Giro d'Italia 2017 **spoilers**

[themosquitoking]

My eyes aren't the best, contrary to the advice of my optician, but it looks like tomorrows stage ends with a more or less 88km climb. Ouch.

 

[SWSteve]

My eyes aren't the best, contrary to the advice of my optician, but it looks like tomorrows stage ends with a more or less 88km climb. Ouch.

It certainly looks a drag - should be Dumoulin-able though

 

[mjr]

Dumoulin, a fluid ascender

Dumpoulin

 

[mjr]

Pinot is going to have to call on the full extent of his legendary descending skills to keep in touch with Quintana.

Is Pinot still racing? Didn't notice him on tonight's highlights

 

[themosquitoking]

It certainly looks a drag - should be Dumoulin-able though

Without the additional comfort breaks.

 

[Adam4868]

Thought Domoulin did well to stay in pink,hard to decide if it was right to leave him ? Personal point of view i guess,i wonder if zacharin hadnt gone,would the rest ? Theres a lot i like about Nibali and a bit i dont ! Thats bike racing though,i remember him attacking when Froome had a mechanical,they dont call him the Shark for nothing.Still everything to race for,if nobody has a decent time gap by the final stage TT it has to be Toms giro.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Quintana and Movistar have no class. The Stelvio incident a few years ago, and in this Giro, not waiting for Thomas, the 6 second bonus off Dumoulin after he waited for them, and yesterday. And notice how when he was getting a push off the Colombian 'fan' Quintana made no effort to dissuade him ? Mercenary, compassionless, without emotion, there to execute a job and then to go back to South America, away from prying eyes and inspection, to prepare for the next one. Win at all costs. Not there to make friends. Pas de cadeau.

 

[400bhp]

Quintana and Movistar have no class. The Stelvio incident a few years ago, and in this Giro, not waiting for Thomas, the 6 second bonus off Dumoulin after he waited for them, and yesterday. And notice how when he was getting a push off the Colombian 'fan' Quintana made no effort to dissuade him ? Mercenary, compassionless, without emotion, there to execute a job and then to go back to South America, away from prying eyes and inspection, to prepare for the next one. Win at all costs. Not there to make friends. Pas de cadeau.

Those evil foreigners eh

 

[roadrash]

He isn't there to make friends , he is there to execute a job , try to win a race , he certainly isn't the only rider to receive a push from fans nor the only one to make no effort to dissuade them, if we were to make a list of riders based on the points you made then it would be a looooong list, I notice you make no mention of Zakarin who attacked first when dumoulin had a dump, its my personal opinion that no rules were broken,.... its a race.

 

[cisamcgu]

I find it hard to criticise anyone for not stopping for Domoulin. I believe that unless the problem is caused by a spectator or other "external" factor e.g. police motorbike, then there is no reason to stop and wait.

He obviously had some stomach problems, but that is just hard luck, there is no difference between that and any other issue, and that includes mechanical breakages, falling off through a mistake or another riders error, or indeed not taking the correct fluid/food on board during the race - it is all part and parcel of bike racing.

Everyone was talking about "honour" and "respecting the pink jersey".. pfft - it is a bike race not a ceremonial procession.

 

[Archie]

Don't see why Quintana takes the heat for this one. Zakarin attacked while it looked like there was hesitation in the group. After that the race is on. Anyway, who was going to stop the Kruiswijk group? You can't put the race back how it was.

It's racing, on we go. Doumoulin isn't out of it yet so we still have some good racing ahead.

 

[Adam4868]

Toms in good spirits,he'll be fine.His team have it covered.New bike today.

 

[Dogtrousers]

This waiting for an opponent business seems to be more honoured in the breach than the observance.

Every now and then, if it suits them, riders may slow up a bit for others. And on other occasions they don't.

Its fine for us to sagely nod and applaud when they do, but we should avoid calling foul when they don't, and often as not - they don't. I can remember more instances of fan outrage at so called bad sportsmanship than I can actual instances of good sportsmanship.

Dammit @smutchin is right. There is nothing new or interesting to say.

 

[rich p]

Looks like the break is going to be allowed to stay away today. 9 minutes and rising...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A propos nothing, it's unusual for nouns to have different genders across the Latin language. Maillot is masculine in French, maglia is feminine. I ought to have noticed this years ago but, hey ho....