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Giro d'Italia 2017 |OT|
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Shanks D Zoro
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Come on Vincenzo!!!!!
Tom is by far the best time trail rider. If he keeps the gap small enough, he still has a good shot at winning.
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I still think Nairo wins this Giro, but it got much harder with the time he lost today. Here is my logic...
1) Tom tends to fade in week 3.
2) Sunweb, without Kelderman, will leave him isolated in the high mountains.
3) Pinot, Nibali, and Quintana will essentially work together to push Tom down the hill as much as they can as early as they can.
4) The gaps on the final TT will not be as great as today. Dumoulin won't be front loaded with a rest day and will have full three weeks of racing in his legs. See point 1.
5) Movistar clearly brought the strongest team.
6) People are reading too much into Blockhaus. It was a single climb after a long day, but was essentially a TT effort for Dumoulin, and he rode it as such. When you have multiple climbs in a day is when he will be under difficulty.
Quintana needs to take back 3.5-5 minutes in the mountain, but I think that is possible. He also needs a minimum of 20-30 seconds on Pinot, which is harder.
I think the podium is either Pinot or Quintana on the top step, with Nibali or Dumoulin third. Nibali may crack, but he is like Coppi, all about the age and treachery, and the third week should be full of it.
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Nairo needs 20-30 more seconds tomorrow and needs to put some time into Pinot. But other than that, I think everything I said above has held true.
It would REALLY suck if this decides the Giro.
FrankCanada97
Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
Is a mostly downhill TT going benefit Dumoulin more?
but it already has decided the giro?
i've even seen the argument on peleton that no one else benefited more from the crash than dumoulin due to the loss of geraint thomas and the crash effectively removing yates from the gc competition. i don't think tom would've been so cheeky and overconfident if thomas were still in the race and the attack on the climbs would've been radically different if yates had a chance at a podium finish. remember, thomas finished within seconds of dumoulin in the first ITT and that was the day after the motorbike crash
not that i necessarily agree with that assessment but we shouldn't view the crash in such a narrow perspective.
It really is a curse
I just want to see a Dutch guy win a big tour in my lifetime. It will happen eventually....right?It really is a curse
I am not so sure of it, seems to me they lack the mentality to win it all these days. There are always weird incidents that seem to happen to them mostly, that takes them out of contention.
And Tom is definitely the closest we ever came, yet he still has the usual quirks too.
FrankCanada97
Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
Honestly I'm a little shocked the Dutch haven't won a Giro yet. It's a little weird that a country like Canada with Hesjedal (no offence to him) can win, yet the Dutch with all their talent can't.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Fuck, most likely gonna miss the end of this stage, I am at the Italy-Japan under 20 world cup game in Korea and I won't be home to 1am local time, with the race most likely just finishing.
Maybe it is a good thing, last year I missed the race when Nibali took pink.
Maybe it is a good thing, last year I missed the race when Nibali took pink.
His Majesty
Banned
Wonder if Nibali will attack in the descent.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Reading the updates and is sounding like it is starting to kick off. I wish I was watching ((
((His Majesty
Banned
Come on Tom! Looking good so far.
Reading the updates and is sounding like it is starting to kick off. I wish I was watching
They are all too fried to make anything happen it seems. Tom in pole going into tomorrows final still.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
I am reading he is statting to build a bit of a lead, true?
I think Nairo would need at least 1:30 on Tom for the TT even though it's a short one. Tom is just so much better at time trials.
Man Zakarin should practice downhill if he ever want to be a real contender in GC's..
Nibali and Quintana caught up with the lead group, five in total now.
Dumoulin the group behind that, 15 seconds. That group is gaining on the lead group (Quintana/Nibali) because they're not organized.
I think (hope) this is what grand tours will look like now in that doping wont be what makes the difference. Only so much one can do without cheating.
His Majesty
Banned
what a finale
His Majesty
Banned
overall
1. Quintana
2. Nibali +39"
3. Pinot +43"
4. Dumoulin +53"
1. Quintana
2. Nibali +39"
3. Pinot +43"
4. Dumoulin +53"
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