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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As with everyone else, just reaffirming the original picks after the mechanical at the start, rather than changing them.
Thanks for reopening @frank
Nairo clearly the classiest but will he hold back for the tour.
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Leaving my picks the same as the previous "just in case" list, even if most of you are going with Quintana.
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Yesterday's stage was more up and down than I expected it to be. Sardinia looks like it'd be a cool place to ride around for a few days. Well done Greipel for continuing his record of stage wins in every Giro. What happened to Ewan in the sprint? They called a mechanical but it looked to me as if he unclipped his left foot in the squeeze.
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