Garzelli would be my early tip. Even Cunego.Eldrack said:Last 5k or so of the first climb is pretty steep, could cause some gaps. However they'll heal up pretty quickly on the descent and up to the start of the climb at Sestriere unless one team really decides to hammer it. Sestriere isn't too hard a climb and the long, straight decent after it means that a group of 60 or so will hit that last climb.
Last climb is short but has a technical descent, then there's a small wall of a climbin Pinarello itself so we could see some small gaps, favouring an attacking rider who descends well. Nothing major though, that last climb just isn't hard enough to really break the peloton apart. A break could well take this but I'm going to guess that the break gets caught on the descent from Sestriere and Simoni goes for glorly over the last climb.
limerickman said:thanks for the contributions
It would not be surprising to see the two of them in an early attack group. they need to try something to revolutionize their giro. Last year Sella climbed back into contention with some attacks from far away. But I don't know if these two have the ehem "legs" to pull it off. Practically the entire Astana team is ahead of Garzelli in the gc, showing some obviously good ehem "legs". they will surely put one of their guys in such a group. Perhaps even Armstrong.Grater said:Garzelli would be my early tip. Even Cunego.
Or considering Columbia are on a roll, Pinotti.
Di Luca is riding with huge motive. He knows he has to take every chance. Maybe, at the end, it pays off - maybe not. In any case, it's going to be very interesting till the end.Cobblestones said:Very interesting racing today. I can see now how DDL's tactic might pay off in the end. He's almost 2' on LL now. The ITT is very technical which might prevent LL and Menchov to gain too much time on DDL. All in all a great day for the Killer.
I think he can handle that last TT very well. It's not too long and if he has the pink jersey on his shoulders - he'll keep it.Eldrack said:There's 2 TTs, 3 MT finishes and one decent hill finish left. If Di Luca doesn't loose too much time on the TTs and can carry his climbing form through to the longer mountain top finishes then he's going to be very hard to beat.
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