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Stop telling me what to do, ghug.

Well shit, there goes his 13th place in the championship!

[hide] Week 2 - Stages 10-15 Stage Top 3 Riders Lanciano - Tortoreto Stage 10 October, 13th 1st: Michael Matthews 2nd: Giulio Ciccone 3rd: Ben Swift Simon Clarke Jai Hindley Michael Matthews Mikkel Honoré Enrico Battaglin Matteo Fabbro Fabio Felline Andrea Vendrame Diego Ulissi Joao Almeida Peter Sagan Porto Sant'Elpidio - Rimini Stage 11 October, 14th 1st: Arnaud Demare 2nd: Peter Sagan 3rd: Michael Matthews Michael Matthews Fernando Gaviria Alvaro Hodeg Arnaud Demare Ben Swift Davide Ballerini Davide Cimolai Andrea Vendrame Elia Viviani Peter Sagan Cesenatico - Cesenatico Stage 12 October, 15th 1st: Giovanni Visconti 2nd: Einer Rubio 3rd: Jhonatan Narvaez Lucas Hamilton Michael Matthews Ben O'Connor Thomas De Gendt Valerio Conti Giovanni Visconti Diego Ulissi Simon Pellaud Mark Padun Lawson Craddock Cervia - Monselice Stage 13 October, 16th 1st: Peter Sagan 2nd: Diego Ulissi 3rd: Ben Swift Michael Matthews Fernando Gaviria Sebastian Molano Mikkel Honoré Arnaud Demare Enrico Battaglin Gianluca Brambilla Fabio Felline Andrea Vendrame Diego Ulissi Peter Sagan Conegliano - Valdobbiadene Stage 14 October, 17th 1st: Filippo Ganna 2nd: Mikkel Bjerg 3rd: Chad Haga Rohan Dennis Victor Campenaerts Mikkel Bjerg Tony Martin Alex Dowsett Filippo Ganna Jos Van Emden Steven Kruijswijk Wilco Kelderman Joao Almeida Chad Haga Rivolto Air Base - Piancavallo Stage 15 October, 18th 1st: Wilco Kelderman 2nd: Jakob Fuglsang 3rd: Domenico Pozzovivo Patrick Konrad Harm Vanhoucke Jakob Fuglsang Giulio Ciccone Fausto Masnada Vincenzo Nibali Domenico Pozzovivo Steven Kruijswijk Wilco Kelderman Rafal Majka Joao Almeida Pello Bilbao [/hide]

Oh, sweet.

Here we go. Another day coming where the newspapers are full before the stage starts.

I had no idea he made one, but the one I've been updating is now complete with 35 songs and is linked in the OP.

Wow, that is some generalistic election ad that literally any candidate in history could use.

Too bad it ended this way, but Ecuador is on a roll.

I hope the thread of an early end remains, that's like a NASCAR race where rain can come any moment (leading to the race being stopped): a boatload of action because nobody can wait anymore.

One semi-dangerous downhill done and Zakarin is dropped a country mile behind.

I don't think the 26th should be a problem.

That would be very helpful indeed. I think I'll be able to give them a good listen later in the week mostly. I could now, but it's really a matter of 'moments' for me - right now I can, five minutes later maybe I'm very much not in the mood to pay attention, and so on.

Ah, paparazzi. The scum of the earth followed him. If he wasn't a cheating a-hole, one might feel sorry for him.

Bidard, Pellaud, Boaro, Padun, Benedetti, Rosskopf, Hansen, Clarke, Torres, Campenaerts, Narvaez, Richeze and Van Empel. Those are the names for today, for what it's worth. Hopefully we get some bigger names chasing them later on.

Apparently one team (not said which) asked the organizers to finish the Giro on Sunday, with a hilly stage, sprint stage, mountain stage and time trial to finish it off. They said no, for now, although I'm sure everyone is rather curious to see how the second rest day/mass testing day will go.

Yeah that last part is a bit unfortunate. It's no secret though, riders have mentioned exactly that (policemen, motorcyclists, even local guests in the same hotels and buffets). It's a shame there isn't much of a 'bubble' and if there is, organizers don't seem to care about keeping it. On the other side, I really don't understand teams using hotel food at all in these times. Most of them are fairly big professional teams, surely they can cook some pasta and stuff in their own trucks?

Sigh.

A whole bunch of motorbike riders around the Giro has tested positive. Sidenote: a lot of these stay in the same hotels as teams and local guests, with barely any COVID-restrictions in place around things like buffets. Talking about motorbike riders, the total moron/amateur who hit Viviani while for some inexplicable reason driving in the middle of the peloton has rightfully been kicked out of the race.

I have no idea, points and mountain classifications usually fly under my radar, I care more about who are the best sprinters (in sprint stages)

It was August Jensen, who apparently crossed the finish a while later on his own. That's good.

The crash, happening because Ackermann makes a dumbass move. Logically it's just waiting for him to be DQ'ed, but I wonder when something will actually be done. Every single sprinter does it..

Terrible crash just now in the sprint of the Scheldeprijs. One guy went down hard, I think someone else hit him on the head when he was down already. A few riders sitting and standing here and there, but one guy from the Riwal team was quickly shown just lying on his back motionless with medics attending to him and blood visible on his face... Replay showed his head hitting the ground and his helmet just 'jumping' away immediately, he was hit after that...

There is truly no challenge to Demare's reign as king of the sprints here, wow.

Oh I'm enjoying the marvelous commentary of Karsten Kroon and his co-host, the first 60km today was a mix of talking about this train and about which Dutch cookie they'd get in their snack bag today - the other co-host is Belgian and doesn't know most of them, apparently. Also, the Belgian guy said it was good Kroon's newborn baby has her mom's eyes, "because they are so beautiful", leading to a nice bit of awkwardness.

@Gianlu33 @Dunadan Any idea what's up with the train driving next to the peloton? The Dutch commentator duo has been wondering about it for over an hour now