LOL....there is a benefit to running my startup company and paying others and not myself....I guess I pay myself with the flex of watching the Giro when I want! If you want I can offer you a job for the next 3 hours and join the meeting I am in with flobikes.com....no pay and no options though!

Is Scott paying for attacking too often almost every day last week? They are aboutu to get on the gravel now! Sky asthma boys dropped their own man Pouls

Team Kenya's South Africa trained mountain biker is chomping at the gravel....Pozzovivo dropped

Holy crap, 80K's to go and Froome is going on an ITT....this feels like Floyd in the TdF 2006 whiskey and testosterone stage.

Wow Froome all alone for 80km?

How fat tires is Froome using? It is almost like he is on 26-28mm range on the back wheel. That tire looks huge!

If there was ever a stage for it this is it.

Both down and uphill negate (well, reduce) the advantage of riding in a group. And almost all the rest of it is down or uphill

Floyd did it, so yeah. Why not?

Tom looks good, Froome isn't taking 3 minutes from him. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Tom beats him to the line.

Ha, just a little implication there. Why don't you just say it.

Well, I suppose if you have won enough mountain bike races, you've done a 2.5 hour solo ride off the front, so why not....go Floyd....ahem go Sky!

Serious question, do you guys think Yates took away his strength (climbs) by going too deep on his weakness (TT)? He's been flat since the TT

hey don't mess around with my NFL entertainment (oh, sorry, I meant UCI)....it's like watching a hollywood movie, in all three cases we suspend our belief of what is humanly possible and revel in the superhuman in exchange for a show. Seriously though, the UCI is much cleaner than the NFL and all riders have shown signs of being human, so I think we're watching relatively cleaner racing, whatever that means.

Serious answer.

I think he consistently burnt too many matches (to use a good tri analogy) trying to gain a time buffer, and then burnt the last one and set fire to the box on the TT. He probably thought he could smash it up to and through the TT and then would have enough left to tick over defending the lead. In reality he has burnt all his matches and bonked (in grand tour terms), rather than be able to press on at steady state. You can't attack again, and again, and again, successfully, against the best cyclists in the world, and not expect to force a sans jours

I feel like I am watching a totally different Giro from the one I started following.

That's the enjoyment of a 3 week tour (and especially the Giro). Love it!

And now Poels attacks Pozzovivo to try to bridge up. Sky found some really good pillows last night.

No. You can't pace the TT.

Yeah, that was my feeling when he was attacking constantly and having no jours sans. Froome has been off and honestly Dumoulin has only done ONE attack so far which was yesterday. Other than that, he has marked the competition.

Having said that, either Froome has ridden his way to week 3 peak, or he's going to blow apart tomorrow after today's stage.

Froome 10 min up on Yates. 37 seconds on Dumoulin,

This descent should be epic too. Froome has built a buffer so he does not need to take risk.

Pinot riding well with Dumoulin and looks like he flats!!!

Floyd sent them shots of whiskey!!!

These cameramen on the descents are awesome!!!

But what if Yates went 20-30 seconds easier on the TT....maybe he saves some legs and does not get gapped yesterday and is with Froome today?

Froome may still need to take risks if he is trying to win it all with this suicide attack. He is a great descender and is putting time into TD on the descent as well. The real question is whether the Dumoulin group will work together to catch Froome on the flats or whether they just tell Dumoulin to do the work if he wants to win.

Yates must have had whatever breakfast today whatever Chaves had last week...boom goes the dynamite.

I think Dumoulin "bought" a TT partner on the Finistre climb. When Pinot flatted, he took the gas of the pedals and sat up to wait for Pinot. Dumoulin does not need to catch Froome today, he just needs to limit any loss to Froome. Dumoulin is in pink now and I assume he has a magic number that he does not want to let Froome get any closer to and so he can just pace with his virtual Sunweb mates now.

Where is Lopez ?

When Floyd did wasn't he off the front of a peloton most of the day? Froome is just being chased by a handful of guys that he's already shown he is stronger than. Looks like only 3 guys are contributing to the chase.

I don't want to see that gangly bastard win the Giro, but looking good unless he cracks.

Tom could be going harder than this right now but he wants to stay with the guys to get some breaks. Once they start up the final climb I imagine he'll go to the front and push his own pace all the way up.

If his lead keeps growing at this rate he's going to be a minute or more down on GC when they start it.