Crossroads (The Vino Diary) - June - Tour de Luxembourg
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sutty68 |
Posted on 02-05-2017 14:29
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Yay it continues |
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purepasd |
Posted on 02-05-2017 14:56
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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 |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 02-05-2017 15:07
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Thanks !
Think it will just be normal reports - have Miguel Ángel López - he might get inside top 20 if all goes well.
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 02-05-2017 15:59
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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 |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 02-05-2017 16:15
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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
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.
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Ripley |
Posted on 02-05-2017 20:54
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@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. |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 03-05-2017 06:14
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You may well be right Ripley, Sounds more logical than "freshness"
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Tamijo |
Posted on 06-05-2017 19:00
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NEXT STAGE
6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
11/5 Stage 6/21 - Ponte – Roccaraco 155.1 km
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
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Tamijo |
Posted on 07-05-2017 15:26
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
11/5 Stage 6/21 Ponte – Roccaraco 155.1 km
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.
Pineau wins the KoM in front of Aru and Paulinho, Barguil has lost almost a minute over the top, peloton at 2’12
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
1 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 4h03'21 | 2 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | + 9 | 3 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 29 | 4 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 48 | 5 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 1'17 | 6 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 1'33 | 7 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 1'42 | 8 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | + 2'01 | 9 | Mathias Frank | IAM Cycling | s.t. | 10 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Sky | s.t. |
Spoiler 24 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +03:08 | 36 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +05:22 | 39 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +05:22 | 45 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +06:52 | 55 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +08:48 | 161 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +21:12 | 165 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +21:12 |
GC
1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 22h38'04 | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 1 | 3 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 1'02 | 4 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 2'01 | 5 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 2'02 | 6 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 2'18 | 7 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 2'21 | 8 | Mathias Frank | IAM Cycling | + 2'36 | 9 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 2'48 | 10 | Damiano Caruso | BMC Racing Team | + 2'53 |
Spoiler 11 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +02:56 | 38 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +08:24 | 40 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +09:29 | 45 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +09:58 | 71 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +18:04 | 135 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +36:59 | 155 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +42:56 | 156 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +43:04 |
Points
1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 59 | 2 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 55 | 3 | Juan Jose Lobato | Movistar Team | 49 |
KoM
1 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | 22 | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | 14 | 3 | Blel Kadri | Ag2r La Mondiale | 11 |
Team - Team Sky
Young - Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE
Edited by Tamijo on 08-05-2017 06:28
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Tamijo |
Posted on 09-05-2017 12:00
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
12/5 Stage 7/21 Sulmona – Foligno 213.3 km
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
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Tamijo |
Posted on 11-05-2017 17:15
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
12/5 Stage 7/21 Sulmona – Foligno 213.3 km
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Modolo wins in Foligno in front of Sbaragli and Kittel.
80 riders makes it to the line in the same time.
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
1 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | 4h55'24 | 2 | Kristian Sbaragli | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | s.t. | 3 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | s.t. | 4 | Niccolò Bonifazio | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | 5 | Alexander Kristoff | Team Katusha | s.t. | 6 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 7 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | 8 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | 9 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | s.t. | 10 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre-Merida | s.t. |
Spoiler 12 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | 14 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | 54 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | 58 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | 80 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | 98 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +04:00 | 132 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +06:41 | 182 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +16:37 |
GC
1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 27h33'28 | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 1 | 3 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 1'02 | 4 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 2'01 | 5 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 2'02 | 6 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 2'18 | 7 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 2'21 | 8 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 2'48 | 9 | Damiano Caruso | BMC Racing Team | + 2'53 | 10 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | + 2'56 |
Spoiler 32 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +08:24 | 34 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +09:29 | 51 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +13:58 | 60 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +18:04 | 119 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +36:59 | 148 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +49:37 | 162 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +59:41 |
Points
1 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 71 | 2 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 69 | 3 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | 61 |
KoM
1 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | 22 | 2 | Blel Kadri | Ag2r La Mondiale | 17 | 3 | Omar Fraile Matarranz | Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka | 16 |
Team : Team Sky
Young : Adam Yates - Orica-GreenEDGE
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 11-05-2017 18:45
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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! |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 11-05-2017 21:55
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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.
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Tamijo |
Posted on 12-05-2017 06:07
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NEXT STAGE
6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
13/5 Stage 8/21 Foligno – Arezzo 184.2 km
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
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AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 12-05-2017 09:06
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Hoping that the resurgence continues
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sutty68 |
Posted on 12-05-2017 10:46
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Moreno slowly climbing the GC |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 12-05-2017 22:18
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AbhishekLFC: Thanks
sutty68: Yes he is doing great, but wonder if the can survive when the climbs get harder.
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Ripley |
Posted on 13-05-2017 08:59
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If Nibali can recover to full strength he's still got a shot at a good result, too. |
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Tamijo |
Posted on 13-05-2017 09:41
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@Ripley: Yes, a long race notting is settled yet
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Tamijo |
Posted on 13-05-2017 10:26
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6/5-28/5 2016 Giro d'Italia
13/5 Stage 8/21 Foligno – Arezzo 184.2 km
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mikel Landa wins in Arezzo in front of Rigoberto Urán and Diego Ulissi, with 1’05 to Nordhaug and 1’26 to Nibali.
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
1 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | 4h13'25 | 2 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | s.t. | 3 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre-Merida | s.t. | 4 | Lars Petter Nordhaug | Team Sky | + 1'05 | 5 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | + 1'26 | 6 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | s.t. | 7 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 2'09 | 8 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | s.t. | 9 | Alexandre Geniez | FDJ | + 2'57 | 10 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. |
Spoiler 23 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +02:57 | 28 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | +02:57 | 61 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +05:59 | 67 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +05:59 | 145 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +10:57 | 146 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +10:57 | 168 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +14:46 |
GC
1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 31h46'47 | 2 | Richie Porte | BMC Racing Team | + 1'33 | 3 | Mikel Landa Meana | Team Sky | + 2'14 | 4 | Riccardo Zoidl | Trek - Segafredo | + 4'05 | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Tinkoff | + 4'36 | 6 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEDGE | + 5'04 | 7 | Andrey Amador Bikkazakova | Movistar Team | + 5'05 | 8 | Jarlinson Pantano Gomez | IAM Cycling | + 5'51 | 9 | Miguel Ángel López Moreno | Astana Pro Team | + 5'59 | 10 | Gianluca Brambilla | Etixx - Quick Step | + 6'02 |
Spoiler 29 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Pro Team | +11:01 | 35 | Dario Cataldo | Astana Pro Team | +14:29 | 51 | Michele Scarponi | Astana Pro Team | +20:03 | 54 | Tanel Kangert | Astana Pro Team | +21:07 | 132 | Andrea Guardini | Astana Pro Team | +51:51 | 147 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | +01:00:38 | 160 | Andrey Zeits | Astana Pro Team | +01:10:44 |
Points1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 89 | 2 | Marcel Kittel | Etixx - Quick Step | 71 | 3 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre-Merida | 61 |
KoM
1 | Rigoberto Urán Urán | Cannondale Pro Cycling Team | 23 | 2 | Cédric Pineau | FDJ | 22 | 3 | Fabio Aru | Astana Pro Team | 18 |
Team - Team Sky
Young - Adam Yates Orica-GreenEDGE
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