Giro d'Italia Stage 20 Feltre - Croce d'Aune-Monte Avena 194 km

dastardly00

Last mountain stage... just 5,300 m climbing to do.

Eddie in the break.

dastardly00

I think Eurosport1 have really nailed it with their in-studio section of the programme. Wiggins, Brian Smith and Simon Richardson from GCN in the studio today. All very good.

Agreed it's been very good. I like they have the breakaway section at the end too. Player has been great, full commentary and no ads.

dastardly00

The tempo in the peloton on the Passing Manghen is a bit too pedestrian at the moment for my liking... but the latter half of the climb is meant to be much steeper

Superman going and Nibbles and Roglic getting distanced and over 100km still to go today. They can probably get back on in the descent.

dastardly00

I did not expect Nibali to crack

Watching the descent from the helicopter is unreal.

dastardly00

Wow... I've just seen rider from Dimension Data for the first time this Giro :pac:

You look at what the smaller wildcard teams have done this race and then look at Dimension Data. They haven't even been on TV most days.

dastardly00

Eddie in a five man break at the front of the race
*Fingers crossed*

coco0981

dastardly00 wrote: »

Eddie in a five man break at the front of the race
*Fingers crossed*

Dunbar getting grief from the Dimension Data rider for not contributing

ED E

Commentators making a balls of it.

MPFGLB

Eddiie Dunbar has a great nose for a break

dastardly00

The breakaway need to up the tempo and increase the time gap if they want to have a chance to win the stage

Daroxtar

I really don't rate that Israeli girls bike handling skills. Ropey as fk on the cobbles

velo.2010

'Ahhh, fu*king SRAM'.

Bauke Mollema, Giro d'Italia 2019.

dastardly00

The scenery is amazing

ED E

dastardly00 wrote: »

The scenery is amazing

Yeah, makes you wanna a book a holier this instant.

retalivity

Wtf roglic getting pushed up the mountain??!!

retalivity

Close your jacket madouados

dastardly00

That absolute idiot

dastardly00

Lopez should have laid a few more kicks into that numpty

Superman dishing out a few well deserved slaps

dastardly00

Landa will win the stage

retalivity

Surprised bilbao hasnt gone back to pick up lopez

letape

dastardly00 wrote: »

Landa will win the stage

Unfortunately not to be. He went very early - may have misjudged the distance to the line.

dastardly00

letape wrote: »

Unfortunately not to be. He went very early - may have misjudged the distance to the line.

Yeah it kinda looked like that. He also ran quite wide on the final corner allowing Bilbao to cut in on the inside

neris

What happened with superman and the fan? Just seen gifs of it

neris

neris wrote: »

What happened with superman and the fan? Just seen gifs of it

Fan running and bumped into someone else and then into Lopez. Video below.

https://video.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/giro-d-italia/2019/watch-shocking-moment-miguel-angel-lopez-attacks-fan-after-crashing-during-giro_vid1204735/video.shtml

coco0981

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Fan running and bumped into someone else and then into Lopez. Video below.

https://video.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/giro-d-italia/2019/watch-shocking-moment-miguel-angel-lopez-attacks-fan-after-crashing-during-giro_vid1204735/video.shtml

He shouldn't have hit him, but fans are absolute twats on mountain stages. Can see why riders lose the rag in that situation when the adrenaline is pumping

Dr. Bre

Lopez inspired by Katie Taylor

velo.2010

I don't know if Roglic quite has what it takes to win over three weeks. Seems best suited to week long/10 day stage races. I'd be of a similar view about Lopez even though he has two podiums to his name.

Is Nibali passed his best? If he is, then he signed that hefty contract with Trek just in time!

Will Carapaz jump to Ineos? I hope not, but the deal may be done. Imagine that potential team in next year's Tour. Yikes.

neris

coco0981 wrote: »

He shouldn't have hit him, but fans are absolute twats on mountain stages. Can see why riders lose the rag in that situation when the adrenaline is pumping

He was dead right to hit him. I don't know how the riders gold their cool sometimes with those clowns. Should be a lot more fans getting decked every year by riders in the GTs

Bambaata

velo.2010 wrote: »

I don't know if Roglic quite has what it takes to win over three weeks. Seems best suited to week long/10 day stage races. I'd be of a similar view about Lopez even though he has two podiums to his name.

Is Nibali passed his best? If he is, then he signed that hefty contract with Trek just in time!

Will Carapaz jump to Ineos? I hope not, but the deal may be done. Imagine that potential team in next year's Tour. Yikes.

In fairness to him he has done everything solo. If he had any team mates good enough, even one, I reckon he'd be nicking it tomorrow

irishrover99

dastardly00 wrote: »

Yeah it kinda looked like that. He also ran quite wide on the final corner allowing Bilbao to cut in on the inside

If you can remember the year Tom D won the Giro, Landa got beaten in a few sprints at the finish because of the exact same mistake, running wide.
When the sprint started yesterday I was hoping he wouldn’t make the same mistake and I couldn’t believe it when he did.

WMP

I was on the Passo Manghen and was lucky to get this shot of Eddie : )