Giro 2018 "contains spoilers"

[Dave Davenport]

2.11 might be enough to keep him in pink after the TT,

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

absolutely fantastic ride from yates with another stage win and another 41 seconds (if ive worked the bonus seconds out right)over dumpmoulin

2:11 over Dumoulin

 

[MikeG]

There's plenty of hills after the TT. Dumoulin isn't going to beat Yates up a hill.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Getting some bonus seconds after having to fight back on to group up the last climb was very impressive.

Very impressive , superb athlete and immense mental strength but at the same time the way he rides a race bores me to tears. Thanks goodness for Yates and his instinctive riding.

 

[brommers]

Great effort by Dumoulin to pull that back.

?? He got stuffed again - next week , apart from the TT he will get dropped on nearly every stage. He has no chance of winning.

 

[roadrash]

I think that's a fair comment from @smutchin , doumoulin was dropped from the chase group but not only did he manage to get back on but then went on to finish third for bonus seconds, I would call that a great effort, I wouldn't write him off completely yet,
dumpmoulin or smutchin

 

[smutchin]

?? He got stuffed again - next week , apart from the TT he will get dropped on nearly every stage. He has no chance of winning.

Pinot, Pozzovivo, Carapaz and Lopez had the opportunity to do some damage to him today but failed miserably. They will all lose time to him in the TT.

Yates is currently in a league of his own, but it only takes one bad day to change the whole complexion of the race. I really hope he doesn’t have a bad day though!

But mostly I’m just disappointed in Pinot.

 

[400bhp]

?? He got stuffed again - next week , apart from the TT he will get dropped on nearly every stage. He has no chance of winning.

The 3rd week of GTs sorts out the men from the boys.

Remember the giro 2 years and Chavez....

 

[rich p]

It's finely balanced but advantage Yates at the moment, even with the ITT.
Mitchelton Scott seem stronger than Sunweb which might help too.

 

[Bollo]

But mostly I’m just disappointed in Pinot.

I’ve set up a keyboard shortcut for this phrase.

 

[mjr]

Apart from Froome, there weren't any sequences of attack and counter-attack that make the best mountains. If Sky are responsible for animating a stage then you know the end-times are near. Maybe missing a Bertie or Nibbles?

The Cycling Podcast pointed out that Froome is now at a point in his career where few care if he finishes third or thirtieth in this race, so he is about as dangerous as a late-career Dirty Bertie in tactical terms. He may not hesitate to attack 40km from the finish if he thinks he can make it stick.

 

[400bhp]

The Cycling Podcast pointed out that Froome is now at a point in his career where few care if he finishes third or thirtieth in this race, so he is about as dangerous as a late-career Dirty Bertie in tactical terms. He may not hesitate to attack 40km from the finish if he thinks he can make it stick.

Utter speculation in almost every single word from the Cycling Podcast there.

 

[MikeG]

..........He may not hesitate to attack 40km from the finish if he thinks he can make it stick.

Well, he's never done that in his life. Why would he start now?

 

[mjr]

Well, he's never done that in his life. Why would he start now?

Because he's minutes behind on a GT he wants to win?

 

[brommers]

Well, he's never done that in his life. Why would he start now?

I remember Froome attacking from quite a way out in the TdF a couple of years ago with that famous descent