GIRO 2022 (6th May-29th May)

[FORZA SELHURST]

Originally Posted by kabbott

I'm not sure they were saved though. Castro maybe, but surely Carapaz would have prefered Porte and Sivakov to be in that leading group with him for all the obvious reasons.

I think they might've drilled it as a train but Carapaz being in the crash made them go conservatively - other teams should've tested him.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Tomorrow. No problems at all here then. I wonder who might succumb to the 'bad rest day' phenomenon?

Apparently there is a risk of bad weather. Let's hope there's no changes to the course, otherwise bring it on!

[kabbott]

Tomorrow should be a great day. I think Yates, Carapaz and Hindley will fight it out for the stage victory. Landa will have the "Day after rest day" syndrome. I also think Almeida and Lopez will have a bad day too.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Ha! You read my mind. TJ is a DS at Bora (edit: EF) now I believe so there may be some echoes of his GT methods.

But, yeah if I was the RAI director I'd put a camera bike on Landa. Or a drone or some shit.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Oh, I think Ciccone will double up btw .

[kabbott]

That Teglio blip before the final climb is an uncategorised 5.1 kilometers at 8.7%!

[stevek]

How is that uncategorised!

[kabbott]

Is someone going to crash on the final descent? Stay safe chaps!

[FORZA SELHURST]

Landa seemed to avoid any bad-bags but not his own team-mate. They're going to have to do something about Almeida.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Stage:

01 [CZE] Jan Hirt Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert 05:40:45
02 [NED] Thymen Arensman Team DSM + 07
03 [AUS] Jai Hindley BORA-hansgrohe + 01:24
04 [ECU] Richard Carapaz INEOS Grenadiers + 01:24
05 [ESP] Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team + 01:24
06 [ESP] Mikel Landa Bahrain Victorious + 01:24
07 [GER] Lennard Kämna BORA-hansgrohe + 01:38
08 [POR] Joao Almeida UAE Team Emirates + 01:38
09 [ITA] Vincenzo Nibali Astana Qazaqstan Team + 02:06
10 [GBR] Hugh Carthy EF Education-EasyPost + 02:13
11 [ESP] Pello Bilbao Bahrain Victorious + 03:23
12 [ITA] Domenico Pozzovivo Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 04:11
13 [FRA] Pavel Sivakov INEOS Grenadiers + 04:11
14 [GER] Emanuel Buchmann BORA-hansgrohe + 04:11
15 [AUS] Lucas Hamilton Team BikeExchange-Jayco + 07:07

GC:

01 [ECU] Richard Carapaz INEOS Grenadiers 68:49:06
02 [AUS] Jai Hindley BORA-hansgrohe + 03
03 [POR] Joao Almeida UAE Team Emirates + 44
04 [ESP] Mikel Landa Bahrain Victorious + 59
05 [ITA] Vincenzo Nibali Astana Qazaqstan Team + 03:40
06 [ITA] Domenico Pozzovivo Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 03:48
07 [ESP] Pello Bilbao Bahrain Victorious + 03:51
08 [GER] Emanuel Buchmann BORA-hansgrohe + 04:45
09 [CZE] Jan Hirt Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 07:42
10 [ESP] Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team + 09:04
11 [ESP] Juan Pedro Lopez Trek-Segafredo + 09:55
12 [NED] Thymen Arensman Team DSM + 10:23
13 [AUS] Lucas Hamilton Team BikeExchange-Jayco + 17:11
14 [GBR] Hugh Carthy EF Education-EasyPost + 17:28
15 [COL] Santiago Buitrago Bahrain Victorious + 23:18
16 [FRA] Guillaume Martin Cofidis + 25:46
17 [ITA] Lorenzo Fortunato EOLO-Kometa Cycling Team + 27:20
18 [FRA] Pavel Sivakov INEOS Grenadiers + 28:24
19 [NED] Wilco Kelderman BORA-hansgrohe + 32:37
20 [GER] Lennard Kämna BORA-hansgrohe + 32:44

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[kabbott]

EDIT: Pipped at the post!

Stage 16:

