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| Tamijo |
Posted on 29-05-2017 19:13
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Good job by Pello Bilbao, taking the KoM and a stage podium.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 30-05-2017 12:55
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Two nice rewards indeed after a race where we expected and achieved nothing as for the rest. 
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 30-05-2017 13:51
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 Giro d'Italia (WT)  Stage 15/21, 150.7 kms
From Galibier, with Time Gaps? Astana, who do not seem to have brought a potential top 10 contender, surprisingly set the pace from the start. Halfway cat.1 Col du Mont Cenis they would catch Maglia Azzurra Vuillermoz, the only rider in the break. Seconds later, Gianluca Brambilla (GC 17th) attacked a 40-man peloton. The pace dropped in a very brutal way. Even Pinot, who had sat around 8 minutes down, could come back. Loads of riders rejoined the peloton. Monsalve and Pizzaballa managed to catch up with Brambilla before the gap had grown too big. That trio tackled 1st cat. Col du Télégraphe with an advantage of 7'35", which'd allow Brambilla to move into the top 10. Brambilla already dropped Pizzaballa and Monsalve before the eminent cat.1 Col du Galibier climb had even started. The Italian's advantage of 12 minutes even put Ion Izagirre's 7th place in the overall in jeopardy. At last, Nairo Quintana lit up the Fight for Pink, 11 kilometers to the top. López, Majka, Nibali and Landa joined forces and bridged, 8 kms to the top. Izagirre and Maglia Rosa Craddock were already facing a 52" loss. Things started to look worse and worse for the American as Landa and Nibali couldn't follow the high pace either. I. Izagirre's time loss could also reach multiple minutes because the Basque kept losing positions. Brambilla's maiden GT stage win is one to be proud of! What a way to return to winning ways after more than a year without raising the arms! Majka sprinted to third place behind Monsalve, being the best of the GC contenders and gaining time on every single competitor. MA López and Quintana did a good job limiting the time lost to twelve and bonus secs. Craddock lost 2'45" to Majka, not good enough to keep his jersey. As of the next stage we'll have a Colombian in pink: Miguel Superman López. Izagirre lost 4'17" to Majka but managed to keep his 7th place for now. Giro d'Italia 2019 Stage 15/21 | 1 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | 4h17'57" | | 2 |  | Jonathan Monsalve | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | + 2'36" | | 3 |  | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | + 4'38" | | 4 |  | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | + 4'50" | | 5 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 6 | | Gabriele Pizzaballa | Lampre - Merida | + 5'39" | | 7 |  | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 5'51" | | 8 | | Vincenzo Nibali | Tinkoff | + 6'35" | | 9 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | + 7'01" | | 10 |  | Jan Hirt | Quick-Step Floors | + 7'09" | | … | … | … | … | … | | 16 | | Ion Izagirre  | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | + 8'55" |
Giro d'Italia 2019 The Fight for Pink | 1 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | 56h35'45" | | 2 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | + 11" | | 3 |  | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | + 18" | | 4 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 55" | | 5 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 2'05" | | 6 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | + 5'30" | | 7 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | + 7'24" | | 8 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | + 7'52" | | 9 |  | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | + 10'12" | | 10 | | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | + 11'06" |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-05-2017 14:42
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Looked brutal and was brutal 
Nice that Izagirre was able to keep Brambilla behind him in GC.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 30-05-2017 16:01
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Ion will not be happy with losing that much time  |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 31-05-2017 05:04
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A steady top 10 from Ion so far but looks like it'll be hard to climb higher up the standings!
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| Ripley |
Posted on 31-05-2017 08:41
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Impressive performance by Brambilla and huge time gaps. And I see now, it's the 2013 route and the toughest stages still lie ahead. In real life, stage 19 was cancelled and stage 20 shortened, but Ion and the rest won't have that luxury and will really suffer. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 01-06-2017 13:38
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Tamijo wrote:
Looked brutal and was brutal
Nice that Izagirre was able to keep Brambilla behind him in GC.
One of the down sides of not having a strong team. These kind of breakaways could be a threat until the very end of the race. Hopefully himself among better climbers will be enough. 
Won't be happy with the time loss but his current GC place will make up for that. 
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A steady top 10 from Ion so far but looks like it'll be hard to climb higher up the standings!
No doubt this is the most unpredictable GT I have ever experienced. Every GC contender seems to have had some bad day or even days, so hopefully that's a thing we can use to our advantage.
That's of course if Izagirre doesn't stumble upon an off day himself.
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Impressive performance by Brambilla and huge time gaps. And I see now, it's the 2013 route and the toughest stages still lie ahead. In real life, stage 19 was cancelled and stage 20 shortened, but Ion and the rest won't have that luxury and will really suffer.
Great stage for him and the country indeed, finally the Italians have their second stage win. Rewatched most of the stage as I advanced through the races and didn't even remember the final weekend was almost so decapitated back then. Let's hope we will make it through without too much damage.
