The Finestre looks utterly epic!! Pictures taken a few days ago.
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I reckon things will blow up completely on the Finestre and we'll be left with a handful of GC riders together (and probably one or two major contender out the back). With two climbs still on the menu it will hopefully be mano e mano for the remaining 60km. Eee. Exciting.
Aru has gone already. Interesting cat and mouse, with a break featuring a couple of domestiques for Sky and Sunweb being chased down by the MS team. They won't want anyone that Froome or Dumoulin can jump across to on the Finestre, but equally won't want to burn out their team chasing them down.
Aru has always had question marks over him, seems to have those very unbelievable special days
I believe the consensus is that the motor was in the motorbike that stayed surprisingly close to his front wheel all the way round
5,216m of climbing today. Oof.
Sky on the front at the start of the Finestre and MS have evaporated.
They're really stringing out the lead group. An 18km climb, this group is going to be very small by the top I think.
Fooking 'eck. Yates is out the back already!
Crumbs, he's virtually out of pink already. It's on.
Yates is rocking all over his bike. Having an awful day. He could be off the podium at this rate.
Only 15 or so riders in the lead group now and they've got half the climb to go!
Lopez has popped as well.
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Looks like the Sky train have found their 'bags' this week
Looking good for Dumoulin so far. Got men in the group and he's staying near the front himself. If he gets over this then you can't see him losing ground on Sestriere.
I dunno why you bother watching the sport. Anything remotely strong is instantly down to drugs.