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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 19-05-2019 19:15
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I think his best strategy will be really to adapt to the others, on the flats/descents follow his teammates but on the climbs he will have to go with them, if he lets lots of riders go the alliances can kill him, so his best call really should be to follow Nibali's and Yates' attacks directly.
As for Nibali, I think the smartest thing to do now would be to not attack, go on the wheel, follow Yates' attacks. And hope for Roglic to have a bad day, if he doesn't, then go on the attack himself on stage 20 only, Nibali's on a very good position where he doesnt have the pressure to attack and is not the one who has the pressure to chase.
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| StevenGreen |
Posted on 19-05-2019 20:37
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Yellow Jersey wrote:
I think his best strategy will be really to adapt to the others, on the flats/descents follow his teammates but on the climbs he will have to go with them, if he lets lots of riders go the alliances can kill him, so his best call really should be to follow Nibali's and Yates' attacks directly.
As for Nibali, I think the smartest thing to do now would be to not attack, go on the wheel, follow Yates' attacks. And hope for Roglic to have a bad day, if he doesn't, then go on the attack himself on stage 20 only, Nibali's on a very good position where he doesnt have the pressure to attack and is not the one who has the pressure to chase.
To be realistic though, we've seen this time and time again. Teams care for podium, top 5 and even top 10 positions. Nibali and Mollema are close enough to Roglic to wait and see and chase down any attack by Yates, Lopez and others who pose a threat to their GC ambitions.
So I think while Roglic may not have climbing support coming from his own team he can count on other teams, mainly Bahrain and Trek, to involuntarily help him seal his victory.
"He made a bigger comeback than Easter Sunday."
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 19-05-2019 21:34
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Like Trek yes, but Nibali wants to win and I gotta say after Roglic he's in pole position, and with the toughness remaining Nibali will be fighting for the win not just podium, he'll want Roglic to be put under pressure.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 19-05-2019 22:03
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I don't see Trek as good as needed to close Yates/Lopez/other GC contenders, Mollema will probably just follow himself most dangerous riders, atp Astana and Bahrain are best team on mountain, and surely Barhain won't play Roglic game, He can mainly profit by kazak ones...
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 22-05-2019 14:54
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| Results of the intermediate sprint | | RNK. | RIDER | POINTS | | 1 | CIMA Damiano | 12 | | 2 | FRAPPORTI Marco | 8 | | 3 | MAESTRI Mirco | 6 | | 4 | DÉMARE Arnaud | 5 | | 5 | SELIG Rüdiger | 4 | | 6 | ACKERMANN Pascal | 3 |
Is there any logical explanation of this?
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 22-05-2019 14:57
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This race is starting to get to me. Over a week and a half in, and we're still stuck on the same sprint stages. I love a good sprint finish as much as the next guy, but it makes for 10-20km of good racing, and it's all we've seen besides TT's (which I think are also boring to watch early in a race) and a couple of bumpy in-betweeners. Not to mention the finish routes have been terribly planned at times.
The final week better be special after this wait.
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| deek12345 |
Posted on 22-05-2019 15:07
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One more day and the proper giro starts ,geez it's been along time coming |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 22-05-2019 15:11
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df_Trek wrote:
| Results of the intermediate sprint | | RNK. | RIDER | POINTS | | 1 | CIMA Damiano | 12 | | 2 | FRAPPORTI Marco | 8 | | 3 | MAESTRI Mirco | 6 | | 4 | DÉMARE Arnaud | 5 | | 5 | SELIG Rüdiger | 4 | | 6 | ACKERMANN Pascal | 3 |
Is there any logical explanation of this?
Of course, a leadout man who fails to outsprint the points standings rival of his leader. |
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| Tafiolmo |
Posted on 22-05-2019 16:43
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baseballlover312 wrote:
This race is starting to get to me. Over a week and a half in, and we're still stuck on the same sprint stages. I love a good sprint finish as much as the next guy, but it makes for 10-20km of good racing, and it's all we've seen besides TT's (which I think are also boring to watch early in a race) and a couple of bumpy in-betweeners. Not to mention the finish routes have been terribly planned at times.
The final week better be special after this wait.
Exactly what I was thinking, basically it's just poor race course design. They're now putting all their eggs in one basket for what they hope to be knockout mtn stages.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 22-05-2019 18:07
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Kiserlovski01 wrote:
df_Trek wrote:
| Results of the intermediate sprint | | RNK. | RIDER | POINTS | | 1 | CIMA Damiano | 12 | | 2 | FRAPPORTI Marco | 8 | | 3 | MAESTRI Mirco | 6 | | 4 | DÉMARE Arnaud | 5 | | 5 | SELIG Rüdiger | 4 | | 6 | ACKERMANN Pascal | 3 |
Is there any logical explanation of this?
Of course, a leadout man who fails to outsprint the points standings rival of his leader.
If he leave Ackerman take 4 points, just one less than Demare was the same that try to stay in front of the Frenchman....what's the point to risk that and lose an additional point?
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| Shonak |
Posted on 22-05-2019 18:40
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Just waiting for Gavia
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 22-05-2019 21:05
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Tomorrow has the first 1C climb of the race, Montoso, the mountains begin!
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Gracias Alberto.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-05-2019 23:26
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The mountains will separate the men from the boys  |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 23-05-2019 00:08
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Ewan and Viviani won’t start tomorrow. Major flop from the Italian, that awful jersey did horrors to his race.  Not a good year overall too. Roll on tomorrow, hopefully should be more exciting. Expecting Yates to go crazy. |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 23-05-2019 15:08
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Welp, my internet now sucks so much I can't even livestream the race anymore. Looks like my days of watching live cycling are done. Really sucks. We used to get the Giro and Vuelta live on American TV a few years ago, but not anymore. So this is how it ends up.
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 23-05-2019 15:18
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Landani and Lopez!
The mythical Landani starting his mountain raids today?
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Gracias Alberto.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 23-05-2019 16:05
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Amazing win from Benedetti, battled back so many times to win that one!
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 23-05-2019 16:11
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Landa and Lopez gain about 25-30 seconds in the end. But there were so many mercenaries, very disappointing.
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Gracias Alberto.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 23-05-2019 16:17
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baseballlover312 wrote:
Welp, my internet now sucks so much I can't even livestream the race anymore. Looks like my days of watching live cycling are done. Really sucks. We used to get the Giro and Vuelta live on American TV a few years ago, but not anymore. So this is how it ends up.
It's not on Sporza or anything either anymore. Eurosport acquired a monopoly on the Italian races a few years ago.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 23-05-2019 17:48
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Kangert really comes alive in the Giro, hope he can rewrite his 2017 performance after that bad crash and become the random and unexpected top-10 GT guy of the race. |
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