Not sure if you both have been silent followers so far but it's great to have you stop by in any case.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 01-06-2017 13:40
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102nd Giro d'Italia Rest day 2 report Fifteen stages down, six to go. While the riders enjoy their day off and greet you from the alpine village of Valloire it's time for you to catch up on stage triumphers, who's underperforming or wearing maglias below. 102nd Giro d'Italia Maglia Rosa top 20 | 1 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | 56h35'45" | | 2 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | + 11" | | 3 | | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | + 18" | | 4 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 55" | | 5 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 2'05" | | 6 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | + 5'30" | | 7 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | + 7'24" | | 8 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | + 7'52" | | 9 | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | + 10'12" | | 10 | | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | + 11'06" | | 11 |  | Dominik Nerz | IAM Cycling | + 13'10" | | 12 |  | Mathias Frank | BMC Racing Team | + 13'13" | | 13 | | Leopold König | Team Dimension Data | + 13'37" | | 14 | | Vincenzo Nibali | Tinkoff | + 14'11" | | 15 |  | Thibaut Pinot | Team Sky | + 14'42" | | 16 |  | Bauke Mollema | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 15'04" | | 17 |  | Sergey Chernetskiy | Tinkoff | + 15'41" | | 18 | | Jan Hirt | Quick-Step Floors | + 16'26" | | 19 | | Alexis Vuillermoz | Team Dimension Data | + 21'54" | | 20 | | Allessio Bottura | Team Sky | + 24'49" |
102nd Giro d'Italia Worst underperformers | 21 | | Pierre-Roger Latour | AG2R La Mondiale | + 27'21" | | 23 | | Steven Kruijswijk | Team LottoNL - Jumbo | + 29'29" | | 25 | | Hugh Carthy | Team Sky | + 39'50" | | 32 | | Lilian Calmejane | AG2R La Mondiale | + 51'23" | | 40 | | Danilo Ghilardi | IAM Cycling | + 1h03'02" | | 51 |  | Simon Spilak | Team Dimension Data | + 1h14'03" | | 56 | | Carlos Betancur | Movistar Team | + 1h18'55" | | 57 |  | Robert Power | Lotto - Soudal | + 1h19'18" | | 64 | | Lachlan Morton | Orica - Scott | + 1h29'20" |
102nd Giro d'Italia Stage winners | Stage 10 | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | | Stage 11 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | | Stage 12 |  Philippe Gilbert | Quick-Step Floors | | Stage 13 | Fernando Gaviria | Movistar Team | | Stage 14 | Loïc Bouchereau | AG2R La Mondiale | | Stage 15 | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team |
102nd Giro d'Italia Maglia Rossa standings | 1 | | Fernando Gaviria | Movistar Team | 223 | | 2 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | 146 | | 3 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | 144 | | 4 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | 143 | | 5 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | 114 |
102nd Giro d'Italia Maglia Azzurra standings | 1 | | Alexis Vuillermoz | Team Dimension Data | 161 | | 2 | | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | 119 | | 3 | | Loïc Bouchereau | AG2R La Mondiale | 88 | | 4 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | 84 | | 5 | | Jonathan Monsalve | NIPPO - Vini Fantini | 77 |
102nd Giro d'Italia Maglia Bianca standings | 1 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | 56h35'45" | | 2 | | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | + 11'06" | | 3 | | Allessio Bottura | Team Sky | + 24'49" | | 4 | | Hugh Carthy | Team Sky | + 39'50" | | 5 | | Loïc Bouchereau | AG2R La Mondiale | + 52'59" |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 01-06-2017 18:04
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Liking the update |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 03-06-2017 12:24
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Thanks
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 03-06-2017 16:08
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Just hope Ion get a good massage and comes back even stronger.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 03-06-2017 16:31
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Tamijo wrote:
Just hope Ion get a good massage and comes back even stronger.
