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Well it was a move that even had the commentators on eurpsport confused

 

Yea sure that's a bit like road rage, we all want to make them pay, but sometimes keeping calm and doing things the clever way ends with the best result.... i.e. wait for them and then ride them off your wheel.

 

Unless he was not confident enough to try that :eek:

 

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Hope it backfires on him / does not backfire on him in the next 3 days

 

While 5 minutes seems unbeatable he still has to handle 2 monster stages and another +/- 650 km after his effort yesterday

But now where were you when they (astana) did it to him[emoji6] [emoji12]

 

Only Bertie knows why he does things... perhaps a little test to see how they react.. think he still wants that stage win.

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Watched yesterday's stage late in the evening. Shooting furniture all day. This afternoon I will be glued to the TV. On the trainer so I don't turn into a total couch potato.

 

Going to be a cracker I think. What's interesting to me is who is recovering well and who is feeling the racing from the past few days. Well all of them must be feeling it but who is in best shape. Landa and Aru in particular after yesterday.

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But now where were you when they (astana) did it to him[emoji6] [emoji12]

 

Only Bertie knows why he does things... perhaps a little test to see how they react.. think he still wants that stage win.

 

My hub time has become somewhat limited plus I'm not a huge fan of berto :oops:

I understand the situation, and still maintain (in hindsight) he could done it better, but good to see he is human and suffers the same red mist issues we all do (assuming he did it to tech them a lesson).

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Astana finally paying the price for their 1st and 2nd week efforts to bust 'Berto.

They are showing up fragmented and not as organised and sharp.

Aru is on a survival course for Milan. He looks moeg. Might even slip off the podium at this rate.

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There's about 170km to go in today's stage (of 230km).

 

Hectic first hour of racing with over 50km covered  :eek: .

 

9 riders have now established a break of 3:00 on the peloton:

 

Betancur and Montaguti (Ag2r)

Rutkiewicz (CCC)

Ulissi (Lampre)

Visconti (Movistar)

Chaves (Orica)
Kochetkov (Katusha)

Van der Lijke (Lotto NL)

Kiryienka (Team Sky)

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158km of racing remaining

 

confirmation that we have a break up the road that contains Betancur and Montaguti (Ag2r), Rutkiewicz (CCC), Ulissi (Lampre), Visconti (Movistar), Chaves (Orica), Kochetkov (Katusha), Van der Lijke (Lotto NL), and Kiryienka (Team Sky). They have 3'18 over the peloton.

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Kruijswijk will be the most nervous rider in the bunch because there are some riders who can really cut his lead in the KOM competition up the road.

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Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 92 pts
2 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Movistar Team 91
3 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 73
4 Carlos Betancur (Col) AG2R La Mondiale 68
5 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 53
6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 51
7 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 45

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This giro for me is better than the tour! Same as in 2011... allot of action and i loooooove the podium music they play... very victorious !!!  :thumbup:

 

See you on the top of the podium in milan Berto !!!

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