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Giro d'Italia 2018 stage 20: Susa - Cervinia 214km

  • 26-05-2018 12:15pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭


    profile-20.jpg

    Dont see a thread already...

    First climb done, 2 more to go, 60k left.
    Break 5mins up the road


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Pinot gone!

    Jesus, the same as yates yesterday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Jasus this Giro has been brutal

    So many supposed top 10s /podium contenders gone out the back door


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,764 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Pinot is completely bollox'd, far worse than Yates, he'll be lucky to finish at this rate, he must be sick.


  • Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't we needed to have a camera on him there, you could hear him coughing and heaving. Be surprised if he finishes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Why is Froome always looking down rather than looking in the direction he's going?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    20-25 lads left on the last climb, 6 of which are sky.

    Normal order has been (depressingly) resumed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭Itziger


    Now THIS is boring! At least yesterday was a bit bloody different and exciting, say what you will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,524 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    nc6000 wrote: »
    Why is Froome always looking down rather than looking in the direction he's going?

    A combination of looking at the display from his power meter and his awkward ungraceful position on the bike


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,770 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    The race is starting to get going after all the scenery watching.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    ah feck


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    That shake of the head from TD says a lot for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭CptMackey


    Why don't the other teams attack sky? It drives me nuts . Feel sorry for td


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,770 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    This has been a bad end to the Giro as most in Eurosport choose to ignore the elephant in the room.
    It has been unbelievable...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    think ill just skip the tour completely


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Now would be a great time to hear exactly what TD thinks. He didn't even acknowledge Froome after the finish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭Itziger


    Well at least he gave it a bit of a lash 2 or 3 times but it was never going to be on that last climb. As for the white jersey, it was as if those two were stuck together with glue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Sprinter Sacre


    So Froome joins Merckx and Hinault as the only person to hold all three Tours at once. Absolutely pathetic, f*ck the UCI for allowing this nonsense to go on. Might as well bring back Verbruggen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    retalivity wrote: »
    think ill just skip the tour completely

    Is Froome listed to take part? Because yeah....it'll be another SKY parade and Froome win, won't it? :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭BowSideChamp


    So Froome joins Merckx and Hinault as the only person to hold all three Tours at once. Absolutely pathetic, f*ck the UCI for allowing this nonsense to go on. Might as well bring back Verbruggen.

    He joins good company so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    So Froome joins Merckx and Hinault as the only person to hold all three Tours at once. Absolutely pathetic, f*ck the UCI for allowing this nonsense to go on. Might as well bring back Verbruggen.

    Was I wrong to hope Cookson would clean up the sport? I have to be honest I've not followed pro cycling much since his election. I didn't even know he'd lost out to some French bloke. :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    So its over..

    been a spectacle and a very hard race but ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Irish Raven


    Great Giro....really good exciting racing...well planned route, and at least a snoorefest of a time trial didn't determine it!! So great performances and some lads to pencil in for potential winners!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭velo.2010


    retalivity wrote: »
    20-25 lads left on the last climb, 6 of which are sky.

    Is this true? I didn't watch as I knew what the outcome would be.

    Its either Sky and Froome rounding into form at the right time or they were pulling the brakes for the first couple of weeks to put on a bit of a show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    So Froome joins Merckx and Hinault as the only person to hold all three Tours at once. Absolutely pathetic, f*ck the UCI for allowing this nonsense to go on. Might as well bring back Verbruggen.

    He could still get banned yet. If he does his Vuelta will immediately go.

    But can somebody answer me this question, how long is Froome going to continue to dominate for??

    At the moment it looks like he's going to win every grand tour there is. Is he a shoo in for the TdF, the Vuelta, all 3 again next year??