So do I. Next stage should be one that suits him but afterwards it will be a matter of holding ground in the MTT and two mountain stages.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 03-06-2017 20:38
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Giro d'Italia (WT)  Stage 16/21, 233.7 kms
Post-rest day Borefest or Madness? Vuillermoz came first atop Col du Mont Cenis, the first labeled climb of today. Another 14 points gained on his nearest KoM rival Contreras. His fellow escapees included Henao, Lindeman, Simon Clarke and Gautier. Movistar kept the gap at 2 to 3 minutes and really picked up the pace in the last 50km. Henao and Pizzaballa were reeled in, 7 riders had 1'33". Feeling the peleton breathing down their necks, Lindeman tried to delay the inevitable. Mikel Landa's Movistar Team kept going on, as in raging. Izagirre, Landa and Maglia Rosa López created a gap right at the foot. It didn't take very long for Landa to shake the other two, while a strong Majka was about to join him. Quintana, López were the chasers at 50". Izagirre handled the climb brilliantly as he passed the Maglia Rosa duo and joined Landa and Majka in the descent. López, Quintana sat at 45". The three remained together until the ultimo chilometro. Kennaugh had joined the chasers, who had succeeded in keeping the gap around 45". Landa launched first, a tad faster than the others might have expected. That is four for Landa! No win or second place for us, but a great stage nonetheless. Rafal Majka is the next man to move into the Maglia Rosa. Giro d'Italia 2019 Stage 16/21 | 1 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | 5h40'27" | | 2 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | s.t. | | 3 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | s.t. | | 4 | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | + 32" | | 5 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | s.t. | | 6 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 7 | | Tosh Van der Sande | Lotto - Soudal | + 2'05" | | 8 | | Dominik Nerz | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 9 | | Robert Power | Lotto - Soudal | s.t. | | 10 |  | Lucas Eriksson | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | s.t. | | … | … | … | … | … | | 12 | | Mathias Frank | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | | 15 | | Bauke Mollema | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 2'45" | | 17 | | Jan Hirt | Quick-Step Floors | + 4'00" | | 20 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 21 | | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 22 | | Leopold König | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 23 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | s.t. | | 26 | | Thibaut Pinot | Team Sky | + 4'50" | | 34 | | Rodrigo Contreras | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
Giro d'Italia 2019 The Fight for Pink | 1 | | Rafal Majka  | Tinkoff | 62h16'17" | | 2 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | + 27" | | 3 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 1'22" | | 4 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 1'50" | | 5 | | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | + 4'13" | | 6 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | + 7'15" | | 7 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | + 9'25" | | 8 | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | + 10'39" | | 9 | | Gianluca Brambilla | Astana Pro Team | + 11'47" | | 10 | | Dominik Nerz | IAM Cycling | + 15'10" |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 04-06-2017 00:31
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Great stage for Ion !! |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 04-06-2017 08:32
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Perfect, passing Formolo and taking a stunning 4 min. on Craddock, still a long way to a top 5, but I've hope and faith.
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| Ripley |
Posted on 04-06-2017 09:50
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Craddock is fading so Ion definitely has his sights on 5th. But he better not have a bad day on one tough stages ahead. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 04-06-2017 14:13
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Thanks! Strook where he had too but getting a good GC spot is usually far more difficult than retaining it. We might not even be halfway our quest.
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Perfect, passing Formolo and taking a stunning 4 min. on Craddock, still a long way to a top 5, but I've hope and faith.
We've taken a nice first step, but more are left to be taken in order to get the in our eyes best possible result in a 5th place.
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Craddock is fading so Ion definitely has his sights on 5th. But he better not have a bad day on one tough stages ahead.
So far it's been incredibly difficult to evaluate the GC contenders' form with bad days appearing everywhere. Most of these riders have managed to hit back so I'm afraid we shouldn't count out anyone until the very end.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 04-06-2017 21:31
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Giro d'Italia (WT) Stage 17/21, 202.5 kms
Fast forward to the foot of the sole climb. The 9-man break saw 7 guys surrender as Bert-Jan Lindeman attacked followed by Beñat Intxausti. Beñat slowly bridged to the Dutchman and was about to drop him right afterwards when the pack caught them both. Less than 2 km to the top. The long-awaited attack came from Mikel Landa, under 1000m from the top. A 7 men strong group of Landa, Quintana, Majka, König, Craddock, Mollema and Izagirre was formed in the descent, as 19 riders chased. While nearing the city of Vicenza, the pace in the group stagnated. Ion saw a chance and attacked, as the other 6 were caught by the chasers. König eventually chased him down but Izagirre had one trick left up his sleeve. He started jumping wheels and tried to sprint from 800m out to surprise the others. Many among those guys were tired, or even empty. The wall to hit came a little too early for Ion as he finished outside the top 10. Maglia Rosa Majka won the stage ahead of Landa and Tosh Van der Sande. Loser of the day Brambilla dropped from 9th to 15th overall. Giro d'Italia 2019 Stage 17/21 | 1 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | 4h21'08" | | 2 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 3 | | Tosh Van der Sande | Lotto - Soudal | s.t. | | 4 | | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 5 | | Dominik Nerz | IAM Cycling | s.t. | | 6 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 7 | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | s.t. | | 8 | | Bauke Mollema | Team Katusha - Alpecin | s.t. | | 9 | | Leopold König | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 10 | | Mathias Frank | BMC Racing Team | s.t. |
Giro d'Italia 2019 The Fight for Pink | 1 | | Rafal Majka | Tinkoff | 66h37'15" | | 2 | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Quick-Step Floors | + 37" | | 3 | | Nairo Quintana | Team Katusha - Alpecin | + 1'32" | | 4 | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 1'54" | | 5 | | Lawson Craddock | Trek - Segafredo | + 4'23" | | 6 | | Ion Izagirre | RuralvÃa - Seguros RGA | + 7'25" | | 7 | | Davide Formolo | Tinkoff | + 9'35" | | 8 | | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky | + 10'49" | | 9 | | Dominik Nerz | IAM Cycling | + 15'20" | | 10 | | Mathias Frank | BMC Racing Team | + 15'23" |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 05-06-2017 00:07
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Not a bad day for Ion |
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