Giro d'Italia - Tappa 12

S2
1 Lammertink
2 Belkov
3 Marcato
4 De Backer
5 Felline
6 Pauwels
Which puts Belkov into 4th in points class and drops Santambrogio to 6th

M2
1 Belkov
2 Felline
3 Marcato
Mountain class
1 Pirazzi
2 Rodriguez
3 Chalapud
4 Belkov
5 Visconti

Wiggins and all the Sky team have been detached at the back.

What a shame, Wiggo could lose 5 mins here easy

I think Uran has stayed in the main group

Come on Peleton! chase them down, got far too many of you to not!

Shit it. Mezgec 3rd, Modolo looked like getting third but messed up and sat up, prob lost ten places for it. Picked the wrong guy again!

Well, I cocked up a little and forgot to make transfers for today At least I still have Cav in my purist team though

1,2 missing number 3, bah!

1,2,3 BUT I fully expect Bouhanni to get bumped down after cutting Modolo up like that.

I took Viviani in over Nizzolo

Bye Bye Wiggo, I fell asleep, so didn't see what happened to him, just saw him rolling in nearly 4 minutes down

Nothing 'happened', he's ill.

u think Bouhanni will get bumped???

Got detached on the descent again

Got a little detached on a descent then BMC forced the pace to distance him completely.

Sky tried to get him back on but their pace was too much and they dropped him. He ended up riding alone at one point before Sky picked him back up and tried to coax him to the finish.

He lost his bottle in the first week when he spilled , that has cost him every stage that even hinted at being mildly moist on any descent , it showed in the ITT after the bike change if you ask me .

Cheers folks, I thought it might have been a descent. I just don't understand him, he might be feeling like crap, he was losing time, just gun it, if you slide out, then you lose time anyway...

Plane for Wiggins me thinks.....Its embarassing to watch....It should be Dame Bradley Wiggins at the moment as his bollo**s have gone walkabout....

I have an inside tip for tomorrow on who NOT to pick and ditch him......

Who wants it?

'Thanks for your very insightful reply.....I've known he was ill since Sunday '

cool. Answered your own question then.

Gkam84 wrote:

I have an inside tip for tomorrow on who NOT to pick and ditch him......

Who wants it?

Already on it

Its going public now....I thought it wouldn't be out until the morning, surprised the released it so soon after the stage

Aye, bit daft really though as he'd be a decent shout for tomorrow.

Think one of the biggest problems for Wiggins today was the fact that the maglia rosa group also had the sprinters' teams in it chasing the break... so Nibali et al just took a tow while OPQS etc did the work, and Sky - a team built for GC, not sprints - were always going to lose time in the last 15k as the break was chased down.

On another day, one where a break was allowed to stay away, he may have got back on. Was never going to happen today though, sadly.

Modolo's tweet -

Quando Mark mi ha portato sulla dx ormai non ne avevo più per passarlo. Bouhanni non è stato scorretto ha solo avuto fegato di passare!!

Once through google translate -

When Mark took me on right now I had no more to pass. Bouhanni was not incorrect liver has only had to go!

Goddamit Mezgec - I stuck with you for so long and NOW you come up with the goods?!

Pff. Cav aside (and Nizzolo in 4th), not a good day, especially plumping for Vivian over Bouhanni.

At the last minute decided to take a penalty and add Mezgec as a rainy sprinter.

They just do not come right often enough do they?

Still leaves me too far behind, maybe I should get a plane home.

Wiggins for the tour!

Hearing Bouhanni's gone home too.

I'm almost getting bored of saying it (not really), so here it is in anagram form;

A pub demigod!

Anyone know why Pantano got 10 points? Didn't follow the stage today.

Colombians

Yay, mezgec finally comes good.....had him all tour so far.......the rule about not picking goes is one I should listen to.....had him in for far too many sprints this year, and he's done next to nothing.....goss can >>>>>>>>>>>>