1 RTC Jan Hirt Intermarché - Wanty Gobert 5h40'45''
2 HOL Thymen Arensman Team DSM at 0'07''
3 AUS Jai Hindley Bora-Hansgrohe at 1'24''
4 EQU Richard Carapaz Ineos Grenadiers at 1'24''
5 ESP Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team at 1'24''
6 ESP Mikel Landa Bahrain Victorious at 1'24''
7 ALL Lennard Kamna Bora-Hansgrohe at 1'38''
8 POR João Almeida UAE Team Emirates at 1'38''
9 ITA Vincenzo Nibali Astana Qazaqstan at 2'06''
10 GBR Hugh Carthy EF Education - Easy Post at 2'13''
11 ESP Pello Bilbao Bahrain Victorious at 3'23''
12 ITA Domenico Pozzovivo Intermarché - Wanty Gobert at 4'11''
13 FRA Pavel Sivakov Ineos Grenadiers at 4'11''
14 ALL Emanuel Buchmann Bora-Hansgrohe at 4'11''
15 AUS Lucas Hamilton BikeExchange - Jayco at 7'07''
16 ESP Juan Pedro Lopez Trek-Segafredo at 7'15''
17 COL Santiago Buitrago Bahrain Victorious at 8'22''
18 HOL Wouter Poels Bahrain Victorious at 8'22''
19 USA Joseph Dombrowski Astana Qazaqstan at 11'58''
20 AUS Richie Porte Ineos Grenadiers at 11'58''

[kabbott]

Originally Posted by FORZA SELHURST

Landa seemed to avoid any bad-bags but not his own team-mate. They're going to have to do something about Almeida.

You've got to admire Almeida and his never-say-die attitude, but he can't surely keep that up all week, can he?

[kabbott]

I'm also waiting for Foss to prove he is actually in this race!

[FORZA SELHURST]

These are tough mountain stages throwing up a variety of challenges I think he'll crack as he can't Wiggo/Evans it all the way. But saying he'll crack - someone needs to do the cracking. I think there's continued wet weather coming so that should expose his descending frailties.

[kabbott]

They certainly were taking that final descent very gingerly.
Astana, Ineos and Bora-Hansgrohe all showed they had strong teams today. There's really not much in it between Hindley and Carapaz for the moment.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Last climb looks pretty hard and one should expect them to go full at it as the following stage is a soft-pedalling job for the sprinters.

[FORZA SELHURST]

Stage:

01 Buitrago Santiago Bahrain Victorious 04:27:41 100
02 Leemreize Gijs Jumbo-Visma + 35 40
03 Hirt Jan Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 02:28 20
04 Carthy Hugh EF Education-EasyPost + 02:28 12
05 Carapaz Richard [Leader jersey] INEOS Grenadiers + 02:53 4
06 Hindley Jai BORA-hansgrohe + 02:53
07 Vansevenant Mauri Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team + 02:57
08 Bouwman Koen [Mountain jersey] Jumbo-Visma + 02:59
09 Martin Guillaume Cofidis + 02:59
10 Landa Mikel Bahrain Victorious + 02:59
11 Gall Felix AG2R Citroën Team + 03:02
12 van der Poel Mathieu Alpecin-Fenix + 03:06
13 Poels Wout Bahrain Victorious + 03:23
14 Almeida Joao [Youth jersey] UAE Team Emirates + 04:03
15 Valter Attila Groupama-FDJ + 04:54

GC:

01 - [ECU] Carapaz Richard INEOS Grenadiers 73:19:40
02 - [AUS] Hindley Jai BORA-hansgrohe + 03
03 1 [ESP] Landa Mikel Bahrain Victorious + 01:05
04 1 [POR] Almeida Joao UAE Team Emirates + 01:54
05 - [ITA] Nibali Vincenzo Astana Qazaqstan Team + 05:48
06 1 [ESP] Bilbao Pello Bahrain Victorious + 06:19
07 2 [CZE] Hirt Jan Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 07:12
08 - [GER] Buchmann Emanuel BORA-hansgrohe + 07:13
09 2 [ESP] Lopez Juan Pedro Trek-Segafredo + 12:27
10 4 [ITA] Pozzovivo Domenico Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert + 12:30
11 3 [GBR] Carthy Hugh EF Education-EasyPost + 17:03
12 2 [ESP] Valverde Alejandro Movistar Team + 17:46
13 1 [NED] Arensman Thymen Team DSM + 19:13
14 1 [COL] Buitrago Santiago Bahrain Victorious + 20:15
15 2 [AUS] Hamilton Lucas Team BikeExchange-Jayco + 23:57
16 - [FRA] Martin Guillaume Cofidis + 25:52
17 - [ITA] Fortunato Lorenzo EOLO-Kometa Cycling Team + 29:23
18 - [FRA] Sivakov Pavel INEOS Grenadiers + 30:52
19 - [NED] Kelderman Wilco BORA-hansgrohe + 35:04
20 - [GER] Kämna Lennard BORA-hansgrohe + 35:41

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[FORZA SELHURST]

Should be a straight-forward sprint but that little bump just over 50kms from the end is quite nasty and could be selective if it were to be really pushed. You've got to think they'd bring it back though (probably FDJ but they might shake off a Cav/ANOther in process).

[kabbott]

Quite happy with my 5th, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th and 15th places yesterday though at one point about 40km from the finish I had the three in the break: MVDP, Martin and Gall.

[kabbott]

I'm still waiting for Foss to prove to me that he is actually in the race.