Giro d'Italia 2017

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Absolutely scandalous. How hard can it be to not stop on the road when the peloton are battling for position. Would have been nice to think Movistar would sit up for 1k and let it come back together before pushing again. Obviously too much to ask for but would have been very nice to see. They'd still have cracked everyone else.
 
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This looks like being a better race the the Tour de France this year with Quintana, Nibali, Pinot, Geraint Thomas, Adam Yates, Landa, Mollema, Zakarin, Dumoulin, Kruijswijk and Van Garderen all riding.

Difficult to see past Quintana or Nibali for the win given how hard the final week is but they could be vulnerable early on and there is a mountain top finish on Mount Etna on Stage 4.

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Best meet of the year....just back from the Giro D'East Durham - windy today - bugs out in force.
 
Dumoulin crushes everyone in the TT, great recovery ride by Thomas to take second as well

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Quintana will have to go berserk in the Alps with another TT to come on the final day


Will set the race up nicely...Quintana will have to really attack. Blockhouse meant to be the hardest climb if not hardest day and personally thought Dumoullin looked good on there.
Another mid size tt to finish means Quintana probably needs to find four minutes or so in climbs.
One thing for certain there will be other teams who will be giving him a hand( Orica certain to)

Thomas very impressive
 
Will set the race up nicely...Quintana will have to really attack. Blockhouse meant to be the hardest climb if not hardest day and personally thought Dumoullin looked good on there.
Another mid size tt to finish means Quintana probably needs to find four minutes or so in climbs.
One thing for certain there will be other teams who will be giving him a hand( Orica certain to)

Thomas very impressive

The annoying thing for Thomas will still be that, if it wasn't for the police bike, he'd probably be in a podium position currently.

Like you say, the current GC should make for a good race though. Quintana will attack, both Nibali and Pinot will try to attack as well, if possible, and Dumoulin and Mollema will defend what they have. It'd probably be in their interest for the latter two's teams to work together to a degree.
 
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