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

[heywoodu 15,145]

8 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Rumors in Italy say that Sunweb will withdraw all the team. Only speculations for now

Speculations based on nothing I guess, since they also didn't withdraw the whole team fromt Gent-Wevelgem after the Tiesj Benoot situation last week. And there we go, a specific item saying Matthews won't start (which one can read as 'the rest will start').

 

https://teamsunweb.com/mm-giro/

[heywoodu 15,145]

Jos van Emden gave some examples of the Giro organizers being the Giro organizers: teams are in hotels with total public access, where the riders - who are supposed to be in their 'bubble', like they definitely were in the Tour - had to share the buffets and so on with local guests. The organization has a big role to play in this slowly going down the drain with two podium favorites and a whole team already out..

[Dunadan 1,103]

Big teams with no real goals left taking the first chance to withdraw without penalties

[Federer91 2,797]

Well there goes my predictions, again  

[heywoodu 15,145]

6 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Well there goes my predictions, again  

Yeah I was happy with being the only one who didn't have Thomas on the podium, but I'm confident that my 'Kruijswijk will win' pick isn't going to end up so well  

[heywoodu 15,145]

Aaaand that's all of Jumbo out.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Geoghegan Hart screwing the lead group by joining them with his only 2:41 minutes behind the pink jersey.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Sagan and Ganna, now that's a lead group.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

All of a sudden the breakaway has five minutes, so pick your winner.  70k to go.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Jos van Emden gave some examples of the Giro organizers being the Giro organizers: teams are in hotels with total public access, where the riders - who are supposed to be in their 'bubble', like they definitely were in the Tour - had to share the buffets and so on with local guests. The organization has a big role to play in this slowly going down the drain with two podium favorites and a whole team already out..

Not wanting to deal in national stereotypes but.....

 

Let’s just say that over the last six weeks we’ve seen a lot more, shall we say, self-discipline from French & Belgian fans.