Giro Stage 8

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Wiggins is loosing time to his rivals not clawing it back at this rate

Wiggo usually aims fir negative splits though....likely to make time 2nd half

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

2nd for Wiggins (bike change cost him the difference), still think Scarponi, Gesink, Evans, Hesjedal, Inxausti and Nibali will still all go quicker than Wiggins

Remind me to take no notice of your thoughts for the rest of the season whilst playing the game

Ghedebrav wrote:

Wiggins really up against it now in GC. Nibali's to lose, I reckon.

I wonder what Chris Froome's making of it?

I don't think it's that said and done ....summit finishes and another ITT TO come

stumps wrote:

There are a lot of doom and gloom people on this site today, Wiggins changed his bike and still took time from Nibali, not as much as he would have wanted, but still time.

He has had no luck this tour but is still just over a minute down.

I agree. Pessimistic outlook is creeping in on here of late. We're only on Stage 9, after all.

stumps wrote:

Looking at the coming stages with 20 secs up for grabs to the winner Sky need to go back to basics and do what they do best, hammer it at the front and watch as the rest fall by the wayside. Astana dont appear to have the strength in depth so it'll be interesting to see what Nibali does if first Uran, then Henao and finally Wiggins put their foot down, he cant chase all of them.

Agree 100% but to do that they have to stay off the front and let other teams do the chasing ....

johnny2names wrote:

Anyone know a website where we can see the split times for today's ITT? would love to study them but can only find the final times.

http://www.gazzetta.it/radiocorsa/giroditalia/2013/08/classifica_crono_p...

http://www.gazzetta.it/radiocorsa/giroditalia/2013/08/classifica_crono_p...

http://www.gazzetta.it/radiocorsa/giroditalia/2013/08/classifica_crono_f...

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Already made my transfers for tomorrow (played it safe and should do ok), anyone reckon Battaglin can make it over and win again?

Paddy Power have him as 7/1 favourite.

chiv30 wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

2nd for Wiggins (bike change cost him the difference), still think Scarponi, Gesink, Evans, Hesjedal, Inxausti and Nibali will still all go quicker than Wiggins

Remind me to take no notice of your thoughts for the rest of the season whilst playing the game

To be fair I was basing that on the first split...

obutterwick wrote:

stumps wrote:

There are a lot of doom and gloom people on this site today, Wiggins changed his bike and still took time from Nibali, not as much as he would have wanted, but still time.

He has had no luck this tour but is still just over a minute down.

I agree. Pessimistic outlook is creeping in on here of late. We're only on Stage 9, after all.

I'm on the pessimist side, this is a race that Wiggins was only likely to win by a minute or two and he's probably down by at least 3 or 4 minutes on where he and Sky planned to be.

Wiggins isn't a rider accustomed to riding away from a field to put time into his rivals, his rivals are those kind of riders and now that's exactly what he's going to have to do in order to win this race. All along the plan for his rivals was probably to force Wiggins to ride their race and not his, now his only chance of winning is to do just that.

That being said, now is the ideal time to put £10 on Wiggins to win

thanks a lot northstar!

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

chiv30 wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

2nd for Wiggins (bike change cost him the difference), still think Scarponi, Gesink, Evans, Hesjedal, Inxausti and Nibali will still all go quicker than Wiggins

Remind me to take no notice of your thoughts for the rest of the season whilst playing the game

To be fair I was basing that on the first split...

Ok I'll still take notice of you unless it's a TT stage

drheaton wrote:

Might regret not picking Dowsett after I mentioned him above but at a penalty transfer for Visconti he'd need to podium (25 points or more) to make it worth it as it'd be a penalty transfer to him in, another to get him out plus guaranteed jersey points for Visconti.

I tried to only bring in TTer's that would be useful for upcoming stages......Durbridge the only luxury pick and he'll come out tomorrow(probably for Sammy Sanchez).

Impressive from Dowsett though.....unlucky chrisdstripes!!

Philip Unwin wrote:

Berard (AG2R) DNS today

Trust him, he's in my purist...and I couldn't squeeze Dowsett into my standard team....