Giro D'Italia Stage 13: Ravenna to Verona (198km)

mr spuckler

One for the mountain goats today :pac:

This almost looks flatter than the profile from earlier in the Giro - at least there are a few turns on this occasion! Being one of only 2 proper sprint stages left, this should be straightforward, however the route is exposed so crosswinds could play a part. That's what I'll be tuning in early for anyway.







Interestingly the top 4 favourites below are all yet to win a stage...

Odds from Bet365
Giacomo Nizzolo 13/4
Dylan Groenewegen 13/4
Fernando Gaviria 9/2
Elia Viviani 9/2
Peter Sagan 6/1

Mefistofelino

I've seen lumpier snooker tables.

ednwireland

flat as a very flat thing

crosswinds ?

mr spuckler

Once again I won't be doing the weekend stage threads btw!

Mefistofelino

ednwireland wrote: »

flat as a very flat thing

crosswinds ?

Dont think so. It will be a crosswind direction for the first section South to Mantua but forecast is for gentle breezes.

Daroxtar

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1395693170969780224?s=20

Reality_Check1

Boooooooooring

mr spuckler

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

Boooooooooring

So much so I'm finding myself doing work instead :eek:

Darkglasses

Idle thought - I presume Rob Hatch will also be doing the TDF? I miss Carlton Kirby.

dastardly00

Kelly saying that he was almost nodding off

Paddigol

Darkglasses wrote: »

Idle thought - I presume Rob Hatch will also be doing the TDF? I miss Carlton Kirby.

Please god no!

retalivity

Darkglasses wrote: »

Idle thought - I presume Rob Hatch will also be doing the TDF? I miss Carlton Kirby.

You should have spent half an hour yesterday watching the andalucia race and him spouting rubbish non-stop about hayter, you'd quickly change your mind!

dastardly00

I'll go for Nizzolo to finally win

dahat

Darkglasses wrote: »

Idle thought - I presume Rob Hatch will also be doing the TDF? I miss Carlton Kirby.

Hopefully, Kirby is woeful these days.

Mefistofelino

I'm nostalgic for David Duffield now.

T'other day when the rain interrupted the live pictures and Lloyd & Walker were left to their own devices, they were a bit lost. Duffield would have regaled us with stories of local sausages and stunts he pulled with Raleigh. Useless at commentating on the actual racing but an afternoon with him was like going down wormholes on Wiki - you never knew what you'd learn.

dastardly00

Verona is a beautiful city, well worth a visit if you're in that region. Just avoid the tourist trap that is Juliet's balcony.

Mefistofelino

If you want to do your own commentating and add a little local colour, the Giro produce a roadbook (or, as its known in Italian - "Il Roadbook") that gives a potted history of each place they pass through. Its how Carlton, Rob etc gen up beforehand.

https://www.giroditalia.it/en/roadbook/

Mefistofelino

And dumping gel & food wrappers in the hedges again. That really annoys me. It weighs about 50g, you've dragged to within 10km of the finish. What difference is yeeting it into the ditch it actually going to make?

dastardly00

Anytime I see Campenaerts he is never wearing sunglasses. Very strange

mr spuckler

BRAVO GIACOMO!!!

**maybe Bravissimo!

Reality_Check1

delighted for Nizzolo tbh

mewso

12th time lucky. Well done Nizzolo.

mr spuckler

That was some surge from way back by Nizzolo tbf.

Another really poor effort from Viviani.

Mefistofelino

Affini's run to the finish was pretty impressive too

He's loving this , dishing out the hi 5's to the fans there

griffin100

Delighted to see him win but thought he was way too far back and that the JV rider would steal it. Great to see the fans going nuts like that.

Mefistofelino

What's the piece of signed card on the top of Nizzolo's helmet?

dastardly00

I really thought Affini had snuck it! Happy for Nizzolo. It must really play on your conscience when you are a sprinter and you've finished in second place eleven times in your home Grand Tour

Reality_Check1

I thought JV may have left Affini go intentionally but he just confirmed it was an accident

griffin100

Mefistofelino wrote: »

What's the piece of signed card on the top of Nizzolo's helmet?

I though they said on commentary that it was his pass to train outside in Italy during COVID (or something like that).

NamelessPhil

Mefistofelino wrote: »

What's the piece of signed card on the top of Nizzolo's helmet?

It's his self certification notice permitting him to leave his local area to hunt for stage wins in the Giro. Every Italian had to fill out such a permit during lockdown if they had to leave their local area.

Mefistofelino

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

I thought JV may have left Affini go intentionally but he just confirmed it was an accident

Fairly impressive "accident" to ride off the front of the lead-out trains with around 700m to go and still get second.

NamelessPhil

NamelessPhil wrote: »

It's his self certification notice permitting him to leave his local area to hunt for stage wins in the Giro. Every Italian had to fill out such a permit during lockdown if they had to leave their local area.

The helmet manufacturer EKOI allowed it to be airbrushed on as part of the design.

https://bici.pro/tecnica/tech-pro/casco-personalizzato-giacomo-nizzolo-trc-design/?fbclid=IwAR0xwhPXOvFa9Jm8QlDi4Z4u-qTKdvT6XMa60LIumgjepONHeQSBFdVKLLg

neris

Darkglasses wrote: »

Idle thought - I presume Rob Hatch will also be doing the TDF? I miss Carlton Kirby.

is carlton not doing ruta del sol?

Darkglasses

neris wrote: »

is carlton not doing ruta del sol?

He is! I just can't watch both

neris

Speaking of Carlton

https://twitter.com/carltonkirby/status/1395748583379460101?s=19

neris

https://twitter.com/GreenEDGEteam/status/1395829269088153608?s=19

TheBlaaMan

CJJ is a gas man who wishes he was a Rás man

Meyer strolling by "I done the Rás"

neris

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

CJJ is a gas man who wishes he was a Rás man

He seems to lap up the irishness at times and notices the irish at races

G1032

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Fairly impressive "accident" to ride off the front of the lead-out trains with around 700m to go and still get second.

He averaged 850 watts for 41 seconds at the end of a stage 2 weeks into a grand tour. Over 70km/hr average for that 41 seconds too. Absolutely insane. Was delighted for Nizzolo but when I see the numbers that Affini produced there, it's hard not to feel sorry for him

G1032

G1032 wrote: »

He averaged 850 watts for 41 seconds at the end of a stage 2 weeks into a grand tour. Over 70km/hr average for that 41 seconds too. Absolutely insane. Was delighted for Nizzolo but when I see the numbers that Affini produced there, it's hard not to feel sorry for him

Was it the 2017 Giro one of Sam's team mates was in a similar position and in the interview afterwards he mentioned an Irish accent swearing at him on the radio telling him to ****ing go. Think it was Pöstlberger.