Stage 20: Saturday May 26th, Caldes/Val di Sole - Passo dello Stelvio 219km

[cineteq]

Doesn't matter if DeGendt is up ahead... Lose to Ryder or Degendt.

If Ryder cracks earlier in the climb, then the entire group will work to catch de Gendt.

 

[trevim]

Does anyone thinks that Hesjedal is doing some acting? He doesn't look too great now but he was the strongest on the Mortirolo.....

 

[will10]

Will this stage turn into a non-event amongst the favorites???

All too wasted to do anything against each other and loosing it all to an outsider in the process???

No chance. Stand by for carnage in the last 10km.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Ryder is maxed out and the climb hasn't even started! wtf?

Oh well...as he said, at the end of the day it's still just a bike race.

You had a great run, Ryder.

Easy there, mate. Let's see how it unfolds.

 

[meandmygitane]

Purito looking surprisingly calm, probably happy with the situation. I wonder if he has saved a ace up his sleeve or gambling on that surviving the climb, while Ryder does not, is enough.

 

[DominicDecoco]

So it begins....

That's pathethic.

 

[Steel4Ever]

So it begins....

Turn that sideways and it would be my heart rate riding that thing!

 

[superconfex]

Nyo 4 lungs should see him in good stead on this climb..Maybe detach himself from some wheels

 

[Ramira]

Thomas de Gendt going, the fight for the podium begins.

 

[will10]

TDG goes solo at 17km to go _o_

 

[EddyW.]

De Gendt attacks!
Only Nieve to follow.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

De Gendt suicidal attack

 

[SafeBet]

De Gendt is going.

 

[gerundium]

TDG and Nieve Dropping Cunego and Amador!

 

[Steel4Ever]

If Ryder cracks earlier in the climb...

Does anyone thinks that Hesjedal is doing some acting? He doesn't look too great now but he was the strongest on the Mortirolo.....

Doesn't matter....strong yesterday...blown today....you know how GTs work.


Great, TDG just upped the pace...

 

[vcampbell]

De Gendt and Nieve for the last 17 km. It will be hard for them.
Maybe Cunego can get back, but Amador off.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Does anyone thinks that Hesjedal is doing some acting? He doesn't look too great now but he was the strongest on the Mortirolo.....

Nah, Hesjedal's riding face is almost always on the ragged edge. Just like Sørensen's pain face, Menchov's blank face and Ivan's smile, don't read too much into it just yet.

 

[Fetisoff]

Soon as the road goes up - Moreno gone #fail

 

[SafeBet]

Cunego has been riding his own pace for the whole Giro.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Soon as the road goes up - Moreno gone #fail

Moreno is having a really poor Giro. Not even on the steep finishes he did mcuh except Asisi

 

[trevim]

Nah, Hesjedal's riding face is almost always on the ragged edge. Just like Sørensen's pain face, Menchov's blank face and Ivan's smile, don't read too much into it just yet.

Yeah that's what I thought. And he was so good on the Mortirolo that I was doubt he would be bad after a descent.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Vandevelde doing a great job

 

[Rocksteady]

on the plus side, VDV looks OK.. Not stuggling yet.

 

[Parrot23]

Does anyone thinks that Hesjedal is doing some acting? He doesn't look too great now but he was the strongest on the Mortirolo.....

Wondering about that too.... Strange contrast: looked bad on Mortirolo yet really strong.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Uran looks like he's loving this. The altitude. He did get dropped on the last climb though.