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

[Strathlubnaig]

Good job Honey Badger ! Nice stage win for Garmin-Sharp.

 

[The Couch]

Why (the hell) did De Greef try to escape the peloton at about the time Navardauskas was entering the last kilometer? The victory was gone and when you're in 23rd position in the GC (roughly 7 min away from a top 10), I don't see the need to try to take some extra seconds.

Am I missing something or are there just some cyclists with weird logic out there...?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I missed all that but it seems a bit like nothing much happened in terms of the overall anyway. Tomorrow is a sprinter's stage if everything goes to plan, but there are also possibilities for a breakaway.

 

[jarlrmai]

Does Ryder dropping out mean that his team are going to push for stage wins for each other now?

 

[rich p]

Any of the teams without a GC rider will be hunting for stage wins.

 

[The Couch]

Any of the teams without a GC rider will be hunting for stage wins.

Garmin just did today

 

[ayceejay]

This afternoon I thought about the last virus I had that, it not on my chest like Wiggins but one that is known as 'gastro'. And then I looked at the times surrounding the general classification and what they might have meant to me during that illness. The times separating the main contenders is about the same time I had between 'urges' and I am reminded of how desperate was my need to get to the podium so I feel the pain.

 

[400bhp]

Why (the hell) did De Greef try to escape the peloton at about the time Navardauskas was entering the last kilometer? The victory was gone and when you're in 23rd position in the GC (roughly 7 min away from a top 10), I don't see the need to try to take some extra seconds.

Am I missing something or are there just some cyclists with weird logic out there...?

I think there are UCI tour points for finishing in the top placings?

 

[rich p]

Garmin just did today

I know - that was the point in answering jarlrmai's post

 

[Radchenister]

This afternoon I thought about the last virus I had that, it not on my chest like Wiggins but one that is known as 'gastro'. And then I looked at the times surrounding the general classification and what they might have meant to me during that illness. The times separating the main contenders is about the same time I had between 'urges' and I am reminded of how desperate was my need to get to the podium so I feel the pain.

''Time sure kicks the sh1z out of people.'' - Dan Simmons, Lovedeath

 

[ColinJ]

Am I the only person who thought that Wiggins looked really rough yesterday? He just looked like he was either suffering or would rather be doing something else.

I know that Wiggins was fit enough to cope with that stage but I was wondering if he might have picked up a bug? Teammate Cataldo was ill the night before the TTT so there could be something floating about the team bus.

I've got a chest infection and a bog-standard head cold.

Fortunately in these days, these kinds of stages, there's just a bit of fighting and you can get through them and hide a little bit. But I just want to try and fight through it and hope that in a few days' time I'll be all right.

Most of the team have been sick. It seems to last for three or four days and then you get better.

That would explain a lot! Link.

 

[The Couch]

I know - that was the point in answering jarlrmai's post

Ooopps, missed jarlrmai's post .... that kinda ruined my joke

 

[rich p]

It's a sprinters day today, or so they say.
Cav to bag no.3 or maybe Goss will get to the altar first.
Modolo is still in too but I'm not sure which other sprinters have survived.

 

[The Couch]

Does Ryder dropping out mean that his team are going to push for stage wins for each other now?

What I am wondering is:
Since currently Cavendish is climbing just about as good as Hesjedal ... should we expect Hesjedal to be sprinting as good as Cavendish?

 

[rich p]

What I am wondering is:
Since currently Cavendish is climbing just about as good as Hesjedal ... should we expect Hesjedal to be sprinting as good as Cavendish?

I noticed that they finished together yesterday at 13 minutes down!
p.s. Bouhanni and Appollonio are still in.