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

[heywoodu 15,253]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

Evenepoel wobbling off the back...

The Belgian sports papers on Monday will have black lines around them.

[Grassmarket 3,533]

Tratnik all but using pitons & ropes.

[heywoodu 15,253]

Bernal is on a different level so far. Cool for Fortunato, kind of a shame to have a relative unknown win on a monster like the Zoncolan.

[Grassmarket 3,533]

 fans out in force, many wearing national dress, playing polkas on their accordions etc.

[Grassmarket 3,533]

Victor Campenaerts wins the sprint out of the breakaway: it’s wet & slippery cobbles at the finish so the peloton are not going to tolerate any nonsense.

[heywoodu 15,253]

I've seen riders make mistakes, but damn, once Campenaerts and Oscar Riesebeek had gotten rid of the annoying Torres (who didn't do a single meter of work and who's teammate Dario Cataldo was being even more annoying by chasing him), Riesebeek quite literally did everything possible to make himself not win

 

He attacked in exactly the wrong parts, so he didn't have the power to attack on the harder parts where Campenaerts was clearly struggling, he wasn't really doing any work in the lead at the end, but then still started the sprint way too early - he was actually stronger, but Campenaerts could easily pass him because of staying behind him for longer...let's say Riesebeek hasn't been in this situation often, that was awful  

[heywoodu 15,253]

Today is the biggest stage, literally and figuratively, of this Giro. What a monster, especially considering the weather they can expect

 

 

Awesome to have this stage on Pentecost Monday, meaning a day free from work and since it's not weekend also a day without much other sports, so that's this on TV all day 

[heywoodu 15,253]

It's looking....interesting on the Giau this morning  

 

[Federer91 2,861]

Praying we have the full stage and they don't have to cancel some climbs. 

[heywoodu 15,253]

13 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Praying we have the full stage and they don't have to cancel some climbs. 

Oh fuck this.