Giro D'Italia Stage 10: L’Aquila to Foligno (139km)

mr spuckler

Reading the paragraph below from the CN preview of the stage, I'm surprised I never heard of this! I wouldn't have been into watching cycling as much back then but it sounds like one you'd expect to hear more about.

The mere mention of L’Aquila is enough to evoke memories of the astonishing 256km stage halfway through the 2010 Giro into what was then an earthquake-devastated town. In torrential rain and mist, the bunch lost both its bearings on a large breakaway group and, eventually, 13 minutes on those riders as Evgeni Petrov won the stage and Richie Porte, then racing in Saxo Bank colours, pulled on the maglia rosa.

The bookies have it as a day for the sprinters and with Ewan gone it's anyone's game.









Odds from Bet365
Tim Merlier 15/4
Peter Sagan 4/1
Giacomo Nizzolo 13/2
Elia Viviani 15/2

MangleBadger

Bora to hammer it over the climbs to leave Sagan on his own come the finish and Nizzolo to end his curse of 2nd place finishes.

dastardly00

The stage being only 139 km in length with no major climbs is rather unusual.

I'm expecting Bora and Qhubeka to set a high tempo.

neris

Hope today isnt the start of an ineos procession around italy for the next 2 weeks

dahat

MangleBadger wrote: »

Bora to hammer it over the climbs to leave Sagan on his own come the finish and Nizzolo to end his curse of 2nd place finishes.

Can see exactly the same but no win for Sagan.

MangleBadger

dahat wrote: »

Can see exactly the same but no win for Sagan.

Oh I mean Nizzolo gets the win.

mr spuckler

Taco is up the road!

Oymyakon

Taco, Goossens, Pellaud all in the break, bunch of legends

retalivity

mr spuckler wrote: »

Taco is up the road!

https://twitter.com/IntermarcheWG/status/1394271310323269641

dastardly00

I noticed that Lotto Soudal only have five riders remaining.

Ewan, De Buyst & Marczynski all left the race over the weekend.

Darkglasses

dastardly00 wrote: »

I noticed that Lotto Soudal only have five riders remaining.

Ewan, De Buyst & Marczynski all left the race over the weekend.

Should only send them 5 invites for next year

retalivity

Bora setting this up for someone except Sagan again

dastardly00

Surely one of Sagan, Nizzolo or Gaviria will finally win :pac:

Hopefully Gaviria or Nizzolo.

dastardly00

I wonder why Nibali is so close to the front?

retalivity

dastardly00 wrote: »

I wonder why Nibali is so close to the front?

They mentioned possible echelons at the end of the stage

Darkglasses

Loved that shot of Nizzolo and Campenaerts. Didn't expect to enjoy this stage at all

Oymyakon

Why no ciclamino points at the sprint?

dahat

That was great, a GC sprint for mere seconds.

dastardly00

Ha! What a battle for 3, 2 and 1 seconds!

De Bhál

That was a nice little bit of racing there...good stage alright

and a hand shake afterwards.

mr spuckler

Finally! :pac:

Great finish tbf

Inquitus

Sagan delivers on the very hard work his team did, fair play to him, nice win!

mr spuckler

It looked like Viviani royally messed that up.

Fair play to Bora for lighting it up today - Sagan really needed to deliver the win after the previous efforts.

mr spuckler

mr spuckler wrote: »

It looked like Viviani royally messed that up.

Fair play to Bora for lighting it up today - Sagan really needed to deliver the win after the previous efforts.

Yeah Viviani's lead out man was on the front and he was in 8-10th wheel and still sat there when the sprint opened up.

Dodge

They haven’t fixed the times yet so as it is Vlasov is only 1 second behind Bernal

The second Bernal won in that sprint

lissard

It was showing 21 seconds gained by Vlasov on the line - that's one big gap over the other GC guys. It's since been corrected.

dastardly00

What exactly was Molano from UAE doing? When we went to the front in the last couple of hundred of metres was he trying to win (he looking to be sprinting full gas) or was he leading out Gaviria (and Gaviria just lost his wheel)?

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Bora setting this up for someone except Sagan again