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| valverde321 |
Posted on 14-03-2019 20:42
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@ Sutty - Thanks, he is 
@ Freitas - Great to have one of my former regulars comment here Thanks a lot!
@ the hoyle - Yeah, I wish I won LBL, I thought Mas would hold on, but I think I judged it wrong and then Ala nearly beat Valv in the sprint.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 14-03-2019 21:44
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 Tour of the Alps (2.HC) 2019
Stage 1
| Team Sky | +00:00 | | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:09 | | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:18 |
Stage 2
| 1 | Damiano Caruso | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 2 | Matteo Montaguti | Androni - Sidermec - Bottecchia | +00:00 | | 3 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +00:15 |
Stage 3
| 1 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 3 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 |
Stage 4
| 1 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:00 | | 3 | Fabio Aru | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 |
Stage 5
| 1 | Davide Villella | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 2 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 3 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team Sky | +00:00 |
GC
| 1 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team Sky | +00:24 | | 3 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +00:24 | | 4 | Fabio Aru | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:27 | | 5 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Pro Team | +00:52 |
 Tour de Romandie (2.UWT) 2019
Stage 1
| CCC Team | +00:00 | | Team Sky | +00:17 | | Movistar Team | +00:21 |
Stage 2
| 1 | Ben Hermans | Israel Cycling Academy | +00:00 | | 2 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Louis Meintjes | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 4 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +00:00 | | 5 | Magnus Cort Nielsen | Astana Pro Team | +00:12 |
Stage 3
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Matteo Montaguti | Androni - Sidermec - Bottecchia | +00:00 | | 3 | Peter Kennaugh | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 |
Stage 4
| 1 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Simon Geschke | CCC Team | +00:00 | | 3 | Dion Smith | Mitchelton - Scott | +00:00 |
Stage 5
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +01:49 | | 3 | Simon Geschke | CCC Team | +03:19 |
Stage 6
| 1 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Maximilian Schachmann | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:03 | | 3 | José Gonçalves | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +00:04 |
GC
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Adam Yates | Mitchelton - Scott | +02:08 | | 3 | Simon Geschke | CCC Team | +02:54 | | 4 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +03:25 | | 5 | Wout Poels | Team Sky | +03:30 | | 6 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +03:38 | | 7 | Peter Kennaugh | BORA - hansgrohe | +03:55 | | 8 | Tanel Kangert | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +04:01 | | 9 | Nairo Quintana | Movistar Team | +04:06 | | 10 | Thibaut Pinot | Groupama - FDJ | +04:06 |
Points
| 1 | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 61 | | 2 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 53 | | 3 | Peter Kennaugh | BORA - hansgrohe | 35 |
Romandie was just pure domination from us. Jungels showed he was still in great form, winning the Tour of the Alps, and then winning a stage here, and coming 2nd on another. Alaphilippe was also dominant taking 2 stage wins on the hilly stages, and Mas dominated the day in the mountains. Mas will be looking to keep his form ,heading into the Giro!
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Visma | | Mike Teunissen | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Robert Gesink | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Floris De Tier | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Taco Van der Hoorn | Team Jumbo - Visma | | George Bennett | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Sepp Kuss | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | | Matteo Fabbro | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Dmitry Strakhov | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | José Gonçalves | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Alex Dowsett | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Vyacheslav Kuznetsov | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Willie Smit | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Enrico Battaglin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | | Filippo Ganna | Team Sky | | Jhonatan Narvaez | Team Sky | | Leonardo Basso | Team Sky | | Luke Rowe | Team Sky | | Diego Rosa | Team Sky | | Ian Stannard | Team Sky | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team Sky | | Cees Bol | Team Sunweb | | Chris Hamilton | Team Sunweb | | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | | Max Kanter | Team Sunweb | | Johannes Fröhlinger | Team Sunweb | | Joris Nieuwenhuis | Team Sunweb | | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | | Niklas Eg | Trek - Segafredo | | Alex Kirsch | Trek - Segafredo | | Gianluca Brambilla | Trek - Segafredo | | Edward Theuns | Trek - Segafredo | | Ryan Mullen | Trek - Segafredo | | Fumiyuki Beppu | Trek - Segafredo | | Nicola Conci | Trek - Segafredo | | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | | Diego Ulissi | UAE - Team Emirates | | Fabio Aru | UAE - Team Emirates | | Edward Ravasi | UAE - Team Emirates | | Valerio Conti | UAE - Team Emirates | | Roberto Ferrari | UAE - Team Emirates | | Sergio Luis Henao | UAE - Team Emirates | | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | | Alexandr Riabushenko | UAE - Team Emirates |
The big 3 podium favourites will be Roglic, Porte and Bernal, but Mas, Landa, Kelderman and Oomen will challenge as well. Uran, Izagirre, Formolo, Aru, Ramiro Sosa and Zakarin will be fighting alongside them on the mountain stages too. They would be considered outsiders though, and winning the Giro would be a big ask for them.
