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

[heywoodu 16,004]

Some performance by Ciccone as well...riding head-to-head against Ganna for a good while with his face in the wind, attacking all the time and still going up with the very best climbers of this Giro.....interesting  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Full potential for things to go very wrong again today. First off, a peloton on fire will have a bunch of sprints inside of it for sprinters to try and be at the front before the 200m 12% part in the finale starts, especially since that part is right after a sharp turn.

 

 

This is already after another potentially dangerous roundabout, and is followed by a whole bunch of more dangerous situations. Dangerous corners, dangerous roads, dangerous stuff in the middle of the road (Dombrowski and Landa already fell victim to the organizers earlier this week, after all). 

 

Let's hope things go alright this time...and maybe they learned from earlier and made some changes.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Not very succesful conversation attempt between the Dutch commentators (one Belgian, one Dutch - Karsten Kroon) when passing a motorcycle circuit:

 

"Do you have a motorbike at home?"

"No."

"Ok."

"You?"

"No."

 

And quiet for three kilometers  

 

This came after 20 kilometers (at least) of talking about who has the most hits on Google when searching their name  

[Grassmarket 4,029]

Brave win for Caleb Ewan - had chase down a break from about 500m, rest, then surge again.

[heywoodu 16,004]

4 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Brave win for Caleb Ewan - had chase down a break from about 500m, rest, then surge again.

Plus he had to change his plans because of Gaviria's brave but futile attempt  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Hehe everyone angry at Bernal because he's in the breakaway and so has doomed this breakaway  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Interesting start of the race, gotta love some wind from the right direction  

[Grassmarket 4,029]

22 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Brave win for Caleb Ewan - had chase down a break from about 500m, rest, then surge again.

And today - he’s abandoned!

[heywoodu 16,004]

32 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

And today - he’s abandoned!

As he had already announced a few days ago basically  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Meanwhile today Gaviria fell out of the breakaway in the descent, but the doctor's car gave him a free ride back into the lead group.