Giro d’Italia

Dr Winston wrote:

Sniffer wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Not entirely convinced tomorrow ends in a sprint. Gonna go with three sprinters but plenty of others from the break will see this as a last chance saloon.  Any thoughts?

I can see a 50/50 chance of one of those stupidly big breaks…

Sprint is certainly not a stick on.  Picking the breakers will be a challenge though.

Very hard to pick a breakaway rider…better off not bothering. 

Demare would be happy to see 20 riders way out up front ….as would the GC boys…that only really leaves Bora to chase. ..unless of course Demare wants to try for a stage win but he’d risk his pts jersey. So basically the stage depends on Bora’s willingness to chase a break on a very long stage. 

ICA may chase too.

Sniffer]

Sniffer wrote:

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INEOS are looking for a top 10 finish for Sivakov.  Gap to Formolo may have been the concern.

Can’t help thinking that giving up the GC and looking for a stage win might have given them a more succesful Giro.  I suppose Dunbar might have delivered that earlier and they could have had both.

Yes, I finally figured it.

I suppose pushing all the way to keep his top10 might help Sivakov in the future.

Dr Winston wrote:

Well it looks like it’s gonna be that way today. A free gift to the breakaway and back to back easier days for the GC boys coming up.

At one stage it looked like Bahrain were going to chase but I think they realised the gap was too big, since then Sky have been chasing and I have absolutley no idea why.

Dr Winston wrote:

Dunno what to think about today. Blew two transfers on nothingness but kinda called a part of it right. Got sit of Zakarin because I thought he’s crack and that downhill wouldn’t be his cup of tea….and also that it might have been too much for Sivakov. Both kinda worked….however….I brought Majka in….doh…

I’ve been blowing transfers and making my team worse at the same time too.

After the first 2 weeks I expected the break to score more points and GC to take a back seat.

When I did get a good pick inthe break they called him back to help Yates.

No changes for today then 4 sprinters in for stage 18.

Not sure whether to save many transfers for the last ITT because there aren’t many sure ITT picks left.

Hello again all. Out of
Hello again all. Out of touch recently as I’ve been on a fjords cruise with Mrs Gecko. Great holiday but 50p a minute internet access, no eurosport and having to dress for dinner every night is a heavy price to fulfil romantic duties!

Catching up with events now though ~ Glad the tours all still to play for and looking forward to the final week but even more clueless than usual. First job yesterday with sufficient time to study form was to drop masnada in favour of majka. It looks like I haven’t lost my touch….