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.Today's profile doesnt really look like FDJ will leave the break go
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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.Today's profile doesnt really look like FDJ will leave the break go
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.
Seems the real stage hunters are resting in the bunch waiting for the finale.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.
Why would Israel be helping BORA? Zabel isn't KoM anymore, and surely Cimolai can't be in contention either.
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.Those climbs are no joke, if a team wants to ride hard all the pure sprinters will be dropped.
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.
Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climbFDJ to smash it en masse onto the first climb and then clog it up with a rolling-roadblock
The return of strava KoM hunter Demare.Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climb
Demare to request a bidon from the car on the climb
Some men are Flandrien and some are just notSome riders looking like it is freezing cold again. Others casually going without a jacket or long sleeves.
He's had a stomach bug at the beginning of the week and still recovering.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 wants the win, he wants the points!!!Sagan must be in monster form if he's making it hard here