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

[DenisMenchov]

ANTON Igor
+7:59

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Ah, bummer about Anton.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

I think Contador went a bit too hard at the bottom of the climb, considering how it ramped up at the end. He looked cooked.

Ya, and he appeared beatable. Tough, tough climb though. And a greate stage.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Euskaltel with back to back Giro wins, having never previously won a stage. 5th and 6th in the GC. Makes up for losing that "last to win a race" competiton to BMC.

Oh and the last km took nieve nearly 6 minutes.

 

[Ramira]

Seems Anton and Dupont are today's big losers.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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* Pos Nome Naz Team Tempo Dist Abb
* 11 MENCHOV Denis RUS GEO 7:31:37 4:23
* 12 ARROYO DURAN David ESP MOV 7:31:44 4:30
* 13 BAKELANDTS Jan BEL OLO 7:32:08 4:54 4"
* 14 DEIGNAN Philip IRL RSH 7:33:54 6:40
* 15 CATALDO Dario ITA QST 7:33:59 6:45
* 16 SARMIENTO Cayetano COL ASA 7:33:59 6:45

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* Pos Nome Naz Team Tempo Dist Abb
* 17 SIVTSOV Kanstantsin BLR THR 7:33:59 6:45
* 18 ANTON Igor ESP EUS 7:35:13 7:59
* 19 SELLA Emanuele ITA AND 7:36:15 9:01
* 20 WEENING Pieter NED RAB 7:36:37 9:23
* 21 LE MEVEL Christophe FRA GRM 7:37:17 10:03

 

[hrotha]

Very impressed with Nibali today. He might not be at Contador's level, but he has immense balls.

**** all the mercenaries. Seriously.

 

[LukeSchmid]

Anton got dropped by Caltaldo, Sarmiento and Sivtsov on the last climb. He had a shocker. Sarmiento at 24 is showing something

 

[K-0tic]

I'm not sure who said it here but Nieve is definately a good rider. Very interesting stage anyway with lots of attacks and massive chaos. Nibali lost but at least he tried it downhill and hopefully scared Contador a bit.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

All those early season cracks about lack of Euskatel wins - puff.
Anton & Nieve ... who next?

 

[Siriuscat]

Awesome stage, some awesome riding. Massive chapeau to Nibs for going for it, no one can slag him off for that. Nieve deserved that but like Garzelli and Contador they looked absoluley cooked at the end, Scarponi had a brilliant last 2km as well. Brilliant queen stage and I hope that ASO were watching...that's how to put on a days racing!

 

[Bala Verde]

Very impressed with Nibali today. He might not be at Contador's level, but he has immense balls.

**** all the mercenaries. Seriously.

extremely aerodynamic ones too...

 

[Anonymous]

There's still Finestre to come...

yep....could be even better.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

AC looks pensive on the podium - not smiling!

 

[Ferminal]

21st is 10minutes down... Le Mevel. So far the biggest group was the 3 of Cataldo-Siutsou-Sarmiento.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

damnit menchov !

 

[Publicus]

I'm not sure who said it here but Nieve is definately a good rider. Very interesting stage anyway with lots of attacks and massive chaos. Nibali lost but at least he tried it downhill and hopefully scared Contador a bit.

I doubt it. He ended up putting over a minute into him today.

 

[XlandaluzeX]

All those early season cracks about lack of Euskatel wins - puff.
Anton & Nieve ... who next?

i think they can get at least 1 more only in this Giro

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Anton got dropped by Caltaldo, Sarmiento and Sivtsov on the last climb. He had a shocker. Sarmiento at 24 is showing something

To be fair, Euskaltel did say they were coming here for stage victories first, and GC second. They've now got two stage wins - and two incredibly memorable ones. This one today in one of the most epic Grand Tour stages we've seen in a long time (I'm actually tempted to rate it higher than all bar maybe Mortirolo last year, but I'll wait until some time has passed before making a judgment like that) - it's a shame Antón dropped so much time, but then again he wasn't exactly expecting a high GC, just hoping to do something with it if it arose.

 

[ingsve]

incredibly huge time differences even far down the list.

 

[Frosty]

Fantastic stuff!

Glad to see Kruijswijk do well after i stuck a few quid on him at 17-1 to finish in the top 10 overall, could just sneak in. Not so happy about my Machado top 6 bet though...

 

[Publicus]

AC looks pensive on the podium - not smiling!

He looks pi$$ed. I wonder if he's upset with himself for not gaining more on Scarponi.

 

[zapata]

Very impressed with Nibali today. He might not be at Contador's level, but he has immense balls.

**** all the mercenaries. Seriously.

Agree. Who knows what might happen if they attacked contador, instead of helping him

 

[Climbing]

God! A fantastic and epic race!
A joy for my eyes!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

To be fair, Euskaltel did say they were coming here for stage victories first, and GC second. They've now got two stage wins - and two incredibly memorable ones. This one today in one of the most epic Grand Tour stages we've seen in a long time (I'm actually tempted to rate it higher than all bar maybe Mortirolo last year, but I'll wait until some time has passed before making a judgment like that) - it's a shame Antón dropped so much time, but then again he wasn't exactly expecting a high GC, just hoping to do something with it if it arose.

best day of racing for the year anyway.