Giro d'Italia 2020, stage 14: Conegliano – Valdobbiadene 34.1 km ITT

[Laplaz]

Majka did a great ITT by the way

 

[ice&fire]

Everyone but Almeida, Kelderman and McNulty has followed Fuglsang's blog advice

 

[johnymax]

That was one lovely TT.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Everyone but Almeida, Kelderman and McNulty has followed Fuglsang's blog advice

And he'll be giving them the bird tomorrow because of that

 

[Red Rick]

One really has to question why Nibali and Trek choose such a big gear/this kind of gearing for the ITT.

Same bag as "nah weather isn't gonna impact final riders in opening ITT" and "Totally no echelons for Bauke and Richie"

 

[HelloDolly]

NIbali ,Fuglsang & Pozzo , etc need to put time into Almeida and McNulty tomorrow ..need to go hard and go long

And cant depend on their teams as they dont have them really

But not sure what they can do about Kelderman ...
Nibali will put pressure on the descents I presume

 

[benzwire]

It will be interesting to see how McNulty does in the coming mountains. If he can hang in there, with the final TT coming, he could podium. Impressive. As far as Nibali is concerned, I would never count him out. The voodoo is real and this coming week will be exciting.

 

[Anybody_but..]

That was one lovely TT.

Yes, yesterday I would have taken these results immediately!

 

[Luthor]

Ganna. Almeida in top10, Kelderman to lose 20s.

So close, just 4s for my prediction to be accurate

 

[SafeBet]

NIbali ,Fuglsang & Pozzo , etc need to put time into Almeida and McNulty tomorrow ..need to go hard and go long

And cant depend on their teams as they dont have them really

But not sure what they can do about Kelderman ...
Nibali will put pressure on the descents I presume

Kelderman has to drop Almeida first, which could bode well for the race given he's the only one with a team apart from DQS.

 

[search]

Everyone but Almeida, Kelderman and McNulty has followed Fuglsang's blog advice

Konrad actually is doing that for years already. It was also confirmed by the Bora DS in Austrian media this morning.

 

[Anybody_but..]

Well done Ganna!

 

[TomLPC]

Given Almeida lost 30s on Etna and there are much harder mountains to come, god I can't believe I'm saying this, Wilco is the clear favourite here.

 

[Velolover2]

Majka is a huge surprise for me. The best of the real climbers.

 

[Laplaz]

22 seconds from 3rd to 7th. There will be blood.

 

[Luthor]

Nicely done by Ganna. Almeida looks great, it's gonna be interesting what he can do in the mountains.

 

[HelloDolly]

Agree Kelderman is favourite .He has the best team and the best TT among the climbers

He has to be careful though as he has a tendency to crash and that is not lost on some very good descenders

 

[dicanio_michael]

Almeida dropped on every single climb so far. He is far from a favorite

Only Stage 17, 18 he could lost big time like Tour de lAlin. Doubt any GC favourites here is on the same standard as Roglic or Bernal back then. And he still have a 15k TT coming to gain.

It is huge gamble to discount him.

 

[savornin]

Am I being full-on Nostradamus here when I say this Giro is either Almeida's or Kelderman's to lose? If the other's can't crack them both big time, they've lost already.

 

[RedheadDane]

Oh, come on! Now they're just being silly - those suspiciously similarily named guys:

122	CONCI Nicola	Trek - Segafredo			40.636	7:41
123	CONTI Valerio	UAE-Team Emirates			40.595	7:44

And looks like the Bevilacqua/Spreafico edition Duo Normand didn't make much of a difference in the long run:

69

BEVILACQUA Simone

Vini Zabù - KTM

42.522

5:27

101

SPREAFICO Matteo

Vini Zabù - KTM

41.585

6:32

 

[sir fly]

22 seconds from 3rd to 7th. There will be blood.

When?

 

[movingtarget]

NIbali ,Fuglsang & Pozzo , etc need to put time into Almeida and McNulty tomorrow ..need to go hard and go long

And cant depend on their teams as they dont have them really

But not sure what they can do about Kelderman ...
Nibali will put pressure on the descents I presume

Like to see Pozzo on the podium. Nibali doesn't seem to take as many risks on descents these days. Years ago he was a madman. First they have to break Almeida, and Kelderman has had an even race so far. Looks like he will be good for the remainder of the race.

 

[Red Rick]

Only Stage 17, 18 he could lost big time like Tour de lAlin. Doubt any GC favourites here is on the same standard as Roglic or Bernal back then. And he still have a 15k TT coming to gain.

It is huge gamble to discount him.

Surely someone can be not called a favorite without being discounted.

 

[richwallone]

When?

Tomorrow

 

[Anybody_but..]

Kelderman, Majka, Pozzo on podium in Milan.