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Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
sutty68
Yay it continues Smile
 
purepasd
Well, seems like a bad idea to quit to me. If your motivation for the Giro is low, write at a fitting pace. I mean, get quicker through the Giro with thinner updates. As long as the story goes on, and your motivation as well. You don't even have to write an update for each stage. Well, actually, you don't 'have' to do anything. No rules. I hope it goes on Smile
 
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Tamijo
Thanks !

Think it will just be normal reports - have Miguel Ángel López - he might get inside top 20 if all goes well.
 
Ian Butler
Glad to hear this might be continuing after all, it'd be sad if it stopped. On the other hand, I know that things like this can be a big blow to motivation. Only continue of you feel like doing it. You said you had an idea for a Be a Pro story. You can always do that and I'm sure we'll be there to read it Wink
 
Tamijo
Ian Butler wrote:
Glad to hear this might be continuing after all, it'd be sad if it stopped. On the other hand, I know that things like this can be a big blow to motivation. Only continue of you feel like doing it. You said you had an idea for a Be a Pro story. You can always do that and I'm sure we'll be there to read it Wink



Thanks

Im thinking hard about doing it simultaniusly - I know it would be a bit hard, but on the other hand could also be quite fun.
 
Ripley
@Ripley: It's both Nibali & Aru cant be an injury, must be the "freshness"


Well, they did both crash on stage 2 - I admit it's unlikely they both got injured, but not being able to keep up with the peloton sounds very much like a (hidden) injury. If the freshness hasn't changed since PCM 14 then low freshness is a slight nuisance but not this bad.
 
Tamijo
You may well be right Ripley, Sounds more logical than "freshness"
 
Tamijo
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

11/5 Stage 6/21 - Ponte – Roccaraco 155.1 km






i.imgur.com/PXkHkjw.jpg

Location:
From Provincia di Benevento, Regione La Campania
to Provincia dell'Aquila, Regione Abruzzo

Description:
Semi mountain stage






Media Favorites:

Nibali (Astana) - Kreuziger (Tinkoff) - Porte (BMC)


Secondary Favorites:
Bardet - Aru - Urán

Outsiders:
Barguil - Antón - Pozzovivo - Nordhaug

Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits



 
Tamijo


i.imgur.com/RjrWzZs.jpg


6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

11/5 Stage 6/21 Ponte – Roccaraco 155.1 km


i.imgur.com/QJL50ZZ.jpg




Just as it was yesterday, a beautiful spring day in Italy.


The early breakaway is Sérgio Paulinho (Tinkoff) and the very strong climber Warren Barguil (Giant).

At the start of Bocca di Selva (17.7 km at 5.8%) also Astana’s Fabio Aru, already more than 30 minutes behind in the GC, see an opportunity to at least get a stage win. Later on the climb also Cédric Pineau (FDJ) joins the group.

When the climbing gets tough, it seems like Barguil is having a bad day, looking like he won’t be able to hang on.

i.imgur.com/sFrh2lW.jpg



Pineau wins the KoM in front of Aru and Paulinho, Barguil has lost almost a minute over the top, peloton at 2’12

i.imgur.com/3ezN6yj.jpg



In the meantime we have has a crash in the peloton, involving some prominent names, Pozzovivo, Tarramae, Pantano, Kelderman and most importantly Romain Bardet (Ag2r). The Astana rider is Zeits.

This will turn out to be a disaster for Ag2r, as Bardet will only continue for a short time and later be flown to the nearest hospital with a skull fracture.

i.imgur.com/oq24OAB.jpg



Not much happen over the next 70 km, the breakaway never gets more than 2’30 and on the uncategorized climb up to the last intermediate sprint on is all over.

When Warren Barguil was caught some time before the others, he was so cooked that we was falling right through the peloton. He would lose more than 20 minutes today.

i.imgur.com/Ub1l2hK.jpg



At the final climb to Rifugio Aremogna near Roccaraco (17.3 km at 5.0%) the first to attack was Adam Yates.

At this point both Vincenzo Nibali and Fabio Aru was struggling, but again Miguel López was feeling ok, trying to counter.

i.imgur.com/jLOX87w.jpg



Miguel López is not strong enough to stay with the best at the hard last section of the climb, he is in the 2rd group, while it is Adam Yates, Richie Porte and Rigoberto Urán first under the red kite.

i.imgur.com/s97cdOb.jpg


The last km of the climb is very hard, taking its toll on Yates, he lose the podium to Trek’s Riccardo Zoidl.
Porte is the strongest today he wins at Aremogna with 9 sec down to Urán

i.imgur.com/z3CKJJl.jpg




Evaluation:


Overall:

This was 31 years old Australian Richie Porte’s first season win, his first win since winning the GC in Giro del Trentino-Melinda in April last year.

