Giro D'Italia 2016

he's not unkown, he did well in lots of big u23 races.

http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=139060&season=2014

"Russian" is Russian for doper.

Yeah, wasn't long after that the commentators and the cycling podcast lot looked into it and it turned out he was quite good at that sort of thing. At the time he'd crossed the line though, I'd never heard of him.

If he'd been taking it easy and rolling in, with the aim of winning this stage, he could have been a lot fresher than the others. So it's a pretty fair results. And clever raced.

Should be a belter today. Short enough to provoke serious stacks from the off. Astana and Movistar haven't got s choice.

Nibs or valverde will lose their tour today . I think tinkoff today for a win .

It's been attack after attack on the Mendola. Chaves doesn't look like he's on a good day.

Good quote from Brailsford this morning on the race situation;

"Two strong teams with weak leaders and two strong leaders with weak teams."

This group is fucked, Valverde's already started on the hand waving.

Jungels seems to be very aggressive, when you might expect him to just sit on.

Why's Chaves messing about?

Did Dombrowksi puncture, or was he just dropped on the flat? This is old school racing.

Kruijswijk looks fantastic. But c'mon Chavez- Balls out riding from both.

Nibali looks a little fat to me.

Nibali seems to have cracked. Chaves sneaking across.

is it time to talk about Kruijswijk's shoulder width?

Fairly sure Jungels is riding for Nibali. Wonder what the deal is there.

Nibs cracked then . Come on chaves work him and drop him . Get back on .

If he is, he'd better sit up.

My streams a bit choppy and delayed!

Nibali looks a little fat to me

Was thinking exactly that.

And why did Zakharin lead the other 2 up the last couple of km like that - surely the onus was on Kruisjsksjskjskwkwwkkk to pull?

Zakarin was trying to improve his GC position.

Dirty wheel sucking spandista

Trying to leapfrog Nibz on GC

From what I saw Valverde was a major animator today.