Giro 2016

[tenacious1]

Starts Friday, 5/6/2016.
http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/

The route -- in honor of VP of Tea the first three stages are in the Netherlands this year.
http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/route/

(Should I post this in Yammering instead of here?)

[tenacious1]

Power ranking for the 22 teams. 

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016-giro-ditalia-teams-power-rankings

[tenacious1]

Rest day.


Yes, really.

[ctjim]

Or as Lance used to call it, "New blood day !"
From the brief coverage I've seen, it looks like Kittel is having a good time.

[tenacious1]

First summit finish was today. Things are starting to shake out a little bit.

Full Results
Rider Name (Country) Team

Result

1 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4:40:05   
2 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:19   
3 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha     
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:01:22   
5 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data 0:01:24   
6 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale     
7 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 0:01:29   
8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:33   
9 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team     
10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:36   
11 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo     
12 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:01:39   
13 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:01:41   
14 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:43   
15 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Trek-Segafredo     
16 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data     
17 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team     
18 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team     
19 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida     
20 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team     
21 Rein Taaramae (Est) Team Katusha     
22 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale     
23 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling   

[tenacious1]

12:06:26 CEST


Race leader Tom Dumoulin received a pizza as he went to sign on. Unclear if he ate it there and then or folded it up and stuffed it into his jersey.



 

[wherestheportojohn]

 

[tenacious1]

Who the heck is Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo? And do you pronounce his last name?

After the uphill TT on Sunday he's leading by over 2 minutes. Nibali had a bad day and lost over two minutes.

[Mrtambourineman]

Who the heck is Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo? And do you pronounce his last name?

After the uphill TT on Sunday he's leading by over 2 minutes. Nibali had a bad day and lost over two minutes.

He'll make that up easily beside the team car. 

[tenacious1]

He's already got a cover story worked out in case he gets caught.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nibali-to-quit-the-giro-ditalia-if-tests-show-signs-of-illness/

[ctjim]

Yesterday's stage 
Into a snowbank? Really?

[tenacious1]

Was he just not paying attention? The clip I found doesn't show what led up to the crash.

[tenacious1]

He'll make that up easily beside the team car. 

You called it. He made it up.

[Mrtambourineman]

You called it. He made it up.