Giro d'Italia 2023

Jesus you are an angry little man. Nothing patronising about statements of fact.

35km flat TT, should be right up Remco’s alley but be interesting to see how his legs are after yesterday.

Shame Ganna had to drop as he would’ve been favourite

Remco 31 seconds ahead of Roglic after 13km, game over for the GC if it keeps climbing

1:29 is not much of a loss for someone going for top 10.

Very solid TTs all round from the GC riders.

Anyone know why Remco gets to go last. I thought that would be the race leader ?

He didn’t, Leknessund was behind him but just go absolutely zero coverage until he crossed the line, was a minute down in the end

Remco out with covid

According to Geraint Thomas podcast, Roglic told them he had covid as well, whether that was a joke misinterpreted or some sort of mind games, but Jumbo denied any rumours of a positive test for him

Eddie Eddie Eddie 😀

Jumbo DS before the tour defended their testing of their team saying they’re only tested if the show symptoms. A fair few said Remco looked ill earlier today

Geraint Thomas said all of Ineos passed a test after Ganna pulled out

There’s no tests from RCS/UCI etc, it’s just down to teams. Awful news though

When have Ineos ever made a race good

What's the story with COVID testing in races these days ?

I gather there is no mass external rest day testing any more ?

Are teams under any obligation to test ?

Are they entitled to just not test and make calls based on how riders feel on the morning ? Just like pre 2020.

Thanks for that. You wonder in the case of Remco was he actually on his way out of it.

As others mentioned the signs of it (more layers than other riders) were around for days and with tomorrow being a rest day would they not have waited and seen.

Suppose it's harder to isolate the race leader but you wonder what the sponsors will make of it. From this perspective I wouldn't be surprised if the thinking is that he.will now do the TDF. This makes it easier to pull him and would probably go down well with sponsors too.

He looked absolutely in bits after the TT, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he said f this I can’t continue like this, especially considering he dropped about 30 seconds in the second half of the TT.

I think whether he does the tour or not probably depends on what they do with the likes of Van Wilder, Ballerini and Vervaeke now, asking them to finish out the Giro hunting for stages will mean they’ll be fairly bolloxed when the tour rolls around, and QS don’t have the depth to give him any other real domestiques in the mountains.

And they haven’t shown the ability to compete on two fronts either, sprints and GC