Giro d'Italia stage 4: Piacenza to Sestola (186km)

mr spuckler · 11-05-2021 9:05am #1

A stage of 2 halves, with a relatively flat first half followed by a very bumpy second half! Likely to go to a breakaway but that climb to the finish (4.3km @ 9.5%) could also lead to some gaps between the GC contenders, if one of them really pushes it. With a sprint stage coming tomorrow they may well be inclined to give it a go.

Odds from Bet365

Simon Yates (19/4)
Egan Bernal (15/2)
Remco Evenepoel (8/1)
Jaoa Almeida (9/1)
Dan Martin (16/1)

11-05-2021 9:30am

/Checks to see how much time De Gendt is down

mewso · 11-05-2021 9:56am

Almeida wins as per Benji Naesen

Not an octopus but...

retalivity · 11-05-2021 10:01am

Deleted User wrote: »

/Checks to see how much time De Gendt is down

He lost 10mins yesterday!
Ominous...

11-05-2021 12:05pm

Had a feeling it could be one of those mad Giro days we've seen in recent years when the break takes ages to get away.

dahat · 11-05-2021 12:19pm

That looks like a strong break to me, one that will stay away.

retalivity · 11-05-2021 12:22pm

25 up the road, De Marchi best placed at 33s down
EDIT: Nelson Oliveira is in there at 32s down

mr spuckler · 11-05-2021 12:30pm

Nice soft day again, especially at the finish.

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 12:51pm

Filippo Zana, Samuele Zoccarato, Filippo Fiorelli (Bardiani CSF-Faizanè)
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, Jacopo Mosca, Koen De Kort (Trek-Segafredo)
Quinten Hermans, Rein Taaramae (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert)
Joe Dombrowski, Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates)
Filippo Tagliani, Nicola Venchiarutti (Androni-Giocattoli-Sidermec)
Francesco Gavazzi, Marton Dina (Eolo-Kometa)
Alessandro De Marchi (Israel Start-Up Nation)
Pieter Serry (Deceuninck-QuickStep)
Attila Valter (Groupama-FDJ)
Nicolas Edet (Cofidis)
Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious)
Chris Juul-Jensen (Team BikeExchange)
Nelson Oliveira (Movistar)
Andrea Vendrame (AG2R Citroën Team)
Victor Campenaerts (Qhubeka Assos)
Nico Denz (Team DSM)
Louis Vervaeke (Alpecin-Fenix)

neris · 11-05-2021 1:43pm

whats going on with the eurosport coverage? dan lloyd and brian smyth waffling on over images of the finishing line

mr spuckler · 11-05-2021 1:45pm

neris wrote: »

whats going on with the eurosport coverage? dan lloyd and brian smyth waffling on over images of the finishing line

Weather seems to be wreaking havoc with the live pictures, even earlier the quality was poor. Like the good/bad old days.

De Bhál · 11-05-2021 2:14pm

at least I'm not getting any pangs to be on hoidays in Italy looking at the weather

11-05-2021 2:18pm

Rain seems to have that effect on pictures in Italy or maybe I'm just not recalling the wet days in France and Belgium?

retalivity · 11-05-2021 2:47pm

Is Hermans the MTBer?

EDIT: I see now he's from CX

11-05-2021 2:53pm

Love to see Juul Jensen win. It'd be a popular win here.

retalivity · 11-05-2021 2:57pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Love to see Juul Jensen win. It'd be a popular win here.

Fine Wickla weather for it anyway.

Mefistofelino · 11-05-2021 3:18pm

retalivity wrote: »

Fine Wickla weather for it anyway.

Hatch seems to think that the weather will suit CJJ more than Taaramae, cos, ya know, Estonia is known for its sub tropical climate

Darkglasses · 11-05-2021 3:41pm

Always love a stage where the weather in Ireland is better than the weather on TV

neris · 11-05-2021 3:42pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Rain seems to have that effect on pictures in Italy or maybe I'm just not recalling the wet days in France and Belgium?

