Giro d'Italia 2019 - Stage 11 Carpi - Novi Ligure **unmasked spoilers**

dastardly00

This should be a humdinger





Technical Overview:

A pan-flat stage to the edge of the Po Valley. After Casteggio, the route follows the traditional itinerary of Milano-Sanremo, up to 3 km from the finish. Starting from Carpi the route first heads towards Reggio Emilia. After crossing the town, it takes the ss. 9 “Via Emilia” all the way to Piacenza, following a straight course. Past Piacenza, the route takes the former Statale Padana Inferiore all the way to the finish, passing through several cities that have often been featured in the Giro route, and in the Milano-Sanremo finale.
The last 3 km are virtually straight, with some roundabouts in-between that will require no major diversions. The last bend is 3,000 m from the finish line. The home straight is 2,800 m long, on 7.5 m wide asphalt road.

Matteo Moschetti (Trek – Segafredo) was a DNS.

WEATHER
Carpi (Start): Partly Cloudy, 21°C. Wind: weak NE – 8km/h.
Novi Ligure (17:15 approx – finish): Mostly Sunny, 20°C. Wind: moderate S – 18km/h.

POINTS AND TIME BONUSES
During the stage, 13 seconds of time bonus are up for grabs in the individual overall classification by time, a maximum of 72 points are available for the points classification (467 remaining), and no points for the King of the Mountains competition (607 remaining).

JERSEYS
Maglia Rosa (pink), GC leader – Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates)
Maglia Ciclamino (cyclamen), sprinter classification leader– Pascal Ackermann (Bora – Hansgrohe)
Maglia Azzurra (blue), King of the Mountains classification leader– Giulio Ciccone (Trek – Segafredo)
Maglia Bianca (white), young rider general classification leader – Nans Peters (AG2R La Mondiale)

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
1 – Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates)
2 – Primoz Roglic (Team Jumbo – Visma) at 1’50”
3 – Nans Peters (AG2R La Mondiale) at 2’21”

Live TV coverage on Eurosport1 now. Highlights on Eurosport1 at 8pm & midnight this evening.

dastardly00

123 km remaining and the three-rider breakaway have a 4'29" lead (Marco Frapporti, Damiano Cima, and Mirco Maestri)

TheBlaaMan

dastardly00 wrote: »

POINTS AND TIME BONUSES
During the stage, 13 seconds of time bonus are up for grabs in the individual overall classification by time, a maximum of 72 points are available for the points classification (467 remaining), and no points for the King of the Mountains competition (607 remaining).

Definitely think there should be KOM points there at the end - what a climb (relatively). Viviani for the win...... come on, give a man a break, he'll be in floods ortherwise.

Still, with today being the last of the snorefest days, there are signs (ie no overall domination and lots of teams ready to try their luck against the inexperienced Jumbo Visma crew) that the next 10 days could be very interesting ......hopefully

If you can't take the excitement of the Giro today , the women's Emakumeen Bira is being shown on youtube at the minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQDRJPBXFs

dastardly00

Demare is the new provisional leader of the points classification. Ackermann may have thought he had it sown up until Demare won yesterday and he failed to score at the finish.

neris

Is Ackerman still racing?

Yes he's still there last I saw.

neris

Why is there no Ciro option in poll

Heard Rob Hatch wish Sadhbh O'Shea well there, seems she's finishing up with Cyclingnews today.

Ackerman went a bit early there, if he was a bit more patient he would have won it. Of course Sam Bennett would have taken that one ;-) Nice to see Conor Dunnes teammate break into the top five today...

dastardly00

neris wrote: »

Why is there no Ciro option in poll

D'oh! My bad

dastardly00

Demare finishing ahead of Ackermann puts him as leader of the points classification.
And Viviani is going home

neris

dastardly00 wrote: »

D'oh! My bad

Don't worry he's probably at the beach