Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021 (Giro d'Italia)

[heywoodu 16,004]

Yay riders

 

 

Fuck you organizers

 

 

 

Winter weather at 2000m altitude in May, wow, surely nobody saw that coming?!

[Federer91 3,023]

And of course, because we can't have nice things...

[heywoodu 16,004]

Uuuuuuuugh

 

 

Time to put one's pants back on.

[Dunadan 1,103]

Riders have too much power nowadays...unless it's at least 15°C and sunny they'll ask to cancel everything, let them draw the route next year.

[Grassmarket 4,029]

Well, sometimes these shortened stages can be more exciting because someone wants to force a decision rather than just grinding it out to the last 3km of the big climb.

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Well, sometimes these shortened stages can be more exciting because someone wants to force a decision rather than just grinding it out to the last 3km of the big climb.

We would have had three of those big climbs though, where cold, altitude and everything would have been a factor.

[Grassmarket 4,029]

No planes or helicopters can fly, so we’re only getting low-fi 4G images from motos, & even they are patchy.  
 

Things winding up now - EF are starting to work for Hugh Carthy, reeling in the break, shaving riders off the back.  40k to go.

 

Evenepoel off the back already according to RAI & British ES.  35k to go. Gap melting like snow in May.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Evenepoel has been dropped, already two minutes behind. Oh well, considering it was his first race after months of recovering from a fall which could have ended up much worse, he has been doing an excellent job.

[heywoodu 16,004]

It would be good if they use one of those camera bikes near the peloton to, you know, show who's actually still in the peloton...

[heywoodu 16,004]

Gorka nearly crashed straight into a car, what a way to avoid it