2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1: Monreale – Palermo 15 km ITT

[Red Rick]

Italian rider giving away the maglia rosa on purpose? Not gonna happen.

Spoiler

Don't you people quote and "not Ganna happen" me.

This giving jersey away cause its too early crap is going too far

 

[Escarabajo]

Does anyone know more about Lopez?

Surgery on a deep wound close to the iliac artery.

Feel bad for the guy. First stage and this happens. Maybe he was too relaxed in this stage. A bump did it.

No fractures for Miguel Ángel López after crashing out of Giro d’Italia time trial

Colombian leaves hospital after surgery on wound near iliac artery

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[Parker]

I literally have no idea what he can do on hilly terrain?

I think I'd expect Cancellara to be there.

In the Tour of San Juan at the beginning of the season he came in 6th in this climbers stage alongside Guillaume Martin and Remco Evenepoel, so he's certainly competent

https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=5247&y=2020&e=05

 

[Koronin]

Sounds like this was an insane ITT. Congrats to Ganna, although not surprising.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

Italian rider giving away the maglia rosa on purpose? Not gonna happen.

Spoiler

Don't you people quote and "not Ganna happen" me.

Also, it doesn't really matter. With Etna on Stage 3, Ganna leading GC won't change how Ineos rides.

 

[movingtarget]

The result for Yates couldn't have been better. Lots of complaints from the riders about the road surface and the wind obviously. If Dennis thought it was dangerous God knows what the small climbers made of it. Lopez not having much of a time of it ............

 

[Hihope]

GC riders

Almeida
Thomas 1"
Yates 27"
Kangert 27"
McNulty (?) 37"
Oomen 49"
Knox 51"
Vlasov 58"
Konrad 1'00"
Kelderman 1'06"
Nibali 1'07"
Kruijswijk 1'22"
Fuglsang 1'25"
Majka 1'38"

Great ride by McNulty. Did not see that coming. Is he going to do a Pogacar?

 

[tobydawq]

Bardiani setting new standards for badness. Their best rider was Filippo Zana in 144th. They already lost Luca Covili to the time limit (he must have crashed).

 

[tobydawq]

The whole podium of yesterday's stage rode their very first GT stage.

The last time that happened was on the opening stage of the Tour in... 1947!!! After WW2, which I think was a bit longer than the corona break

And no, it's not my own digging.

 

[Pantani_lives]

In the end Rik Verbrugghe can be thankful that the roads were wet. Ganna must have taken a few bends a bit slower to avoid the risk. Ganna did 58.831 kph; Verbrugghe did 58.874kph - a difference of 43 m/h only! Now Verbrugghe's record might stand for many more years.

 

[geisterhome]

Great ride by McNulty. Did not see that coming. Is he going to do a Pogacar?

he will buried deep in the gc.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

In the end Rik Verbrugghe can be thankful that the roads were wet. Ganna must have taken a few bends a bit slower to avoid the risk. Ganna did 58.831 kph; Verbrugghe did 58.874kph - a difference of 43 m/h only! Now Verbrugghe's record might stand for many more years.

Such statistics put unrealistic trust in the precision of course measurement. Unless anyone can assert confidently that either or both courses were accurately measured to within 20 metres or so, then we cannot claim to know which rider was fastest.

And we never see any attempt to present courses as measured to anything closer than nearest 100 metres.

 

[roundabout]

Yeah, I am not even sure that there are rules for course measurement in place after a quick scan of the UCI regulations.