Giro Stage 10 - Pescara to Jesi (196km)

mewso

Rest day over and back to it. A punchy stage where presumably the GC guys can take it relatively easy. No surprise MvdP is the favourite but there are a few quality riders still looking for a win who might pip him here. Girmay, Cort-Neilsen etc. Not sure how some of the sprinters will fare here. It might be too much but the likes of Ewan, assuming his team perform too, will probably have a go.

Betting

Matthieu Van Der Poel 16/5

Biniam Girmay 5/1

Mauro Schmid 17/2

Magnus Cort 12/1

Davide Ballerini 14/1

Caleb Ewan 16/1

Inquitus

A lot of potential winners today, too hard for Cav and Ewan imho!

retalivity

Gotta love the weird italian stages, 100k of nothing, then 96k of belgium.

mewso

Great moment from Tom Dumoulin

https://twitter.com/GcnRacing/status/1526527560657559552

Inquitus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119075162#Comment_119075162

Both dropped!

retalivity

That was some tribute for Scarponi!

Hannah with Frank the parrot earlier 😂

Inquitus

Ewan is bang up against the time limit at over 12 minutes with no team mates.

Caleb Ewan is signalled at 12 minutes!

The Australian is drifting and is in danger of finishing outside the maximum time, not least because this time he doesn’t have teammates to escort him.

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

mewso

He might want out anyway but strange one given tomorrows stage.

De Bhál

last 10k were great

great sprint

Mefistofelino

yup and a great win for Girmay.

Don't think Intermarche were anywhere near as organised as Hatch was saying - for much of the last couple of km, they were scattered all over that group.

Lovely gesture from MVDP

Lead out from Pozzovivo, who is what 5'5? Girmay is 6' 😂

retalivity

MVDP is some man for emptying the tank, but knowing when he's beat and dropping the head, did similar in Flanders last year vs Asgreen.

De Bhál

MVDP did a big attack 3km or so out, he recovered so fast to get back up for the final sprint

Nearly took his eye out there

De Bhál

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119076524#Comment_119076524

Looked sore

retalivity

He's been taken to hospital to get it checked out

https://twitter.com/OutOfCycling/status/1526590939673903105

Junior

https://twitter.com/wielerman/status/1526634722302074882

Poor lad.

Hopefully he can continue, what a thing to have happened after such a big result.

Ah here, not a bother on him in this. Loving the tshirts, cool the team have the belief to have had the merch ready to go 😂

EDIT: You'd have thought given what happened he might have an aversion to the wine 😁

https://twitter.com/IntermarcheWG/status/1526661747096051712

mr spuckler

And now it's reported by La Gazetta dello Sport that he's out of the Giro 😞

Weepsie

That's 2 who've now managed to pop themselves in the face with a cork.

Mefistofelino

Opening a pressurised container (with an unrestrained stopper) on the ground so your face is over it, and the same approach has resulted in a near-miss less than a fortnight ago? Try that **** at work and you'll be having a visit from the HSA or civil lawyers.

Go back to more normal sized bottles so they get picked up to open and you can aim the cork at some journo you don't like. This trend of moving to the "comedy" bottle sizes just so the label can be bigger for TV - sheesh.

odyssey06

He might have been in with a shout for the next few stages also... disaster.