2020 Giro

[Orange Agent]

Fell asleep, ended up being a good finish.

 

[eth-dog]

Fell asleep, ended up being a good finish.

Yeah, keeps Cyclamino interesting too.

Unlikely to bother with tonight. ITT's are important but boring.

 

[eth-dog]

Rohan Dennis is smashing this. Come on Ro!

 

[eth-dog]

De Gendt has never won an ITT? That's a surprise.

 

[eth-dog]

Ganna and Dennis neck and neck. Damn. Come on Rohan

 

[Orange Agent]

Ganna holding 550+ watts up that climb. Jeepers.

 

[eth-dog]

Ganna holding 550+ watts up that climb. Jeepers.

Hope he spent a little too much energy going up there and he'll finish behind Rohan. Brilliant ride from him.

 

[Orange Agent]

Hope he spent a little too much energy going up there and he'll finish behind Rohan. Brilliant ride from him.

It's gonna be close.

 

[eth-dog]

It's gonna be close.

It's not. Ganna is gonna win by 15 seconds or so.

He's untouchable in the ITT. Dennis is one of the best men against the clock ever and he's embarrassing him.

 

[eth-dog]

It's not. Ganna is gonna win by 15 seconds or so.

He's untouchable in the ITT. Dennis is one of the best men against the clock ever and he's embarrassing him.

I was underselling him. That's a ******* brilliant ITT

 

[Orange Agent]

That was nuts. Well that's this stage done.

 

[eth-dog]

That was nuts. Well that's this stage done.

Dennis probably the favourite into Milan, given this is Ganna's first GT and will probably run out of gas

Great ITT from Cerny and De Gendt too.

 

[eth-dog]

55'28" will be the cutoff if it's at 30% (+12'48"). Molano already gone

 

[eth-dog]

Gonna call it a night. Hope Jai Hindley can move up a bit.

 

[eth-dog]

Big night for GC. Three Cat 2 climbs with a Cat 1 mountain top finish. Expecting plenty of attacking from the likes of Nibali and Fuglsang, hopefully Hindley can maintain a top 10 standing but I'm not expecting it. The breakaway should stay away, and I can see Sagan going in it to win that first IS and reduce the gap to 25 points but realistically he'l have to get 60 points from the 5 mountain stages left and hope he can keep it to less than a 23 point loss on the flat in stage 19. It's going to be a tight race between he and Demare for the Ciclamino

 

[Over The Post]

Unlikely to bother with tonight. ITT's are important but boring.

That aged well.

 

[eth-dog]

Dennis is smashing this. He'll put time into the peloton in the descent too.

 

[eth-dog]

Damn it Ro! Really unlucky.

 

[eth-dog]

Fuglsang is up there with the most overrated rider in the pro peleton. 3 GT top 10's and he was the third favourite coming in? Please

 

[Orange Agent]

Never thought Kelderman was this good, shows the importance of having a decent team. And then the question of why some the best, young Aussie climbers are on Sunweb and not MTS.

 

[eth-dog]

Never thought Kelderman was this good, shows the importance of having a decent team. And then the question of why some the best, young Aussie climbers are on Sunweb and not MTS.

Yeah, Hindley looks fantastic, doesn't he?

 

[eth-dog]

13 seconds I think.

 

[eth-dog]

Hindley up to third.

 

[Over The Post]

Another rider positive as Giro heads toward uncertain finish

João Almeida holds the leader's jersey at the Giro d'Italia, but COVID-19 concerns arise after Colombian rider Fernando Gaviria quit the race due to a positive test.

www.abc.net.au

Also a staff member for Team AG2R La Mondiale tested positive.

 

[drd23]

What looks like it should be a big day apparently might not because the final climb is apparently a gradual/consistent 6-7% on a road made for buses ferry people to the ski resort that is the finishing point of the stage.

The second climb (Bondone) is supposedly the hardest of the day because it has sections of 10% on a narrow and winding road, but that is prob too far out for it to matter to the GC guys