Giro d'Italia Stage 5 – May 8th, Cosenza - Matera 203km, **Unmasked Spoilers**

dastardly00

No sign of a stage-specific thread for Stage 5?

Today's stage is largely flat. There is a Cat. 4 climb near the end and then an uphill section leading into the town of Matera. That uphill section ends with 4.8km to go, and then it’s straight with a bit of descending before the last kilometre kicks up with 2.8% all the way to the finish line. The Cat. 4 climb will thin out the peloton as it's 4.5km long with an average gradient of 5.6%. Cav will find this climb tough, so I expect to see OPQS try and take control, and set a pace that Cav can handle. If he makes it to the flamme rouge in the peloton, he'll be hard to stop. More than likely though, Orica-GreenEdge and Argos-Shimano will set a blistering pace and Cav will be dropped. Degenkolb and Matt Goss like this type of finish.







Live TV coverage on Eurosport1 from 1.30pm. Highlights on Eurosport2 at 10.30pm, and on Sky Sports 2 at 10pm.
Live ticker here.

TheBlaaMan

Torrential rain at the finish at the moment. Scary pics of rivers of rain flowing over electrics for the stage finish...!

A note on screen says "Delayed due to rain", but AFAIK, the race is progressing elsewhere with the hope that the rain stops and the water drains away by the time the stage finishes. Nonetheless, yet another curved ball may be about to be thrown into Giro2013

IM0

finish line is nearly flooded :eek:

Rovi

HUGE rainstorm at the finish, floods running down the road and people trying to rescue electronic equipment! :eek:

IM0

also wiggens lost 17 seconds yesterday, after he was caught behind a crash!

Inquitus

Aye one for the sprinters who can get over a hill.

burger1979

Is there anyway to watch it online live?

retalivity

cmon degenkolb...i need the velogames points

Beasty

burger1979 wrote: »

Is there anyway to watch it online live?

No stream links permitted - see sticky

Beasty

Inquitus wrote: »

Aye one for the sprinterswimmers who can get over a hill.

FYP;)

Dermot Illogical

So that's where our weather went.

IM0

they are saying the weather will be crap in giro for about a week

poor guys. some of us know how much that sucks!

Beasty

Dermot Illogical wrote: »

So that's where our weather went.

Don't worry - it's on its way back ...

dastardly00

The photo of the winner crossing the finish line today will look something like this....



:pac:

IM0

dastardly00 wrote: »

The photo of the winner crossing the finish line today will look something like this....



:pac:

many lols! :pac:

bazermc

Or this

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/171184/252067.jpg

C-Shore

I know all too well how Cav is feeling even the climbers made that Montescaglioso climb look difficult.

buffalo

dastardly00 wrote: »

The photo of the winner crossing the finish line today will look something like this....

:pac:

My little brother just asked does that make today a duathlon?

C-Shore

IM0 wrote: »

missed that did cav get dropped or have a mechanical or what?

Almost dropped.
A lot of riders out the back with Cav representing the very back, about 59" down from the front of the bunch.
He had a couple of team mates back to help, I can't see him taking the stage after that though. Although sometimes he still pulls it out of nowhere.

Aaaand now he's dropped.

retalivity

lol...gifted, then sickened

EDIT: I meant for the bardiani rider...didnt realise degenkolb it was that was behind him. Yus!

couerdelion

retalivity wrote: »

lol...gifted, then sickened

'Watching on text updates so thought he had won then they all disappeared so I thought I was dreaming and deleted the post....

IM0

lol he looks like a dodgy 70s pornstar

retalivity

Wiggins dropped out of the top 10 on GC???

buffalo

A lot of riders seem to go down spontaneously on that corner - possibly as a result of hitting the brakes after hearing the smash up ahead, but I think the zebra crossing markings in the wet have a lot to answer for.

Inquitus

retalivity wrote: »

Wiggins dropped out of the top 10 on GC???

Can't have everyone was caught up behind the massive crash and will be on (st)

davidsatelle100

Inquitus wrote: »

Can't have everyone was caught up behind the massive crash and will be on (st)

Was out of the top 10 according to the graphics on eurosport

retalivity

EDIT: Provisional was wrong, it's as you were...


1 Luca Paolini (Ita) Katusha 19:56:39
2 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling 0:00:17
3 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:26
4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:31
5 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Sharp 0:00:34
6 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
7 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Katusha 0:00:36
8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Sky Procycling 0:00:37
9 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 0:00:39
10 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:42