Giro d'Italia 2020, stage 18: Pinzolo - Laghi di Cancano 207 km

[46&twoWheels]

Fuglsang is seriously full of ***!

Fullofshitsang

(the Astana husbands will probably poison him during one of those husbands dinners....Vino KGB style)

 

[baojoao]

Lets go Almeida.
Despite the final result, i wish for an attacking stage. I don't think Sunweb can start with a fast pace from the beginnhing or they'll destroy Kelderman's legs. I think at this point Almeida is stronger than Wilco. Jay Hindley can be the biggest rival if Sunweb take the leash out of him. Also Tao. Hindley and Tao together can be really dangerous.
I think that yesterday victory, NTT will go on a fast pace with Ben O'Connor, working for Pozzozivo, who will crack. Don't see trek with strenght to do so, neither Astana, and honestly don' see Nibali and Fuglsang with the legs for it, even though i'dd bet Nibali will try at least.
At the end of the day;
Almeida with the lead and Ruben Guerreiro with the mountain jersey.
Let me dream at least

 

[Max Rockatansky]

and Ruben Guerreiro with the mountain jersey

Visconti is DNS today. So chances are high.

 

[Faserr]

Because it's not the same. What the ***'s the fun in watching cycling - or any sport - when it's not live?
I'm not watching dodgy streams, I'm watching perfectly legal streams, provided by the broadcasters.

I think eurosport player is perfect. Yesterday the weather was good here in germany and I went out for a ride and watched Giro and Vuelta after the ride. The video on demand is always online 5 minutes after the race without any spoilers.

 

[BlueRoads]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhmMh9mZq-U

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Visconti is DNS today. So chances are high.

No blue hair for Scinto then. What's wrong with him?

Found out myself. Patellar tendonitis.

 

[hfgon1]

Lets go Almeida.
Despite the final result, i wish for an attacking stage. I don't think Sunweb can start with a fast pace from the beginnhing or they'll destroy Kelderman's legs. I think at this point Almeida is stronger than Wilco. Jay Hindley can be the biggest rival if Sunweb take the leash out of him. Also Tao. Hindley and Tao together can be really dangerous.
I think that yesterday victory, NTT will go on a fast pace with Ben O'Connor, working for Pozzozivo, who will crack. Don't see trek with strenght to do so, neither Astana, and honestly don' see Nibali and Fuglsang with the legs for it, even though i'dd bet Nibali will try at least.
At the end of the day;
Almeida with the lead and Ruben Guerreiro with the mountain jersey.
Let me dream at least

I don't see why so much so guys think that Hindley should attack early today or is the biggest rival. Come on, he is three minutes behind and will lose more time in the individual time trial. Knox and Masnada are strong enough to control him easyily within these three minutes. Then it's how Deceuninck would like. They can go their own pace and keep Almeida protected.

If Almeida is not cracking totally, the only option to beat him is Kelderman. So Sunweb has to ride for him. Let Hamilton and Hindley do the pace and see how it works. Can they get a gap to Almeida, everything is great for them. Otherwise they have the possibility to isolate Almeida and attack then with Hindley. That will not be enough to catch up Almeida in the general classification but you can force him to work a bit and give Kelderman a bit of rest on his wheel, so he can maybe win at least a few seconds on the last kilometre.

 

[Eclipse]

For someone non-sunweb to win I think the plan has to be:

• go hard and early to try make sure Almeida actually takes a packet over the last few days and not just the time Kelderman needs.
• attempt to put Sunweb into a situation where they are making leadership decisions along with racing ones:
  • ideally that means getting up the road with Hindley (who should be undroppable if he rides like he did at Piancavallo) while Kelderman is unable to follow
  • from there Sunweb have to make the call of whether they bring Hindley back or whether they risk dumping 2 mins+ on both to try save Wilco.
• make alliances outside the team
  • weak teams means outside help would be a big boon to setting a hard pace
  • any successful move would likely benefit from having at least 1 happy ally if you do get clear early

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Who is the guy making the prediction on RAI?

