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

[woodburn]

Legs weren't there but Wilco managed that pretty well mentally to stay in lead. Could have totally cracked and lost race.

 

[sir fly]

This one goes to my Hall of famous stages.

Fantastic show!

 

[Scarponi]

Pathetic from Jai
(yes, i'm aware of team tactics)

Blokes 24 after the Stelvio....

 

[JosefK]

Brian Smith a bit deflated, yes?

 

[Leinster]

Kelderman in pink by the skin of his teeth.

 

[trevim]

What else was he meant to do with Kelderman still in the picture?

Test Hart
As someone else said, start/stop would be worse for Tao helping Kelderman in the process.

 

[Bolder]

Only way Hart could have played it. No way Hindley should have been expected to work. You don't attack your leader unless he's out of contention.

 

[ice&fire]

How many - if any - of the top-20 will retain their GC positions?

Probably Nibali

 

[Eclipse]

Bonkers stage and super close GC now. Yum.

 

[killswitch]

Masnada did the last 10 kms 10 metres behind the Almeida group.

 

[johnymax]

Lol at Masnada

 

[Devil's Elbow]

With the GC like this, I doubt we would have seen the GC riders race the Agnello and Izoard. Makes the cancellation hurt a little less badly.

 

[Moondance]

Not often you see the rider who rides into pink be the arguable loser of the stage... But yeah... Question whether Kelderman can consolidate and hold on for the TT or is gonna collapse again the coming days

 

[SafeBet]

Worst mountain stage for Vincenzo Nibali since... 2011?

Well thanks for the memories anyway, champion.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Pernsteiner looks totally done, but that's expected after what he did yesterday.

 

[Parrulo]

Masnada did the last 10 kms 10 metres behind the Almeida group.

Never trully worked for Almeida... Pathetic

 

[TomLPC]

Can’t really fault hindley for that.

Saturday could be another belter.

Masnada threw his toys out of the pram big time, what a baby.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Not when you consider Hart dropped an opportunity to put Kelderman to the sword and didn't win the stage

He rode a sensible final climb and obviously didn’t want to get mugged by Hindley and ship big time by going deep.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Worst mountain stage for Vincenzo Nibali since... 2011?

Well thanks for the memories anyway, champion.

2015

 

[42x16ss]

Test Hart
As someone else said, start/stop would be worse for Tao helping Kelderman in the process.

OK, let's say they gain enough on Kelderman for him to drop to 3rd, while Hart wins the stage and takes the lead. You'd be telling us all how stupid Sunweb were...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not often you see the rider who rides into pink be the arguable loser of the stage... But yeah... Question whether Kelderman can consolidate and hold on for the TT or is gonna collapse again the coming days

If Kelderman is smoked, TGH may out-TT him too.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

For TGH to get as close as he did in the sprint, he was obviously saving quite a lot before that

 

[Breezy1985]

This one goes to my Hall of famous stages.

Fantastic show!

I prefer to forget the stages where Ineos riders have miraculous transformations into climbers.

Between than and Hatch's Fotheringham impersonation it's the kinda thing almost makes me give up on cycling again

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Brian Smith a bit deflated, yes?

It was almost like he was taken by surprise by Hindley actually trying to sprint the stage win.

 

[Billie]

Legs weren't there but Wilco managed that pretty well mentally to stay in lead. Could have totally cracked and lost race.

He did completely crack. He lost 2 mins on Bilbao on that final climb.

Mostly got saved because Hart didn't dare to go all in/couldn't and Hindley was not allowed to.