Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 19: Venaria Reale – Jafferau 184km

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Feb 20, 2012
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DNP-Old said:
So we have:
Froome: Henao, De La Cruz
Carapaz: Pedrero, Betancur
Lopez: LL Sanchez
Pozzovivo: Visconti
Dumoulin: Ten Dam
Nightmare break for Yates.

Orics may just drill it on the flat
 
Oct 5, 2010
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Damn, gotta leave home now. Not going to be able to see the race until tonight. Can't wait.
 
Aug 3, 2015
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Just got home. Live in 1 minute, Finestre day.

GET HYPED

And yes, Lopez can still win the race!
 
Feb 20, 2012
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Gap isn't very big. I imagine they need at least 3/4 minutes for fireworks for them to be useful on Colle delle Finestre.
 
Feb 1, 2011
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If the gap doesn't go out sometime there's no way the break makes it up finestre.
 
Aug 3, 2015
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Red Rick said:
Gap isn't very big. I imagine they need at least 3/4 minutes for fireworks for them to be useful on Colle delle Finestre.
Yes, could have needed a tougher climb or an even longer stage to establish a more useful break. Was always the problem with this design, IMO.
 
May 19, 2010
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spalco said:
If the gap doesn't go out sometime there's no way the break makes it up finestre.

Plus Yates can fully use hit big guys in the flat section right now, because they won't be of use later anyways.
 
Feb 20, 2012
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Valv.Piti said:
Red Rick said:
Gap isn't very big. I imagine they need at least 3/4 minutes for fireworks for them to be useful on Colle delle Finestre.
Yes, could have needed a tougher climb or an even longer stage to establish a more useful break. Was always the problem with this design, IMO.
Location location location. Not really alternatives for Colle del Lys coming from the east.
 
Sep 7, 2015
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Red Rick said:
Gap isn't very big. I imagine they need at least 3/4 minutes for fireworks for them to be useful on Colle delle Finestre.

MS can squeeze his rouleurs that wont make it anyway after the Finestre
 
May 26, 2009
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so it's....

Henao & De La Cruz (Sky), ten Dam (Sunweb), Visconti (Bahrain), Sánchez & Villella (Astana), Betancur & Pedrero (Movistar), Montaguti & Cherel, Conti & Atapuma, Brown & Dombro, Masnada, Ciccone, Brambilla, Štybar, Formolo, Gonçalves, Neilands
 
Aug 3, 2015
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Red Rick said:
Valv.Piti said:
Red Rick said:
Gap isn't very big. I imagine they need at least 3/4 minutes for fireworks for them to be useful on Colle delle Finestre.
Yes, could have needed a tougher climb or an even longer stage to establish a more useful break. Was always the problem with this design, IMO.
Location location location. Not really alternatives for Colle del Lys coming from the east.
Yeah, I obviously dont know anything about that, I just remembered the Mont Cenis in 2005
 
Feb 18, 2015
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For christs sake de la cruz, don't constantly leave gaps in the group of you want it to be successful
 
Feb 24, 2014
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Well, nothing unexpected in the fact GC candidates' teams have put some men in the break. We'll see when the leaders will try to bridge to them.
There are the descents as well as ascents.
 
May 15, 2011
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I should make it home before Finestre, don't go too fast, folks :)

Also, I will never understand the motivation behind riders like Stybar joining mountain breakaways. Yesterday, both Van Poppel and Van Emden confessed it wasn't the plan for them to join and they kept wondering what they were doing up there :p