Giro 2018 "contains spoilers"

[smutchin]

Great effort by Yates. What did he lose - less than a minute? Amazing.

Well done Dennis too.

 

[Bollo]

Great effort by Yates. What did he lose - less than a minute? Amazing.

Well done Dennis too.

1'15" lost I think, so the lead is now 56 seconds. A small enough gap to keep it interesting certainly.

 

[rich p]

As good as Yatesy could have hoped. Sets it up with him in the box seat and given Subweb's inferior team I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

[MikeG]

Well if you'd have offered Yates that at the start of the day he'd have snapped your hand off. He won't need to be quite so attacking now for the last week, which is a pity. It's his to lose now.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Reading about the Aru penalty I misread the chief Commissaire’s name , it seems he is Randy Shafer and not...

 

[mjr]

Reading about the Aru penalty I misread the chief Commissaire’s name , it seems he is Randy Shafer and not...

Drafting the police moto while his teammate Ulissi drafted teammate Conti - all penalised, varying amounts, plus some others. Naughty naughty! Little change on GC. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-ditalia-aru-penalised-20-seconds-for-drafting/

 

[mjr]

Aru?! WTAF

Good call.

 

[smutchin]

1'15" lost I think, so the lead is now 56 seconds. A small enough gap to keep it interesting certainly.

Those time bonuses are starting to look significant though - the gap would be less than 30 seconds without them.

 

[Bollo]

Those time bonuses are starting to look significant though - the gap would be less than 30 seconds without them.

I’d forgotten about the time bonuses. Looking at the gaps now it’s unlikely Dumoulin will find help from any other teams attacking Yates. I suppose Sky might try to bully a stage to get Froome on the podium, but I doubt they’ll be able to crack Yates without dropping Froome first.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I managed to wrestle the remote from my grandson for 5 minutes and caught Dumoulin's arrival followed by Yates. Perfect timing for me. Yates too.

 

[roadrash]

I would expect froome to try to win a mountain stage to try for the podium, whether he can do it though is another question altogether

 

[smutchin]

mostly I’m just disappointed in Pinot

 

[roadrash]

you ,and the population of france apparently

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

you ,and the population of france apparently

Still, he descends better than he used to, it just takes him a little longer to get to the beginning of the descents...

 

[Beebo]

Yates has admitted that he will ride conservatively now, no more breakaways.
I still expect to see him go for bonus seconds where available.