Giro D'Italia Stage 17: Canazei Sega di Ala (193km)

mr spuckler

Another nice little tester straight after the rest day!

A slightly odd stage on paper, pretty much downhill for the first 50km, straight into a Cat 3 which is 3km @ 9%, then another 30km of descent onto a 50km or so stretch of flat road before the 2 Cat 1's, 14.8km @ 7.6% and 11.5km @ 9.6%.

It looks like both of those last 2 climbs have steeper ramps though, with the last one keeping a nice 12%+ bite right until the end.

Bernal to demolish the field in awe-inspiring fashion? The bookies seem to think so...













Odds from Bet365
Egan Bernal 10/3
Antonio Pedrero 12/1
Dan Martin 14/1
Davide Formolo 16/1
Guilio Ciccone 16/1

dastardly00

It's sunny! Yay!

https://twitter.com/giroditalia/status/1397496335763447808

Campenaerts was a non starter today, had an injury to his leg from the other day I think.

retalivity

Dan trying to get into the break

dastardly00

Looks like the peloton are finally happy with the breakaway

EDIT - Nope!!

EDIT #2 - peloton blocking the road again

EDIT #3 - Attackers out of the peloton again :pac

neris

https://twitter.com/richardmoore73/status/1397487099297902593?s=19

gavinoontheweb

Kelly sounds in good form today. A lot more lively and talkative.

mr spuckler

Deleted User wrote: »

Campenaerts was a non starter today, had an injury to his leg from the other day I think.

Delighted to see him win the other day, he's been so aggressive in recent times that it really felt like he'd earned it.

mr spuckler

neris wrote: »

https://twitter.com/richardmoore73/status/1397487099297902593?s=19

Link not working for me.

dastardly00

mr spuckler wrote: »

Link not working for me.

It's showing up for me

mr spuckler

dastardly00 wrote: »

It's showing up for me

And now it works!

Dodge

Dan Martin as part of the break. A couple of decent climbers like Moscon with him

Free ride for Ineos so hopefully they stay away. Bike exchange doing the work in the peleton

retalivity

Dodge wrote: »

Dan Martin as part of the break. A couple of decent climbers like Moscon with him

Free ride for Ineos so hopefully they stay away. Bike exchange doing the work in the peleton

Theyre gonna need a lot more than 4 minutes at the base of the first climb

dastardly00

Dan looks in good form but Bike Exchange are putting pay to his chances of contesting for the stage victory.

retalivity

Bernal down to 2, Caruso on his own

this.lad

This climb is on rouvy, for anyone who is interested!

Did it over Christmas, killer.

For late readers, Passo San Valentino.

mr spuckler

dastardly00 wrote: »

Dan looks in good form

He's working his arse off in this break anyway, very few contributors to the break despite the gap reducing

dastardly00

I'm mostly listening to the TV commentary rather than watching, but it seems like Dan & Moscon are doing the majority of the work in the breakaway?

retalivity

dastardly00 wrote: »

I'm mostly listening to the TV commentary rather than watching, but it seems like Dan & Moscon are doing the majority of the work in the breakaway?

The 2 of them appear to have dropped the rest

mr spuckler

Whatever about how the stage plays out it's great to see such aggression from Dan. Just completely split the break with that acceleration

dastardly00

retalivity wrote: »

The 2 of them appear to have dropped the rest

Yeah it's great that he has now got rid of the deadwood

mr spuckler

dastardly00 wrote: »

Yeah it's great that he has now got rid of the deadwood

Well, he's now the only one doing any work. Moscon and Movistar rider (Pedrero) just sitting in behind him.

retalivity

Remco having the craic now the pressure is off

Dodge

Gap came down to about 2’20 (quickly from 4 minutes) but it’s 2’40 now

No flat left, downhill and then back up a monstrous climb

Very few domestiques left for any team (inc bike exchange while done all the work)

Inquitus

Dodge wrote: »

Gap came down to about 2’20 (quickly from 4 minutes) but it’s 2’40 now

No flat left, downhill and then back up a monstrous climb

Very few domestiques left for any team (inc bike exchange while done all the work)

Can Dan climb the final climb faster than Bernal? Let's hope so! and faster than the other 3 breakawayers too!

neris

crash few down

mr spuckler

Big crash! Looked like Remco went slightly over the barriers trying to avoid it...he looks shook now too.

retalivity

mr spuckler wrote: »

Big crash! Looked like Remco went slightly over the barriers trying to avoid it...he looks shook now too.

Remco would be getting flashbacks from that

Remco nearly over the armco there towards the back of it.

Dodge

It looked like Vlasov down to me but Hatch didn’t mention him

dastardly00

Poor Remco

gavinoontheweb

Great stage this, expect Bernal to take the stage and blow everyone away.

Dodge

Dodge wrote: »

It looked like Vlasov down to me but Hatch didn’t mention him

Few Astana in the group so obviously not!

Happy that Remco is continuing. Hope he’s OK obviously

Remco had some amount of bandaging on his left forearm. Cuts from the barrior I'd say.

Moscon is sat on here now from the looks of things in the break.

retalivity

Nightmare for Ciccone

mr spuckler

The gap has really tumbled in the run-in to the last climb. Really not looking good for Dan now.

dastardly00

Dan in absolutely super form... but the peloton will eventually catch him

retalivity

Pity he hasnt 2 mins, looks super strong

this.lad

He's pushing on alright...

dastardly00

Ineos are back on the front... they might steady the tempo a bit... fingers crossed

gavinoontheweb

No one attacking Ineos as of yet, Dan still in play.

neris

can he do it???????

Inquitus

Aye Dan has a chance, not sure how good it is, fingers crossed!

retalivity

Caruso one of few in the peloton that doesn't wear glasses.
He's the spit of Eli from Boardwalk Empire

Dodge

Everyone just hoping Ineos take it handy and don’t want Bernal to get another stage. Ha

mr spuckler

That's very early for Vlasov to be losing contact. Really impressive from Dan after the work he's done all day to be maintaining the gap given the pace in the peloton.

dahat

Think Dan needs more time than what he has.

Moscon and Pedrero and Bouchard are still in the gap here, around 10 seconds.

retalivity

"This is the most isolated we've seen Bernal here"

2 guys directly in front of him in a group of 20 and 1 other teammate further up the road??

dastardly00

hmmmm I don't trust these time gaps

mr spuckler

Those time gaps on the screen are all over the shop :pac:

0:43, then 0:56, then 1:21 then 1:43 then back to 1:25, all within the space of maybe 20 seconds!

edit...it's frustrating there's no gap to Pedrero