mididoctors
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Break seems popular
Giro d'Italia 2025 spoilers
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Sounds like Yates is working for Roglic. 😂
Smart move by Roglic. Let UAD do all the work while his team hides/recovers.
No Ta Doctor
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No Ta Doctor
Senior Member
The two Yates:
United Adam Yates
Visma Lease-A-Yates
United Adam Yates
Visma Lease-A-Yates
mididoctors
Senior Member
Fortunato paying for the efforts
mididoctors
Senior Member
This break might just go through whole way... Who chases
mididoctors
Senior Member
Visma apparently
The other Yates, Visma
Wrong team, correct tactics. 😉
Maybe old habits die hard. Follow the team in yellow. 😂
No Ta Doctor
Senior Member
With a little help from Q36.5 and Trek. That should pretty easily cover it - break seems to be static at around 2 mins for now
Blazing Saddles
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Hatch trying to sell snake oil to cycling fans in the form of Roland Garros; possibly the most dull tennis tournament of the year.
How’s those algorithms, Rob?
A rapid stage I see. It’s going to end up a GC battle by the looks.
How’s those algorithms, Rob?
A rapid stage I see. It’s going to end up a GC battle by the looks.
BrumJim
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I've never watched a stage that ends on top of a cat 4 hill before. Would have thought that a large peleton could keep with anyone pushing the pace up the hill other than at the sprint finish, so a GC contender would just waste their resources for only a second or two bonus.
I shall wait and see.
I shall wait and see.
No Ta Doctor
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It's not all that much effort really, there's positioning to be at the front when you hit the mur, then a sprint-climb up the last few hundred meters. There've been plenty in the past, usually a mix of puncheurs like Alaphilippe, Pidock, Gilbert (who won here in Vicenza years ago) and the punchier GC riders. There's not usually much of a gap, but 10" for the winner isn't to be sneezed at.
mididoctors
Senior Member
It thin out a lot is my guess on the small climbs before ... First the riders who have no chance of winning / contributing... Then the guys pulling at warp speed will drop riders attritionally till they blow up themselves leaving a select puncheur GC group
mididoctors
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Is there a 3 K rule today ?
Blazing Saddles
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If the climb is categorised, then the answer is probably no. That’s the rule.
So there should be no turning off and sitting up.
Remember Le Harve, when the GC boys got into a right old tiz, after mechanicals and a crash…
