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| Quintana vs Dumoulin Who win? |
Giro d´Italia has arrived to Bagno di Romana
which was the 11th stage, where spaniard Omar Fraile (Dimension Data)
won after an incredible breakaway with more than 15 riders, while Thibaut Pinot and
Vicenzo Nibali were the only riders who tried to make differences between favourites.
The stage 11th was marked as transitional, due
to this had after time trial a lot possibilities to breakaway and
principal riders is thinking to save energies for third week, however Nibali
decided to attack unsuccessfully, now that Nairo Quintana took control of
situation while Pinot´s attack was controlled by Team Sunweb who shows to
Maglia Rosa Leader very strong, however differences made in time trial by Tom
Dumoulin are so important in special for Nairo Quintana who lost much time that
he had thought and that is right, due to Nairo Quintana must reduce the 2:23 of
difference, also, he has to make a significant difference around of 2:20 more as
consequences that 21th stage is a time trial of 28 kilometers where Colombian
rider could lost around 2:10 respect Dutch cyclist.
To reach this objective, Quintana has six
stages to take advantage getting the time necessary, this is around 4:43. Among
the mountain stages, we have to emphasize on 16th and 18th
stages where harshness could make not easy race to Dumoulin, on contrast to Quintana
due to his climber skills and these fractions can decide the Giro. The first
one goes through Rovetta and Bormio about 227 km and presents 3 legendary
climbs, there are Mortirolo (1st
category) , Stelvio (HC) and Umbrailpass (1st category). First climb
begins at 63 kilometer and end at 88; there Movistar needs to increase the rhythm
to eliminate the cyclist of Sunweb and Dumoulin begins to suffer after this
Stelvio must use to distance him, from this way Quintana could be nearer of the
maglia rosa. Colombian could recover around 1 minute half, if his team uses the
right strategy. Also this is the largest mountain stages.
Finally the 18th stage has 5 climbs
of first category between Moena and Ortisei where Quintana must to take the leadership
there and increase the seconds between him and Dumoulin as much as possible in
the rest of the final fractions, he almost needs 2:20 of differences before time
trial. One thing is clear Quintana must take an aggressive attitude if he wants
to win Giro d´Italia Century, on contrary Tom Dumoulin will be the winner of “corsa
rosa” because Dutch rider is in the best performance never seen before and he
has been near to win a Grand Tour, so favourite riders
should not trust that this cyclist drop in overall classification easily.
By:
Jhonatan Zamudio
Twitter:
@jhonatanzamudio
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