Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2020 (Giro d'Italia)

[Grassmarket 4,027]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Just watched the first few minutes and already: damn, that road ain't good  It's as if someone played around with oil and soap the past few days or something  

 

Just saw specialist Dowsett nearly crash after a few corners in the descent, I can't really imagine that going right for everyone...anyway, 3+ hours to watch I see  

It’s Sicily: not quite Singapore when it comes to high & incorruptible standards of public works maintenance.  

[heywoodu 15,997]

WTF that is Bradley Wiggins nowadays?

 

Did he eat his Tour de France-winning teammates?  

[heywoodu 15,997]

Wow, Mikkel Bjerg tying Almeida's time and the TV directors didn't show him live for a single second (as far as I saw), even though they did show half the time trial of Jos van Emden  

[Federer91 3,020]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

WTF that is Bradley Wiggins nowadays?

 

Did he eat his Tour de France-winning teammates?  

Didn't you watch the Tour, he was there too 

[heywoodu 15,997]

For GC contenders who decided to start towards the end: ouch, that clearly was the wrong choice in terms of the conditions  

[heywoodu 15,997]

The graphics towards the end that showed the first 10 or so in the standings...followed by a list of 10......wait for it....open water swimmers  (with wrong flags, and at least two names being in the list twice)

 

I get mistakes can happen and Tissot is known for having weird screw-ups and fails all the time, but how the fuck did names like Allan do Carmo (with a Tunisian flag), Evgenii Drattcev (with a Dutch flag), Ferry Weertman (with a Greek flag) and Simone Ruffini (with a Russiand and a German flag) appear there?  

 

 

 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

It’s Sicily: not quite Singapore when it comes to high & incorruptible standards of public works maintenance.  

Giro d'Italia isn't the Tour, every year RSS and local government do some street work

[heywoodu 15,997]

39 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Giro d'Italia isn't the Tour, every year RSS and local government do some street work

But today they forget to maintain it or what?

[dcro 10,210]

Covili OTL. How??

[heywoodu 15,997]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Covili OTL. How??

Even Ramon Carretero didn't manage to get an OTL in the first stage, and I can't really remember anyone worse than Ramon Carretero in recent years. Bardiani has fallen back from a pretty fun attacking team to just being two levels below the World Tour, but still, Covili's results suggest he's at least better than what he did today. Maybe a fall or some other kind of issue?