Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Mestre - Monte Zoncolan (222km)

[Cobblestones]

Uh, those balloons are going to be chopper fodder.

 

[RedZone]

Cant imagine too much will happen on the duron, but ive been wrong many times before

 

[taiwan]

It certainly hasn't damaged the Giro this year. Which riders have been taken away? Look at all the GC guys here. The only stage I've watched was that mountaintop finish, and I regretted that..

Cavendish/ other sprinters? Schleck/s? BMC riders for Evans? Not Andy, I suppose, but maybe Franck, or Fuglsang. That's about all I can manage, though.

 

[The Sheep]

Actually, no. QuickStep, BBox, Campagnolo, and others have seemed more present. Sky, obviously, too. Even Saxo, which sent its B-team. But, yes: Liquigas has been very impressive.

Showing us what the ground looks like, such heroes

 

[Mellow Velo]

Wow..the bottom of the Duron is steep!

Sean Kelly has just tipped Mollema for the Maglia Bianca..........
........runs away and hides.

 

[Tom T.]

I think Sastre will win this. Zoncolan is for the pure climbers and he's the best in this field. He's alos entering the final week of a Grand Tour when he usually starts improving while everyone else starts to falter. I think Evans is the only one who could spoil my prediction.

 

[scribe]

Cant imagine too much will happen on the duron, but ive been wrong many times before

no way. Not with two descents remaining before the finale.

 

[Gregory]

Sastre toast

 

[Jamsque]

Liquigas is shedding people already. Sastre going backwards, and I can't see Wiggins anywhere.

 

[balkou]

Sastre had been dropped a little

 

[luckyboy]

Wow, Sastre going back..

Cavendish/ other sprinters? Schleck/s? BMC riders for Evans? Not Andy, I suppose, but maybe Franck, or Fuglsang. That's about all I can manage, though.

When have the Schlecks rode the Giro recently? I think the sprints have been about as exciting as sprints can be tbh. And that's BMC's fault really, isn't it?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Liqi out gasing the peloton. Splits in the top 50 riders.

 

[Publicus]

Liquigas must have an unlimited supply of hammers.

 

[Zoncolan]

They dropped Szmyd as well. He never took a turn.

 

[bobs nob]

is the gazzetta feed getting choppy for anyone else?

 

[Cobblestones]

Gap now down to 6:25

 

[Jamsque]

Where the eff are Sky? I was hoping Wiggins would give it his all on Zoncolan, just to see how well he could do, but it looks like he might have sat up already.

Dan Martin up near the front of the peloton, he has been pretty anonymous so far this Giro.

 

[Galic Ho]

Liquigas must have an unlimited supply of hammers.

At least they are working and playing their cards. Good to see.

 

[Moondance]

Wow..the bottom of the Duron is steep!

Sean Kelly has just tipped Mollema for the Maglia Bianca..........
........runs away and hides.

Has he now? He's more optimisitic than I am.

 

[balkou]

is the gazzetta feed getting choppy for anyone else?

runs smoothly for me. Try to refresh it.

 

[issoisso]

They dropped Szmyd as well. He never took a turn.

He's at the front taking his turn now, actually.

 

[Gregory]

They dropped Szmyd as well. He never took a turn.

it appears he is still there

 

[bobs nob]

runs smoothly for me. Try to refresh it.

switched browsers, got better, probably out of mem

 

[The Sheep]

Theres hardly anyone left

 

[Zoncolan]

OK. Szmyd is back at the front. Was getting worried there...