Giro d'Italia 2018 STAGE 4: Catania – Caltagirone 198 km

[Gigs_98]

Those final 10 Kilometers were exciting. Great winner for a great stage
Meanwhile I still think Froome is injured or at least still hurt. He usually just doesn't lose time on climbs like this. Maybe the same counts for Lopez but I give him the benefit of the doubt as he has always been bad on these sort of finishes. I really hope both are fine. I'm not a fan of froome, but he starting the serious mountains with significant time to make up could be very entertaining

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

55s down now. But still upbeat in the RAI interview
"Etna will be the acid test" -- Davide Cassani

 

[alspacka]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

 

[pastronef]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

55s down now. But still upbeat in the RAI interview

nice to hear. his crash is still hurting I think. he´ll be better day by day.
forza Dawg!

 

[HelloDolly]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

Will he be giving back the 1.5 million then?

What is a concern for SKY is the whole team look poor at this stage

 

[DNP-Old]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

Will he be giving back the 1.5 million then?

What is a concern for SKY is the whole team look poor at this stage

Why? Israel paid him, not RCS.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

Will he be giving back the 1.5 million then?

What is a concern for SKY is the whole team look poor at this stage

Why? Israel paid him, not RCS.

RCS got Israel to pay him ...so they want him for th whole race and he just cant up and leave cos he is not wining

 

[pastronef]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

Will he be giving back the 1.5 million then?

What is a concern for SKY is the whole team look poor at this stage

Elissonde dragged the peloton until 1 K to go, Poels placed better than Froome. their terrain is the long climbs, they´ll be ready

 

[yaco]

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Nice result for Yates. Another good ride by Kreuziger.

Interesting that MS is keeping Kreuziger up in the GC - MS had a good plan for the final but their riders weren't up to it.

 

[Red Rick]

So I think it was Poels who arrived at 16s rather than Froome.

Might end up riding for himself in the end?

 

[pastronef]

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So I think it was Poels who arrived at 16s rather than Froome.

Might end up riding for himself in the end?

yes, Poels arrived before Froome

 

[movingtarget]

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Nice result for Yates. Another good ride by Kreuziger.

Interesting that MS is keeping Kreuziger up in the GC - MS had a good plan for the final but their riders weren't up to it.

Three in the top 10 still looks good.

 

[Red Rick]

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So I think it was Poels who arrived at 16s rather than Froome.

Might end up riding for himself in the end?

yes, Poels arrived before Froome

They look a little too similar when Poels is also hurting. I was freaking out when he won LBL lol.

 

[Squire]

What a crazy last 3 km. And a beautiful final ramp. Looked cool having lots of spectators on one side, and a steep wall dropping off on the other.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

1h after the race, still no full result. I love Italy

 

[movingtarget]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

I wonder how much his form is due to crash or just poor shape. If it continues and he loses time on Etna I think they'll pull him out and concentrate on TDF.

Will he be giving back the 1.5 million then?

What is a concern for SKY is the whole team look poor at this stage

Why? Israel paid him, not RCS.

RCS got Israel to pay him ...so they want him for th whole race and he just cant up and leave cos he is not wining

If Froome is out of contention early I think he will definitely leave the race and gamble on being included in the Tour. Appearance money has nothing to do with the result it is about appearing on the start line. I have a feeling that Sky have been downplaying his fall otherwise the Etna stage could be interesting. The last thing his rivals will want is a headwind at the top of Etna as has happened before, which neutralized attacks.

 

[Rollthedice]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

55s down now. But still upbeat in the RAI interview
"Etna will be the acid test" -- Davide Cassani

Froome rides as bad and talks as much nonsense like Contador post ban 2013 except he is pre ban.

 

[movingtarget]

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Froome should be 1 minute behind now in the GC.

55s down now. But still upbeat in the RAI interview
"Etna will be the acid test" -- Davide Cassani

Froome rides as bad and talks as much nonsense like Contador post ban 2013 except he is pre ban.

Whenever Contador downplayed his chances you knew he would win or do something impressive.......

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Froome loses 23 seconds. That's 19 seconds to most of the other favorites.
Ouch

Now finish him off tomorrow
Tibo for the win

I thought tomorrow was Etna!!

 

[staubsauger]

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Confirmation that Kirby called Battaglin Bennet about 29 times

Same by the German commentator. Maybe Kirby was shouting too loud?

The RAI got it right

To be fair, Migels normally is quite good at spotting riders! That certainly can't be said about Kirby.

 

[May0maniac]

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1h after the race, still no full result. I love Italy

We have our priorities, having a post race talk show at the finish line where everyone is talking a lot without saying anything relevant is more important, that's so Italian.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Froome dealing with Contador like setbacks for sure. Contador dealt with crashes in most of his failures and in some of his successes, notably Giro 2015. And people often were disparaging of his post-crash efforts. I am guessing Froome would not be down 55s if not for the crash. We'll see if he can recover to win as Contador did in 2015.

 

[movingtarget]

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Froome dealing with Contador like setbacks for sure. Contador dealt with crashes in most of his failures and in some of his successes, notably Giro 2015. And people often were disparaging of his post-crash efforts. I am guessing Froome would not be down 55s if not for the crash. We'll see if he can recover to win as Contador did in 2015.

The race has barely started but the time gap to Dumoulin is already bad. Not so bad in relation to other riders. I think Dumoulin will be attacked more in the mountains this year so it will be interesting.

 

[HelloDolly]

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If Froome is out of contention early I think he will definitely leave the race and gamble on being included in the Tour. Appearance money has nothing to do with the result it is about appearing on the start line. I have a feeling that Sky have been downplaying his fall otherwise the Etna stage could be interesting. The last thing his rivals will want is a headwind at the top of Etna as has happened before, which neutralized attacks.[/quote]

Since i am one of the people who thinks he shouldnt be riding in the first place i couldnt care when he leaves but I doubt he can with such a high appearance fee without some stipulations

Maybe today he just lost his inhaler

 

[DNP-Old]

Finally.

Aru +10
Superman and Froome +21