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Old 05-19-2018, 01:55 AM
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Zoncolan today....
Anybody excited about this stage?
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Old 05-19-2018, 07:53 AM
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Anybody excited about this stage?
Watching it now on TIZ...22% baby..at least in one section.
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Old 05-19-2018, 08:51 AM
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It is my idea or froomey is getting dropped? like half way the group.
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What a descent!
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Old 05-19-2018, 09:45 AM
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yeegads froomie is ugly on the bike..
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Elbows sticking out, head bobbing, yep.
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Elbows sticking out, head bobbing, yep.
Whose worse: Aru or Froome?

I was so pulling for Yates.
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What a great finish, congrats to Froome, Yates is something else and Dumoulin for somehow making up time at the finish.
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They asked Sean Kelley if he had ridden it, and he said no--and that it scared him. That cracked me up!

I too thought Yates was going to close it down, but that last kick-up really favored Froome's spinning over Yates's power style.

Great racing, great control by Demoulin to hold Yates's gap to 30+ seconds.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out!
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Whose worse: Aru or Froome?
Aru's style is so bad, it's good. Comical pain-face, absurd see-sawing on the bike = enjoyable to watch.
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Whose worse: Aru or Froome?
I was so pulling for Yates.
I think after today, I see Froome in the podium. The guy is a fighter, you gotta admit. And he will smoke Pinot in the TT.
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Old 05-19-2018, 10:51 AM
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The shots of Zoncolan summit is goosebumps time. Was hoping Yates could close but great race nonetheless. Dumoulin hanging tough. The last week will be fun. Find of the tour so far is obviously Ultra renaming Froomey as PuffPuff. I like
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podium? no idea... a lot of high mountains next week but who knows maybe 3rd.

IMO teams got a chance to get rid off of froome before and they got afraid, now are paying the consequences and actually today froome was at some point in the back, he can get to 3rd if he does a good TT and if pinot and pozzovivo continue having bad days as pinot did today.

Pinot and pozzovivo's team gonna have to get rid off of sky in the next stages, "they die or we die" type of scenario, or they gonna have to say bye bye to 3rd place.

Good for froome, was hoping yates was going to win it tho, his attack looked so smooth that felt unreal.

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Old 05-19-2018, 11:32 AM
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Aru's style is so bad, it's good. Comical pain-face, absurd see-sawing on the bike = enjoyable to watch.
Yeah, I'm with ya. Was it a previous Giro or the Tour where he was crying with snot falling out of his nose during a bad day?
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