Happens in France and Spain but more so in the high mountains. Not unusual to be starting at the finish line get washed out of it on the tour of catalunya

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 4:02pm

De Bhál wrote: »

at least I'm not getting any pangs to be on hoidays in Italy looking at the weather

I still wouldn't turn down the opportunity to go :pac:

retalivity · 11-05-2021 4:06pm

Taaremae and juul-jensen not gonna make it....

11-05-2021 4:10pm

Just nabbed there now. What a shame after all that work.

dahat · 11-05-2021 4:11pm

Brutal climb after a day like it has been.

Darkglasses · 11-05-2021 4:13pm

João Dombrowski

11-05-2021 4:13pm

Is Dan still in here? Haven't managed to spot him.

11-05-2021 4:15pm

Vamos Landa!!!!!!!

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 4:16pm

Free Landa!

Eamonnator · 11-05-2021 4:19pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Love to see Juul Jensen win. It'd be a popular win here.

Is it possible for Chris to hang onto 4th place in stage?

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 4:22pm

Dan across the line along with Yates & Remco

retalivity · 11-05-2021 4:23pm

No sign of Dan anywhere...

EDIT: ^ Ha, missed that

11-05-2021 4:24pm

Eamonnator wrote: »

Is it possible for Chris to hang onto 4th place in stage?

10th for Chris in the end.

Eamonnator · 11-05-2021 4:26pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

10th for Chris in the end.

Fair play, great result for him.
I knew him, when he was a young lad, lovely chap.

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 4:28pm

Joe Dombrowski doesn't exactly look over the moon with his stage win

retalivity · 11-05-2021 4:32pm

Game over for Bennett and Almeida already

Eamonnator · 11-05-2021 4:32pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

Joe Dombrowski doesn't exactly look over the moon with his stage win

No he doesn't, he probably thought for a while, that he'd get the pink jersey.

Mefistofelino · 11-05-2021 4:32pm

So that's Dan on domestique duties for the week?

dastardly00 · 11-05-2021 5:37pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

So that's Dan on domestique duties for the week?

De Marchi will probably lose the jersey on Thursday's stage.

Nevertheless, we won't be seeing Dan pulling on the front of the peloton or fetching bidons

Dodge · 11-05-2021 6:02pm

A little treat of a GC day. Didn’t expect that at all. First sign was Ganna drifting out the back. Bennett and Almeida gone already

Lovely stuff

Mefistofelino · 11-05-2021 6:58pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

De Marchi will probably lose the jersey on Thursday's stage.

Nevertheless, we won't be seeing Dan pulling on the front of the peloton or fetching bidons

It was partly said in jest, but with all due respect to Dan, I think it's very unlikely he'll be leading the Giro at any point - a podium and perhaps a stage win was the target. If I were Nicki Sorensen, I'd be putting all men to the pumps to retain the jersey as long as possible. While Dan wont be hauling bidons or collecting rain jackets, he may be asked to cover for Krists Neilands.
But you're right, it'll all go to ****e on the climb at Ascoli Piceno.

TheBlaaMan · 11-05-2021 7:58pm

Whatever about Almeida, its a bit early to be writing off Bennetts shot at the podium. It's only day 4. That said, he seems to be a bit fragile in poor weather so you would have to wonder if TJV should be punting him as a GC contender in a race such as the Giro..........

11-05-2021 9:06pm

Bennett struggled with the cold and given the conditions it's understandable, but what I've seen of him so far this year he hasn't been at his very best I thought.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/george-bennett-overcome-and-broken-by-the-cold-in-first-big-giro-ditalia-test/

Nico lost a fair bit of time too and he's another man who suffers in the cold I believe.

Dodge · 12-05-2021 2:09am

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

Whatever about Almeida, its a bit early to be writing off Bennetts shot at the podium. It's only day 4. That said, he seems to be a bit fragile in poor weather so you would have to wonder if TJV should be punting him as a GC contender in a race such as the Giro..........

I don’t think he had a realistic shot at the podium even if everything went his way, so a few minutes lost on the first hilly stage just copperfastens that for me

Giro d'Italia stage 4: Piacenza to Sestola (186km)

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