Giro d'Italia stage 20, Stage 20: Alba – Sestriere 190 km

[richwallone]

Man, this is going to be fun if Tao wins Giro and Carapaz Vuelta... INEOS looked like it self distracted with Bernal abandoning the Tour... LOL.. That's be a crazy save of a 2020 season!

 

[Tigerion]

Just glad that Hindley gets to wear the jersey, if only for a day

 

[richwallone]

Gonna fun ITT tomorrow... Let's see if Hindley can pull a Pogacar

 

[Samu Cuenca]

GC

Pernsteiner will cross the finish line before the others tomorrow. Mark my words!

 

[Screecher]

I wouldn't instantly assume Hart is going to be faster tomorrow but he gained 1'15 on Hindley on stage 14 so it looks likely.

 

[afpm90]

Bilbao will lose his fourth place.

 

[richwallone]

So it's the ITT times that make the difference in GC for today... Hmmm, didn't know that

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320005151160176640

View: https://twitter.com/inrng/status/1320005151160176640?s=20

 

[Pricey_sky]

I’d say probably 70-30 in Hart’s favour. But it’s the final stage TT and strange things have happened before.

 

[saganftw]

hol up, how is hindley ahead because of TT when he lost over a minute in one?

 

[ppanther92]

Pernsteiner will cross the finish line before the others tomorrow. Mark my words!

Not so sure. Masnada may make up 1:30.

 

[LaFlorecita]

hol up, how is hindley ahead because of TT when he lost over a minute in one?

The ITT times are the deciding factor because of the hundreds of a second. Whoever was better in them is irrelevant.

 

[richwallone]

hol up, how is hindley ahead because of TT when he lost over a minute in one?

They look at the 1/100s only.

 

[McEwen2006]

I said a couple of years ago that (at the time) Sky would eventually put Egan Bernal to work supporting Tao Geogeghan Hart, but that was me being facetious about their ability to transform the British riders but not succeed with the riders that were seen as sure things when they signed them. Now it might actually be a possibility, even after Ineos took over and make the team a less nationalistic concern than it was in the Sky days... and it might even, depending on race situation, be merited. WTF am I watching.

Can we please stop the knee-jerk reactions lol

 

[Armchair cyclist]

PCS records the relevant hundredths as .30" for Hindley and .52" for Geoghegam Hart in stage 14, and in stage 1 .56" for Geoghegan Hart and no record of what it was for Hindley!

Let's hope RCS did note the details.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not so sure. Masnada may make up 1:30.

Maybe. It is a big ask on 15 km, considering he only took 47 seconds on 34 km.

 

[luckyboy]

hol up, how is hindley ahead because of TT when he lost over a minute in one?

Normally GC gaps calculated by seconds. On TTs they have timing for fractions of a second but usually just round it up to the second for GC.
But here they looked at the fractions.

It's not "which rider gained the most in a TT"

 

[richwallone]

An interesting stat... Might be closer tomorrow that many expect:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320007302376755201

View: https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1320007302376755201?s=20

 

[Leinster]

hol up, how is hindley ahead because of TT when he lost over a minute in one?

Because he actually lost 59.6 seconds (or whatever) and they rounded it off for classification purposes.

The minute is already built in to his time. The tenths and hundredths from their TTs come in when they’re tied on seconds.

 

[Red Rick]

An interesting stat... Might be closer tomorrow that many expect:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320007302376755201

View: https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1320007302376755201?s=20

Just taking the opening ITT alone invalidates that stat completely.

 

[luckyboy]

An interesting stat... Might be closer tomorrow that many expect:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320007302376755201

View: https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1320007302376755201?s=20

This is skewed a them not going full effort on TTs. In the Giro first stage they didn't have any reason to push. Same as final Tirreno TT etc..

 

[gunara]

I could only tune in when Kelderman's group reached the finish. Need to watch the replay. But it turned out it's not so complicated to predict anyway since Piancavallo, new age battle's always been up ahead, Jai vs Tao.

 

[Leinster]

An interesting stat... Might be closer tomorrow that many expect:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1320007302376755201

View: https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1320007302376755201?s=20

Just in case, are they going to tell us exactly what the difference in decimals is between the 2 of them, so if Tao beats Jai by, say, 0.16s, we'll know who wins the race?

 

[Eclipse]

My problem isn't that the faces are new, my problem is that I'm still very unsure about how good the level in this giro actually was. I just don't know whether those guys are now consistently gonna compete for gt's for the next decade or whether this was a Hesjedal like one off.

I think you have to enjoy the racing for the racing.

Context matters in the grand scheme of things but on a race to race basis it doesn't. I'm always going to enjoy watching two riders racing shoulder to shoulder for miles over some punishing climbs to bring themselves back from also rans, to outsiders, to contenders and finally to become the last men standing.

I'm sure the standard at the tour was higher, but we sure spent a lot of that being disappointed in how the GC was raced.

Just glad that Hindley gets to wear the jersey, if only for a day

Yes, very well deserved for him to spend a day in the sun

Bilbao will lose his fourth place.

Agreed. You really have to admire Almeida today. I t would have been so easy to sit and think I've done my best but instead they tried to go on the attack and they're likely to gain one place even if they won't sneak back onto the podium off the back of it.

 

[DanielSong39]

Hart vs. Hindley for all the marbles!

Kelderman will need to pull a Ganna to pull this one off

 

[Bolder]

I think tomorrow is a toss up. It's short, pan flat, and whoever recovers better from today should win.