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| Tamijo |
Posted on 29-03-2024 08:25
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Today we start in the town Canazei, a ski resort and rock-climbing destination located at an elevation of 1,450 m. About 60 km west of yesterdays finish. The first 120 km of the stage will be mostly downhill, then we got the two major climbs left, first the 14.8 km Passo di San Valentino at 7.6% and finally the 11.5 km climb to the summit finish at Sega di Ala.
Originally the morning breakaway was 11 riders, with 2nd in KoM Domenico Pozzovivo and strong climbers Hugh Carthy, Jan Hirt and Miguel Eduardo Florez. The peloton was uneasy about the numbers and strength of the breakaway, keeping them in a relative short line. Matteo Badilatti first over the top of Passo di San Valentino, had 3’11 to the favourites with 37.4 hard km left. Most likely not enough.
Maybe not that unlikely after all. On the downhill he was caught by Pozzovivo, Hirt, Rosa and Florez, but as soon as the last climb started, he was off again. Badilatti won a solo victory with 35” to Richard Carapaz and Aleksandr Vlasov. This was the 28 years old Swiss riders first professional victory.
Vincenzo Nibali finished 7th. Although he is still 8th in GC a clear improvement from his latest results, gaining time on Jai Hindley (4th) and Rigoberto Urán (7th). Also, increasing the distance to Adam Yates (9th).
Edited by Tamijo on 30-03-2024 10:58
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 29-03-2024 10:21
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From the hamlet of Sega di Ala, where we finished yesterday, the caravan travelled about 30 km north to Rovereto, in the Adige River valley, close to Lake Garda. From here we got a long but mainly flat race heading for Stradella at the Po Valley in Lombardy. Despite its flat nature, the stage got four tricky hill climbs, all located within the last 35 km.
Three adventures took the challenge and got away, after the first few attempts failed. They were Bardiani’s Umberto Marengo and two Movistar riders, José Joaquin Rojas and Sebastián Mora. Rojas, the last man standing, was caught with 9.4 km left.
It was a close sprint, won by Pascal Ackermann in front of André Greipel and Caleb Ewan. Ackermann extended his point lead, with his 3rd win of the tour. His 8th victory of the season. Matteo Moschetti and Emils Liepinš with a fine stage as 5th and 6th.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 29-03-2024 17:01
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We start about 55 km northwest of yesterday’s finish. In Abbiategrasso, a town situated in the Po Valley approximately 22 kilometres west of Milan. From here we are heading northwest, passing the stage’s three obstacles. First the climb to Mottarone, located about mid stage, with its 15.4 km at 6.7%, a very uneven climb with a section from its 5th to 9th km above 10%. With about 45 km left we begin the easier Passo Della Colmo 7.5 km at 6.4%, before we reach the ultimate challenge. Summit finish at Alpe di Mera, a 9.7 km climb at 9%, the last 3 km 10,5%. The early breakaway was 1st and 2nd in KoM, Koen Bouwman and Domenico Pozzovivo with Hugh Carthy, Matteo Badilatti, Valerio Conti and Tony Gallopin. Behind them, a group of eight riders formed, including strong climbers Wilco Kelderman and Jan Hirt. The two groups united before the early climb. Domenico Pozzovivo first over Mottarone.
The breakaway started the final climb with 4’43 to the peloton. It was not to be enough, first Richard Carapaz and later also Rigoberto Urán, Aleksandr Vlasov, Simon Yates and Damiano Caruso caught the leading rider from the breakaway, Arkéa’s Diego Rosa, over the last kilometre. Richard Carapaz won another stage, this time also taking the KoM lead. It was his 5th stage win in this year’s Giro d’Italia. Vincenzo Nibali finished 12th at 1’24, not that bad considering that six of the riders in front of him, was not a GC threat. With Jai Hindley losing 3’32, Nibali is now just 17” from seventh place, that is possibly the only realistic goal with just two stages left.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 29-03-2024 20:39
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Tamijo wrote:
Badilatti won a solo victory with 35” to Richard Carapaz and Aleksandr Vlasov. This was the 28 years old Italian’s first professional victory.
Sorry to object, but Badilatti actually is Swiss (as indicated by the Swiss flag in the results)  He's from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, though, hence his Italian-sounding name
Racing-wise, great job by the Shark of Messina! A Top 10 in this field seems like a good result, and it would be great to get that 7th place now! Also another decent sprint by Moschetti and Liepins.
Do you actually try to get into breakaways, or do you put 100% focus on your leader?
