Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia stage 19 Biella – Champoluc 166km

[Tricycle Rider]

That's right, today's the day he moves into the top 10, Storer and Yates his rivals are on the ropes!!!

I hear tell of a quite stirring raid being planned.

It's about time McNutly was heard from in this race, and here's a song to go along with it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8&t=12s

 

[Krzysztof_O]

7% is in that narrow range where it can really go either way and it depends a lot on a lot of other circumstances like wind, peloton size, etc. Also, it matters a lot on if it's really consistent, or if there's a harder section where in the climb it is.

It's also the sort of gradient where if you put 3 similar climbs in a row, the first 2 aren't gonna do much.

The first climb is 7.7% (with some brutal section), the second climb has a lot of kilometers at 8%. If some teams want to drill they will weaken legs significantly and the group will absolutely explode on Joux (if Carapaz attacks for example), 7% is absolutely enough then. This stage is very good to do the damage. They may hold back a little due to tomorrow though. From spactators point of view there should be some easier day between those two.

 

[Boehmand]

Pedersen in the pre-stage interview (with a big smile):

"I was looking for my motivation all morning, but I couldn't find it - it's going to be 2 hard days".

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If everyone gets a song, I'm going with pinkier Shates of pale.

We're underway.

 

[Red Rick]

The first climb is 7.7% (with some brutal section), the second climb has a lot of kilometers at 8%. If some teams want to drill they will weaken legs significantly and the group will absolutely explode on Joux (if Carapaz attacks for example), 7% is absolutely enough then. This stage is very good to do the damage. They may hold back a little due to tomorrow though.

I mean, Tzecore is way too early to be relevant normally. 7% is where you you can get absolutely nothing happening quite easily if main GC leaders are close in level and the strongest team doesn't want any action to happen.

If it were a mountain finish today on Col de Joux it could easily be one of these days where there's barely any gaps in the top 5 of the stage and #20 finishes 10 minutes down.

But in the previous 2 mountain stages it didn't look particularly close between Carapaz and Del Toro, so it's quite likely *** will go down.

 

[Boehmand]

I caught this on TV - many years ago on a vacation in Germany - it's arguably both the worst song and the worst video, in human history (I still regularly pull it up to have a good laugh).

View: https://youtu.be/Mue6Vc_T9Ds?feature=shared


What rider should that apply to?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Sooooooo much Fausto time in camera!!!!!

 

[Squire]

Here we go!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

He's gonna launch a huge attack for the breakway

 

[topcat]

Del Toro to crack in the neutral zone, yates to crack on the pantheon, carapaz to crack on the joux, gee to be too vanilla to attack but follows Pellizari and wins the gc.

 

[Boehmand]

5K in and people are already getting dropped - it's going to be a long day!

 

[Didinho]

Only 3 escaped. Would expect a bigger group to go soon. Brutal start of a stage.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Only 3 escaped. Would expect a bigger group to go soon. Brutal start of a stage.

Do we know this large group infront of the Peloton isn't escaping as well?
Still a long way up the climb though.

 

[Boehmand]

Big group going clear behind the front 3

 

[pelotonIQ]

Lets hope he hasn't aged or declined in the five years since...

Let's hope he has.

 

[Didinho]

Pidcock bridging.

 

[Boehmand]

McNulty in the break

 

[Squire]

Pellizzari!? Might all come back then.

 

[Boehmand]

Way too many riders in front now, I think UAE will get organised and shut it down.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Fortunato not confident in the jersey yet?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Fortunato not confident in the jersey yet?

Maybe he want's to be in the break to have a shot at the stage? I mean they need UCI points don't they. No time to rest.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Aaaand, there goes Hayter

 

[Tim Cahill]

Del Toro jumping on his own, Source: Blythe

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

EF chasing the chase, must be the wrong riders in there. Very wrong ones.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Looks like no Pellizzari in that chasing group. Only Aleotti, Martínez and Tratnik