Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 20: Verrès – Sestrière, 205 km

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Extinction

Extinction

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EddyMazzoleni said:
Yates did clearly an amazing performance, still I wonder why Ef were trying to launch Finestre like it was Redoute or something like that. I think they somewhat cooked Carapaz by doing that.
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Exactly Finestre is a climb of attrition. You set a steady hard pace, without shooting all your bullets in the beginning. How could EF have thought attacking from the bottom was a good idea?
 
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SorelyBoy said:
Hate to be Gianetti tonight having to take the call from his despotic overlords and explain to them how they didn’t win this race the same as they’ve won every other race going this season. Might be a bit awkward. Still, LOL.
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"Send Gianetti in for motivational debrief!"

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Yates won the giro. He had the legs and rode well. Yates is the main reason he won the giro. I want to say that twice to be sure there can be no doubt.

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this is why despite MVDP being the bigger champion, Visma would probably rather have Van Aert on their roster.
Without Van Aert, Visma would have 0 stage wins. Now they have 2. With himself and Kooij. Without Van Aert their is a good chance Yates podiums this race, and not win it. Just like Van Aert helped Roglic and Vingegaard in the past, he was once again by himself the majority of the team around both their sprinter and their main man for GC. Not just on today stage either. throughout the giro. in crucial moments it was Van Aert that was there.
 
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The start to the Finestre was incredible, EF absolutely shattered a full peloton in about 1km to leaving just Carapaz and Del Toro. This killed UAE off completely and opened the rest of the stage up.

How Yates rode that climb is indicative of how he has rode the whole Giro, not got carried away, not chased every single attack, rode at his own pace, and not gone into the red. As Carapaz said, the smartest rider won.
 
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Sciatic said:
Could also be bluster to cover feeling like he failed.
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That could be it as well. It is a trend I have also seen when I raced ... some folks would sprint even if we were out of the top 10. Once I even did it. Although to be honest, at least in that circumstance I was in a small group with two others, who were teammates, and who were trying to work me over so one of them could get a coveted 10th or something in a one day RR. So my sprinting at that time was a bit of an F you to them.
 
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Extinction said:
Exactly Finestre is a climb of attrition. You set a steady hard pace, without shooting all your bullets in the beginning. How could EF have thought attacking from the bottom was a good idea?
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Because Carapaz isn’t a tempo climber, he would have to do it with repeated attacks a’ la Contador. But I don’t know why they went quite so gonzo, but it made sense to ride very hard from the bottom.
 
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Extinction said:
Exactly Finestre is a climb of attrition. You set a steady hard pace, without shooting all your bullets in the beginning. How could EF have thought attacking from the bottom was a good idea?
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I'd give that thought primarily to the impulsive Mr. Carapaz. He tends to play a bit more than he should and then pay the price. It's why Roglic almost always drops him at stage endings. Del Toro also needed some help but it's possible both were completely undone in week 3.
 
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Oldman

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Sciatic said:
Because Carapaz isn’t a tempo climber, he would have to do it with repeated attacks a’ la Contador. But I don’t know why they went quite so gonzo, but it made sense to ride very hard from the bottom.
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Yates is a peaky climber, too. He had to make 4 jumps to get loose and still had the legs to see it through. The DS's in EF and UAE cars must have been losing their collective minds instead of forcing a collaboration.
 
Samu Cuenca

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Sciatic said:
Because Carapaz isn’t a tempo climber, he would have to do it with repeated attacks a’ la Contador. But I don’t know why they went quite so gonzo, but it made sense to ride very hard from the bottom.
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He doesn't have a team that could hold on for long on the climb, and he obviously knew after the last few stages that he had to start early. I doubt they had expected to isolate Del Toro from the get go, but when it happened there was no turning back.
 
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