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-03-2024 07:30
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Sorry for the Badilatti mistake, don't know there I got that from  "fixed"
Regarding breakaway, I usually only try if the team has no other options of a result. In this Giro, I think only one or two times. Find it very hard to focus on two groups, without having to pause a lot.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-03-2024 11:48
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From Alpe di Mera the tour caravan drove about 70 km northeast for today’s start in Verbania, at the shore of Lake Maggiore. From here we are heading east, first on flat roads following the lake and Verzasca valley, while passing the Swiss border. After about 80 km the climbing begins, first the uneven 23.7 km Passo San Bernardino at 6.2%, then the 8.9 km Passo dello Spluga at 7.3% leading us back to Italy and finally summit finish at Alpe Motta after 7.3 km at 7.7%.
Today’s breakaway was quite dangerous, 19 riders including 3rd in KoM Domenico Pozzovivo and many strong climbers, most notably Hugh Carthy and Wilco Kelderman. Domenico Pozzovivo took both of the early KoM sprints and by that secured the KoM in this edition of Giro d’Italia.
Hugh Carthy and Valerio Conti was the first to start in final climb, with 28” to Kelderman, Pozzovivo, Tusveld, Hänninen and Geniets. At this point the favourites were at 12’20. Martijn Tusveld had the best legs today. Winning the stage in front of Valerio Conti, 3rd was Kevin Geniets at 41”.
Best from the GC was again Richard Carapaz, at 8’47”, Aleksandr Vlasov and Simon Yates at 9’13. Jai Hindley and Vincenzo Nibali both at 10’05. The GC top 10 was unchanged.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 30-03-2024 14:19
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Posted on 31-03-2024 09:52
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The early breakaway was Wanty Gobert’s Jan Bakelants, BORA’s Cesare Benedetti, Qhubeka’s Robert Power and Astana’s Luis León Sánchez. The peloton was fast all day and they got caught with a little more than 50 km left. Robert Power took the KoM lead.
36 riders made it the last time over Col de la Croix des Gardes, Benoît Cosnefroy launched a late attack, with less than 4 km left.
It was not to be, Giulio Ciccone opened the sprint for Mads Pedersen and the teammates took a double victory in Issoire. Quinten Hermans claimed the last podium. It was Pedersen’s 7th victory of the season, the first at World Tour level.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 01-04-2024 08:58
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The final stage of the Giro, will be a 29.3 km ITT from Senago to Milano. Our on paper best time trialist Ryan Mullen was the 32 riders to start and set a new best time with 34’18”. 22 riders later he was beaten by Kamil Gradek with 34’07. Lawson Craddock set new best 33’41 a very good time from him.
Mattias Skjelmose had good legs, with 33’48 third best when he came in.
Then it was pre-race favourite Rohan Dennis, he did not disappoint, new best with 33’13.
Now to the GC top 10. Nairo Quintana loosing 1’58”. Geraint Thomas third best time at 33”. Vincenzo Nibali 17th losing 1’21. Jai Hindley 51th loosing 2’14. Rigoberto Urán 11th at 55”. With this Nibali would pass Hindley in the GC.
Emanuel Buchmann 50th at 2’12, Damiano Caruso 5th at 34”, Simon Yates 27th at 1’37, Aleksandr Vlasov 20th at 1’23, Richard Carapaz finished 13th at 1’03 and secured his Giro victory. Urán passed Buchmann for 5th in GC.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 02-04-2024 09:04
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Juan Pedro López join the morning breakaway, the others are KoM leader Robert Power, Thomas De Gendt, Dimitri Claeys, Romain Hardy, Guillaume Boivin and Julien El Fares. Guillaume Boivin takes the most KoM points, but not enough to take the jersey from Robert Power. López was not strong enough to follow the fastest in the breakaway and was the first to fall back to the pack.
A group with 7 of the strongest GC favourites dropped the pack at the hard 7.1 km Côte de la forêt de Pourcheresse, with just 8 km left. Benoît Cosnefroy won the stage in front of Guillaume Martin and Egan Bernal. Best from Trek – Segafredo was Giulio Ciccone as 15th at 44” coming with the next group. Benoît Cosnefroy leads the GC, Giulio Ciccone 8th at 48”.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 03-04-2024 09:08
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Kenny Elissonde was part of the morning breakaway, with Astana’s Luis León Sánchez and EF Education’s Sebastian Langeveld. Luis León Sánchez took 5 KoM points, the others 2 each. Not enough to threaten Robert Power's jersey. They were caught with a little more than 12 km left.
