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Giro d’Italia 2025

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  • #242
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,389 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    I should stop saying Velogames. If I pick any of them........🌋



  • #243
    Reality_Check1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭Reality_Check1


    I reckon Carapaz takes pink tomorrow - even though he won stage 17 Del Toro was swinging on the Mortriolo. Really looking forward to the next 2 days



  • #244
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Here we go. As much as I'm looking forward to the next two stages there is a distinct possibility that today will be a cagey affair in advance of tomorrow. Having said that if anyone is on a good day they won't want to waste it so fingers crossed.



  • #245
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Rafferty & Steinhauser away up the road in breaks for Carapaz…



  • #246
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,389 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    I'm hoping Gee makes a move today. He needs to make some time today to give himself a realistic shout at even a podium..



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  • #247
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,389 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    They said yesterday that this is a practice run for Pidcock whose target is the Vuelta. They just want to make sure he's up to it. He could make a move today.



  • #248
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123499807#Comment_123499807

    Gee has proved me wrong in this Giro anyway. Impressive. Notably the best TT of the main GC contenders on stage 10. Max Poole was next best, both of them better than Roglic, Ayuso, Tiberi and Del Toro. Also interesting was Pellizari was the same time as Del Toro in that TT. He is one of the finds of the Giro. I'll be checking him out in PCM anyway :)



  • #249
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123499894#Comment_123499894

    Pellizari was the find of last year's Giro!



  • #250
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123499962#Comment_123499962

    Fair enough and I had forgotten he featured last year but I'm really thinking in terms of GC.



  • #251
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,389 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Very surprised there's been no attack. The final climb suits del Toro.



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  • #252
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123500417#Comment_123500417

    Carapaz and Yates running out of road. One of them surely has to attack now.



  • #253
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    This is terrible…the stage is so hard they are all scared to attack



  • #254
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Too late now. I hope Prodhomme can do it at this stage. Save Decathlon's Giro (assuming Sam can't do it on Sunday).



  • #255
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Simon Yates gave an interview after the stage that basically shat all over his teammates who worked for him all day. Expect the entire JV VLAB team to go for the stage win tomorrow and leave Yates cutting a lonely figure!

    Post edited by retalivity on


  • #256
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,419 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    They're not Jumbo-Visma any more though (can be hard to keep up)

    Can we bring back Kas, Fagor and Z 😁

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #257
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,618 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123501314#Comment_123501314

    I heard that interview on The Cycling Podcast... He really threw them under the bus.



  • #258
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,389 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123501519#Comment_123501519

    Why did he do it? Had he a legitimate reason?



  • #259
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Large break almost nine minutes up the road. I think Carapaz might have decided that bonus seconds could be vital so they've put nearly all the EF riders including Rafferty on the front to try and bring it down but they're having little effect. Baking hot now but rain forecast for later - going to make the unpaved section of Finestre even tougher.



  • #260
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Didn't realise the stage started so early…how or why did pidcock not get in the break? Thought today was nailed on for him, especially after dropping out of GC



  • #261
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123502137#Comment_123502137

    Perhaps the team felt that the stage win will come from the main GC contenders so he should stay with them rather than the break. Or perhaps his big time loss yesterday wasn't voluntary.

    I feel that the bunch wasn't expecting the break to go to near nine minutes. They are working well - on a very slight drag ( maybe 3%) WVA was at the back of the break riding between 290 and 390 W. Chatting. Fit b@stard.



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  • #262
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Rafferty at the back of the peloton going back for bottles, giving support to Steinhauser who looks like he is clinging on there as well. Carapaz & 2 other EF guys on the front. They are going to be all out of doms by the time they reach the Finestre.

    EDIT: there's now 7 EF guys at the front, i may be wrong!



  • #263
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Unless the break implodes or some other teams help with the chase, EF aren't going to close that by Finestre. They should just sit up.

    I know he raced CX but anyone have an idea how Del Toro is on the gravelly stuff?



  • #264
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Aaannnnd five EF riders run off the road and nearly hit a crash barrier

    Screenshot_20250531_124952_Chrome.jpg


  • #265
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123502227#Comment_123502227

    He's decent, as the Strada Bianchi stage showed, however 8k of gravel climbing above 2000m is completely different and unknown for him. Podcasts yesterday were saying that pure physics will be against him, he's a lot bigger/taller/heavier than Carapaz & Yates, and will have to push extra on uphill terrain with less grip.



  • #266
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,816 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    very odd strategy by EF (as ever Kelly asking what teams are doing…)

    I can’t believe that it’s for bonus seconds (as the comms seem to suggest)



  • #267
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Rafferty going balls out for EF at the start of the climb.

    EDIT: Jesus EF Going for a long one!!!



  • #268
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,816 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Carapaz v Del Toro for 40km now

    Should be fun



  • #269
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    This could bite EF in the arse to be honest.



  • #270
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123502327#Comment_123502327

    2 of the EF doms pulled out before giving a turn, either Carapaz asked for pace or they messed up the order.



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  • #271
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,816 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123502329#Comment_123502329

    defo was pace. It was a sprint lead out. Think they just wanted to get rid of the UAE domestiques



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