The Giro, my favourite tour of the year is only 2 weeks....

[Bonus]

6 hrs 6 min of racing in the saddle.

[Cav']

Tomorrow will be very interesting..

['Dale]

What a final wall to just test the stamina of these PROs

Beautiful Giro

 

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[Frosty]

What a fantastic stage today.

 

 

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['Dale]

The scenery

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Atapuma, so close ????????????????

[HappyMartin]

That was an amazing stage. The scenery, the courage of the riders, the attacks, the tactics, having a DD guy up there. Awesome.

['Dale]

The biggest career win for Big Smile Chaves

 

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[HappyMartin]

Siutsou in 9th.

[kosmonooit]

Chuffed for Chaviz

['Dale]

A blerrie hill sprint finish

Some big upsets

Composed young guns

Brave riding by Atapuma and Siutsou

Queen stage of note

 

Wow

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['Dale]

Atapuma reportedly in tears

['Dale]

General classification after stage 14

 

1 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 60:12:43

2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 00:00:41

3 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 00:01:32

4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 00:03:06

5 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 00:03:15

6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 00:03:29

7 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 00:03:53

8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 00:05:01

9 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data 00:05:38

10 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team

[HappyMartin]

Looking at these Columbians I'm thinking they must have an awful national rugby team.

[Bonus]

Atapuma reportedly in tears

In the last 700 odd meters he pulled out everything he had to try and hold onto the other three but they just dropped him. In the end he was a few seconds back. At one point I could see him shaking his head in frustration. Damn shame.

[tombeej]

Chaves you beauty! All his promised potential really was revealed today. The cream does always rise to the top.

 

So of the two lightys going for GC that I had my eye on (Chaves and Formolo), one has put up his hand while the other has shown he's not quite up there.

 

Chaves has now emerged as a genuine 5 star grand tour contender. Formolo will hopefully develop into a 'top 10' kind of rider.

 

The other youngster I have so much time for - young Tim Wellens - was there in the break again. Does that kid just not know anything else but to attack? Huge heart. Won't ever feature in grand tours except as a breakaway specialist, but watch out for him the Classics.

[HappyMartin]

Bob Jungels has really impressed me. I think he will make a good classics rider. He is in the right team as well.