There are many top sprinters here as well. Caleb Ewan, Elia Viviani, Fernando Gaviria, Sam Bennett and Fabio Jakobsen are all very strong sprinters, so the winner of the sprinters jersey could end up being a tough battle.
The first week will be relatively easy for the GC riders, but tough on the sprinters. 4 rolling stages in a row could be the perfect recipe for breakaways, but it ends off with a summit of the Monte Terminillo.
The second week will see more chances for the sprinters with 4 opportunities, as the second major obstacle for the GC combatants with a finishing climb to the Monte Zoncolan and the third being the Alpe di Pampeago
The third week has two ITTs and two mountain top finishes, finishing on the climb to Chianale and then Cascata del Toce respectively. Roglic has to be the big favourite, with a great team behind him, and having the advantage in the TTs, over all the other riders.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 14-03-2019 21:54
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Bob/Julian/Mas....all over the place
Good luck in Giro
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 14-03-2019 22:03
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Romandie 
I'm not too deep into real cycling these days (well, except of following my favorite riders.. you know them, probably), but the Giro startlist comes rather weak, right? Porte, Roglic as the big favorites. Or do I miss something? Anyway, a few options for you to do something notable. Good luck!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 15-03-2019 12:13
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I'm sure the team will go in to the Giro with no fear at all after such a great start to the season |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-03-2019 16:10
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@ Tamijo - Yeah, I think a lot of guys were still in great form from the Ardennes! Thanks
@ tsmoha - It is indeed a weak startlist. Im not sure if its because the Giro startdate is the 11th of May instead of the 4th, I've heard changing the startdate of races can alter the AI race programs. It might be something I have to fix for next season. That being said, Roglic and Porte are both still quite strong. In my save they in the Top 6 GC riders, of Froome, Thomas, Dumoulin, Porte, Roglic and Bardet
@ sutty - Indeed! The main goal is to win stages with Viviani, but Mas could sneak onto the podium as well.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 17-03-2019 21:04
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Giro d'Italia 2019 Week One
Stage 1
Echelons dominated the opening stage.
With 15km to go, Deceuninck made the decisive move which left a lead group of 26 riders to battle it out for the opening stage. Major riders who made the split were Mas, Gaviria, Ewan, Porte, Roglic and Formolo. Essentially all other major GC riders would end up losing 1 minute to this group as the day ended.
| 1 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 2 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 4 | Fabio Jakobsen | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 |
Stage 2
| 1 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 2 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 3 | Philippe Gilbert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 |
Stage 3
Another day with a small front group
The third stage again saw a small group go clear. Again the Big 4 GC riders now, Mas, Porte, Roglic and Formolo were in the group, but riders like Landa and Kelderman were losing big time again. Ewan the GC leader was also missing from the front group, meaning Viviani would move into the Maglia Rosa
| 1 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 2 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 4 | Sonny Colbrelli | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 5 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 |
Stage 4
Start of stage 4 and Deceuninck have Viviani in Pink, Mas in white and Stybar in Blue.
Perhaps Viviani will only stay in pink for the day though? If he does lose it, he would likely just move back into the points jersey. Only 9 riders are still within a minute of Viviani's lead though, so it he's got a good chance of keeping it until Stage 7.
| 1 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 2 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 3 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | Tim Wellens | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 5 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 |
Stage 5
| 1 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 2 | Zdenek Stybar | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 4 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 5 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Stage 6
| 1 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 2 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 3 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE - Team Emirates | +00:00 | | 4 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 5 | Sonny Colbrelli | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 |
Stage 7
Mas will be trading in his white jersey for Pink
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:50 | | 3 | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +01:01 | | 4 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +01:01 | | 5 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +01:01 | | 6 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | +01:01 | | 7 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +01:54 | | 8 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +01:54 | | 9 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +02:28 | | 10 | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | +02:57 | | 11 | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +03:14 | | 12 | Tim Wellens | Lotto - Soudal | +03:14 | | 13 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +03:14 | | 14 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +03:32 | | 15 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +03:55 |
GC after one week
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +01:01 | | 3 | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +01:07 | | 4 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +01:40 | | 5 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +02:00 | | 6 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:01 | | 7 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +02:38 | | 8 | Tim Wellens | Lotto - Soudal | +03:24 | | 9 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +03:42 | | 10 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +04:13 | | 11 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +04:43 | | 12 | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +05:03 | | 13 | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | +05:40 | | 14 | Fabio Aru | UAE - Team Emirates | +06:02 | | 15 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | +06:17 | | 16 | Philippe Gilbert | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +06:38 | | 17 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +06:39 | | 18 | Louis Meintjes | Team Dimension Data | +09:02 | | 19 | Pieter Serry | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +09:15 | | 20 | Luis León Sánchez | Astana Pro Team | +09:15 |
Points after one week
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 104 | | 2 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | 100 | | 3 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | 60 | | 4 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | 56 | | 5 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 55 |
KOM after one week
| 1 | LluÃs Guillermo Mas Bonet | Movistar Team | 41 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 36 | | 3 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | 32 | | 4 | Louis Meintjes | Team Dimension Data | 32 | | 5 | Zdenek Stybar | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 20 |
U25 after one week
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | +05:40 | | 3 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +06:39 |
Rest Day Summary
The first stage was definitely an exciting opening to the race. Many riders lost all hope of a GC win already. The three favourites remained at the front though, and all cancelled each other out. The next stage was a typical sprinters day.