Trek – Segafredo set up a train for Mads Pedersen, but the lead-out collapsed in a late corner. Thomas Boudat won the stage in front of Hugo Hofstetter and Arnaud Démare. Best from Trek - Segafredo was Jacopo Mosca 12th. Surprisingly race leader Benoît Cosnefroy lost 1'19. Cofidis’s Guillaume Martin new GC leader. Giulio Ciccone moved up to 7th.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 04-04-2024 07:51
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This morning Israel Start-Up Nation announced that their pre-race favourite Daniel Martin, have been hit by a virus and would not start todays ITT.
The first rider to set a good time was Thomas De Gendt with 20’05, but he was soon beaten by Tony Martin, the first to set a time under 20 min with 19’59. Andreas Leknessund set new best 19’54 and soon after Mads Pedersen came in the same time. Mads Pedersen took the Hot seat, but in the official result Leknessund was faster.
Brandon McNulty new best with 19’34, Giulio Ciccone had a horrible ITT with a 21'08 time. The strongest today was Tadej Pogacar with 19’28. Tadej Pogacar win the stage in front of Brandon McNulty and Egan Bernal. Pogacar leads the GC with 7” to Bernal and 17” to Vingegaard. Mads Pedersen was the best from Trek – Segafredo and now also the teams best in GC 15th at 2’15”, Giulio Ciccone 17th at 2’18”
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 04-04-2024 10:49
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Solid result for Nibali in the end, nice to pass Hindley on the final good.
Ciccone also ready to break into the top 10 from now. |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 05-04-2024 10:12
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Thanks
Not sure about Ciccone at the moment, he is building form after illness and his latest result was below par.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 05-04-2024 11:11
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The morning breakaway was EF Education’s Sebastian Langeveld, BikeExchange’s Michael Hepburn, Arkéa’s Anthony Delaplace and Bahrain’s Chun Kai Feng. Langeveld took the most KoM points today, but still not enough to take the jersey from Robert Power.
We had Antonio Nibali and later also Kenny Elissonde working in the pack, with Mads Pedersen amongst the top favourites for another stage win.
Jacopo Mosca last man for Mads Pedersen delivered him almost perfectly, but Thomas Boudat was stronger in the end. Not a bad result though, 3 riders in top 10 and Pedersen took back the points jersey he lost on stage 2.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 06-04-2024 09:37
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Jacopo Mosca was part of the morning breakaway, with KoM leader Robert Power, Ruben Guerreiro, Dylan Sunderland, Clément Champoussin, Ion Izagirre and Pierre Rolland. Clément Champoussin won the KoM at Col de la Placette, they were caught before reaching the next mountain.
Guillaume Martin and Jonas Vingegaard attacked over the top of the next climb Col de Porte. On the descent Tadej Pogacar joined the duo.
Martin could not follow the high pace set by Pogacar on the final climb and fell back to the pursuit. Tadej Pogacar won the stage with 5” to Jonas Vingegaard, Egan Bernal 3rd at 33”. Our best Giulio Ciccone finished 18th at 2’53. Tadej Pogacar leads all four classifications in the race, the GC with 26” to Jonas Vingegaard and 28” to Egan Bernal. Giulio Ciccone 14th at 5’21.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 06-04-2024 17:20
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A very large group formed what was to become the breakaway of the day. 22 riders, including 2nd in KoM Robert Power. Two GC to 20 riders, Pierre Rolland 17th at 5’37 and Matteo Fabbro 11th at 4’23. Besides those also strong climbers Franck Bonnamour, Ion Izagirre, Ruben Guerreiro, Clément Champoussin and Mark Padun. Quinten Hermans won at the early Côte de Venthon climb.
Mark Padun attacked and passed the Hors catégorie Col du Pré alone, with 4’26 to the peloton, he was also first over the following cat.2 Cormet de Roselend.
Padun was caught by Pierre Rolland, Andreas Leknessund, Ruben Guerreiro, Clément Champoussin and Rafael Valls, starting the final climb together. The favourite group 34 riders at 1’59. The first to attack between the favourites was Miguel Ángel López.
As expected, no one could hold back Tadej Pogacar, the only one able to follow today was Egan Bernal, the duo passing rider after rider from the breakaway. Pogacar took his 3rd stage victory in the tour, with 18” to Bernal and 58” to Vingegaard. Mark Padun took 28 KoM points, but it was not enough to take the lead from Pogacar. Pogacar leads the race with 50” to Bernal and 1’30 to Vingegaard. Giulio Ciccone finished 15th and moved up to 11th in GC.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 06-04-2024 18:57
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No outstanding stage results for Giulio but still close to the top 10.
Hope he will gain one more spot on the final day.
Spoiler Left you a message in your PCM15 stage thread btw. |
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 06-04-2024 21:05
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Spoiler Left you a message in your PCM15 stage thread btw.
Answered
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 07-04-2024 08:37
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