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

[SafeBet]

So Quintana has Gorka and Rolland has Sicard.
Uran with any teammate?

 

[hrotha]

No its not. Its like saying if a bunch of tiders cross a closed rail-way crossing, all others should do it. That would be the dumbest thing ever.

If you cant trust what the organizers report then you get total anarchy

Point being it's not clear at all that the neutralization was announced on the race radio, i.e. the channel that matters.

 

[Ruby United]

Uran like 3:20 back on Quintana then

3:20??? I'm hearing 1:30-2:00 mins

 

[Lupi33]

they'll probably all GC contenders compact together as start of final climb

 

[burning]

So Quintana has Gorka and Rolland has Sicard.
Uran with any teammate?

Pauwels is working

 

[kingjr]

We don't know yet what the riders like Uran have been told by officials

 

[murali]

Omg. I wanted nairito to win the Giro, but not like this...

reminded of the Matrix dialogue.

 

[Rollthedice]

Quintana did a Montecassino Evans.

 

[melkemugg]

3:20??? I'm hearing 1:30-2:00 mins

The swedish commentator says its around two minutes.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

according to the latest information Quintana has only 1 minute on Uran group

 

[jsem94]

Quintana did a Montecassino Evans.

Not comparable.

 

[Cimber]

Point being it's not clear at all that the neutralization was announced on the race radio, i.e. the channel that matters.

Any official channel used by the organisers have to be trusted. Oh, and who says it wasnt in the radio too?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

If Rolland kept up with Quintana on the descent then there was no reason why Uran couldn't

 

[The Hitch]

How can Rob Hatch get everythhing so wrong? He just said there's talk that Quintana might have been distanced

And then he tried to make out like it was what everyone was saying, when everyone but him was saying Quintana was in front.

 

[Ruby United]

Virtual standings:
Uran
Quintana '40
Evans '1'03
Majka '1'50
Aru '2'24

From eurosport

 

[luckyboy]

3:20??? I'm hearing 1:30-2:00 mins

Someone posted on twitter and got the chasers 1 + 2 mixed up

 

[kingjr]

QS DS talking to a Movistar rider in the Uran group

 

[Lupi33]

so Quintana slipped away on the 'neutralised' descent

just as well he's not one of the seniors of the sport

 

[BigMac]

This is sad, unprofessional, scandalous, ridiculous, patethic, anger-inducing.

Bloody farse.

 

[PirazziAttacksVino]

What I don't understand is how did Sky, Movistar, Europcar and Garmin know to go hard on the descent?


Brailsford and Unzue hacked the Giro twitter so they could get their revenge on OPQ and Tinkoff after TDF stage 13

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

official confirmed from lotto belisol tema car NO neutralisaiton was announced on radio!!

 

[Escarabajo]

Omg. I wanted nairito to win the Giro, but not like this...

+1

We'll know really what happened after the stage!

 

[Ferminal]

A million people reported it being said on race radio, the Dutch rider representative guy said it too who would have been in discussion with the organisers. But those who are in the Uran group shouldn't be looking to blame anyone but themselves.

 

[hrotha]

Any official channel used by the organisers have to be trusted. Oh, and who says it wasnt in the radio too?

The Twitter feed doesn't have precedence over the race radio and what the officers do on the road.

I'm not saying it wasn't on the race radio. I don't know. The Spanish Eurosport commentators say it wasn't. Others say it was. Hence, it's not clear.

 

[Cimber]

If Rolland kept up with Quintana on the descent then there was no reason why Uran couldn't

Ofcourse he could