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

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Lanark

May 12, 2010
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Jan the Man said:
Not idiotic. Liquigas have 4 riders in the break. 1 has abandoned this Giro so they have 4 in groupa maglia rosa.

2 of those ar Ivan Basso and Nibali. They need at least 1 of the others to dwo the food and drink duty that means they could possibly sacrifice only 1 rider to ride on the front- and for what incentive? They have Agnoli and the croat who have proven very decent in the first week they have no need to ride on the front- whereas Aqua Sapone, BMC, Androni and Astana all have much greater incentive and need to ride on the front to reel some time back.

Look its already too late to reel this group back given the size, current advantage, parcours and calibre of rider in this group. Its a question of damage limitation for the big favourites. My guess is they'll be happy if the break comes in with 6 - 8 minutes at the end given the size of the break. Even then it pulls a lot of riders i.e. Tondo, Sastre, Arroyo back into contention.
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Agreed, Agnoli and Kiverlovsky have about as good a chance at beating Tondo and Arroyo as Basso en Nibali have at beating Evans and Vino. It's not an ideal situation for Liqui, but there are a lot of teams with a much worse outlook.
 
Roland Rat

Roland Rat

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ttrider said:
How stupid can you get letting go of that sort of group go
Absolute suicide for Vino Evans Nibali Basso Cunego Scarponi and Garzelli
they simply must talk to each oth now and do a ttt with all there teams left to limit the gap to 6-7 minutes by the end of the stage

how long till liquigas astana and the other teams pull men back to save what chances they have left!
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Maybe Sastre, Wiggins etc wore glasses and fake moustaches so Vino etc didn't realise until it was too late.
 
TRDean

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ttrider said:
How stupid can you get letting go of that sort of group go
Absolute suicide for Vino Evans Nibali Basso Cunego Scarponi and Garzelli
they simply must talk to each oth now and do a ttt with all there teams left to limit the gap to 6-7 minutes by the end of the stage

how long till liquigas astana and the other teams pull men back to save what chances they have left!
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A great rider of the character of Lance Armstrong would never have let something like this happen!! :p

Seriously, this is crazy!! How did this happen?
 
tgsgirl

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Roland Rat said:
Maybe Sastre, Wiggins etc wore glasses and fake moustaches so Vino etc didn't realise until it was too late.
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I bet someone put up a sign saying "Special glorious 20 second bonus at that blue house over there!!" and as Vino and Cuddles were trying to convince the world they're sprinters everyone else took off at the other side of the road.
 
taiwan

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Someone said Tondo already, so I'll go Gerdemann for the stage win.

Good time for Cunego to announce his GC campaign. Rough.
 
Roland Rat

Roland Rat

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I bet someone put up a sign saying "Special glorious 20 second bonus at that blue house over there!!" and as Vino and Cuddles were trying to convince the world they're sprinters everyone else took off at the other side of the road.
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:D I've now got a vision of Wiggins dressed as D1ck Dastardly putting a sign out, hiding behind a tree, and then removing it when Vino and Evans have gone past.
 
sportzchick

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There is going to be some major fingerpointing from within some of the so called 'top teams'

How this could happen is beyond me
 
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breakaway group with gaps in overall classification

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