Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2023 (Giro d'Italia)

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FINAL KILOMETRES

[heywoodu 16,182]

3 hours ago, dodge said:

Very harsh calling that a snooze fest. All 3 GC men tried to attack. They’re just all similar levels with Thomas slightly ahead of the rest 

Almeida did a 5 second attempt, Thomas for a tiny bit longer and Roglic waited until the very end after holding on for a bit. Surely they're putting in the effort, but in terms of entertainment for the GC this is understandably quite widely seen as the most dull grand tour since the Froome-era at least...then again, one assumes the organizers were not going for an action-packed Giro but for something a bit easier to follow, considering they put almost every single hard thing in the last stages (which of course leads to waiting, waiting, waiting and more waiting).

 

On the bright side, the near-total lack of GC action - maybe they're waiting for Rome to really try something, or after Rome? - is definitely being made up by some fun fights for the stage wins. Riders who do want to attack, the likes of Ben Healy and especially the absolute man of the match, Derek Gee. The Pinot vs Cepeda fight was quite fun to watch as well, just like Nico Denz' stages. Actually good that the GC teams and guys are still on wait-mode, because without it we'd probably not even have seen these fights for the stage wins.

Edited May 26, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,182]

Right, the climbing ITT today, with 5km at 15% or so, parts at 22%....this climb is an absolute monster. Can't really blame the riders for not wanting to attack at any moment, putting a time trial like this on the last real day is really just asking the riders to please take it easy until then (also so we can have a fairly close GC and thus all pretend it is an exciting race). 

 

It's an addicting sport though, so we'll keep watching even if for three weeks we have been watching to something that's less exciting than watching one's nails grow  (which they did, because there were no nailbiting moments)

[heywoodu 16,182]

So far we're only getting images of the first 10k, nothing of the climb, which is the only part everyone wants to see  

 

Hello, it's 2023. Use a drone or something, come on, at least give us something this Giro  

 

Edit: finally, we see someone on the climb!

Edited May 27, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,182]

Fun fact: Laurenz Rex has a younger and also talented brother....called Tim. Yeah  

Edited May 27, 2023 by heywoodu

[dodge 1,040]

This climb is mental

 

The drone shots are great too