Giro d’Italia

Dennis has been fantastic.  There was those that doubted INEOS signing him, but he has been the perfect super domestique team mate.  Looks genuinely to be enjoying himself in this race.

I spent last night going Dennis or TdG.  Went the wrong way. 

Sniffer wrote:

Dennis has been fantastic.  There was those that doubted INEOS signing him, but he has been the perfect super domestique team mate.  Looks genuinely to be enjoying himself in this race.

I spent last night going Dennis or TdG.  Went the wrong way.

There was a time where he could have been winning GC himself, he was always going to be a good domestique if he got the right team and wage. He just didn't get on with some in his old team and wasn't willing to work for someone he didn't have faith in.

Did the same Cerny or Dennis? went for Cerny, as a saver in case the breakaway was stronger

I glad the break stayed away, a bunch sprint over the last 100 metres would have been a crashfest, a dip in the road into a cobble roundabout and a cobbled crossing just before the line. It would have been messy.

TdG seems to be basically ensuring that he picks it up if Guerreiro does DNF for any reason.

Obviously I'd put Visconti in today, assuming that yesterday he skipped the break to save his gas for today.  Nope!

Thankfully, I slept in and missed the deadline today, so didn't put him in. TdG will keep trying, but Guerreiro just has to mark him.

The GC is changing dramatically, so much that the BBC writer must be wetting himself, he's not mentioned Tao once, but is covering Froome and trying to figure out how he can make 30 minutes back...

The ugly duckling who inevitably becomes a swan when you take him out. I lanced the Fuglsang boil today & replaced him with .......... Ulissi.... I'll get my coat.

.......Ulissi in the break today. He clearly knew I had taken him out!

It could only be Gaviria, here is why...I've only got 2 riders left in my purist...

Evens it out though, 3 Covid and 3 crashes. Now what will Ganna and Fuglsang do to themselves in the last week? Does everyone want a heads up for Vuleta of who to avoid...

I've gone for something different as I CBA with racing at the moment, it shouldn't be happening. I've got my purist squad and my standard the same, so both will run "as is" until someone isn't there and I can replace them in my standard. See how I get on.

Oh that's rough, don't think I've ever seen worse luck in a purist team ever.

I was wondering if being down to 3 in my purist team (Ganna, Demare & Masnada left - lost Thomas, Yates, Matthews, Ciccone & Gaviria) would be some kind of record, but you have outdone me Gkam!

Molano will not make the time cut after his crash and delay for treatment. It should be 25% today, with a 43min, that'll be around 10/11 minutes. So 54/55min limit. He's come in over 58

Correction, they've said it will be 30% for the cut today. Still means Molano isn't making it, but his hand was in quite a mess. Don't know how he managed, but he hit the inside wall on a corner.

Ganna 42:40, today's stage winner.

Now over to see what the GC guys can do, but that isn't getting beaten

Don't know what obscure rule they have pulled out, but Molano is still being classified in the official results from Giro...Might need to update the game

I'm really not sure. It looks like ASO/UCI are just going to plough on as usual and the Spanish government seem to be allowing them so far. Teams and officials are mainly on the ground in and around Irun now ready for the race to begin on Tuesday, whether it or Giro gets to finish their full compliment of stages is still to be seen. 

I'm not sure Madrid Challenge will happen, womens teams pulled out of Flanders because of the lack of protocols being followed, both by the race and other teams. There was no way to call it secure.

Yeah just seen that on Twitter. Race jury apparently manually set the time limit to 16 minutes so Molano can start. Guess that means he got last place.