After finally kicking of the real GC action yesterday, today will surely shake things up again with a Mountain time trial from Kastelruth to the Saiseralm.
Yesterday brought us the BTFOment of Movistar with both Valverde and Amador drpping down the GC aswell as a dent in Astanas and Nibalis armor as he got dropped by Chaves and Kruijswijk. Former took the stage win, the latter is now in the maglia Rosa, 41 seconds up on Nibbels and 1:32 up on Chaves and more than 3 minutes ahead of Valverde.
first riders of the ramp at 13:30, the top 10 will start at ~16:15
Alexander Harris
Nibali to win the stage; he's a beast at Mtt. The GC boys should be close together, so I'm not expecting major differences in GC placings. Crushweak and Chaves could do well,but I think their recovery isn't good eniugh, also, Chaves has a shitty base.
Levi Garcia
Mikel Landa looking good for this stage
Nolan Garcia
>poisoning your own riders wih baad barbeque
James Peterson
>pic related
Jace Lee
>chinese sweatshop slaverider cheng ji onlly 2nd to last currently
Bentley Ortiz
>chinese sweatshop slaverider
fucking kek. i love how they try to pass him off as the "breakaway killer" when all he really is is a fucking slave.
Jacob Phillips
i bet they also do human tests of new hairproduce on him
Adam Moore
joj
Lucas Collins
and the TT has started
Owen Perry
chaves was the best climber yesterday so i guess he's favorite today as well. i think kruijswijk may well take 10-15 more seconds on nibali today. it's all about current form & condition in a time-trial like this.
Caleb Walker
Hello friends
I am excited for today's Individual Time Trial
Luis Williams
who knows how well they recovered
should be exciting
Zachary Thomas
also >2agan because ToC yesterday
Charles Brooks
How fast will they be? My stream is not online yet, is there another one available atm?
Mason Murphy
don't worry, only the lowest GC scrubs have started already, the real guys start in ~2 hours
Ryder Morgan
Sporza starts streaming in 25 minutes
Julian Roberts
If you mean how long they'll take, 27 minutes is the estimated winning time.
Jace Morales
what a bike
Colton Murphy
the climb doesn't look that hard to be honest...
Julian King
After yesterday it might cause some suffering. But yeah, it's not tough.
Nathan Cook
When you're doing it against the clock, though, and it will be very easy to lose time.
Should be a lot of fun to watch anyway.
Bentley Anderson
9km @ 8.3% is tough enough
Jayden Jackson
Too short desu. pic related is what I'd call difficult.
Jaxon Hall
This. If I had their quality bikes I could probably finish 80th or something on that climb
Robert Rogers
early starters (way down in the gc) are doing 20+ km/h averages. don't expect too much.
Angel Howard
That's a beauty. Just wrapped my bars with pink tape today.
Ethan Lee
Pic??
James Gomez
little white basket on the front?
Jacob James
You haven't earned the pink.
Jonathan Harris
FDJ are in the race apparently
Aaron Green
No, but I do have white bars :^)
>using certain colours is not appropriate if you haven't won a specific race The fact that it triggers some people makes it even better.
Jaxson Martin
>The fact that it triggers some people makes it even better.
absolute madman.
Lucas Garcia
I have black bar tape. Do I actually have to enter a race and make sure I come last before thats allowed? I think I've got it in me to lose a race if I have to
Alexander Mitchell
the place where they take the timesplit is ~1km to early, 4.4km with 1.8of them flat is not giving a good indication t b h
Hunter Clark
based on my luck picking who retires from this Giro imma say zakarin is next
>tfw only 3 riders and still got over 100 points yesterday
could be worse I guess
Andrew Brown
it just seems so obvious to have one halfway up the climb
Adam Anderson
>tailgating at a sports event
american sports culture is taking over lads
William Bell
>american sports culture is taking over lads Delete this
it's not like they have a choice, they close up streets a day before the stage if you want to get to the track in mountain stages you have to get there a night in advance bbqs are a classic
Dylan Perry
>tfw no ITTs with 200km of length
Nathaniel Garcia
>You're gonna love it, Paddy. Americans fucked up cycling by making it too mainstream and commercial. Please, stick to American Cricket.
