Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 17: Riva del Garda – Iseo 155 km

[GraftPunk]

That wet finishing run is going to be dicey

 

[RedheadDane]

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I feel like this Giro only had sprint winners and GC guys winning, can't remember anything else xD

Mohoric? Perhaps wellens and Battaglin too.
Dunno what I'd classify Dennis as.

 

[Red Rick]

This stage makes me think of how awesome actually decent medium mountain stages would have been

 

[Red Rick]

Love Lulu and De Marchi

"Job done?"
"yeah, abort mission"
"Let's do this again soon"

 

[Climbing]

That was risky

 

[Red Rick]

Brambila is so explosive he can't gap Gesink.

 

[DNP-Old]

Teams are being weird af.

 

[Red Rick]

Giro is Giroing extremely hard right now

 

[Climbing]

Oh wow, finish will be very dangerous with so much rain.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

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Teams are being weird af.

Way easier and more productive to embrace chaos than try to control it.

 

[Breh]

Bennett in the rain?

 

[ruamruam]

Come on Bennett

 

[Laplaz]

Aaand Viviani makes it 4

 

[DNP-Old]

Thank you Viviani, thank you for making BORA lose.

 

[Climbing]

Superior Viviani, but fantastic leadout.

 

[Red Rick]

Great that QS gets rewarded for their antics at the start of the stage.

 

[shalgo]

That was pretty stupid by Van Poppel. He was in the perfect position on Viviani's wheel, but instead of waiting for Viviani to open his sprint, he went around Viviani early and let Viviani draft off of him before sprinting.

 

[Carols]

What a let down after all the action...Viviani Again.....

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Bennett much better sprint there but just started far too back.

 

[JimPanzen]

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That was pretty stupid by Van Poppel. He was in the perfect position on Viviani's wheel, but instead of waiting for Viviani to open his sprint, he went around Viviani early and let Viviani draft off of him before sprinting.

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[deValtos]

Re: Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 17: Riva del Garda – Iseo 155 k

That's the 2nd time Bennets looked faster but had to start from too far back. Where's the leadout?

 

[Inquitus]

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Bennett much better sprint there but just started far too back.

Yep it was his if he wasn't such a long way back.

 

[fantomas]

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That was pretty stupid by Van Poppel. He was in the perfect position on Viviani's wheel, but instead of waiting for Viviani to open his sprint, he went around Viviani early and let Viviani draft off of him before sprinting.

He is nowhere near having Viviani's speed, so that would not work. Just look how he couldn't even gap Sabatini when he started sprinting. He did the right thing, I believe.

 

[ruamruam]

If only Bennett was with Quickstep, he'd have a proper lead out train

 

[RedheadDane]

Just saw a replay of the sprint - from above - what the heck was Viviani doing with his fingers? Rather weird way to indicate four wins?