Giro D'italia Stage 12 - Castelfidardo → Ravenna 184km

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Sprint.

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Is this the flattest GC stage in recent memory?

 

[El Pistolero]

Cavendish.

(If he made the time cut that is)

 

[cineteq]

Cavendish.

(If he made the time cut that is)

LOL!
He actually did.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cavendish.

(If he made the time cut that is)

He did - he and 25 others had water-ski tow ropes off the Quickstep car for the last 50k today.

 

[El Pistolero]

He did - he and 25 others had water-ski tow ropes off the Quickstep car for the last 50k today.

Lol, Belgian teams don't give a f*ck for fairplay I think

 

[roundabout]

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/giro03/?id=stages/stage11

 

[just some guy]

I call for the one man break again...........

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/giro03/?id=stages/stage11

It's a good opening bid.

Sadly this stage ruins its credentials with an epic 100m ascent in the middle, but either side of that it's considerably flatter than that stage, remaining reliably 1-3m above sea level.

 

[Ferminal]

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2003/giro03/?id=stages/stage11

I counted 19m gained.

220km @ 0.0086% avg (max 0.0488%).

Cav would be dropped if he had to race on that. Lucky we didn't have twitter back then, Ale Jet would be fuming.

 

[El Pistolero]

Has there ever been a Grand Tour without any breakaway wins this long?

 

[The Hitch]

It's a good opening bid.

Sadly this stage ruins its credentials with an epic 100m ascent in the middle, but either side of that it's considerably flatter than that stage, remaining reliably 1-3m above sea level.

lol yeah that is actually 100% true. I have 15 check points in between 92 and 184km and every single one is either a 2 a 3 or a 1. Actually the very last one 8k out is 0 but they finish at 2 so there is a bit of a climb towards the end it seems.

 

[will10]

Has there ever been a Grand Tour without any breakaway wins this long?

Yeah it wouldn't surprise me, it's not unusual that there's no breakaway wins until the transition stages in the Tour.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Yeah it wouldn't surprise me, it's not unusual that there's no breakaway wins until the transition stages in the Tour.

Depends how you define breakaways.

Bart De Clerq was a breakaway win to all intents and purposes.

 

[boomcie]

Depends how you define breakaways.

Bart De Clerq was a breakaway win to all intents and purposes.

I think we're talking "long" breakaways here. Which is kind of clear.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I think we're talking "long" breakaways here. Which is kind of clear.

Which I understood and so began by varying the premise. Which is kind of clear.


I can't say I've found the lack of breakaways remotely remarkable given the parcours so far - we've had very few genuinely intermediate stages, rather than just stages which will drop the worst climbing sprinters, and given sprinters are here for a 2 week race, i'm not surprised everything is getting chased back.

 

[riobonito92]

lol yeah that is actually 100% true. I have 15 check points in between 92 and 184km and every single one is either a 2 a 3 or a 1. Actually the very last one 8k out is 0 but they finish at 2 so there is a bit of a climb towards the end it seems.

There they go again, ruining a perfectly good sprint stage with a hill at the end.

 

[mortand]

Sprint.

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Is this the flattest GC stage in recent memory?

Last year. My favorite parts of the stage were the ones below sea level. Now, that's alternative!

 

[meandmygitane]

This stage they will pass a place called "Valverde"

Don't look like there is going to be much wind, only ~3 m/s from around ENE, hope they are wrong...

 

[theswordsman]

I predict the sprinters will race like they've got a plane to catch It was announced the other day that Cav and Renshaw would leave after this stage.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=38758

 

[Mambo95]

Has there ever been a Grand Tour without any breakaway wins this long?

I don't think there were any proper breakaway wins in the 2004 Giro. Petacchi won 9 stages, McEwen and Fred Rodriquez one each. All the others were won by riders in the eventual top 13 on GC.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Last year. My favorite parts of the stage were the ones below sea level. Now, that's alternative!

I am absolutely begging for the same conditions that made that race fun. Maybe there was too much road furniture en route to Middelburg. But the wind tore that race to shreds and meant we didn't get the super-tedio-sprint.

 

[The Hitch]

I am absolutely begging for the same conditions that made that race fun. Maybe there was too much road furniture en route to Middelburg. But the wind tore that race to shreds and meant we didn't get the super-tedio-sprint.

Relax. This stage can be as boring as it wants.

It doesnt really matter.

Because this is clearly,

the calm before the storm.


Edit: calm before the typhoon.

 

[Ryaguas]

Meh...
Alejet FTW...
But I still have some hopes in Ferrari

BTW... Duarte 15 days without bike and 100% rest... Hope He gets better soon!

 

[ferryman]

Cav and his cavalry go home after this stage so bet your botttom dollar that this one is going down to a sprint finish.

 

[El Pistolero]

Let's hope they go full *** and drive such a hard pace that half of the peloton cracks.

A repeat of stage 3 of TdF 2009 would be cool though. But with Contador in the first group now