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

[Red Rick]

69:17 according to Mayomaniac.

So it was 1 Rohan Dennis?

 

[Pricey_sky]

Kelderman does not look good.

 

[killswitch]

Wilco mentally done

 

[Valv.Piti]

Imagine a climb thats so hard and long that is basically guarantees huge gaps almost no matter the riders' intentions to race or not, this is the definitetion of a great cycling-climb. Long, iconic, steep, high altitude... they should do this more often.

15 years!!

 

[Forever The Best]

Kelderman struggling?

 

[johnymax]

Bilbao and Fuglsang could catch Kelderman

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Looks like Fuglsang and Bilbao will catch Kelderman...... if it is not just the usual "Giro times".

 

[SafeBet]

What are you doing Wilco? Keep fighting FFS.

 

[Krokro]

Looked like Wilco was giving up on the chase?

 

[Mayomaniac]

If both Sunweb gc riders get sick durning the next 2 days because they didn't close their jackets...

 

[craigmalone]

Shut up Hatch

 

[Eclipse]

Not sure if Wilco is flailing or if the GPS is just correcting after the descent but this looks like it could get brutal

 

[Red Rick]

That's a hell of a time for such a beast.
Probably Rohan Dennis best climbing performance ever.

Thats like 1600 VAM for 70 min ending at 2760m.

Basically Bernal Iseran except literally twice as long in a waayyy harder stage.

 

[Bolder]

I'd like to say something but I'm still at a loss for words after Dennis destroyed everyone up the Stelvio.

I'm not surprised. Dennis has had pretensions to go for GC in the past, and don't forget the TdS last year. He's capable of pulling off a performance like this at least once per GT, I think.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Thats like 1600 VAM for 70 min ending at 2760m.

Basically Bernal Iseran except literally twice as long in a waayyy harder stage.

"Weak level".

 

[fuiers]

Kelderman is so done.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Hindley should stop.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So it was 1 Rohan Dennis?

Dennis was in the break so his time is more like 71 mins.

 

[JosefK]

Shut up Hatch

Hatch in the throws of orgasm.

 

[broppo]

lol classic sunweb tactics, now they will get 2nd and 3d

 

[Pricey_sky]

Dennis was in the break so his time is more like 71 mins.

Swift and Ganna were in the break, Dennis was yesterday.

 

[burning]

Kelderman is really blowing up, this race is not over.

 

[trevim]

Wow I'm really sorry for Kelderman, Sunbweb is not acting very well towards him

 

[Leinster]

I don't know, he might not. But then we have seen crazier things final TTs. And Tao > Hindley in TTs.

But even if its only 30s he will lose, he needs to make them up first. And if we assume Keldermann and Tao are equal in the TT, Hindley is only the better strategy than Keldermann if he can do 3:11 better than him in the stages still to come before the TT.

And basically I doubt that. Again, nothing personal at all.

Kelderman will probably do better than Tao in the TT, so he just has to restrict his losses here to 2' or so.

And for TGH to put 2+ minutes into Kelderman on the final climb, he'll probably have to ditch Dennis and climb himself. And when he starts doing that, he makes it easier for Hindley to gain time near the top.

As I type this, Kelderman's gap is growing.

 

[Moondance]

Keldercrack