Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12: Siena – Bagno di Romagna 212 km

[Escarabajo]

Expect absolutely nothing on this stage!!!!
The break for the win.

 

[SafeBet]

A long and beautiful classic Giro stage. After today it should produce some gaps. What's the weather forecast, that final descent could be interesting?

Should be sunny and warm tomorrow.

 

[Red Rick]

Vincenzo Nibali has yet to reveal his deadliest servant. Bauke of the house of Mollema.

 

[Bonimenier]

Gino Mäder finished dead last today. He'll definitely try to be in the breakaway tomorrow. Lafay finished in the grupetto so we can probably expect him as well.

 

[will-10]

Mollema stage + azzurra

 

[groogster]

Mark my words... it will be absolute carnage!!

If, and only if, Remco has the legs we will try something (his big ego is bleeding and he needs to make a statement)
Ineos is on beast mode at this Giro

Besides i think that some of the top10 GC guys are already hanging by a thread so tomorrow some of them will be all over the place when they reach the summit of Passo Della Calla!

The best of it, we still have stage 14 and 16

 

[Panda Claws]

I hope Evenepoel won't fade because I want to see what the QS DS van come up with tactically since this is not their usual playground.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Not a medium mountain stage at all. This is the first full fledged real mountain stage, plus it is rather long. Likely more than 6 hours in the saddle

RCS seems to have been on crack when they assigned the categories. 17.1km at 5.7% is a rather hard cat 1, that has a cat 2 rating. The next climb at 15.3km at 5.5% is also a cat 1. Final climb is easily a cat 2, as is the initial climb.

May not see big time gaps on this stage, but someone in the GC, unless this becomes a total piano stage, will lose big time here

With the Giro, to be quite honest I'm surprised both of them give points at all!

 

[hayneplane]

Mark my words... it will be absolute carnage!!

If, and only if, Remco has the legs we will try something (his big ego is bleeding and he needs to make a statement)
Ineos is on beast mode at this Giro

Besides i think that some of the top10 GC guys are already hanging by a thread so tomorrow some of them will be all over the place when they reach the summit of Passo Della Calla!

The best of it, we still have stage 14 and 16

Looking at how much time guys like Soler and Ciccone lost despite being dropped so much closer to the finish than Remco I concur that another big shake up is on the cards if any team has the will to set an infernal pace on the penultimate climb.

 

[johnymax]

Bilbao to be dr***ed on Passo della Consuma and win the stage!

 

[Carols]

Thomas De Gendt please!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I am worried about Horner. I really hope Remco won't feature much - if Horner will have to pronounce his last name a couple of more times, his head will explode.

Good Evening Pool to everyone!

Joe Allen Al Maiden.

 

[The Barb]

Highly likely that a breakaway wins, obviously.

Mader is the obvious attacker and can win , as long as his last placing yesterday was just about conserving energy and not a sign of declining form.

Koen Bouwman has been great lately. If his recent efforts haven't cost him then he's my pick to win.

But of course the wildcards are Dan Martin and Davide Formolo after their losses in Stage 11. If either gets into the break then they will be very clear favourites.

 

[movingtarget]

Martin will have a go probably. Bernal will want to turn the screws some more and Ineos must be happy with Moscon's form this season. Good stage for the break. Wonder if Yates also might try something as he was happy just to follow yesterday on a stage he was concerned about.

 

[yaco]

Martin and Formolo will need to lose more time if they are allowed to be in the breakaway.

 

[Oliver]

Another stage for the break...

 

[Amazinmets87]

Would they let Nibali in the break?

 

[BigCoward]

Would they let Nibali in the break?

Would you put your head in a tigers mouth?

 

[spalco]

Would they let Nibali in the break?

4 minutes down? *** no imo. Or if they do they are morons.

 

[Amazinmets87]

4 minutes down? *** no imo. Or if they do they are morons.

How often does the break win by more than a couple minutes? A guy can dream...

 

[spalco]

How often does the break win by more than a couple minutes? A guy can dream...

Rarely, but he's still a threat, if not for Bernal (but who knows, why take the risk if you're Ineos) then for everyone else in the top 10.

If Nibali wants this, and I doubt it, he'll have to fight for it. Maybe downhill after the Passo della Calla, but not in an early break.

 

[Valanga]

An important one for Remco imho, after yesterdays Hell of the South.
Probably not too much issues for any GC contender. So either he can follow them today, which would indicate there is nothing wrong with his form. And then everything is still possible.
Or he gets temporarily distanced again because he isn't fully recovered, and then they better pull him out of the Giro and give him a more realistic build up towards the Olympics.

 

[Poursuivant]

I think there will be a lot of riders really hoping that the break doesn’t take ages to form like a few previous stages

 

[Rollthedice]

The design is there for a great stage, all we need is a massive break with some dangerous names for the overall in it.

 

[Red Rick]

The design is there for a great stage, all we need is a massive break with some dangerous names for the overall in it.

Never gonna happen with Roadblock FC in the lead.