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Flying_Monkey
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Yeah, definitely the other guy, but I'm not sure about Cunego....
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Yeah, definitely the other guy, but I'm not sure about Cunego....
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Flying_Monkey
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Well, it looks like Cunego's group is going to be caught before the end, but not far enough away for his position to be of any use to Scarponi. In fact, so far, it's been pretty much as dull as yesterday was before the last few km.
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Flying_Monkey
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Wow, finally something happened! I am so pleased for Rabottini that he was able to respond to Rodriguez. Henao 4th today, so I wasn't too far off (even if it didn't really kick off at all). But what happened to Uran?
edit: Uran just came in 1.47 down.
edit: Uran just came in 1.47 down.
smutchin
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Amazing effort by Rabottini at the end. Heroic ride today.
Great ride by Henao too.
Cunego must be feeling a bit silly now.
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Great ride by Henao too.
Cunego must be feeling a bit silly now.
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Yeah, but we've got stages 17, 19 and 20 before that, with the hardest peaks in the race, and several of them in each stage... the Falzarego, the Giau, the Manghen, the Pampeago, the Mortirolo and lastly and most painfully of all, the Stelvio (and that's only the most famous ones). It hurts just reading the names. Anyone within 2 or 3 minutes of the lead right now could still win this, several riders who have high hopes are going to see those hopes destroyed and everything could change on any one of those days.
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Flying_Monkey
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Actually, looking at the full results on the official Giro site, the field did pretty much explode on that final climb, and a lot of hopefuls lost valuable minutes. The TV coverage just really wasn't able to show the full extent of the damage.
smutchin
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I've been slagging him all season so far but I reckon Basso is starting to look very dangerous.
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Flying_Monkey
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His team is looking almost totally in control. I'm not sure about him yet. He will have to take the initiative and attack successfully on one of the big days to come or all he'll do is hold his place.
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Basso is going to win by boring everyone else into submission.
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oldroadman
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Being in control is a bit different to riding every day on the front while everyone else looks at you and lets you do it. The dangerous one in that team is Schmidt, Basso's main man in the mountains.
The comment that Basso could win by boredom is spot on. At least Matteo Rab. (way down overall) put in a ride today and got a nice reward. I'll bet Farnese are a happy crew at dinner tonight. Quite a result for one of the smaller teams. Made great TV, and a change in pink is of no great matter at the moment, lots of contenders within a couple of minutes, which can easily disappear in a mountain stage. Looks like an interesting last week.
So, did Rodriguez gift the win? After watching it several times I'm not so sure now.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKWO0ARkig
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKWO0ARkig
