Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 While it is very wet in the early part of the course, it is actually bone dry at the finish. Elsewhere, the rain has abated and the roads are drying.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 It is touch and go, and it all depends on how Dumoulin has recovered from yesterday's setback. However, it is feasible that an in-form Dumoulin could make up at least a minute on the other GC rivals and put himself back into pink. After yesterday's showing, it seems unlikely that he will hold onto it for too long.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Tom Dumoulin looked very disappointed at the finish. This is what he had to say at the finish. "My legs were a little bit better than yesterday but I didn’t want to take any risk with this weather and I didn’t win."
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Brambilla is off and that is all the riders out on course. We will soon start seeing how the complexion of the general classification has changed.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Esteban Chaves passes through the first intermediate check at 44 seconds down. Today is about damage limitation for him.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Landa is passes through the second and he's not too far behind the time of Tom Dumoulin and is just over a minute down for now.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Hesjedal comes through to the finish, taking the final corner very slowly. He posts a time of 54:43 which is 2:58 slower than our fastest rider Primoz Roglic.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 reminder of how things currently stand in the top 10 1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 00:51:452 Mathias Brandle (Aut) IAM Cycling 00:51:553 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) IAM Cycling 00:52:024 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek-Segafredo 00:52:135 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 00:52:156 Stefan Kung (Swi) BMC Racing 00:52:437 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 00:52:538 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 00:53:019 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff Team 00:53:1610 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R-La Mondiale 00:53:23
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 The weather gods shaking up the order of things and allowing for unusual names as contenders today
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Rafal Majka goes through the second time check at 1:27 down and that is not a great time for the Polish rider.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 The final run towards the line has caught a few riders out today. There's a tight corner, road paint and cobbles to contend with. Let's hope that all the remaining riders can make it through ok.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Uran Uran lost a lost of time as he goes through that second check. He's almost two minutes down.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Jungels approaching the finish line now as Zakarin goes 18 seconds down at the first time check.
Eugene Oppelt Posted May 15, 2016 Posted May 15, 2016 Jungels doesn't managed to beat Roglic's time. He stops the clock at 52:30 and that is good enough for sixth place.
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