Giro d'Italia Stage 11: Lucera - L'Aquila (262km)

[issoisso]

What happened? He dropped a pie or so?

He grabbed one, Brown got hungry and assaulted him.

 

[Spare Tyre]

gaps come down 20 seconds in 5km

Lead group just went through a feed station so the pace has slowed.

 

[issoisso]

I was scanning the list of gaps for the guys in the break, thankyou for posting them, nobody up there seems like a real threat.

Normally I would have said don't let Sastre back in but he's really given up the ghost in this race. I know he usually saves his best for the end of a GT, and he could still make everyone look like fools today. Maybe letting him back in will give him Rose Fever

Arroyo. That is all.

 

[Kender]

I was scanning the list of gaps for the guys in the break, thankyou for posting them, nobody up there seems like a real threat.

Normally I would have said don't let Sastre back in but he's really given up the ghost in this race. I know he usually saves his best for the end of a GT, and he could still make everyone look like fools today. Maybe letting him back in will give him Rose Fever

you can't hand someone like sastre 15 mins in a break of 56 riders. if this stays away by 10 mins he's going to be real hard to beat

 

[sportzchick]

Arroyo. That is all.

Id love to see him win it actucally behind Cadel

15.00+ the lead now - even down to 10 should make it interesting

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

Well, whether it was Barry or Cummings down, both are back relaying at the front of the break

 

[Roland Rat]

Peloton has split apparently.

 

[tgsgirl]

It was Cummings apparently. They've got rainjackets on and I can't tell the two apart just by their faces.

Either way, he's made it back. A little scratch on his knee and that's all. Images of the peloton show a rather unorganised group, with Vino way at the back with Pippo Pozatto.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Id love to see him win it actucally behind Cadel

15.00+ the lead now - even down to 10 should make it interesting

If you come behind somebody you don't win, right? It's like when Danica Patrick "won" a fourth place.

I'd love to see Arroyo up on the podium though, agreed.

I'd just love him to be beaten by Sastre if he has to be beaten.

 

[sportzchick]

If you come behind somebody you don't win, right? It's like when Danica Patrick "won" a fourth place.

I'd love to see Arroyo up on the podium though, agreed.

I'd just love him to be beaten by Sastre if he has to be beaten.

ha ha you know what i mean....

 

[Spare Tyre]

Peloton has split apparently.

Gazzetta shows that gap is now 1'33"

 

[issoisso]

If you come behind somebody you don't win, right? It's like when Danica Patrick "won" a fourth place.

She'll never beat right now, though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXuuHuw5hc

 

[taiwan]

Peloton has split apparently.

Like which one?

[edit] there was Kevin the Gerbil, who was the other one?

 

[Archibald]

just tuned in... can someone explain how a break like this actually happens. Did Astana, Liquigas and what's left of BMC just miss the start or fall asleep or something??

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

It was Cummings apparently. They've got rainjackets on and I can't tell the two apart just by their faces.

Either way, he's made it back. A little scratch on his knee and that's all. Images of the peloton show a rather unorganised group, with Vino way at the back with Pippo Pozatto.

The clue is in the fact that Cummings has little to no hair

 

[oevkride]

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[Cerberus]

you can't hand someone like sastre 15 mins in a break of 56 riders. if this stays away by 10 mins he's going to be real hard to beat

Hell Porte might be a serious threat with that kind of time, he almost kept up with the favourites on the first mountain stage. Clearly wouldn't be enough for him to win by his own strength but handed a 10 minute lead perhaps. Or David Arroyo, he came in 11th in last years Giro.

 

[Roland Rat]

Like which one?

The chipper group at the back with Cuddles and Vino.

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

Like which one?

Group Vino/Evans

 

[The Sheep]

Like which one?

Both have looks like, the front one has thinned out a bit

 

[Ferminal]

This is amazing.

To all the people saying "The Giro is Over" after the massacre of Eroica, take your words back immediately.

A 5-10 minute gap to Evans et al sets up the perfect race - a couple of lesser climbers in the lead, with Sastre and Tondo back in the hunt.

Over 10 minutes and it means Evans et al will be on the warpath. How did it work so perfectly, that the top5 GC favourites going into the stage (Vino, Evans, Garzelli, Scarponi, Cunego) all missed the split?

Bonkers!

Turning out to be a good stage for Lloyd, anyone got a summary of the points?

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

Hell Porte might be a serious threat with that kind of time, he almost kept up with the favourites on the first mountain stage. Clearly wouldn't be enough for him to win by his own strength but handed a 10 minute lead perhaps. Or David Arroyo, he came in 11th in last years Giro.

It is Porte's first grand tour, he will most likely fade and lose plenty of time in the final week.

 

[tgsgirl]

just tuned in... can someone explain how a break like this actually happens. Did Astana, Liquigas and what's left of BMC just miss the start or fall asleep or something??

It just happened in bits and pieces. Group after group after group got away, stayed together and no one at BMC or Astana figured out that "small group with great riders" + "small group with great riders" + "small group with great riders" + "small group with great riders" = "one hell of a big group with great riders".

 

[auscyclefan94]

still don't get liquigas' tatic of not really contributing to the pace.

 

[BroDeal]

just tuned in... can someone explain how a break like this actually happens. Did Astana, Liquigas and what's left of BMC just miss the start or fall asleep or something??

I think Evans was demonstrating his koala calls to the other GC contenders, and they did not notice that half the peloton had ridden off without them.