Today’s positive surprise was Austrian Riccardo Zoidl, a podium and moving into GC top 3 is an extremely good result from him.

The stage was very hard on some of the pre-race favorites. Romain Bardet crashed and left the Giro, Nibali lost 5'22” and Kelderman 10'57”.

Besides Romain Bardet, also Eduard-Michael Grosu (Nippo) and Franco Pellizotti (Androni – Sidermec) left the Giro after crashes on the stage.


Astana:

Any hope what Nibali or Aru will be coming back is now over, the team focus will now be on Miguel López currently the best shot the GC, the other will mainly help López, but with little hope in the GC also the KoM and stage wins will be very attractive.




Stage
1Richie PorteBMC Racing Team4h03'21
2Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team+ 9
3Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredo+ 29
4Adam YatesOrica-GreenEDGE+ 48
5Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Sky+ 1'17
6Andrey Amador BikkazakovaMovistar Team+ 1'33
7Jarlinson Pantano GomezIAM Cycling+ 1'42
8Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+ 2'01
9Mathias FrankIAM Cyclings.t.
10Lars Petter NordhaugTeam Skys.t.



Spoiler
24Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+03:08
36Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+05:22
39Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+05:22
45Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+06:52
55Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+08:48
161Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+21:12
165Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+21:12



GC
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team22h38'04
2Richie PorteBMC Racing Team+ 1
3Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredo+ 1'02
4Adam YatesOrica-GreenEDGE+ 2'01
5Andrey Amador BikkazakovaMovistar Team+ 2'02
6Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Sky+ 2'18
7Roman KreuzigerTinkoff+ 2'21
8Mathias FrankIAM Cycling+ 2'36
9Jarlinson Pantano GomezIAM Cycling+ 2'48
10Damiano CarusoBMC Racing Team+ 2'53



Spoiler
11Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+02:56
38Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+08:24
40Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+09:29
45Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+09:58
71Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+18:04
135Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+36:59
155Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+42:56
156Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+43:04



Points
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team59
2Marcel KittelEtixx - Quick Step55
3Juan Jose LobatoMovistar Team49


KoM
1Cédric PineauFDJ22
2Richie PorteBMC Racing Team14
3Blel KadriAg2r La Mondiale11


Team - Team Sky


Young - Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE



Edited by Tamijo on 08-05-2017 06:28
 
Tamijo
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

12/5 Stage 7/21 Sulmona – Foligno 213.3 km






i.imgur.com/OqeItj9.jpg

Location:
from Provincia dell'Aquila, Regione Abruzzo
to Provincia di Perugia, Regione Umbria

Description:
A long somewhat undulated route, but with a sprinter friendly finish.






Media Favorites:

Kittel (Quick Step) - Kristoff (Katsuta) - Cavendish (Dimention Data)


Secondary Favorites:
Greipel - Viviani - Gaviria

Outsiders:
Pelucchi - Modola – Lobato - Guardini

Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits



 
Tamijo


i.imgur.com/RjrWzZs.jpg


6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

12/5 Stage 7/21 Sulmona – Foligno 213.3 km


i.imgur.com/s4tmIRD.jpg



It is very cloudy and already raining before the start of the race, but very little wind.

The morning breakaway is Blel Kadri (Ag2r), Omar Fraile (Dimension Data), Francesco Gavazzi (Androni) and Andrea Fedi (Southeast), later also Fabio Aru attempts to close the gap but never makes it.
Fraile wins the KoM at Svolte de Popoli.

i.imgur.com/X8VDw2W.jpg



The weather is very bad, cold ,foggy and pouring down with rain most of the time, going to be a very long 213 km.

When the breakaway reach the first intermediate sprint they got 3’35”, 142 km to go.

i.imgur.com/DhcuT8K.jpg



There is a lot of crashing on the wet roads today way too many to mention, Astana has first Scarponi then Zeits and finally Kangert down during the stage. But luckily all able to continue.

i.imgur.com/of0kT3H.jpg


The breakaway get a maximum of 5´30” with about 90 km to the line, from here Cannondale starts to lead a bit harder, also Astana’s Cataldo takes a few turns. The distance start to melt and with 63 km left it is under 3 minutes.

i.imgur.com/42LHpw8.jpg



Francesco Gavazzi wins the final KoM at Valico della Somma, now the sprinter teams takes over the chase and the distance vanish very fast, the break is over close to the 10 km banner.

i.imgur.com/zzDcleU.jpg


The rain is hammering down, while the trains is fighting for the lead on a technical difficult and dangerous finish on the streets of Foligno, Lampre-Merida has taken the front, Ulissi in front of Kump for Modolo. Sbaragli on Modolo’s wheel, also Gaviria leading for Kittel coming fast.

i.imgur.com/MsCDabh.jpg



Modolo wins in Foligno in front of Sbaragli and Kittel.
80 riders makes it to the line in the same time.

i.imgur.com/07fdzc3.jpg



Overall:

With was the first season win by 28 years old Italian Sacha Modolo, and his first since winning the general classification in Tour of Hainan late October last year.

