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| ruben |
Posted on 13-05-2018 21:06
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Doumoulin being a big giant AND a fatty (a whopping 69kg after all!  ) means big watts needed compared to the Tom Thumb brigade.
Btw those watts translated to a flat/hill TT would mean fuck all for all competition. Like 2'30/3 minutes at least. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 13-05-2018 21:07
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 This is it, this is what I've been dreaming of for years 
ianrussell wrote:
Doumoulin being a big giant AND a fatty (a whopping 69kg after all! ) means big watts needed compared to the Tom Thumb brigade.
Tom Dum vs the Tom Thumbs 
Loving the Bennett consistency with always leading in the second group, but hope he can get in on the action again as well, as he showed he could on Etna.
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| Kalach |
Posted on 13-05-2018 22:21
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Btw have you thought above SKY at this Giro? I mean no SKY train setting the hard tempo as usual in Tdf to be seen....maybe sth had to be changed since Froome’s salbutamol case.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 14-05-2018 14:47
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3 rest day GT's make me a little impatient, especially when none of the next 4 stages are in the mountains and 3 are almost completely flat...
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| ruben |
Posted on 14-05-2018 16:10
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Kalach wrote:
Btw have you thought above SKY at this Giro? I mean no SKY train setting the hard tempo as usual in Tdf to be seen....maybe sth had to be changed since Froome’s salbutamol case.
I don't think that's the cause.
The Giro is a different race since it's earlier in the season and riders are fresher and more explosive. It's hard for Sky to control that. |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-05-2018 18:49
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There is also the option that SKY know that Froomy is weak, maybe caused by his crash, so why help setting a high pace.
Provided that they has riders strong enough to do it.
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| deek12345 |
Posted on 15-05-2018 12:31
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There goes chaves chance of the giro distanced on the 1st climb of the day,over 2mins down on the peloton . |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 15-05-2018 12:33
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Ah no I just turned on the text updates, Chaves is minutes down, what the hell  Some people on twitter said he crashed but no official confirmation on what it is  Come on Esteban!
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 12:53
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Going to be an intense post rest day stage now. Lotto Jumbo, FDJ, Sunweb, Sky and BM are all driving to keep Chaves behind, where he has 3 team mates to try and bring it back. Only 135km to go...
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 12:57
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...but QS starting to ride in the Chaves group...2 minutes, let the ding dong begin.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 13:06
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According to the Twitterverse Matt White says no fall for Chaves, so just post rest day blues?
Also MS recce’d the first kms yesterday as knew it was deceptively hard, so they were prepared.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 13:53
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...and just like that the podium is gone on a cat 2 climb. Just never know when it hits the fan.
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| deek12345 |
Posted on 15-05-2018 13:58
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| roturn |
Posted on 15-05-2018 13:59
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Rumours say it`s some allergical issue for Chaves.
Will probably be said post stage. |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 14:01
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Team car said lots of pollen in the air on first climb and that can cause him problems...more likely post rest day blues though I reckon.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 15-05-2018 15:11
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Frapporti averaged 340W (69kg) for the last hour in the solo break. Even for a pro that’s likely a solid sweetspot effort after all the earlier antics (especially on the cat 2 opening climb) 
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| Champ_Armstrong |
Posted on 15-05-2018 15:23
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I guess we could call Chaves for 'Ciao'ves (lol) |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 15-05-2018 15:43
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roturn wrote:
Rumours say it`s some allergical issue for Chaves.
Will probably be said post stage.
Kangert had food poisoning 2 days ago..lost 16min. Day without food. |
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 15-05-2018 15:48
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I've never seen Nico Denz descending like this
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| Selwink |
Posted on 15-05-2018 15:49
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Damn
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