Giro d'Italia Stage 19–May 30th, Bassano del Grappa-Cima Grappa **Unmasked Spoilers**

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Stage 19 – Friday May 30th, Bassano del Grappa - Cima Grappa (ITT) 26.8km (*****)

Start order and times (CET) can be found here.

Selected start times (GMT):
Philip Deignan 14:15
Nicolas Roche 14:20

Robert Kiserlovski 14:44
Cadel Evans 14:47
Wilco Kelderman 14:50
Ryder Hesjedal 14:53
Domenico Pozzovivo 14:56
Rafal Majka 14:59
Fabio Aru 15:02
Pierre Rolland 15:05
Rigoberto Uran 15:08
Nairo Quintana 15:11

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Weather - Bassano del Grappa: Cloudy with showers likely in the afternoon, and possibly a thunderstorm. High 23C. Winds E at 10 to 15 kph. Chance of rain 70%. Borso del Grappa: Mostly cloudy with rain developing. A rumble or two of thunder is possible later in the day. High 21C. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 kph. Chance of rain 80%. Rainfall near 6mm.

Stage Betting: Nairo Quintana 4/7; Rigoberto Uran 6/1; Dominco Pozzovivo 9/1; Fabio Aru 11/1; Pierre Rolland 25/1.

Live TV coverage on Eurosport1 from 1.30pm. Highlights on Sky Sports 3 at 8pm and Eurosport2 at 9.30pm. Note: Eurosport TV schedule is always liable to change without notice.

Live text ticker here.

pelevin

Great idea on the poll. Future fixture? Though easy to say when someone else doing the work. I bravely chose Quintana.

Darkglasses

Great idea on the poll!

I went for Uran Uran Uran Uran.

If you want I can make the poll public? I'd like to see who everyone chose!

Darkglasses

pelevin wrote: »

Great idea on the poll. Future fixture? Though easy to say when someone else doing the work. I bravely chose Quintana.

I'd be happy to add them to the threads if you want me to share the work Dastardly

lennymc

Poll is great, as others have said. I went for Oleg....

funnights74

Uran for me, the gradients aren't steep enough for Quintana's pure climbing legs, i reckon urans power will just about do it, Quintana for Saturdays stage and the overall though.

letape

Has to be Quintana tomorrow!

Dr. Bre

Pozzo to stun everyone tomorrow!

vektarman

I've gone for Aru, I think he's the most determined to push for a GC podium spot and this is his opportunity not to be shackled by the peloton, in my humble opinion..:)

MPFG

Ryder Hesjedal anyone ???

blobbie

Per Ladbrokes only 1 winner:

1/20 Nairo Quintana
12/1 Rigoberto Uran
20/1 Fabio Aru
40/1 Pierre Rolland
50/1 Domenico Pozzovivo
66/1 Rafal Majka
100/1 Ryder Hesjedal
200/1 Wilco Kelderman
250/1 Cadel Evans
500/1 Robert Kiserlovski

Overall prices - Dooh !!

MPFG

Uran & Kelderman are good prices

blobbie

Stage 19 prices

Nairo Quintana 8/15
Rigoberto Uran 11/2
Domenico Pozzovivo 7/1
Fabio Aru 12/1
Rafal Majka 20/1
Pierre Rolland 33/1
Ryder Hesjedal 40/1
Wilco Kelderman 40/1
Dario Cataldo 50/1
Thomas De Gendt 50/1
Michael Rogers 66/1
Samuel Sanchez 66/1
Wouter Poels 66/1
Cadel Evans 80/1
Fabio Duarte 80/1
Julian Arredondo 100/1
Stefano Pirazzi 100/1
Franco Pelliizotti 100/1
Gianluca Brambilla 125/1
Jose Herrada 125/1
Mikel Landa 150/1
Robert Kiserlovski 150/1
Alexandre Geniez 150/1
Riccardo Zoidl 200/1
Nicolas Roche 200/1
Daniel Moreno 200/1
Damiano Cunego 250/1
Matteto Rabottini 250/1

daramike

Quintana should eat them alive here if he wants. I think Aru will be his biggest danger, Rodgers and Arredondo are my 2 outsiders.

Brian?

MPFG wrote: »

Ryder Hesjedal anyone ???

Yes, got my vote.

Swamp3

Oleg Tinkoff...but then he gets DQ'ed for not wearing his helmet.

neris

on the route map why are there 2 routes in red and yellow?

MPFG

I think Hesjedal has ridden a great Giro ....He has come from way back after losing in TTT and with a very reduced team and he is within spitting distance of the podium
If team had not lost 3 + minutes in TTT he would be on the podium

I know he is not a pure climber like the Colombians or the young guns but you have to admire his resilience and never say die attitude

Darkglasses

Going to see a mix of road bikes and TT bikes today. Majka's on road bike all the way through, Kiserlovski is going to switch bikes at the bottom of the climb.

neris wrote: »

on the route map why are there 2 routes in red and yellow?