Stage 3 saw riders drop even more time, and also let Viviani move into the Pink and take a lead in the points, while Stybar took the KOM. Stage 4 and 5 were settled by the sprinters again, with Ewan showing he is in the best for of his life atm. Viviani does enough to keep his points jersey lead though after another sprinters day on stage 6.
Stage 7 was were it was all expected to go down for the first time, and after getting to the final climb of the day in the leading group of 52, Viviani cracked and knew he would be losing his GC lead at the end of the day.
No one really did anything until 7km to the finish, when Pozzovivo attacked and got a gap of 35 seconds. With 4km to go, Formolo finally put on the chase, with about 8 riders following, but surprisingly enough, Roglic and Porte both cracked. Mas managed to bridge to Pozzovivo with Fuglsang who started to look really bad, and he never looked back, taking a great solo win.
Mas now looks like he has a great lead in the race, with Kreuiger not a massive threat, Uran is his nearest challenger at 1:07 down.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 17-03-2019 21:32
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Sick first week. Podium'd almost every stage and Mas caps it off by dominating the first mountain stage! The weak startlist already pays off  still two to go, but this first week looks like you can go for a big Giro.
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Posted on 18-03-2019 00:14
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Dominating win there, wow. It's one thing to win the stage, and quite another to do it by almost a full minute on second place and several minutes on favorites.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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Posted on 18-03-2019 06:32
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Perfect start to the Giro, Mas was really strong on that mountaiin top finish.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 18-03-2019 16:18
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Great Giro so far might be looking at a GT winner
Also glad to see Jacob Fugl doing good in the mountains.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-03-2019 16:22
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No stage win so far but Mas looking comfortable in pink |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 18-03-2019 17:33
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@ tsmoha - Yeah, Viviani and Mas were really strong in the first week. I wasn't expecting Roglic and Porte to be so bad on the mountain stage though, but Mas had a +4 day.
@ bball - Yeah, the truth is I really didn't even have to do anything. Mas just followed moves and then in the last km he just opened up that huge gap.
@ Voets - Thanks, indeed he was!
@ Tamijo - Yeah, I think Mas may get his first GT win a little sooner than later Yeah, Fuglsang seems like the strongest threat so far! Perhaps he will get on the podium too.
@ sutty - Thanks, but I think youll find Mas did win a stage 
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 18-03-2019 23:53
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Massive start for Mas - holding on to that advantage will be a challenge but looks good nevertheless. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-03-2019 23:58
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valverde321 wrote  sutty - Thanks, but I think youll find Mas did win a stage
Damn, stage 7 my bad  |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-03-2019 23:11
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@ Freitas - Thanks, its alteast a nice advantage and not a disadvantage
@ sutty - Its ok 
Giro d'Italia 2019 Week Two
Stage 8
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 3 | Fabio Jakobsen | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 4 | Sonny Colbrelli | Team Bahrain Merida | +00:00 | | 5 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 |
Only 18 riders finished in the lead group today, the rest all finished 47 seconds back. Ewan was the only real sprint threat to Viviani and absolutely no GC challengers other than Mas made the split, so he extends his lead by almost a minute on a flat day!
Stage 9
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 | | 3 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 4 | Marc Sarreau | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00 | | 5 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 |
Stage 10
| 1 | Victor De La Parte | CCC Team | +00:00 | | 2 | Enrico Barbin | Bardiani - CSF | +00:40 | | 3 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Groupama - FDJ | +00:40 | | 4 | LluÃs Guillermo Mas Bonet | Movistar Team | +03:56 | | 5 | Fausto Masnada | Androni - Sidermec - Bottecchia | +04:25 | | 6 | Zdenek Stybar | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +04:25 |
First breakaway day of the race. Viviani took the sprint for the peloton, in 10th place.
