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It was not only Ricco who was laughable. It was Piepoli at age 34 suddenly becoming one of the best climbers in the world, winning 2 Giro stages in 2006, 1 Giro stage in 2007 (he finished 2nd 3 times, 2 of them in double-wins with teammates Ricco and Simoni) and 1 Tour stage in 2008 (double-win...

Between 1 and 2 for me. Maybe the worst GT I can remember since I started watching in the late 90s. I did not even watch more than a handful of stages and still never felt to have missed anything. 2 stages cancelled early and without a winner Relatively weak field and lack of GT action. I mean...

Broken collarbone for Castrillo after his crash at the Angliru stage according to PCS.

Crashed at the descent of the first climb according to Movistar X

In 2005, Liberty Seguros completely blew the race apart in the early slopes of Cerler, but still there were no time differences between the favorites at the top. Not expecting too much.

On the other hand, Campenaerts is climbing better than ever (at least as far as I remember).

Ullrich rode the Giro only two times in his 12-year career. And 2006 he wasn't even allowed to start the Tour, so 2001 is the only time he actually did Giro and Tour after each other.

Kudos to Evenepoel for pacing himself and fighting to stay in touch with the podium. Mas dropped later than him but lost 16 minutes in the end.

We are at least lacking GC riders in proper form. There are plenty of them riding, but many are not in good shape (Mas, Carlos Rodriguez, O'Connor) or crashed (Buitrago). Almeida crashing out did not help either.

Thank you. Does not read very encouraging for the remainder of the year.

So Romo is out after a bad Tour de Suisse. Does anyone know what happened to Pelayo Sánchez? He was so great last year in the Giro and the Tour de Suisse, but couldn't live up to it in the second half of the season. And this year he's mostly collecting DNFs. Anyway, I really hope that they go...

Not that it is not entertaining, but is there one rider worse in pacing himself than Alaphilippe?

I agree that they were in the red zone on the gravel section if not earlier, and could not close the gap to Yates who was then superior, so at that point they probably would have lost anyway. Question is, would they have been able to follow Yates if they had ridden a more steady pace from the...

You're right. My bad.

Isn't that the risk you have to take if you lead a race on the second last day and want to win it?