Giro d'Italia 2020, stage 13: Cervia – Monselice 192 km

[Anderis]

Today's profile doesnt really look like FDJ will leave the break go

Demare will be easily dropped on those two climbs if someone bothers to ride them fast enough so it wouldn't be very wise for FDJ to work too much.

 

[Eclipse]

I would accept this stage going to a break. It's the quality of the break that's sad. We need NTT to chase for Pozzovivo.

Oh yeah the break would have been fine winning today.

I just mean it's sad when you get let go and its a bare handful of you (a couple of whom clearly hoped to actually nab the stage) and the teams behind you don't even let you go past 2 min.

You're just dangling out there in sadness all day knowing you don't even have that tiny glimmer of hope.

 

[sir fly]

Oh yeah the break would have been fine winning today.

I just mean it's sad when you get let go and its a bare handful of you (a couple of whom clearly hoped to actually nab the stage) and the teams behind you don't even let you go past 2 min.

You're just dangling out there in sadness all day knowing you don't even have that tiny glimmer of hope.

Seems the real stage hunters are resting in the bunch waiting for the finale.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Why would Israel be helping BORA? Zabel isn't KoM anymore, and surely Cimolai can't be in contention either.

 

[TommyPlus]

Why would Israel be helping BORA? Zabel isn't KoM anymore, and surely Cimolai can't be in contention either.

May I introduce you to the future Lord, Alex Edward Albert Dowsett

 

[titan31]

Those climbs are no joke, if a team wants to ride hard all the pure sprinters will be dropped.

The if is a big if there. There's very few teams even strong enough to do so wholl be interested in doing it

 

[Red Rick]

Those climbs are no joke, if a team wants to ride hard all the pure sprinters will be dropped.

I think just GC riders trying to stay safe is enough to drop the sprinters.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

FDJ to smash it en masse onto the first climb and then clog it up with a rolling-roadblock

 

[Pantani_lives]

Harm Vanhoucke was in the GC top 10 after the Etna stage and several days longer. Now he's over half an hour behind, but he lost time on purpose in order to hunt for a stage. That campaign started today, but it doesn't seem to pay off just yet.

 

[Eclipse]

Harm Vanhoucke was in the GC top 10 after the Etna stage and several days longer. Now he's over half an hour behind, but he lost time on purpose in order to hunt for a stage. That campaign started today, but it doesn't seem to pay off just yet.

It was a bad gamble to go today as a break winning was always unlikely (and attacking off the front on the climbs is probably at least as effective as spending all day out hoping to make it stick), but I suppose he can ride tomorrow as a 'rest' and be reasonably fresh to try again on Sunday, Once again if we were to end the race early I guess you'd kick yourself if you rolled through the weekend expecting breaks on later days only to find the race doesn't go on too.

 

[Breezy1985]

FDJ to smash it en masse onto the first climb and then clog it up with a rolling-roadblock

Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climb

 

[SafeBet]

What the hell happened to Ballerini?

 

[skippo12]

Some riders looking like it is freezing cold again. Others casually going without a jacket or long sleeves.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climb

The return of strava KoM hunter Demare.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climb

He better try the Movistar car first

 

[Breezy1985]

Some riders looking like it is freezing cold again. Others casually going without a jacket or long sleeves.

Some men are Flandrien and some are just not

 

[Eclipse]

Nicely set up and GC teams are clearly taking no risks

 

[perico]

I completely forgot Dombrowski was here. As strong as he was last year at the Giro, I’m a bit surprised and expected more.

 

[SafeBet]

I completely forgot Dombrowski was here. As strong as he was last year at the Giro, I’m a bit surprised and expected more.

He's had a stomach bug at the beginning of the week and still recovering.
He literally said he had to take a dump in someone's front yard the very day I wrote on this forum "please no sh*tting around today" @RedheadDane

 

[richwallone]

It looks like Bilbao's and Kelderman's teams are really looking up to gain some seconds on Almeida and the rest of the GC... Very committed so far on the climb...


EDIT: Spoke too soon...

 

[richwallone]

Fabbro leading put out Sagan

 

[Brumdog66]

Sagan must be in monster form if he's making it hard here

 

[richwallone]

Sagan must be in monster form if he's making it hard here

He wants the win, he wants the points!!!

 

[Eclipse]

GC boys paying seriously close attention to this

 

[Gigs_98]

I think this could soon get too hard for Sagan as well. There is a km at 13% about to come