It was better than I expected, especially after his performance in the TTT at Trentino where he was terrible. Of course the next day he attacked from the bottom of a climb and won.
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I thought he was trying to help out Viviani a bit in the positioning for the sprint.TMP402 said:Based on the results I guess Roche is shepherding Landa on the flat at the moment.
trevim said:I thought he was trying to help out Viviani a bit in the positioning for the sprint.TMP402 said:Based on the results I guess Roche is shepherding Landa on the flat at the moment.
trevim said:I thought he was trying to help out Viviani a bit in the positioning for the sprint.TMP402 said:Based on the results I guess Roche is shepherding Landa on the flat at the moment.
Haven't seen Landa at all in the peloton in the last 2 days, though he has finished in the bunch both times.JRanton said:Sky and Landa were riding a bit too far back for my liking. You'll get caught out at some stage riding like that.
Has anyone heard why Kiryienka isn't in the team?
therealthing said:Haven't seen Landa at all in the peloton in the last 2 days, though he has finished in the bunch both times.JRanton said:Sky and Landa were riding a bit too far back for my liking. You'll get caught out at some stage riding like that.
Has anyone heard why Kiryienka isn't in the team?
No idea r.e. Kiryienka.
It depends on your definition of a "GC guy".Matteo. said:Last yeat he was the best of GC guys in tour prolugue...
JRanton said:Sky and Landa were riding a bit too far back for my liking. You'll get caught out at some stage riding like that.
Has anyone heard why Kiryienka isn't in the team?
Brullnux said:Landa said after the TT that with his time-trialling the way it is, the Chianti ITT will play into his favour. I couldn't tell if he was saying it's a good TT for him to limit his losses or for him to gain time. If the latter then I think he may be getting a bit too confident, especially against hilly TT beasts like Nibali and Bala
I thought he was quite badly positioned going into the climb, he was far back when Pozzovivo attacked. Good thing he got back in.JRanton said:He looked very weak there although thankfully Roche (I think) closed the gap for him and got him out of jail.
He was well positioned at the start of the climb so unless there was some other problem it was bad legs that caused the gap to open.
How hot was it today? Landa has said he sometimes struggles in the heat.
therealthing said:I thought he was quite badly positioned going into the climb, he was far back when Pozzovivo attacked. Good thing he got back in.JRanton said:He looked very weak there although thankfully Roche (I think) closed the gap for him and got him out of jail.
He was well positioned at the start of the climb so unless there was some other problem it was bad legs that caused the gap to open.
How hot was it today? Landa has said he sometimes struggles in the heat.
In fact, I haven't seen Sky on the front much this Giro so far- need to be careful or they could miss attacks.
Valv.Piti said:The funny thing about that is the fact that Landa's two stage wins have been on kinda similar climbs.. thats what puzzles me a bit. However, its the day after a 'rest day' with 3 flat stages in NL, not exactly his speciality.
Pretty confident that he will be among the 5 best on Thursday. Gotta peak between stages 13-16.
Valv.Piti said:Im talking about he won in Pais Vasco and Trentino on little longer and harder climbs and then today seemingly was in trouble, I also explained it by it might have something to do with the start of the Giro since Landa is a pure climber. Nevertheless I was a little surprised to see him struggling since he is very capable on those kinda climbs