Il Lombardia 2021 (October 9th)

[Rollthedice]

Sky trying to pre-empt the Remco attack

I'm afraid that in this kind of terrain and with this kind of enemy fire power there's no way Remco can get away.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Moscon also already dropped.

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali in the Bag of the group?

 

[Rollthedice]

Nibali in the Bag of the group?

Even in the first 30.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Almeida not looking super fresh.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I'm afraid that in this kind of terrain and with this kind of enemy fire power there's no way Remco can get away.

You'd expect him to try anyway though, unless he's on domestique duty.

Wellens' form is absolutely abysmal, he should be dropping this front group rather than vice versa.

 

[BlueRoads]

I'm expecting Alaphilippe to attack first, drain the peloton, then Evenepoel attacks, guys like Roglic and Pogacar follow Evenepoel, Almeida and Bagioli follow as well, and then Evenepoel and Bagioli attack one-two, and Almeida just follows and tries to outsprint who's left.
???
That's my guess for the DQS strategy.

 

[BlueRoads]

Almeida not looking super fresh.

Okay, then I'm taking back my strategy. Although I think Almeida sounded very confident this morning... okay, but in another place.

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic would approve of that dunk tbh

 

[tobydawq]

That was definitely not littering!

 

[johnymax]

But did he put it in the correct basket?

 

[tobydawq]

Okay, then I'm taking back my strategy. Although I think Almeida sounded very confident this morning... okay, but in another place.

That was in your rap.

 

[Samamba]

Some Danish people here who have any idea what happened to Kron? I don't think he's in the bunch and I haven't seen him all day.

Or I've missed him, but I doubt it.

 

[Netserk]

It's difficult to see any really dangerous group get a real gap before Ganda now.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

You'd expect him to try anyway though, unless he's on domestique duty.

Wellens' form is absolutely abysmal, he should be dropping this front group rather than vice versa.

He's never been really good at climbs longer than a few km.

 

[Red Rick]

He's never been really good at climbs longer than a few km.

Wellens? He should still do a half decent job at 20 minute climbs, even if he isn't GT material.

 

[Netserk]

Some Danish people here who have any idea what happened to Kron? I don't think he's in the bunch and I haven't seen him all day.

Danish commentators just said that he abandoned with a bad back.

 

[Rollthedice]

Roglic would approve of that dunk tbh

Yes, the bottle has been roglified.

 

[Netserk]

He's never been really good at climbs longer than a few km.

He has in P-N.

 

[Red Rick]

To be honest, DQS right now looks as if they're riding for Alaphilippe. If they were betting heavily on Evenepoel I would have thought they'd make the race harder than this.

 

[BlueRoads]

We've passed the 80k mark and Remco hasn't attacked yet. Crazy.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

He's never been really good at climbs longer than a few km.

He's won the Nice stage in Paris-Nice before amongst other things, and even this year he was seventh at Tirreno.

 

[Netserk]

We've passed the 80k mark and Remco hasn't attacked yet. Crazy.

Even the 160 km mark.

 

[glassmoon]

That was definitely not littering!

Only if his bottle was made of glass...

 

[Orbit501]

Three crashes so far and an AG2R rider in every single one :-(