Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Conegliano - Gardeccia-Val di Fassa 229km

[hrotha]

53 CARRARA Matteo ITA VCD 7:48:44 21:30
Ouch

 

[Publicus]

Rai cuts the feed right when they start to interview Contador.... Talk about bad timing.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

AC admits it was the hardest stage of his life

 

[Ferminal]

Can you imagine what it was like for those who got dropped on the first climb of they day?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Aramendia comes in at 27'35". He did a lot of work today. Chapeau.

 

[LukeSchmid]

How many started today? Somewhere in the 170's?

173 finised yesterday, I think a couple did not start. Lancaster??

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

maybe he will be the random rider of HTC for GC in vuelta

Yeah maybe! But think about that the guy is actually supposed to be great in TTs in contrast to Velits who destroyed the field in last years long ITT at the Vuelta. So he should not just come in 3rd but 1st!
Also he finished ahead of Machado today, who as some people wanted to make us believe is a Top 5 GT conterder. Therefore he'll probably be'll the next Indurain two years from now.
This Results of course in the following:

GERMAN CYLING IS SAVED!
(we'll just have to change his first name to Jan or his last name to Ullrich, i'm not sure about which one yet.)

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

The anticipation is killing me, who will be our first 8 hour man?

I wanna see who the first nine hour guy is

 

[Lanark]

What an absolutely epic stage. 60 kilometers of all the favorites without a domestique left. This Giro started a bit disappointing, but yesterday and especially today certainly made up for that.

 

[KassyC]

Who is gonna be the first team with all riders in?

 

[YoRUsh]

Anybody got a GC top 20 or something?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

AC admits it was the hardest stage of his life

No wonder, they stoped doing these stages some years ago...
he locked quite done at the finish as well. Even though this isn't really a good indicator.

 

[whittashau]

What's the cutoff today?

 

[Spare Tyre]

173 finised yesterday, I think a couple did not start. Lancaster??

Yes, and someone went off in an ambulance. Can't remember who, it seems like weeks ago.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Who is gonna be the first team with all riders in?

Katusha have 8 in the top 74. Have they had anyone abandon?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

What's the cutoff today?

About 67 minutes I heard. Sound's resonable if you think about Cav's near miss. Which was at about 27 min with a stage much easier and much shorter in time.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes, and someone went off in an ambulance. Can't remember who, it seems like weeks ago.

Juan José Oroz Ugalde (Euskaltel).

 

[Ferminal]

Betancourt only just in now, got absolutely hammered.

The quintet is still our largest group

 

[Sum_of_Marc]

Yes, and someone went off in an ambulance. Can't remember who, it seems like weeks ago.

Oroz (Euskaltel)

 

[Spare Tyre]

The anticipation is killing me, who will be our first 8 hour man?

Nearly there ...

88 BETANCOURT Carlos A. COL ASA 7:57:04 29:50

 

[superconfex]

Only one(ONE) SKY rider home after 27 mins and counting

 

[LukeSchmid]

Yes, and someone went off in an ambulance. Can't remember who, it seems like weeks ago.

Ozoz Ugalde, EE rider seemed to have crashed.

 

[lancaster]

20 guys within 10 mins, that's a hard day in the saddle!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Betancourt only just in now, got absolutely hammered.

The quintet is still our largest group

Yea, along with Kiryienka, Konovalovas, Ulissi, Jufre and plenty of others who were dropped long before him. Great day's work for Carlos though, he can hold his head up high alright.

 

[GoAndyGo]

What's the cutoff today?

1hr 7 mins.

92 riders in now at 30:52