Vincenzo Nibali won the Giro going downhill.
I spy with my little eye a certain Michele Scarponi, who sadly lost his life while out training near his home two weeks ago, in there amongst his teammates after his captain, Nibbles, won the race. I’m torn about a death like Michele’s – we subject ourselves to similar risks every time we climb aboard our bikes and we accept it as part and parcel of our craft. Yet, while every day members of our tribe lose their lives to their trade, it takes a high profile rider to remind us how real that risk is.
But onto lighter topics, Nibali won the Giro last year going downhill, and it happened on the one stage I managed to sleep through which is another way of saying I missed it. But I love waking up to a that WTF feeling only a reshuffled GS can give you.
The race starts Friday morning, which is sooner than I expected, so I’ll stop typing so you can start picking. Get them in by the time the clock goes to zero, and remember that our Grand Tour scoring rules are a little different than the smaller events. So jump on that start list and get prognosticating!
Good luck!
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Damn. No complaints on Movistar continuing to race there but that sucks mightily hard for the Sky boys. I'm leaving Gez in there (albeit down a bit) out of respect for a proper hardman comeback...shame he faded
on the second half of the climb.
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so much of what goes on is situational. when Lance famously waited for Jan after his crash, it should be noted that he was there when it happened. likewise, when Lance fell on on the Luz Ardiden stage in 2003, he was in contact with the leaders, and it was easy enough for them to calm their tits until he could rejoin. with the Blockhaus crash, it seems like Movistar were already up the road a bit, at full gas. this would be a different scenario. definitely sucks for Sky, but that's life.
Are the rest day penalties 5 points per rider or 5 points per rider swapped?
@Rick
Usually per swap, i.e. if you change places say GT - Yates to Yates - GT that is 2 swaps.
@Teocalli
Thank you for the explanation.
Okay time for my first change to my tips!
So my second rest day swap is - Landa in my 5th spot is out and Pinot is in.
I'm keeping Thomas in there and just hoping that he will pull back some time through the TT's.
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Best Giro-related quote I've seen in the last few days "Bauke Mollema- a man who sounds as if he was naked underwater".
@RobSandy
NAMED. NAMED underwater. Oh FFS.