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Haven't watched today's stage yet, however I've just read the entire thread and had to bookmarked it instantly for future dark and moody winter evenings.
Most entertaining, funny, surprising, peculiar thread spiced up with tons of voodoo material, I've witnessed for a very long time
Most entertaining, funny, surprising, peculiar thread spiced up with tons of voodoo material, I've witnessed for a very long time
Brings back bad memories of Cancellara crashing when he was in peak form for that Ronde (forget which year).
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Theres a good few of them flying around by the looks of it. Thomas is lucky he didnt hit that wall down the road
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I don't think anyone thought it was a good idea, because it was in the neutralised roll out at the start of the stage. No-one is jettisoning bottles having fonished then that early: I presume it just wasn't pushed far enough down into a pocket and slipped.
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But he'll be wearing blue tomorrow, so at least he's gone from a quack to a king
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Wow! Usually, the Etna stage is a dud: not this time around. Get well GT: that crash was scary. And yet another crash in '20 with GC implications: (expletive)
Abracadabra...and just like that, Nibali sees two of his biggest foes lose a ton of time. He seems to be getting stronger and on the way to hitting his peak. Birdsong looked great today, Wilco can be a tough customer, Kruijswijk didn't look too great but limited his losses. And there's Pozzo. You have to have a great Pozzo to have a great Giro.
Abracadabra...and just like that, Nibali sees two of his biggest foes lose a ton of time. He seems to be getting stronger and on the way to hitting his peak. Birdsong looked great today, Wilco can be a tough customer, Kruijswijk didn't look too great but limited his losses. And there's Pozzo. You have to have a great Pozzo to have a great Giro.
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Did Castroviejo attack because Geoghegan-Hart had indicated that he was not up to staying with the main men and replace Thomas as a GC contender, or did Geoghegan Hart lose the chance to replace Thomas as a GC contender when Castroviejo abandoned him to make an attack?
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It was actually orange, but they could've forgotten that Nibs is not riding for their team anymore.It was red bottle. Just sayin..
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It looked like Hart was trying to destroy the pace of the peloton in order to help Thomas but I'm not sure.
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Nice photos as usual!
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You are an expert when you get paid for it
Well, do you think that is a good definition? It's probably true, yet the word "expert" should have some more to it than that.
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Wow really happy to see a fellow portuguese in the top step of a GT being the best so far, not even a case of random breakaway takes the lead!
Anyway, I obviously don't expect him to win, I think a top10 would already be a great result, a bit like Sivakov took last year. Nevertheless, I think he's looking forward to take a stage somehwere so GC might not be such a big goal although I would like to see a consistent stage by stage performance.
Anyway, I obviously don't expect him to win, I think a top10 would already be a great result, a bit like Sivakov took last year. Nevertheless, I think he's looking forward to take a stage somehwere so GC might not be such a big goal although I would like to see a consistent stage by stage performance.
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The bottles just bounced out of the cages because they went over a cobbled speed bump just before the crash. Was just bad luck for Thomas.
The time gaps are clearly going to be huge in this race. Already after only 3 days the 50th on GC is over 10 minutes behind.
My predictions for Tour GC went well but the picks have jinxed the riders here.
Nibali to win this bike race. Apologies to Shark fans but I would prefer to see a new winner.
My predictions for Tour GC went well but the picks have jinxed the riders here.
- Thomas - crashed, already out of GC
- Yates - cracked oddly and 3.30 lost. Very little chance now
- Vlasov - Good TT effort then out on day 2 with illness
Nibali to win this bike race. Apologies to Shark fans but I would prefer to see a new winner.
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