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Yeah, he saved energy today and rolled in 12'10" after Brambilla. No sense hurting his legs now.staubsauger said:He's certainly gonna try again in the Dolomites!
CheckMyPecs said:I think Cunego's "admission" after today's stage that he didn't have the legs was more an ill-advised attempt at diplomacy than a statement of fact. He matched Pirazzi and Ciccone pedal-stroke for pedal-stroke on the penultimate climb and put in a very strong sprint to take the mountain points there. He probably just doesn't want to make bad blood of this affair, especially since the results of the stage won't be changed.
Read my post again, it is quite clear.NairoQ said:CheckMyPecs said:I think Cunego's "admission" after today's stage that he didn't have the legs was more an ill-advised attempt at diplomacy than a statement of fact. He matched Pirazzi and Ciccone pedal-stroke for pedal-stroke on the penultimate climb and put in a very strong sprint to take the mountain points there. He probably just doesn't want to make bad blood of this affair, especially since the results of the stage won't be changed.
Care to elaborate a bit more as to what you're referring to then?
CheckMyPecs said:Read my post again, it is quite clear.NairoQ said:CheckMyPecs said:I think Cunego's "admission" after today's stage that he didn't have the legs was more an ill-advised attempt at diplomacy than a statement of fact. He matched Pirazzi and Ciccone pedal-stroke for pedal-stroke on the penultimate climb and put in a very strong sprint to take the mountain points there. He probably just doesn't want to make bad blood of this affair, especially since the results of the stage won't be changed.
Care to elaborate a bit more as to what you're referring to then?
1) Neither Pirazzi nor Ciccone seemed able to drop Cunego at any time during the climbs.Nick C. said:Actually it is not. Can you spell it out for the simpleton crowd (of one perhaps)>
CheckMyPecs said:1) Neither Pirazzi nor Ciccone seemed able to drop Cunego at any time during the climbs.Nick C. said:Actually it is not. Can you spell it out for the simpleton crowd (of one perhaps)>
2) Cunego was very strong in the sprint for the mountain points.
3) Ciccone only managed to "drop" Cunego after Pirazzi bumped into him.
Therefore, what we saw on the road makes it quite unlikely that Cunego was really weaker than Ciccone. IMHO he was simply being diplomatic.
Exactly. When that moment came, he switched to energy conservation mode to save something for the KoM classification.staubsauger said:Maybe he more or less gave up and saved energy once it became clear that he ain't gonna close the gap to Ciccone anymore!?
Mayomaniac said:Nice, he already won stage 5 of the Tour of Qinghai Lake in 2003 and now, 14 years later, he won stage 6.
Apparenlty it was a long range attack, the finish was at 4120m above sea level.