Stage 16: Ponte Di Legno-Val Martello/Martelltal (139 km)

[Ryo Hazuki]

British ES thinks Quintana may have fallen behind on the descent.

doesn't surprise me since they are total idiots

 

[JimPanzen]

Question is if the wrong information was also given to the riders or if it's just the Giro Twitter who got it all wrong.

 

[therhodeo]

So either Quintana is 2 minutes up or being gapped now? Glad thats all so clear.

 

[RedheadDane]

I have a suggestion to all you people going "It's totally safe!"
Why don't you go riding it yourselves? Coz it sure didn't look 'totally safe' to me up there (it might be again though).

It was wrong of the organisers trying to neutralise it; not because it wasn't at least somewhat needed, but because if you want to neutralise a stage you need to make sure everybody gets the message.

 

[Parrulo]

Imagine if Quintana was back and it was Aru on the front.

The screams of Italian conspiracy would have been hilarious

 

[ILovecycling]

Lol thats crazy
I hope Nairo will wait for them tho,and then smoke them on Martello


I have to go nowexam...

So have fun

 

[scholar]

The Giro officials responsible for the wrong communication should be forced to now ride the entire stage without even their underwear.

I've fixed that for you.

 

[Publicus]

Giro d'Italia‏@giroditalia·1 min
Wrong communication: no neutralization for the descent from the Passo dello Stelvio. Sorry for the wrong information. #giro

Lol what an epic fail. They cant just retract such a statement when some GC-riders are 3 mins behind

I think they deleted the tweet where they officially declared neutralization.

 

[meat puppet]

what a mess...

but surely teams have been notified via race radio?

 

[burning]

This stage is really funny to watch

 

[Lupi33]

Cold and flu are virus contracted from other people, not from cold wet road conditions or rain and snow

the immune system is compromised when you're dealing with hypothermia

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I see one Astana ahead of Quintana now.

 

[hrotha]

Seriously though, that's an epic fail by whoever released the wrong information, but unless it was also on the race radio (and at least on Spanish Eurosport they're saying it wasn't) or they got the info directly from the race directors, it was stupid for anyone to not follow the group on the descent.

 

[Cimber]

Question is if the wrong information was also given to the riders or if it's just the Giro Twitter who got it all wrong.

It was clearly given

 

[Ferminal]

Typical joke organisation by RCS, thought neutralisation would be a good idea without even working out how they would do it so then had to pretend they never decided it.

 

[icefire]

Wrong communication: no neutralization for the descent from the Passo dello Stelvio. Sorry for the wrong information. #giro

Do riders get tweets in their SRM or something?

 

[rainman]

Uran was suffering on that climb, maybe he was simply shelled out

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

No Aru or Uran in the Quintana group.
I see Europcars though.

 

[SafeBet]

I see one Astana ahead of Quintana now.

Must be Nibbles out for training.

 

[kingjr]

So what's Lefevre saying on the neutralization matter?

 

[Cimber]

Seriously though, that's an epic fail by whoever released the wrong information, but unless it was also on the race radio (and at least on Spanish Eurosport they're saying it wasn't) or they got the info directly from the race directors, it was stupid for anyone to not follow the group on the descent.

It must have been on the radio cos Tinkoff-Saxo tweeted that the organisers had neutralized the descent

 

[shalgo]

Can the organization of this race get any worse?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Do riders get tweets in their SRM or something?

Sky does. Marginal gains.

 

[dresch]

The cancellation of the neutralization had nothing to do with the fact an Italian leads the stage? Oooooh. Controversial.

 

[TomekA]

No Aru or Uran in the Quintana group.

But they are ahead or behind Quintana?