Giro d'Italia 2017 **spoilers**

[brommers]

I'm sure we talked about this last year at the TdF, but what's the supposed cut-off time before you get OTL after your name?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm sure we talked about this last year at the TdF, but what's the supposed cut-off time before you get OTL after your name?

In the tour (and I have no doubt in the Giro too) each stage has a particular set of % values assigned, and you choose one of those % values depending on how fast the winner went. So it depends on how hard the stage is and whether the stage was raced fast.

Then you apply that % to the winner's time, and add it on to how long the winner took.

I think that's it, but it may be even more complicated.

 

[rich p]

There's something I can't bring myself to like about Nibali. TomD's mistake was waiting for Quintana the other day when it was a pure racing incident.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've not seen any of today's action, did Movistar attack when Dumoulin stopped?

 

[Dayvo]

I've not seen any of today's action, did Movistar attack when Dumoulin stopped?

You could say that Dumoulin got dumped.

 

[roadrash]

oh come on @Dayvo .....enough with the sh!tty jokes

 

[SWSteve]

oh come on @Dayvo .....enough with the sh!tty jokes

They just leak through

 

[roadrash]

I was once told that diarrhea is hereditary........it runs in your jeans

 

[400bhp]

I've not seen any of today's action, did Movistar attack when Dumoulin stopped?

No

 

[400bhp]

There's something I can't bring myself to like about Nibali. TomD's mistake was waiting for Quintana the other day when it was a pure racing incident.

People talk about his descending skills, but from the highlights I just watched it looked like Dumoulin took a minute back on the descent.

And remember he fell off at the Tour last year and got dropped on a different stage by Pantano on the downhill.

It was a bit weird today.

 

[Crackle]

Nibbles has come off a few times going downhill. He takes a lot of chances, there are certainly more fluid descenders out there. Andy Schleck wasn't one of them though.

 

[themosquitoking]

To be fair to Nibali, bunnyhopping like that on an approach to a hairpin bend on a mountain descent takes cahonies the size of watermelons.

 

[400bhp]

To be fair to Nibali, bunnyhopping like that on an approach to a hairpin bend on a mountain descent takes cahonies the size of watermelons.

And if you've ever ridden that downhill, where the terrace section is, there's approx 150ft drops behind the wall.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Dumoulin really missing a stronger team here

Someone like Wilco Kelderman perhaps, the only rider to withdraw during the "terrible Sky indicent"..

...there are certainly more fluid descenders out there.

Dumoulin, a fluid ascender

 

[themosquitoking]

And if you've ever ridden that downhill, where the terrace section is, there's approx 150ft drops behind the wall.

I can only imagine his clenching muscle got a rather large workout today.