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Chuffed to see Pippo win the TT , G back up to second place too . Sundays stage looks brutal, they’ll be looking forward to the rest day on Monday before another day in the mountains on Tuesday 

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Today's gradient profile is just mental. Almost 18000 feet of climbing, the most in one day on a grand tour stage by some distance.

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Thomas &  co managed to hold the gap to under 3 minutes, but the only way Pogacar isn't winning this is if he has a bad crash. (Which tbh was already the case before today)

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If Pogi is serious about a giro tour double he really should be knocking off the effort a bit and saving himself. He went pop at last year's tour and that was without the giro. I suppose the difference this year is the question marks around Vingegaard's fitness 

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1 hour ago, jaggyness said:

If Pogi is serious about a giro tour double he really should be knocking off the effort a bit and saving himself. He went pop at last year's tour and that was without the giro. I suppose the difference this year is the question marks around Vingegaard's fitness 

Yep, with 7 minutes to play with he just needs to be following the right wheels, no need to be pushing too hard.

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It can only be said that Pogi has given the Giro & Maglia Rosa the ultimate respect by drilling it for 3 weeks. The out & out favourite, he’s won it by a country mile; when he could have secured the advantage & defended it for the last 2 weeks.

However, I can’t see it being anything other than detrimental to his attempt in the Giro/Tour double.

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As predicted Pogacar dominated this year’s Giro another stage win today and a winning margin of almost 10 minutes, only injury or himself will stop him from dominating 

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4 hours ago, kiddy said:

It can only be said that Pogi has given the Giro & Maglia Rosa the ultimate respect by drilling it for 3 weeks. The out & out favourite, he’s won it by a country mile; when he could have secured the advantage & defended it for the last 2 weeks.

However, I can’t see it being anything other than detrimental to his attempt in the Giro/Tour double.

I did kinda wonder if he would coast this week with one eye on Le Tour but maybe the psychological aspect on his rivals of such a massive victory will be worth it - anyway congrats to Tadej! 👏

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  • 2 weeks later...

Remco, Roglic and Aysuo crash hard in a mass pile up at the Dauphine.

Remco was left sitting on the road for an absolute age, holding his shoulder, until the stage was neutralised. He did climb back on and pedal in with the peloton.

van Baarle and Kruijswijk have abandoned though. van Baarle in particular seemed to be in a bad way as he was loaded into the ambulance.

What a disaster this season is turning out to be for Jumbo LAB. Vingegaard still a doubt for the TDF, with sources suggesting it'll be another fortnight before they decide if he's going - the race starts in 3 weeks.

van Aert obviously is still a doubt after his big crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen.

van Baarle and Kruijswijk almost certainly out of the TDF.

Kuss doesn't look like he's in form at all at this race either.

It really looks like the TDF will be Pogacar's to throw away, unless his efforts in the classics/Giro catch up to him.

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