I'm very optimistic about his giro shape but after todays effort I have a hard time seeing him being among the best in LBL.
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I think Majka would categorize as that. Dont want to underestimate good Sky/Astana, in this case Siva and Tao, doms peaking/being in great shape for week long stage races.SafeBet said:It's not easy to assess Nibali's shape at the moment. Yes, he has looked better than in any prep race since forever but there was nobody remotely close to a Top5 GT candidate in this race. I would use Mattia Cattaneo as an indicator of how weak the competition was.
Liegi will tell us more.
Better than Sunweb, worse than Sky.whittashau said:I doubt he is ever going to take risk against on a descent ever again, but understandable so
How will the teams of the other Giro contenders stack up against Bahrain?
SafeBet said:It's not easy to assess Nibali's shape at the moment. Yes, he has looked better than in any prep race since forever but there was nobody remotely close to a Top5 GT candidate in this race. I would use Mattia Cattaneo as an indicator of how weak the competition was.
Liegi will tell us more.
Rollthedice said:Let us all remember this team: Valerio Agnoli, Manuele Boaro, Ivan Cortina, Javier Moreno, Antonio Nibali, Domen Novak, Franco Pellizotti and Giovanni Visconti. Moreno disappeared almost instantly and Nibali finished as a runner-up to Puff Daddy.
That being said, on paper the Giro team should be good enough. Regarding him not taking risks anymore on descents as far as I remember last time he was taken out it was uphill.
rick james said:Amazing, he's going to do the race without a front wheel
Without a wheel, fingers in the nose and with one leg. It's in the bag already. Latest after recon:tobydawq said:rick james said:Amazing, he's going to do the race without a front wheel
Weight reduction and only half as much friction.
Sestriere said:Just rewatched the 2012 race and I have to say this surely has to be one of Vincenzo's most exciting performances. He took the bull by the horns on the Roche aux Faucons, dragging a small group clear and then attacked over the top, a move of maximum determination. While on his solo move he looked like pure class on the bike, propper old school and taking every corner perfectly.
The time gap was going bananas that day. When he entered Saint Nicholas it was showing 40 s. When Iglinski dropped Purito it showed 46 s and the time pretty much froze from that moment on. At 5 km to go the was a right-left-shicane where it became apparent that the GPS was dead wrong as the gap was 15 s at max at that point. Tomorrow, there is no Saint Nicholas-Ans-combo, though...
Red Rick said:Nibali's 2012 is one of the more underrated seasons in the last decade of cycling imo.
tobydawq said:Red Rick said:Nibali's 2012 is one of the more underrated seasons in the last decade of cycling imo.
Or in your case, overrated. He won Tirreno. That's pretty much it.
I didn't even say how I rated it.tobydawq said:Red Rick said:Nibali's 2012 is one of the more underrated seasons in the last decade of cycling imo.
Or in your case, overrated. He won Tirreno. That's pretty much it.