Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 13: Riccione – Cento, 179.0k

[SafeBet]

in the past, on a flat stage like this, with 3 riders in the break they'd be allowed 6-7 minutes. now with 3 minutes, the teams already patrolling, with 170km to go.

They all watched Volta Valenciana so they know how dangerous the Tarozzi - Tonelli combo is.

 

[Potomac]

I just got here.
Did I miss anything?

 

[Faserr]

I just got here.
Did I miss anything?

No

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I just got here.
Did I miss anything?

Maestri and Ala are still both ecstatic from yesterday, and Geraint Thomas ate a power bar. I think that's about it.

 

[Lequack]

Since there is nothing to watch, here is the backstage look at UAE

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snbXMUX6Q58

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I just got here.
Did I miss anything?

4 cyclists were disqualified from the results from taking the train

oh wait this was in the 1906 TDF not todays Giro stage. Sorry

 

[CleanCiclismo]

4 cyclists were disqualified from the results from taking the train

oh wait this was in the 1906 TDF not todays Giro stage. Sorry

You don't need to go that far. Just last year in the prestigious Albanian national championships this happened:

"I had a good view of the long straight wide roads," he explains. "There was no one to be seen. Relaxed I kept my pace. And suddenly some riders were on my wheel. I didn't believe my own eyes. That was impossible. Because I didn't weaken. Apparently, they had hung on a support car and they were sheltered by that car."

And my favorite:

“That man was completely parked at the second passage on the climb. People have seen him hiding in a forest along the trail," it is said. "He also suddenly appeared in the lead group again. Oddly enough, his Strava data has disappeared. Perhaps we would see that he has only ridden thirty kilometres."

Albanian National Championships descend into chaos: "People have seen him hiding in a forest. Oddly enough, his Strava data has disappeared"

With many National Championships taking place over the comin

cyclinguptodate.com

 

[Tim Cahill]

That 1906 Tour looked pretty interesting, here's Rene Pottier putting in one of his classic attacks, going thermonuclear putting 47 minutes into his rivals after a mere 15 hours in the saddle.

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 results

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 from Nancy to Dijon was won by René Pottier before Georges Passerieu and Marcel Cadolle.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Rob5091]

No he didn't, he crashed out the next day on the epic wet cobbles stage. The stage 4 crash would have been survivable otherwise.

He was indeed taped up and Brailsford went out with a load of bs about how Froome was fine etc etc but Froome had problems just steering his bike (not to mention all the painkillers probably going about in his system), and I think they even adjusted Froome's bike so he only had to use one hand. But, even if he had managed to stay upright (which lots of guys could n't in the wet & rain), I don't think he would have got far over the Roubaix cobbles with a fractured wrist.
Any who, moral of the story being, it might be a flat boring sprint stage but disaster can strike any time. Back to the commentators!

 

[ice&fire]

The boredom of the Giro stage led me to the Vuelta a Burgos Féminas and I found a mix of sterrato and rain.

 

[dgodave]

Hill!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

That 1906 Tour looked pretty interesting, here's Rene Pottier putting in one of his classic attacks, going thermonuclear putting 47 minutes into his rivals after a mere 15 hours in the saddle.

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 results

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 from Nancy to Dijon was won by René Pottier before Georges Passerieu and Marcel Cadolle.

www.procyclingstats.com

That is why René Pottier is actually considered the first real climber of the Tour de France, he dropped everybody on the Ballon d‘Alsace that day. The 47 minutes weren‘t that important, because the general classification was scored based on points. By the way, Henri Desgrange, the Tour‘s first director said that the optimal Tour in his view would have only one rider reach Paris.

 

[Salvarani]

That 1906 Tour looked pretty interesting, here's Rene Pottier putting in one of his classic attacks, going thermonuclear putting 47 minutes into his rivals after a mere 15 hours in the saddle.

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 results

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 from Nancy to Dijon was won by René Pottier before Georges Passerieu and Marcel Cadolle.

www.procyclingstats.com

Those came close. A couple finished 11 hours behind. Did they even make the start for the next stage, since they had been on the road for more than 24 hours.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Those came close. A couple finished 11 hours behind. Did they even make the start for the next stage, since they had been on the road for more than 24 hours.

In the 1906 Tour, there was a rest day after every stage and there were two before the Paris stage, so they probably had no problem to get to the start on time.

 

[yaco]

It was an interesting chat with Mezgec who fairly much gave a blow by blow description of how he envisages the last 5kms.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Those came close. A couple finished 11 hours behind. Did they even make the start for the next stage, since they had been on the road for more than 24 hours.

Yeah I saw that, I think they had rest days inbetween the stages, they used to just sleep in the streets and in random churches

 

[Tim Cahill]

Go on Fiorelli cook this fraud

 

[QueenStagiaire]

It is so infuriating that the German commentators still haven‘t understood that there‘s ciclamino points at the Intergiro, I‘m considering actually writing to Eurosport to inform them.

 

[search]

Go on Fiorelli cook this fraud

Groves may pay for this focus on the Intergiro classification at the finish, Voigt says .

It's honestly a bit annoying that after two weeks, they still haven figured out the way those sprints work.

 

[Brullnux]

It'll be kind of funny if Groves, after ruining his team on hilly stages to no avail several times this Giro, wins the flattest stage of them all

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Incoming lawsuit for filming the Formula 1 race weekend.
Meanwhile Birgit Hasselbusch on German Eurosport telling us why there are no Formula 1 races at Imola anymore. Insanity!

 

[search]

It is so infuriating that the German commentators still haven‘t understood that there‘s ciclamino points at the Intergiro, I‘m considering actually writing to Eurosport to inform them.

I think Bengesch has, but has given up on correcting the others. Last time he tried, Migels told him to stop it because now the ciclamino points (there were none) are more important.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

That 1906 Tour looked pretty interesting, here's Rene Pottier putting in one of his classic attacks, going thermonuclear putting 47 minutes into his rivals after a mere 15 hours in the saddle.

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 results

Tour de France 1906 Stage 3 from Nancy to Dijon was won by René Pottier before Georges Passerieu and Marcel Cadolle.

www.procyclingstats.com

On 25 January 1907 he committed suicide by hanging himself on his bike hook after hearing his wife had found a lover while he was away at the Tour.

wtf

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Ineos echelon attack!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Poor Pozzovivo caught at the back