Shite bike change though,definitely cost him the stage win.Although read it was because of a mechanical/dropped chain.
Where'd you hear that? I heard on Eurosport that it was a sore knee from his crash a few days ago. Landa crashed in the TT but still was nearly the same time as Yates.
Interesting the ski jumper thing,never knew that.I just like Nibali as a racer,plus it's Italy and they adore him ! I watched him in Lombardy last year and he was mobbed at the finish line ! Even though he didn't win.
Until you hear him being interviewed,erm....ahh...yea...with a wierd Aussie/bury accent.
Oh I suspect they were probably made with the blessing of the organisers to get more coverage, and some of the responses in other interviews have been fun: Nibali commenting "we all need to go to the toilet" and Landa excusing his own profanity-laden comments on Yates as "words taken out of context" (which is one of several excuses Yates made for his pre-race comments when they really don't seem to have been).
But after Wednesday it goes bonkers. Nibs is gonna need to find two and a half minutes (as he will lose time in the final TT to Roglic) but the others like Mollema, Bilbao, Yates etc need a fair bit more. Nibs isn't here for second so he will have to think carefully whose attacks to follow. Roglic obvs the man to beat but his team isn't so strong now that dePlus has pulled out and he may be isolated early with a bunch of guys pinging off the front. Astana have a great team so I'd love to see them really drill it to isolate Roglic
It heads mostly WNW but there seems no chance of strong crosswinds from the forecast.
