Giro 2022 !!

[MichaelB]

Great stage last night and we’ll deserved win !!

Enjoyed that battle for the stage win !!

[jasonc]

Be interesting to see how their recovery goes. Sunday night is just over 5000m of elevation

[warthog1]

Great stage last night and we’ll deserved win !!

Enjoyed that battle for the stage win !!

I am only watching the highlights but ditto. It was good.

[Grog]

Great stage last night and we’ll deserved win !!

Enjoyed that battle for the stage win !!

I am only watching the highlights but ditto. It was good.

I found the last 30+ kms great to watch unfold

[MichaelB]

The predicted MvdP win didn’t eventuate, but he tried hard !

Tonight sees a double ascent of Blockhaus, so a real GC day with 198km and over 5,000m of climbing on the menu.

It’ll be a real test for Yates after suffering a knee injury from the crash on Stage 4, so we’ll see if he’s OK or drops out of the GC race

Who else will and what will the tactics be ????

[jasonc]

Who else will and what will the tactics be ????

I'm hoping for a Nibali attack

[warthog1]

My highlights recording of that stage didn't work too well.
The most interesting "Eurovision song contest" telecast went overtime and the recording consequently finished before the end of the stage

[MichaelB]

My highlights recording of that stage didn't work too well.
The most interesting "Eurovision song contest" telecast went overtime and the recording consequently finished before the end of the stage

Quickly zipped through the last 25km (all that was telecast), will watch again tomorrow a bit closer.

Yates lost plenty of time, so maybe knee was still an issue, still to work out overall GC impact.

Little Pozzo even made it 6th on the stage !!

[Sharkey]

I had a bunch of cycling friends come to my place to watch Saturday night's stage and eat wood fired pizza. It seemed appropriate that the stage was in Napoli - the home of pizza.

[JPB]

I had a bunch of cycling friends come to my place to watch Saturday night's stage and eat wood fired pizza. It seemed appropriate that the stage was in Napoli - the home of pizza.

Wow, what an awesome set-up.

[MichaelB]

Wow, what an awesome set-up.

^ What he said !!

[MichaelB]

Won't do a spoiler alert, but GREAT win last night.

On a separate note, the disc naysayers (Kelderman) tried to blame his Blockhaus loss on the fact that his disc breaks caused his spoke to break (now withdrawn today after Specialized debunked it as well) - https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kelder ... o-ditalia/

The funniest bits are the doofus comments that agreed with Kelderman and one poster even started mentioning HAZ (Heat Affected Zones) and that's caused by the heat from the discs. I've never read such uninformed BS in my life. I did have a good laugh though.

Anyway, the last 15km was a great stage (will watch it better later tonight) and just quickly zipped through it tonight.

Tonight's stage will be a snooze fest except for the last 5 min

[Sharkey]

Nah, I'm going to spoil it because I really love this pic. If you don't know who won by now, and don't want to, why are you looking at this thread?
Brilliant finish and it looked like MVdP would pass Girmay but when he realised he couldn't he sat down and gave him the thumbs-up. Respect.

[find_bruce]

Great teamwork, especially from Pozzovivo - despite his GC position put the effort in to lead out Girmay for the win, very classy.

[MichaelB]

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Brilliant finish and it looked like MVdP would pass Girmay but when he realised he couldn't he sat down and gave him the thumbs-up. Respect.
...

100% agree. Thought he was going to get him, but just couldn't.

Makes a change for the handlebar banging, blaming and pulling sad face.

[davehirst]

Imagine a renaissance, where sportsmanship and being a good sport crept into the world. Cycling to tennis then insidiously sneaking into football/ soccer.
Then opposing fans being civil... Ok this is getting silly, back in my box

[Retrobyte]

https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro- ... tory.shtml

Rookie error ....

[trailgumby]

Yep. Now confirmed as abandoning. Such a shame.

https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro- ... tory.shtml

[Thoglette]

Rookie error ....

Apparently the #1 silly season injury according to an Ambo I was listening to a while back. Haven’t checked the data myself so take this with the appropriate qty of salt

[MichaelB]

Yep. Now confirmed as abandoning. Such a shame.

https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro- ... tory.shtml

A real shame indeed.

But the good thing is that given the injury, it's the right thing to do.

He's had a corker (sorry ) of a season so far, so deserves a rest !!

[MichaelB]

Imagine a renaissance, where sportsmanship and being a good sport crept into the world. Cycling to tennis then insidiously sneaking into football/ soccer.
Then opposing fans being civil... Ok this is getting silly, back in my box

Indeed. Roglic has shown this level of maturity as well when Pogacar beat at the TdF TT.

Can only be a good thing for all to learn from

[AUbicycles]

Met Biniam briefly a few weeks back and even sold some photos of him to a Belgium newspaper. He got mobbed by countrymen at the end and it was amazing, but the team were stressed as they usually don’t attract that much attention. Very strong tour and a shame he had to withdraw.

But we had Jai of BORA with a strong win and it is not easy to predict the stage winners.

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On the spokes and discs, thats just unusual.

Nice setup Sharkey!

[MichaelB]

And Caleb left the Giro which hasn't gone to plan to concentrate on the Tour.

And meanwhile, Alpecin Fenix show that there are others in the team that can wind stages with Oldani winning a 3 up sprint from the break.

[MichaelB]

And Bardet out with illness. Bugger as he was looking good.

Break almost made it last night, but pipped just before the line.

Tonight’s stage is a lumpy one with some hard but shorter climbs. Be interesting to see what happens !!

[MichaelB]

Once again, a short, punchy stage with a few smaller but hard climbs can wreak havoc when one team puts the hammer down !!

Great and wilt win for Yates, a great team effort from Bora and 2nd on stage for Jai Hindley, and also a great ride by Pozzo !!! Most GC guys were isolated with 60km to go !?!?

A few more retirements with Tom D out with back pain.

Now with Carapaz in Pink despite another doomed attack (got a great gap of almost 40 sec but couldn’t hold them off, again …), the GC/Climbing stages will be interesting with the tactics from other teams.