Giro D'Italia Stage 6: Grotte di Frasassi to Ascoli Piceno (San Giacomo) (160km)

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 9:43am #1

Stage 6 and the first summit finish beckons. With tomorrow likely to be another sprint stage it once again gives the GC contenders an opportunity to soften each other up a bit.

The final climb is 15km long, but it's the last 5km or so which should bite as the average kicks-up around 8%.

We'll see whether Tuesday was a blip for Yates, Evenepoel etc and indeed if Bernal's show of strength was a one-off or indicative of a real return to form.

Odds from Bet365
Egan Bernal 8/1
Bauke Mollema 14/1
Giulio Ciccone 14/1
Simon Yates 16/1
Dan Martin 18/1

dahat · 13-05-2021 9:48am

Joe Dombrowski a non starter due to concussion from yesterday’s crash.

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 9:49am

So Dombrowski, Sivakov, Landa all out

Francois Bidard from AG2R also gone after that crash

Paddigol · 13-05-2021 10:12am

Dan, Dan, he's our man, if anyone can do it, Dan can!

A Dan day today? Possible a bit too early and too easy to see GC attacks. If anyone feels like a bit of a leg-stretcher in the final though, he should be well equipped to match them and maybe catch some others napping. Will be small gains if any today.

dahat · 13-05-2021 11:02am

All the talk is for a big break to go as GC teams won’t want the jersey just yet. That should make the early parts interesting to watch hopefully.

13-05-2021 11:52am

These shots of the caves they are showing are something else.

Darkglasses · 13-05-2021 11:55am

GCN Plus and working from home is a match made in heaven

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 11:59am

Darkglasses wrote: »

GCN Plus and working from home is a match made in heaven

I installed a TV in my home office last year, ahead of the Grand Tours kicking off. Brilliant decision!

Darkglasses · 13-05-2021 12:22pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

I installed a TV in my home office last year, ahead of the Grand Tours kicking off. Brilliant decision!

I have a perfectly good home office but I'm still on the couch :pac:

CrowdedHouse · 13-05-2021 12:57pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

GCN Plus and working from home is a match made in heaven

Eurosport player/app is gone cat lately - stalling buffering. Makes no difference if you have 10MB or 1000MB broadband :mad:

Eurosport.co.uk works fine on laptop but for some reason it won't cast

retalivity · 13-05-2021 12:58pm

The break really dont want Mollema to come with them

Darkglasses · 13-05-2021 12:59pm

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Eurosport player/app is gone cat lately - stalling buffering. Makes no difference if you have 10MB or 1000MB broadband :mad:

Eurosport.co.uk works fine on laptop but for some reason it won't cast

Yeah I've found that for a good while, disappointing alright. I find GCN Plus's app a good bit more consistent, although I have to start it, close it down, and then start it again

Tim76 · 13-05-2021 1:00pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

GCN Plus and working from home is a match made in heaven

Rob Hatch is taking the shine off this heavenly experience.

13-05-2021 1:07pm

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Eurosport player/app is gone cat lately - stalling buffering. Makes no difference if you have 10MB or 1000MB broadband :mad:

Eurosport.co.uk works fine on laptop but for some reason it won't cast

I was having similar for the last month but since the Giro started casting from the app has been much better. I put it down to the snooker being on and them not making adequate provision in the datacenter for increased demands.

I left it run one day and after an hour what was being cast was 25km behind what was live on my desktop.

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 1:19pm

They're saying that Mollema & Bouchard have made it to the front! That effort will have knocked the sh1t out of them though.

edit: that rain...

retalivity · 13-05-2021 2:13pm

Whats going on....No live pictures, cyclingnews down?

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 2:19pm

CN has been down since mid-morning, very odd.

Pictures seem to go to sh1t any time it rains heavily :mad:

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 2:26pm

A 43km descent for the lads

edit...sorry that's after the next short climb I think

Mefistofelino · 13-05-2021 2:27pm

If this coverage doesn't improve, I'm going to be forced to do some work.

retalivity · 13-05-2021 2:28pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

CN has been down since mid-morning, very odd.

Pictures seem to go to sh1t any time it rains heavily :mad:

CN seems to be down due to a datacentre failure, they tweeted earlier.

Dcully · 13-05-2021 2:32pm

That Giro E looks rather interesting.

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 2:34pm

Fvck sake, missing a split in the bunch thanks to the sh1te coverage. It looked like Dan was in the first of those groups all along anyway. I'd fear for Dan though on a very long descent given his descending skills and seeing how Ineos drilled it on that one too.

griffin100 · 13-05-2021 2:36pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

A 43km descent for the lads

edit...sorry that's after the next short climb I think

Possibly in the wet as well - not pleasant.

Coverage is sh1te so I’m going out on my bike

Dodge · 13-05-2021 2:37pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

Fvck sake, missing a split in the bunch thanks to the sh1te coverage. It looked like Dan was in the first of those groups all along anyway. I'd fear for Dan though on a very long descent given his descending skills and seeing how Ineos drilled it on that one too.

Their kit is even harder to spot than usual too

Mefistofelino · 13-05-2021 2:38pm

Lloyd and Walker have all the excitement and delivery of royal funeral commentators

dahat · 13-05-2021 2:39pm

Looks to be huge splits in the peloton.

neris · 13-05-2021 2:39pm

GCN+ Cyling as youve never seen before

mr spuckler · 13-05-2021 2:41pm

Dodge wrote: »

Their kit is even harder to spot than usual too

All black now with the rain capes on too.

Crazy splits this early in the stage :eek:

Mefistofelino · 13-05-2021 2:42pm

Any idea how long the descent is? You'd think Dan Lloyd would have mentioned it...

13-05-2021 2:45pm

They seem to be riding in and out of the weather. Dry with the break now.

neris · 13-05-2021 2:45pm

breezy

Giro D'Italia Stage 6: Grotte di Frasassi to Ascoli Piceno (San Giacomo) (160km)

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