Giro d'Italia 2013, 4th-26th May - [Spoilers]

[Strathlubnaig]

Yes, there are three Sky men immediately behind Nibali and Kangert. Henao isn't 'dropped' - he's just a few men back. Came over the top a couple of seconds behind the other Sky riders.

just quoting the CN feed mate.

 

[VamP]

Cycling news reporting Henao as dropped too

 

[Crackle]

He is

 

[thom]

Sky's twitter feed is reporting Cataldo, Uran & Wiggins in with Nibali at the moment.

edit - given the size of the roads, it is possible Henao had a mechanical that wasn't shown on TV. It would take a good while for any team cars to catch up as getting past the riders is nigh on impossible.

 

[beastie]

Sky must be planning an attack on the final climb after riding hard for the whole climb, but by whom? There has been so much more action in the first week of this Giro than in the whole tour last year that it is easy to forget that the decisive stages are still to come. The last week will be massive.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Eurosport just pointing out the danger of getting clotheslined by those wires between the posts, dodgy right enough !!

 

[Radchenister]

If they had to make every potential hazard on a downhill safe, then that'd be the end of downhill sections .

 

[thom]

Sky must be planning an attack on the final climb after riding hard for the whole climb, but by whom?

They will do it as is there trademark, by riding a consistent tempo in a train. Nothing explosive, just long and difficult.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

OUCH!
Franco Pellizotti makes a mistake on a tight 90 degree bend, hitting the deck and dropping into a ditch under a wooden fence. The Italian gets back on his bike and continues along the descent - but what will that do to his confidence?

 

[thom]

wow - 5 SKY guys in there....

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Brian Smith saying "Let the Sky Columbian's lose on the final climb i say...Wiggo to follow Nibal"

I think he meant to say "loose"

 

[VamP]

I can't watch it, but it sounds like Wiggins was not descending like a girl today?

 

[smutchin]

OUCH!
Franco Pellizotti makes a mistake on a tight 90 degree bend, hitting the deck and dropping into a ditch under a wooden fence. The Italian gets back on his bike and continues along the descent - but what will that do to his confidence?

He's a pocket-sized Italian rather than a lanky streak of Australo-Belgian Brit. When it comes to descending, they don't know the meaning of fear.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

I can't watch it, but it sounds like Wiggins was not descending like a girl today?

It's not raining.

 

[Crackle]

Uran has been sitting at the back of the Sky group: Him to attack?