Adam Fisher
Holy shit
Wyatt Nelson
>RAI merda written on track lel
Brandon Taylor
Russian power. That's around 6.5 watts/kg.
Benjamin Miller
A Tour of Russia would be THAT thing
Colton Gutierrez
I actually like Dombrowski.
Jaxson Mitchell
the Giro is probably the only thing RAI handles in a decent way you should listen to basketball commentators, it's unbearable
also >99° Giro di birre, positivi al luppolo fucking based kek
Leo Myers
These Russian riders are so talented
Benjamin Sanchez
why on earth would anyone dislike Dombrowski?
Camden Watson
He rides for Cannondale
Carter Allen
>making it too mainstream and commercial
lol...do you know why bike racing even exists in the first place? to sell bicycles. commercialism is the whole damn point.
Alexander Gray
His climbing style is awful. Reminds me of Voeckler.
Chase Martinez
>Joseph Lloyd
Nolan Martin
i wanna punch your fat face after that post
Charles Russell
If you had a job, you could buy a plane ticket to the States and do it, too.
Anthony Brown
Gazprom gazzing along a little too nicely
Daniel Thomas
i don't want to risk ending up into the WTC dem digits though
Asher Evans
glad to see russian doping program is alive and well
Ayden Cook
Not really too suspicious. They're well rested and it's only a 30minute effort.
Evan Jackson
Sure you're not thinking of Boswell?
Isaac Barnes
HOLY SHIT, BRUH
Juan Brooks
2 nobody RUSSIAN riders back to back take a minute out of the best climbers in the world, one of which was held up by tinkoffs car...
yeah, nothing suspicious about this
the entire Russian track and field team wasn't banned from the Olympics or anything...
Wyatt Cruz
It's not a good time. The big GC boys will floor them. Also, they haven't been in many breakaways etc.
Levi Cox
>2 nobody RUSSIAN riders not true for a start
Nathaniel Jackson
>take a minute out of the best climbers in the world the best climbers aren't even in this race, and the few really good ones haven't arrived yet
Brayden Butler
Zakarin will win this stage.
Christopher Gomez
No spoilers please
Landon Phillips
I wish he would win. Zakarin and Chaves are my favorite riders in this Giro.
Colton Davis
Go Valverde
Wyatt Young
the commercials on BEIN have been the most interesting thing about this Giro
Zachary Green
>this flag >this thread
Nolan Scott
>American cycling
Hunter Collins
Eurosport only has Alpecin
Chase Garcia
This is what I love about time trials
Aiden Mitchell
Chaves terrible.
Joshua Campbell
oh shit chaves collapsing
Isaiah Myers
Steven's gonna rek Nibali
Benjamin Edwards
Nibali doesn't look good at all could lose a lot to both Valverde and Krujswjik
Ayden Powell
I know we've only just reached the first checkpoint but
>nibali
Isaac Wood
>Nibali >Chaves
Handful of chokers.
Josiah Parker
Vuelta>Giro
Xavier Robinson
oh shit Kruiswjik going in dry
Ayden Sanchez
>my ass when angry Italian people gonna block Steven later in the stage to help nibali
Robert Sanchez
Wow. Kruiswijk looks like he's having a nice relaxed sunday afternoon ride too.
Blake Sullivan
Crushweak looks so smooth. Great time,also.
>Uran
Logan Morris
>2 victories since turning pro in 2010 >good chance of beating nibbles and winning a GT
truly the memest of races
Jaxon Gray
Krujswijik killing it
John Bennett
KRUIJSWIJK
Jeremiah Diaz
>Uran
Where did it all go wrong?
Kayden Morales
man what happened to Uran
he used to be so promising
last couple years he's been so terrible
Christopher Ramirez
Not historically, but lately yes.
Hunter Brooks
>uran
Connor Sanchez
>Zakajust
Christian Sanders
>Kruiswijk kruist voorbij op kruissnelheid als een kruisraket
thanks sporza
Easton Torres
the vaughters effect
Nathaniel Gutierrez
jesus Zakarin burnt out in the second half
Asher Collins
If crushweak puts a minute into Nibali, it's suspicious.