Giro D'Italia Stage 12: Siena›Bagno di Romagna(212km)

mr spuckler · 20-05-2021 9:21am #1

A nice gentle recovery stage after yesterday's efforts on the dirt roads! 212km with 3,700m of elevation and it will be interesting to see if the GC contenders race it hard or if they just watch each other with one eye on what's yet to come.

Likely to be one where the break stays away, although with Bernal looking so strong you never know

Odds from Bet365
Gino Mader 9/1
Ruben Guerreiro 10/1
Egan Bernal 16/1
George Bennett 16/1
Diego Ulissi 18/1

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 10:57am

Looks like Marc Soler may have to abandon after a crash. He's out the back already and crawling along behind the team car

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 11:14am

Now De Marchi has had a nasty crash and is out

[Deleted User] · 20-05-2021 11:14am

Jez there is a stretcher out for one of the Israel guys

Dr. Bre · 20-05-2021 11:14am

Looks a bad crash for de marchi

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 11:15am

Dowsett was also out the back earlier after the Soler crash.

[Deleted User] · 20-05-2021 11:42am

Nico trying again to get away.

dahat · 20-05-2021 11:52am

Soler abandon as well.

Reality_Check1 · 20-05-2021 12:02pm

Dowsett also confirmed as abandon - must have taken a fairly heavy knock

I really love the intricate nature of the break and everything that goes into it! so much to think about

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 12:05pm

Even if he hadn't lost a shedload of minutes yesterday, both Dowsett and De Marchi abandons would severely impact Dan M's podium ambitions

dastardly00 · 20-05-2021 12:11pm

Masnada has now abandoned also according to Rob Hatch

Reality_Check1 · 20-05-2021 12:13pm

Bit of a disaster for ISN - Is there any merit to mailing in the rest of the race and save riders for other grand tours later in the season?

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 12:16pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

Masnada has now abandoned also according to Rob Hatch

And Gino Mader

retalivity · 20-05-2021 12:36pm

Is it really steep or are Ineos going really slow??

neris · 20-05-2021 12:40pm

Weather looks lovely

G1032 · 20-05-2021 1:03pm

Was there a huge crash that took them all out or what?

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 1:09pm

G1032 wrote: »

Was there a huge crash that took them all out or what?

Soler had a silly crash about 3km into the stage

De Marchi ran off the road on the inside of a bend

Mader seems to have some bug / illness

Dowsett has "stomach problems" (the sh!ts)

Don't know what happened to Masnada.

G1032 · 20-05-2021 1:13pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Soler had a silly crash about 3km into the stage

De Marchi ran off the road on the inside of a bend

Mader seems to have some bug / illness

Dowsett has "stomach problems" (the sh!ts)

Don't know what happened to Masnada.

Mother of God
Cheers!!

[Deleted User] · 20-05-2021 1:15pm

I had high hopes for Masnada when he joined DQS off the back of a great series of results in 2019. Now I can't see him getting a renewal there this year.

retalivity · 20-05-2021 1:25pm

Enfilade wrote: »

I had high hopes for Masnada when he joined DQS off the back of a great series of results in 2019. Now I can't see him getting a renewal there this year.

Masnada has had a few cases of riding for himself rather than the team as well, with no end result, which probably didn't go down well at QS either.

Almeida came out in portuguese press saying that he was pretty much riding for himself, and only eventually dropped back to help evanepoel due to the DS shouting down the earpiece at him.
Evanepoel said he didnt have a problem with the gravel, the problem was with 'bad legs'.

Sure Remco.

Darkglasses · 20-05-2021 1:34pm

Was that a team changing another team's wheel? Didn't Team Sky/Orica get done for that a few years ago?

Edit: Maybe it was just a push :pac:

dastardly00 · 20-05-2021 1:36pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Don't know what happened to Masnada.

Tendonitis in the knee according to Cyclingnews live updates

Luxman · 20-05-2021 1:39pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

Was that a team changing another team's wheel? Didn't Team Sky/Orica get done for that a few years ago?

Edit: Maybe it was just a push :pac:

Maybe the Blue jerseys (Eolo and Astana) confused the mechanic and he thought he was helping his own guy. Nice to see all the same.

dastardly00 · 20-05-2021 2:14pm

neris wrote: »

Weather looks lovely

Not right now! :eek:

Inquitus · 20-05-2021 2:15pm

Proper miserable at the moment!

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 2:51pm

Kelly and Blythe work quite well together - cheeky young lad and avuncular old timer

mr spuckler · 20-05-2021 3:19pm

retalivity wrote: »

Masnada has had a few cases of riding for himself rather than the team as well, with no end result, which probably didn't go down well at QS either.

Didn't he do that a bit last year in the Giro, I seem to remember that maybe even on the Stelvio stage he rode ahead of Almeida for a while.

Mefistofelino · 20-05-2021 3:44pm

De Marchi collected quite an array of injuries in his crash

"Dema was taken to hospital and was diagnosed with a broken right collarbone and six broken ribs. He also broke his first and second thoracic vertebra. He did not suffer any head injury, but does have to stay in the hospital for at least one night."

retalivity · 20-05-2021 4:03pm

Bennett is gonna get back within 8-9mins of the Pink jersey after today

mr spuckler · 20-05-2021 4:09pm

Trek!!

Inquitus · 20-05-2021 4:21pm

Bennett and Brambilla gift the stage by squabbling, wtf was their problem?

Giro D'Italia Stage 12: Siena›Bagno di Romagna(212km)

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