The harsh conditions and the many crashes on the stage meant that some prominent riders lost quite some time. Wilco Kelderman lost 7'42 not his Giro now 25'33” back in the GC. Steven Kruijswijk, Mathias Frank and Damiano Cunego all lost 3’04, Warren Barguil 4’00, Simon Yates and Igor Antón 6’41.

George Bennett (LottoNL) and Matthias Brändle (IAM) was injured, they won't race for weeks.

Astana:

Astana got through without serious problems, but can’t say if anyone was injured in this point in time, Nibali looking a little better today, he might be slowly recovering from whatever hit him.




Stage
1Sacha ModoloLampre-Merida4h55'24
2Kristian SbaragliTeam Dimension Data for Qhubekas.t.
3Marcel KittelEtixx - Quick Steps.t.
4Niccolò BonifazioTrek - Segafredos.t.
5Alexander KristoffTeam Katushas.t.
6Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Teams.t.
7Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredos.t.
8Richie PorteBMC Racing Teams.t.
9Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Skys.t.
10Diego UlissiLampre-Meridas.t.



Spoiler
12Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+00:00
14Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+00:00
54Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+00:00
58Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+00:00
80Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+00:00
98Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+04:00
132Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+06:41
182Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+16:37



GC
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team27h33'28
2Richie PorteBMC Racing Team+ 1
3Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredo+ 1'02
4Adam YatesOrica-GreenEDGE+ 2'01
5Andrey Amador BikkazakovaMovistar Team+ 2'02
6Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Sky+ 2'18
7Roman KreuzigerTinkoff+ 2'21
8Jarlinson Pantano GomezIAM Cycling+ 2'48
9Damiano CarusoBMC Racing Team+ 2'53
10Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+ 2'56



Spoiler
32Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+08:24
34Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+09:29
51Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+13:58
60Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+18:04
119Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+36:59
148Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+49:37
162Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+59:41



Points
1Marcel KittelEtixx - Quick Step71
2Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team69
3Sacha ModoloLampre-Merida61


KoM
1Cédric PineauFDJ22
2Blel KadriAg2r La Mondiale17
3Omar Fraile MatarranzTeam Dimension Data for Qhubeka16


Team : Team Sky

Young : Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE

 
Ian Butler
You know what, I think this Giro might turn out even better with those time losses early on. Now instead of Nibbles there's other guys for the GC while Nibali seems to be getting better and an epic stage hunt might be in the making!
 
Tamijo
Yes you are right. More fun like this with more different riders in play, even though the final result will most likely not be what the team was dreaming of.
 
Tamijo
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

13/5 Stage 8/21 Foligno – Arezzo 184.2 km






i.imgur.com/rrdGWqs.jpg

Location:
from Provincia di Perugia, Regione Umbria
to Provincia di Arezzo, Regione Toscana

Description:
Semi mountain stage






Media Favorites:

Nibali (Astana) - Porte (BMC) - Kreuziger (Tinkoff)


Secondary Favorites:
Aru – Urán - Antón

Outsiders:
Barguil - Nordhaug- Pozzovivo - Ulissi

Astana:
Vincenzo Nibali - Fabio Aru - Andrea Guardini
Michele Scarponi - Dario Cataldo - Tanel Kangert
Eros Capecchi - Miguel Ángel López - Andrey Zeits



 
AbhishekLFC
Hoping that the resurgence continues Smile
 
sutty68
Moreno slowly climbing the GC Wink
 
Tamijo
AbhishekLFC: Thanks

sutty68: Yes he is doing great, but wonder if the can survive when the climbs get harder.
 
Ripley
If Nibali can recover to full strength he's still got a shot at a good result, too.
 
Tamijo
@Ripley: Yes, a long race notting is settled yet Smile
 
Tamijo


i.imgur.com/RjrWzZs.jpg


6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia

13/5 Stage 8/21 Foligno – Arezzo 184.2 km



i.imgur.com/kIth26S.jpg




The weather has improved, today very nice with a clear blue sky.

The morning breakaway is six riders Jérôme Coppel (IAM) Luke Durbridge (Orica) Fabio Aru, Matteo Busato (Southeast), Jérémy Roy (FDJ) and Martijn Keizer (LottoNL).