 

[Lequack]

When Almeida wins this Giro he will have a great domestique next year in the form or Remco.

 

[johnymax]

When Almeida wins this Giro he will have a great domestique next year in the form or Remco.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Remco can help him on any terrain. They'll only need to decide if they're going to the Giro to retain the title or will they step one step higher and try to conquer the Tour.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Visconti is DNS today. So chances are high.

Right knee - according to Gazzetta

 

[SafeBet]

Who is the guy making the prediction on RAI?

Living legend Gigi Sgarbozza.

 

[Lequack]

When you go on the attack and the shark Nibali sneaks in behind you

https://twitter.com/x/status/1318831915223425024

View: https://twitter.com/annidicera/status/1318831915223425024?s=20

 

[SafeBet]

They're almost on top of the first climb but no live pictures on RAI, so I have no idea what's going on.

 

[Red Rick]

Peloton still together, I assume the gruppetto parked immediately?

 

[Stilletto]

images from RAI show a group gone

 

[Anybody_but..]

2 guys in studio mixed with online stream at cyclingstream.com

 

[SafeBet]

24 riders in the break: Ganna, Meintjes, Guerreiro, Felline, Caicedo, Dombrowski among them. There are also a Trek rider, a Sunweb rider and a DQS rider.

 

[Sestriere]

24 riders in the break: Ganna, Meintjes, Guerreiro, Felline, Caicedo, Dombrowski among them. There are also a Trek rider, a Sunweb rider and a DQS rider.

Has to be Trek's best team performance already since Etna

 

[Stilletto]

4 Movistar or so ? another Movifail ?

 

[Anybody_but..]

24 FELLINE Fabio (AST)
25 GREGAARD Jonas (AST)
35 NOVAK Domen (TBM)
56 KONRAD Patrick (BOH)
61 ZAKARIN Ilnur (CCC)
78 ROSSETTO Stéphane(COF)
87 MASNADA Fausto (DQT)
95 GUERREIRO Ruben (EF1)
96 KANGERT Tanel (EF1)
116 NAVARRO Daniel (ISN)
126 HOLMES Matthew (LTS)
128 VANHOUCKE Harm (LTS)
142 CATALDO Dario (MOV)
143 PEDRERO Antonio (MOV)
144 RUBIO Einer Augusto (MOV)
145 SAMITIER Sergio (MOV)
151 MEINTJES Louis (NTT)
153 GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel (NTT)
154 O’CONNOR Ben(NTT)
164 GANNA Filippo (IGD)
168 SWIFT Ben (IGD)
187 OOMEN Sam (SUN)
192 BERNARD Julien (TFS)
204 DOMBROWSKI Joe (UAD)

 

[SafeBet]

I think the peloton bridged to the break, then Rick Zabel attacked on the descent and now leads solo.

 

[MrTea1976]

I was looking forward to the Blue jersey contest.

 

[ppanther92]

24 FELLINE Fabio (AST)
25 GREGAARD Jonas (AST)
35 NOVAK Domen (TBM)
56 KONRAD Patrick (BOH)
61 ZAKARIN Ilnur (CCC)
78 ROSSETTO Stéphane(COF)
87 MASNADA Fausto (DQT)
95 GUERREIRO Ruben (EF1)
96 KANGERT Tanel (EF1)
116 NAVARRO Daniel (ISN)
126 HOLMES Matthew (LTS)
128 VANHOUCKE Harm (LTS)
142 CATALDO Dario (MOV)
143 PEDRERO Antonio (MOV)
144 RUBIO Einer Augusto (MOV)
145 SAMITIER Sergio (MOV)
151 MEINTJES Louis (NTT)
153 GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel (NTT)
154 O’CONNOR Ben(NTT)
164 GANNA Filippo (IGD)
168 SWIFT Ben (IGD)
187 OOMEN Sam (SUN)
192 BERNARD Julien (TFS)
204 DOMBROWSKI Joe (UAD)

Konrad and Masnada