Guessing the yellow one is a service road for the vehicles and riders to make their way back down?

gordongekko

Darkglasses wrote: »

Going to see a mix of road bikes and TT bikes today. Majka's on road bike all the way through, Kiserlovski is going to switch bikes at the bottom of the climb.




Guessing the yellow one is a service road for the vehicles and riders to make their way back down?

Seems mad to change bike. The flat bit is only 7km. Hard to see him gaining enough time to justify the change.

Idleater

lennymc wrote: »

Poll is great, as others have said. I went for Oleg....

A protest vote for oleg, because I wanted to vote for arredondo.

death1234567

gordongekko wrote: »

Seems mad to change bike. The flat bit is only 7km. Hard to see him gaining enough time to justify the change.

Yeah I think taking a road bike from the start is the only way. I don't think this TT is long enough for Quintana. Uran to win it, but not by enough.

Darkglasses

https://twitter.com/Cycling_mad1/status/472330378095906816

:eek: Oleg likes your idea Dastardly!

pelevin

The cyclists are playing tennis again on Eurosport, whatever that's about.

simonrooneyzaga

is that it so?No chance until Federer puts this lad away?

neris

eurosport can put on 6 or 7 channels of tennis but cant get a channel to broadcast the cycling with commentary on

Darkglasses

Live coverage has stared on eurosport player, without commentary.

pelevin

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

is that it so?No chance until Federer puts this lad away?

Maybe it's a new kind of triathlon. More controversy ahead. "If we'd known there was going to be tennis involved, we'd have had our cyclists out practising."

Actually in the menu on the right of On Now, there's about 10 options and second last has the cycling live without commentary. Doesn't look like much of relevance happening. Average race speeds of less than 20kmh. I could do better than that.

simonrooneyzaga

no commentary??? Whose making the calculations?!

Darkglasses

Nico's just gone down the ramp

Latest standings here: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Giro_d_Italia_2014_Stage_19_Cima_Grappa_Crespano_del_Grappa

simonrooneyzaga

Eurosport Twitter:

"Apologies for the delay on getting to the Giro, we will join the cycling live on BE1 after the Djokovic match, Federer will move to BE2"

Djokovic 2-0 up with the 3rd 5-6 probably going to a tiebreak.. FFS!!

Darkglasses

It's started now

simonrooneyzaga

finally on!

gordongekko

Ah come on who won the tennis

Darkglasses

GC riders are starting to roll now, Cadel and Wilko Kelderman are on the road.

Darkglasses

Focus have finally sorted out Pozzovivo with a proper TT frame

simonrooneyzaga

Majka just changed bike at the foot of the hill. Got a lovely push start from his mechanic when back on the road bike. Is this not a bit of a joke? No problem if someone has technical difficulties or crashes and needs to catch up with the Peleton...

But during a TT, when you choose to stop to change bike, should the push start be allowed?

pelevin

Really dislike riders allowed change bikes during TTs.

Edit: Simon's point above about the push also grates.

TheBlaaMan

That's twice now that Kelly has thrown out a suggestion that Bardiani are going to have some questions asked of their performances. When Pirazzi took nearly 2 minutes off the best time it was..."interesting", "interesting indeed"......now he thinks that they are serving really strong coffee to Zardini.....

gordongekko

Majka got pushed half way up the mountain during the bike change

Zzippy

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Darkglasses

@RealStephens - Uran's bike change from getting off until the point the mechanic stopped pushing took only 14.68 seconds.. @robhatch @giroditalia #stats

He's also gained about 17 seconds so far on Quintana

BQQ

gordongekko wrote: »

Majka got pushed half way up the mountain during the bike change

"Is there any fair play in cycling?"

Oleg Tinkof 2014


:pac:

Eamonnator

Whoever let Quintana out in those overshoes should be arrested.

pelevin

Compared to other riders like Rolland, they seem to be showing Cadel Evans a lot more than his place in the reckoning merits.

Pudsy33

What a moron getting in Uran's way.

lopesc

QUINTANA FASTEST @ SECOND TIME CHECK BY 8 SECONDS!!!

simonrooneyzaga

you gotta love the nutters

barrabus

Socks (and shoe covers) used in competition
must not exceed the mid-distance between the
ankle and the knee.
Quintana???


https://s3.amazonaws.com/USACWeb/forms/uci/UCI-Equipment-and-Position-Controls.pdf

retalivity

pozzo caught hesjedal and aru caught majka?

That's umpossible!

Pudsy33

Come on Aru!