Giro d'Italia Stage 17: Another Shark Attack Day??

neris

More uphill stuff today in the rain by the looks of it today. Hopefully we,ll Vincenzo go on the attack again and some sort of cracks start to appear.

Eddie Dunbar & Conor Dunne still racing. Eddies at 22nd and Conor at 137th and more then likely not in contention for lantern rouge or whatever the giro equivilant is Maglia Nera

Technical Overview:
After the queen stage, the riders face a tricky medium mountain stage which might catch someone off guard. The stage starts from the town of Commezzadura and heads north-east the whole day, featuring three GPMs with an uphill finish. The first climb of the day is the easy side of the Passo della Mendola (uncategorized... 8.4 km at 4.5%), an irregular climb with some good ramps but never very steep. The descent is very long and quite technical, and leads to the beginning of a 45 km long easy section in the valley, where the road will only slightly go uphill until the town of Bressanone, where the second climb of the day starts, Elvas (GPM4, 3.4 km at 7.6%). It is a short and fairly easy climb that should not be see any particular action, even though it does have a pretty hard ramp in the middle. The descent is even shorter, and leads to 10 km of flat that lead to the third climb of the day, Terento (GPM3, 6.6 km at 7.6%). This is a much more serious climb, with the gradient often going above 10%, and it tops at 45 km to go, so it could do a lot of damage if a team puts the hammer down. The descent is fairly easy, and after it the riders will hit a 20 km ascending false flat that bring to the town of Anterselva di Sotto, where the road will start climbing again for good. The riders will have to climb to the Biathlon Stadium, to celebrate/advertise the Biathlon WC to be held there in 2020 :rolleyes::rolleyes:. The climb of Anterselva (GPM3, 5.5 km at 6.9%) starts with a 3 km ramp at 4.9%, but after a 2.5 km false flat section the road ramps up to an average of 8.2% for 4.5 km, ending at 1 km to go, which will be in the stadium itself.

Melodeon

neris wrote: »

...Conor at 137th and more then likely not in contention for lantern rouge or whatever the giro equivilant is

Maglia Nera (black jersey)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglia_nera

MPFGLB

So the thing is can the Shark shake the Movistar duo ??

So much talk about Carapaz and Landa leaving Movistar next year yet Roglic is the man who needs to move imo


Connor Dunne was not built for GT mountains

Think Eddie Dunbar should not ever go down the GC route and concentrate on one day races ...more an Allaphillipe than a Quintana imo

Kelly : everyone as a coach these days, even the guys doing 3 or 4 sportives a year have a bloody coach

neris

Breakaway with 6 minutes

mr spuckler

The pasty colour of Dunbar compared to everyone else :pac:

Nibbles and Roglic didn't look to have anything there.

dastardly00

First win in the Giro for AG2R in 8 years :eek:

harringtonp

MPFGLB wrote: »

Think Eddie Dunbar should not ever go down the GC route and concentrate on one day races ...more an Allaphillipe than a Quintana imo

Hi is still very young, took SamB 2 TDFs before he got hardened to grand tours

TheBlaaMan

There's Primoz' Ma in the background making sure the journo's dont bully her son....