[SPOILER] Milan - San Remo. La classica di Primavera. 17th March - Spoilers

[deptfordmarmoset]

^^ That'll suit the all out sprinters.

 

[Radchenister]

'... unpredictable events and sidewinders ...' .

 

[rich p]

Damn

 

[Radchenister]

Current weather in Milan is 4 - 6 degrees C , 0 -2 with wind chill and rain - clearer later.
San Remo 7 - 9 degrees C but less wind chill, clear at present - rain later.
Likely worse on high ground, weather appears to be tracking the race - eek.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

This will suit Thor and the other Scandanavians, will it not?

update: well, my comment was clearly the kiss of death for Norwegian, Lars-Petter Nordhaug, who has just abandonned...

 

[PpPete]

Tweet from @koendekort
It's snowing so much this could be biathlon. If so, can I be shot first?

 

[jifdave]

so will they have to drop the 'longest single day race' thing? nearly 50k of bus now....

 

[BJH]

No doubt Cav and the other sprinters will be re evaluating their chances with one mountain down

This seems to be even more wide open now than it was before should be good.

 

[dellzeqq]

that 110kph speed limit is going to do slow Cancellara right down.........

 

[PpPete]

I'm not sure cutting out the Turchino will make that much difference. It's Le Manie that kills off the pure sprinters.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I'm not sure cutting out the Turchino will make that much difference. It's Le Manie that kills off the pure sprinters.

Well, they are now talking about neutralising Le Manie too... in which case, they might as well abandon the race altogether this year. It's getting silly.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yep, La Manie's out too.

 

[jifdave]

so the break away work together they could run away with it.... whose going to chase them down?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

so the break away work together they could run away with it.... whose going to chase them down?

Who's going to get back out of the team bus, more like...

85km of racing left, Belkov, Bak, Montaguti, Rosa, Fortin and Lastras with a 7:10 lead.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

so the break away work together they could run away with it.... whose going to chase them down?

It's actually completely unfair - if the other teams had known that the two toughest climbs would be taken out, they would never have let a break get this far ahead. They could still chase them down, but even so...