Giro 2019 SPOILERS ! (provided by rich p)

[Crackle]

Roglic and Yates getting back but the Nibali group has accelarated

 

[mjr]

Commissaries car apparently unhappy with how close TV and neutral service motorbikes were. Lots of horns and a screen full of car.

 

[mjr]

Roglic and Yates getting back but the Nibali group has accelarated

It was saying that they'd still only got a minute ahead of pink, but then the notoriously unreliable giro timings vanished from the screen. 7km to go

 

[Crackle]

It was saying that they'd still only got a minute ahead of pink, but then the notoriously unreliable giro timings vanished from the screen. 7km to go

1.30 they reckon. Roglic's GC hopes pretty much over.

 

[roadrash]

Ciccone deserved that win

 

[Crackle]

He flung his specs away too. He's an expensive rider to run, that must be 300 euros on the side of the road

 

[Dogtrousers]

Thanks for the updates yall.

 

[nickyboy]

This is why I'll never be any good at velogames, or betting on the cycling

Roglic....yeah, a shoo in, he has to be in my team

Carapaz....no idea, never really heard of him, deffo not in my team

Exciting racing today. Plenty to play for over the next few days. I can't see Roglic coming back and I think the podium is down to the current top four. I fear (for my velogames team) that Nibali will not be able to make back time on Carapaz before the TT. Landa is the interesting one; will he have to sit and babysit Carapaz or will they tell him to attack, forcing Nibali to respond and then Carapaz follows Nibali?

Grudgingly well done to Ciccone as Hirt is in my team :-(

 

[Dogtrousers]

This is why I'll never be any good at velogames, or betting on the cycling

You're ahead of me.

Which is not exactly a great achievement, but it's something.

 

[mjr]

GC: Carapaz in Pink, Nibali +1m47, Roglic +2m09, Landa +3m15, Mollema +5m00, Majka +5m40, Lopez +6m17, Yates +6m46, Sivakov +7m51, Polanc +8m06

Compared to the start of the day, Roglic, Yates and Mollema lost 1m22, Majka 3m05, Lopez 22s, Sivakov 2m03.

I don't think Roglič's chances are completely dead, but they're probably on life support. Nibali probably needs to try again - he's not that much better a time triallist than Carapaz or within 22s of Roglič over 17km, is he?

 

[Adam4868]

Late to the race last night so just caught up with the highlights.As expected the Nibali attack and his little tantrum at Hugh Carthy ! He rode another great stage yesterday,class act ! He might have gained time on Roglic but Carapaz and Landa looked pretty good.He will have to hope Landa leaves Carapaz ?
Feck that descent looked cold !

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Carapaz looks very unruffled by things. Unless he has a jour sans, he looks in total control (aided by his team, of course).

 

[Paulus]

He flung his specs away too. He's an expensive rider to run, that must be 300 euros on the side of the road

I bet a spectator managed to grab them

 

[Adam4868]

I just hope Carthy can pinch a bit of time and finish in top ten.Carapaz does look good,but so does Landa...mm will he work for him.Landa and Nibali ?

 

[ColinJ]

Anyone else occasionally get confused by the C word?

Carapaz, Carratero, Cattaneo, Cataldo, Caruso, Carboni, Capecchi, Caicedo, Canola, Ciccone...to name but...

I get very confused by that... Somebody walked up to me the other day and said "Hi, Colin...". I looked over my shoulder to see who they were talking to!