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

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8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

We don’t seem to have a GC favorite at the moment, but we have a good handful of very talented riders at the moment. I haven’t felt this educated by US riders in a while. 
 

Tokyo was probably the first time I had optimism watching Olympic cycling from an American perspective.

Yeah, everyone seems trapped in super-domestique roles at the moment.  

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Stage 21

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FINAL KILOMETRES

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Fun to rewatch this, Dutch commentator on Eurosport going mad at the moment the last split is known (Thomas 29 seconds behind Roglic and so basically decided), English commentators on Eurosport had no idea about the differences, seemed mostly oblivious to what was actually going on and kept with the default English Eurosport thing of "he is sufferent, he is now rrrrrrreally pushing hard!"  

 

What a final ride, damn. It doesn't make up for the near-total lack of action in this Giro overall of course, but at least - at long last - there were a few edge-of-the-seat minutes at the very end, what a finish  

 

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Only negative about this is that the organizers now think "omg this was fantastic, we will keep a course like this for the next years as well, look at how exciting and close it was!".

 

Edited May 27, 2023 by heywoodu

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1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, everyone seems trapped in super-domestique roles at the moment.  

McNulty will absolutely get his chance though. Almeida isn't going to do every GC and Vine seems to be barely capable of riding in a straight line (so great at climbing, but a massive danger in anything else). McNulty is a potential GC podium rider.

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Belgian's main cycling pundit: "It's not that Evenepoel might have won had he not gotten COVID-19, he would have won."

 

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Sources say there were more than 10000 Slovenes on the road today.