Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 12: Osimo–Imola 214km

cunavalos

Sprinters stage finishing on the legendary Imola F1 circuit. Fingers crossed for another stage win for Sam

The final drag 8km before the finish consists of 4km at 4% average gradient which may be the launchpad for a puncheur attack but i expect quick step and bora to be able to control things.

Latest from the course is a 5 man breakaway consisting of riders from the 3 Italian Pro Continentals Androni, Wilier and Bardiani with a lead of 3 minutes from a peloton.

In other cycling news reports from Belgium that the team BMC license for 2019 will be saved by a Deloitte-Giant which will have implications for Sunweb and Dimension Data. Potential good news for Nicholas Roche although he does not have a contract with BMC for 2019

https://twitter.com/raykerckhoffs/status/996976478045851648

No issue for Sunweb is there?, thought I read they extended their commitment to the team earlier in the week and that Cervelo were coming on board for the bikes. I certainly took it that it was more Sunweb wanting to move away from Giant.

cunavalos

Deleted User wrote: »

No issue for Sunweb is there?, thought I read they extended their commitment to the team earlier in the week and that Cervelo were coming on board for the bikes.

Not heard about Sunweb to Cervelo , puts more pressure on Dimension Data so, looking for second sponsor and bike manufacturer

scott1974

Factoid : They pass through Marco Pantani's hometown of Cesena today, was there many years ago.. nice place.

dastardly00

38 km to go. 2 minute lead for the breakaway. Nothing happening.

neris

looks a bit miserable

retalivity

The profile for tmoro is nearly the exact same as today!

neris

getting interesting now

dastardly00

It's bucketing down

dastardly00

Peloton has split.
Carapaz from Movistar seems to be the highest placed rider in the second peloton

dastardly00

Bora putting the hammer down at the front

dastardly00

20 km to go and Tim Wellens has gone on the attack

dastardly00

13 km to go.
Viviani not in lead group.

I don't think this will end in a group sprint

neris

feck off wellens and get back in the peleton and leave this to our sam

Felexicon

Come on Sam!!!!!

dastardly00

Sam still up near the front. Doing a great job so far

dastardly00

Sam was leading the peloton for a minute... Which was weird

Paul_Mc1988

Was looking like he was going on a solo aswell. Hes a great chance here.

dastardly00

This is a great finish

De Bhál

dastardly00 wrote: »

This is a great finish

4 to go, bunch sprint looking like. Sam still up there

dastardly00

Sam has one team mate with him

Paul_Mc1988

Why is sam at the front of the group, theres boro lads sitting in behind

Paul_Mc1988

Finnaly he gets some help

dastardly00

Not many domestiques left

rushfan

Brilliant from Sam

Felexicon

Get in you little daisy

neris

yes yes yes

dastardly00

WHAT A FCUKING PERFORMANCE!!!

cunavalos

Wow

De Bhál

wow

neris

think that monkeys well & truely pissed off

equivariant

Dominant stuff from Sam - brilliant!

Esroh

Absolute class

moonshadow

Fantastic finish by Sam !

Paul_Mc1988

Get in!!

I've called him for going to early in the past and was cursing there when it looked like he was going to go on the climb but he 100% made the right move there at the end. Brilliant win for him and great work by the team today.

neris

they could have at least given him a chequered flag at the end

equivariant

Psychologically that must be huge for Sam. He completely dominated the finale of that stage from about 5k to go, while Viviani was being dropped. Sammy must be feeling pretty good about his chances of points jersey

thekooman

i could feel the confidence from him jumping off the screen! :cool:

Miklos

What a move. Took advantage of what looked like just a split second of hesitation. He who dares, Rodney!

dastardly00

https://twitter.com/irishpeloton/status/997132224964255744?s=20

dastardly00

He's bloody freezing!

They're throwing layers on him there to warm him up before the podium.

Boscoirl

Great result.

Trying to watch the stage on my phone at work(on a customer site waitingofor a report to generate) Managed to watch 15k -2k to go uninterrupted. Then someone comes over to see how I am getting on. Get back to see Sam celebrating!

dastardly00

Weepsie wrote: »

Are Roche's two TT wins in 87 not counted as individual road stages, or is that a silly question?

Don't think TT stages count as road stages

cunavalos

Twitter links incoming.....

https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status/997132680675311618

https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status/997133170502873088

https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status/997137352916004865

https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status/997137480938762240

CrowdedHouse

My eurosport yokie kept stalling and rewinding 5 seconds, he was probably on the podium when I saw him win!

CrowdedHouse

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

My eurosport yokie kept stalling and rewinding 5 seconds, he was probably on the podium when I saw him win!

Same here, really annoying.

neris

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

My eurosport yokie kept stalling and rewinding 5 seconds, he was probably on the podium when I saw him win!

Deleted User wrote: »

Same here, really annoying.

Are you guys using a Chromecast by any chance? Or tablet?

I've been finding when I Chromecast off my phone or tablet it skips back a few seconds and then forward and if I just watch it on a tablet the quality is really poor even though other sites like Netflix stream perfect

Yeah I was casting today, normally it's fine. Had to switch back over to phone as it was still jumping during the replay.

REBELSAFC

Only 22pts behind Viviani now. Sam to win in Rome to win that purple-ish jersey