But the group can’t find consensus to work together, there are constant attacks between the riders, especially from Jérémy Roy and Jérôme Coppel. Often it is Martijn Keizer closing the gap keeping the group together.

i.imgur.com/dAYI1WO.jpg



But despite the missing unity the breakaway get more than 6 minutes, but after 90-100 km of the stage behind them, the peloton starts the chase, it is Ag2r, Cannondale and BMC taking most of the workload.

i.imgur.com/bfl9DLf.jpg



When the break start the climb to Scheggia (5.8 km at 3.8%) they still has 4’21 with 65 km to the line.

Fabio Aru attacks and wins the KoM sprint.


i.imgur.com/jZvvRX8.jpg


Pre-stage top 5 favourite Igor Antón (Dimension Data) is having a very bad day, when the pace gets hot on the last 40 km he can’t stay with the peloton. He will lost almost 19 minutes today.

i.imgur.com/Q1Zw9NQ.jpg


The fight for position coming close to Alpe de Poti (7.8 km at 7.1%) is fierce, and the breakaway is reeled back.

The first 3 km of the climb is 9.1% with sections at 14%, as soon as the gradients are over 8% Nibali attacks.

i.imgur.com/8v8Me8x.jpg


After the first 3 km, the dirt road start and the climb flattens out, race leader Rigoberto Urán and Sky’s Mikel Landa joins Nibali in front.

i.imgur.com/lRobxod.jpg


Cataldo is involved in a crash on the descent also taking Ten Dam and Taaramae down.

López sits with the bunch losing time to 8 riders. Nibali have used to much on the climb and have to lets go of the others over the top, falling back to 5th before he grosses the finish line in front of Richie Porte.

i.imgur.com/34WWrWt.jpg


Mikel Landa wins in Arezzo in front of Rigoberto Urán and Diego Ulissi, with 1’05 to Nordhaug and 1’26 to Nibali.

i.imgur.com/UXiuAld.jpg



Evaluation:


Overall:

This was 26 years old Spanish Mikel Landa’s first season win, his first win since winning the 11 stage in last year’s Vuelta a Espana

Today positive surprise was Riccardo Zoidl again making it into top 10, and still in GC top 5.

The worst result, besides already mentioned Igor Antón, was Giant – Alpecin with Laurens Ten Dam’s crash he lost 5’03 and also Warren Barguil had a bad day losing 5’59.

Astana:

Even though Vincenzo Nibali did not make it to the line, the team is very satisfied with his race today, showing he got a lot of strength back. Also Aru had good legs and got closer in the KoM.

Miguel Ángel López was in trouble on the hard part of the climb, but did fine sitting with the pack, still looks fine in the GC. Time will tell if he got enough to stay inside top 20 when the climbs get harder?




Stage
1Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Sky4h13'25
2Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Teams.t.
3Diego UlissiLampre-Meridas.t.
4Lars Petter NordhaugTeam Sky+ 1'05
5Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+ 1'26
6Richie PorteBMC Racing Teams.t.
7Domenico PozzovivoAg2r La Mondiale+ 2'09
8Roman KreuzigerTinkoffs.t.
9Alexandre GeniezFDJ+ 2'57
10Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredos.t.



Spoiler
23Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+02:57
28Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+02:57
61Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+05:59
67Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+05:59
145Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+10:57
146Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+10:57
168Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+14:46



GC
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team31h46'47
2Richie PorteBMC Racing Team+ 1'33
3Mikel Landa MeanaTeam Sky+ 2'14
4Riccardo ZoidlTrek - Segafredo+ 4'05
5Roman KreuzigerTinkoff+ 4'36
6Adam YatesOrica-GreenEDGE+ 5'04
7Andrey Amador BikkazakovaMovistar Team+ 5'05
8Jarlinson Pantano GomezIAM Cycling+ 5'51
9Miguel Ángel López MorenoAstana Pro Team+ 5'59
10Gianluca BrambillaEtixx - Quick Step+ 6'02



Spoiler
29Vincenzo NibaliAstana Pro Team+11:01
35Dario CataldoAstana Pro Team+14:29
51Michele ScarponiAstana Pro Team+20:03
54Tanel KangertAstana Pro Team+21:07
132Andrea GuardiniAstana Pro Team+51:51
147Fabio AruAstana Pro Team+01:00:38
160Andrey ZeitsAstana Pro Team+01:10:44



Points
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team89
2Marcel KittelEtixx - Quick Step71
3Sacha ModoloLampre-Merida61


KoM
1Rigoberto Urán UránCannondale Pro Cycling Team23
2Cédric PineauFDJ22
3Fabio AruAstana Pro Team18


Team - Team Sky

Young - Adam Yates Orica-GreenEDGE


 
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