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Re: Giro Time : Tue May 14, 2013 3:03 pm  
Maybe Sky do have a plan. Urán off the front - trying to break Nibali's foot-soldiers rather than the man himself, I fancy, but a shift from Business As Usual nonetheless.
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Re: Giro Time : Tue May 14, 2013 8:29 pm  
Sky have a dilemma now Rigoberto or Brad, Uran looked good today but Brad finish Ok - much depends on Niboli and Evans and whether they can keep it up for two weeks.

Brad still looks OK as long as he doesn't have to go downhill in the rain!!
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Re: Giro Time : Wed May 15, 2013 10:41 am  
Unless (and this is a pretty big unless) Sky know something we don't about one of the climbs where they are confident that Brad can climb it at a far higher watts per kg than we have previously seen thereby putting a minute or more in Nibbles then I would say that that no dilemma exists.

I saw an interesting chat with Dave Brailsford after the stage yesterday where he said that they have to attack wherever they can. He wasn't playing down what Brad may or may not do.

I think that Uran is now plan A but I can't see him winning the whole thing.
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Re: Giro Time : Thu May 16, 2013 3:15 pm  
Wiggins is cooked, losing gobs of time on the flattest of stages. If he is struggling with a chest infection this weather won't be helping any, but either way, he's done.
Urán the man now.
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Re: Giro Time : Fri May 17, 2013 8:01 am  
If Uran is the man then why did Sky only give him one man while sending back 6 men to look after Brad?

I appreciate that yesterday was a fairly innocuous stage but.......I remember a long conversation last year around Froomegate where Froome should have been sent up the road to win the stage but was ordered to stay where he was 'just in case' Brad needed him.

I think having Brad still there is no good for him or the team as whilst Brailsford might be saying he is the leader I think his team and his DS's still have loyalty to Brad.
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Re: Giro Time : Sun May 19, 2013 8:11 am  
4 stage wins for Cav - has there ever been a pure sprinter as good as him?
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Re: Giro Time : Mon May 20, 2013 10:34 am  
Oh - no doubt about it at all. Cav is the best sprinter I think the sport has ever seen.

I wouldn't bet against him winning stage 17 as the climb is far enough away from the end.

Boring stage yesterday in what should have been the Queen stage yesterday should have helped his legs recover along with the rest day today.
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Re: Giro Time : Tue May 21, 2013 3:00 pm  
It's like one of the Classics today. Attack after attack after attack. Marvellous.
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Re: Giro Time : Wed May 22, 2013 11:27 am  
With Santambroggio in trouble the top 10 all smelled blood and finished him off.

Great white jersey battle between Betancuor and Majka. Nibali looked like he was maybe trying to finish off Cuddles and Uran too. Nibali has this in the bag barring disaster.

Red jersey battle is between Cuddles and Cav. Cav was playing down his chances today - it all depends how much Cuddles wants the red jersey because he could choose to attack on the final climb if Cav is around.
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Re: Giro Time : Wed May 22, 2013 3:45 pm  
Yowsers. Proper hard-man effort from Visconti today.
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