Froome's rivals are Dumoulin, Pinot and Pozzovivo. We'll see if Simon Yates can keep this level in the 3rd week." (Via Gazzetta dello Sport)

Froome also gave a pretty snarky pre-race interview saying he was surprised the race leader would try to chase him yesterday and he would possibly pay for it today. Doesn't take much success to make them act like ****s again.

 

[classicomano]

EF setting themselves up for a spectacular failure.

 

[Orbit501]

Correction - at least one Astana rider in there.

 

[EroicaStradeBianche]

Nibali and quintana in the break!

 

[SlickMongoose]

EF chasing, they don't fancy Modolo's chances. :lol:

 

[jaylew]

I thought I read Lutsenko

 

[classicomano]

Just let Modolo drop back aswell then, he stands no chance in this group anyway.

 

[Rollthedice]

Three Bahrain in the break. Hopefully Pozzo received the jiffy bag containing Nibali's spare pair of balls.

 

[silvergrenade]

Why is EF riding?

 

[Red Rick]

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Three Bahrain in the break. Hopefully Pozzo received the jiffy bag containing Nibali's spare pair of balls.

He's got an entire spare Nibali

 

[Orbit501]

MS = Bewley
Astana = Lutsenko
UAE = Mori

No Sunweb or Sky.

 

[SlickMongoose]

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Why is EF riding?

They want to win the stage I guess.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Why is EF riding?

We have yet to figure out

 

[Orbit501]

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Why is EF riding?

Take your pick from these:

1. Pissed off with Stybar nicking points from Modolo.
2. Hugh Carthy fancies his chances
3. Woods fancies his chances.

None of them really make much sense :lol:

 

[Kwibus]

Benett was off his bike for 50 seconds due to a mechanical yesterday, so lets say he lost 55 seconds he wouldve finished 7th behind Pinot yesterday.

Nasty place for a mechanical. Gesink repaired the bike before the mechanics were there.

 

[silvergrenade]

EF trying to get it back before the climb. Once there, they won’t have the riders to pull.

https://twitter.com/cyclingmole/status/998179581638119424

 

[EroicaStradeBianche]

EF? What are they doing?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Benett was off his bike for 50 seconds due to a mechanical yesterday, so lets say he lost 55 seconds he wouldve finished 7th behind Pinot yesterday.

Nasty place for a mechanical. Gesink repaired the bike before the mechanics were there.

Gesink even finished 27th himself. Would have called that bad a couple of years ago but now I think it's pretty decent for him

 

[silvergrenade]

Ciccone has unlimited energy.

 

[Eclipse]

Ciccone is a legend

 

[SlickMongoose]

Re: Re:

Why is EF riding?

Take your pick from these:

1. Pissed off with Stybar nicking points from Modolo.
2. Hugh Carthy fancies his chances
3. Woods fancies his chances.

None of them really make much sense :lol:

Cross 2 off the list.... Carthy's on the front. :Neutral:

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Really hope Ciccone wins this stage

 

[Kwibus]

Benett was off his bike for 50 seconds due to a mechanical yesterday, so lets say he lost 55 seconds he wouldve finished 7th behind Pinot yesterday.

Nasty place for a mechanical. Gesink repaired the bike before the mechanics were there.

Gesink even finished 27th himself. Would have called that bad a couple of years ago but now I think it's pretty decent for him

No hard feelings toward Gesink, but I hope he has an average wage these days.
He used to be a big earner, but he doesnt deserve that anymore onbiously.

 

[Brullnux]

Pretty ferocious start to the day, the first 100 have been done in less than 2 and a half hours, despite 1500m of climbing. Should be a difficult finish.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Benett was off his bike for 50 seconds due to a mechanical yesterday, so lets say he lost 55 seconds he wouldve finished 7th behind Pinot yesterday.

Nasty place for a mechanical. Gesink repaired the bike before the mechanics were there.

Gesink even finished 27th himself. Would have called that bad a couple of years ago but now I think it's pretty decent for him

No hard feelings toward Gesink, but I hope he has an average wage these days.
He used to be a big earner, but he doesnt deserve that anymore onbiously.

I think he still earns around 800.000 because LottoNL signed some long term contracts with him