Giro d'italia SPOILER

[johnsss]

Wonder how Lizzie feels about you refering to him as your boy.

If she objects she can always come round to my house and explain why.

 

[lukesdad]

Lot going to depend on the TTT.Cant see BMC doing well,and Garmin are going to miss CVV. The Kazacs will give it everything for Vino. How much of an advantage is he going to have after 4 days? He s in good form, Its looking ominous allready!

 

[John the Monkey]

CVV

He had that horrendous crash on Day 3 of last year's Giro too.

Gutted for him.

 

[rich p]

Cuddles et al should be able to distance the Kazakh in the steep mountains.

 

[lukesdad]

Cuddles et al should be able to distance the Kazakh in the steep mountains.

Hope so, but,.....Im not so sure.

 

[mangaman]

Millar now third on GC and not doing much wrong right now.

Yes agree - off the radar but has a chance of a decent finish.

Depends, sadly, I feel on how "super-charged" people like Basso and Vino are on the high mountains.

If everone is clean (ho ho) he could hang in there (of course I'm not suggesting Dave's mister clean himself) and hold his own in the hills and kick some ass in the TTs

 

[ChristinaJL]

I'll be glad when they get to the mountains, I don't like watching stages when so many riders crash out. Seems to me, the organisers don't really care if riders break bones.

 

[raindog]

I don't think there's much chance of Millar staying near the front in the mountains. Have you seen some of the climbs for this year? The finish of stage 15 should sort them out all right - there's a section of 22% and 6 ks at an average of 15%.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/93rd-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-15

 

[moxey]

Watch near the end when the vehicle passes the team about 3:20 in.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEyBjV2eeA

Bloody hell !!!!!!!! Wiggo was and rightly so

 

[yello]

I don't think there's much chance of Millar staying near the front in the mountains.

Me neither. Climbing is not his strong suit... and there are hills and then there are hills... also from raindog's link

it averages 11.5 per cent for 10km

Fingers crossed for him and Garmin in the TTT though.

On which subject, what happens when a team has riders abandoned? I guess they have to ride with those they have left... but what happens if they have fewer than the 'minimum'? That is, I think the team time is given on the 5th ride over the line (or perhaps different tournament by tournament) - what if they only have 4 riders? I guess it has to be the 4th rider's time. TTT rules are complicated, I know that much!!

 

[johnr]

Maybe Cav was right about him after all!

Sorry, that just doesn't compute.

 

[redddraggon]

Me neither. Climbing is not his strong suit... and there are hills and then there are hills... also from raindog's link

Fingers crossed for him and Garmin in the TTT though.

On which subject, what happens when a team has riders abandoned? I guess they have to ride with those they have left... but what happens if they have fewer than the 'minimum'? That is, I think the team time is given on the 5th ride over the line (or perhaps different tournament by tournament) - what if they only have 4 riders? I guess it has to be the 4th rider's time. TTT rules are complicated, I know that much!!

If the team has less than 5 riders in the TTT, they are probably going to get hammered anyway, so I doubt they'd be penalised anymore.

 

[raindog]

TTT today. Sky to win?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Sky look like they are going very well today, but Katusha just posted a monster time... Garmin way back in 5th right now

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Sky 14 seconds faster than Katusha - that will take some beating, I think.