    He is 33 now....I don't know how long he'll dominate for....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    CptMackey wrote: »
    Why don't the other teams attack sky? It drives me nuts . Feel sorry for td

    Because they can't do the impossible. Sky ride at such a ferocious pace at the front which makes simply hanging on hard enough let alone attacking off the front.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    As he is contesting his failed test Froome is looking at a 2 year ban. He'll lose the Vuelta, probably this Giro and will be 35 when he comes back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    RobFowl wrote: »
    As he is contesting his failed test Froome is looking at a 2 year ban. He'll lose the Vuelta, probably this Giro and will be 35 when he comes back.

    Are you saying this because that's what you think will happen, or is there a bit of you thats saying that because thats what you would like to happen?

    I'm just curious I'd like to see him get a ban, but I'd be shocked if he got as much as 2 years. Sky and Froome are confident they'll get off as are a lot of their supporters right now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    nc6000 wrote:
    Why is Froome always looking down rather than looking in the direction he's going?


    Looking at his numbers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    This could be the hardest TDF that Froome will have done. He should be tired from the giro and Movistar have landa, valverde and Quintana so someone from that team has to put up a fight.
    Then Porte and bardet will also be there.

    Their is also a cobble stage and some very short and odd mountain stages that we don't usually see the the TDF.

    Then again saying that, Froome will have his A team in support, Thomas ect ect so you never know.

    I'd like TD to give it a try as I think it could suit him more than the giro


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    This could be the hardest TDF that Froome will have done. He should be tired from the giro and Movistar have landa, valverde and Quintana so someone from that team has to put up a fight. Then Porte and bardet will also be there.


    Dan Martin will probably have Aru annoying him as well after his withdrawal yesterday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    Dan Martin will probably have Aru annoying him as well after his withdrawal yesterday

    I was going to say Dan but realistically he has little chance of winning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    He should be tired from the giro

    joke of the day! Sure he only came into form 2 days ago so the Tour will be a walk in the park for him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    joke of the day! Sure he only came into form 2 days ago so the Tour will be a walk in the park for him!

    Coming into form, no? So he still has plenty of ooompfh in the tank to peak for in the tour


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Dan Martin will probably have Aru annoying him as well after his withdrawal yesterday

    Dan should tell him to fcuk right off back to wallace and gromit where he belongs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,764 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Rumour Pinot was rushed to hospital with symptoms of exhaustion today.

    http://cyclingpub.com/article/4045/Reports%3A+Exhausted+Thibaut+Pinot+rushed+to+hospital


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭velo.2010


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Rumour Pinot was rushed to hospital with symptoms of exhaustion today.

    http://cyclingpub.com/article/4045/Reports%3A+Exhausted+Thibaut+Pinot+rushed+to+hospital

    Desperate stuff. Hope he is alright.

    Cycling at that sustained high level isn't very healthy at all. Pinot, Yates, Aru, Chavez all suffering. You probably won't see Dumoulin again until the Vuelta.

    If Froome goes on and wins the Tour now you could put him on par with Merckx in terms of Grand Tour ability.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,613 ✭✭✭py


    retalivity wrote: »
    20-25 lads left on the last climb, 6 of which are sky.

    Normal order has been (depressingly) resumed.

    Didn't see today's stage but called this out yesterday in the stage thread knowing it would happen.

    Has been a pretty memorable giro all the same. Looking forward to the Vuelta, not so much the Tour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,764 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Confirmed by the team, he really did not look well today, sad to see after a great Tour.

    https://twitter.com/GroupamaFDJ/status/1000448485882294272


  • Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was horrible to see him heaving and retching on the bike with his team mate trying to keep him going.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭kenmc


    nc6000 wrote: »
    Why is Froome always looking down rather than looking in the direction he's going?

    Cos he's got a stem fetish

    http://chrisfroomelookingatstems.tumblr.com/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    velo.2010 wrote: »
    Is this true? I didn't watch as I knew what the outcome would be.

    Its either Sky and Froome rounding into form at the right time or they were pulling the brakes for the first couple of weeks to put on a bit of a show.

    Yep, puccio led them on to the last climb and pulled for a while, with de lacruz, henao, ellisonde, poels and froome. Kiryenka abandoned yday, so only knees was behind


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