Stage 11
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 3 | Sacha Modolo | EF Education First Pro Cycling Team | +00:00 | | 4 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 | | 5 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Team Dimension Data | +00:00 |
Stage 12
Uran, 3rd in the GC abandons after a crash with Gilbert and 2 other riders.
Mas chasing down Roglic, Pozzovivo and Fuglsang
Fuglsang taking the win on the Zoncolan
| 1 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +00:00 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:19 | | 3 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +02:12 | | 4 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +02:12 | | 5 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | +02:26 | | 6 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +02:26 | | 7 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +02:26 | | 8 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +02:26 | | 9 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +02:47 | | 10 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +03:06 |
Stage 13
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00 | | 3 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | +00:00 |
Stage 14
| 1 | George Bennett | Team Jumbo - Visma | +00:00 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +04:06 | | 3 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | +04:06 | | 4 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +04:06 | | 5 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +04:06 | | 6 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +04:06 | | 7 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +04:36 | | 8 | Diego Ulissi | UAE - Team Emirates | +04:36 | | 9 | Fausto Masnada | Androni - Sidermec - Bottecchia | +04:49 | | 10 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +04:49 |
GC after 2 Weeks
| 1 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | +00:00 | | 2 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | +02:10 | | 3 | Davide Formolo | BORA - hansgrohe | +05:06 | | 4 | Roman Kreuziger | Team Dimension Data | +06:13 | | 5 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Team Bahrain Merida | +06:13 | | 6 | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | +06:27 | | 7 | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo - Visma | +07:31 | | 8 | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | +07:35 | | 9 | Tony Gallopin | AG2R La Mondiale | +09:00 | | 10 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | +09:19 | | 11 | Fabio Aru | UAE - Team Emirates | +10:31 | | 12 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | +11:08 | | 13 | Egan Bernal | Team Sky | +11:29 | | 14 | George Bennett | Team Jumbo - Visma | +11:54 | | 15 | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha - Alpecin | +13:41 |
Points after 2 Weeks
| 1 | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 218 | | 2 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto - Soudal | 171 | | 3 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | 120 | | 4 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 118 | | 5 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | 77 |
KOM after 2 Weeks
| 1 | George Bennett | Team Jumbo - Visma | 154 | | 2 | Enric Mas | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 96 | | 3 | LluÃs Guillermo Mas Bonet | Movistar Team | 83 | | 4 | Diego Ulissi | UAE - Team Emirates | 77 | | 5 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | 71 |
Rest Day Summary
3 more or less non GC days in a row to start the week gave the climbers some nice rest heading into Stage 12. Mas' and his team look ultra strong atm, as they've now gained extra time on rivals on 3 different flat stages, resulting in over 3 minutes of gains overall.
Stage 12 was tough, as losing Gilbert will hurt Viviani's leadout in the flat stages to come, but Gilbert was also destined to have some free days where he could go in the breakaway. Uran dropping out of the race moved Fuglsang into 2nd (after Kreuziger lost time on stage 12), and becomes the closest rival to Mas still 2 minutes down. The next closest is 5 minutes down, so these two have been riding fantastically so far! Viviani finally has a stage win at the Giro, and now looks like he is on pace to take the most stage wins in this years edition. Its really a two horse race for the sprinters between him and Ewan, after Gaviria abandoned due to injury.
Stage 14 was another day in the mountains and after 2 falls, Mas had to chaseback on to the leaders group of 15 on the descent heading into the Alpe di Pampeago, after crashing twice, once before the first climb of the day and again on the first descent. He was chasing the leaders for the first 3 climbs of the day, so to be the strongest on the favourites on the finale was a great showing!
With now 2 more MTN stages to go, Mas looks good for the podium, but the lead is not safe yet!
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 19-03-2019 23:14
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Wow, Mas is amazing  What a ride so far! Viviani and the leadout also bossing things in week two after a lot of near misses.
Shame to see Bennett slip down the GC but the KoM lead and a stage win is awesome 
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| atlanta |
Posted on 20-03-2019 02:16
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Mas is riding excellent also nice to see Viviani get a few wins after being pipped vy Ewan a few times in week one. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-03-2019 16:13
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@ jandal - Yeah, theyre both in great form. Bennett is really riding a solid race so far!
@ atlanta - Thanks, yeah the 2nd week went even better than the first, and the first was probably near perfect to begin with.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 20-03-2019 16:18
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Did I say the first was sick? this Giro goes as perfect as perfect can be. For you!
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