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

[Samu Cuenca]

Mikkel... I'm disappointed in you! You were supposed to stop at the top, get some nice Italian gelato, call your fiancée, and wait for Remco when he launches his attack!

Of course... that would require Remco to actually be planning to launch an attack.

No, he's supposed to attack with another rider and win a two man sprint without actually sprinting

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Every time the roads get wet, Honore attacks

 

[Vasilis]

Ha! Yes, I knew I would get that response And your calendar makes more sense (except, I guess, in Biblical terms). If the weekEND is Sat-Sun, then indeed the 1st day of the week should be Monday, c’est vrai?

Oui c'est vrai

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I am a software developer, those first 2 stages are in week 0 for me. Besides, there are 21 days of racing, which means 3 weeks, because 3*7==21

No one has ever said "those stages in week 0 were awesome"

BTW - I edited the previous post after you responded.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Indeed re Paltrineri. I checked who won the medals for Italy in 2016, and it is a pretty sad record. The omnium starts not looking that sad.

I haven't looked it up again, but as far as i can remember it's mainly fencing, shooting, swimming and combat sports (the watered down versions of those that you get at the Olympics).

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Remember the days when Ulissi used to win stages with his descending. Now he's losing them with his descending

 

[Bolder]

Bouchard vs his rain gear has been the best part of the stage.

 

[Vasilis]

With the race starting Saturday, that would mean stage 1 and 2 are "week 1" - and the stages after the last rest day would be "week 4"

I think - to most - "week 1" is "everything before the first rest day" - and what "week" we are in, is determined by the rest days?

I agree that, in GT terms, it makes sense to separate the 3 weeks of the GT by the rest days, so the first week is the longest. Why is it 10 days this time around actually instead of 9 though? ...

 

[sir fly]

So unfortunate epilogue for De Marchi.
Hasn't been a bad race for him so far.

Wish him a speedy recovery.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bouchard vs his rain gear has been the best part of the stage.

Went to the Jai Hindley School of Rain Gear Management?

 

[Sciatic]

No one has ever said "those stages in week 0 were awesome"

BTW - I edited the previous post after you responded.

We could start a new thing (Week 0). For me, because so little seems to happen in the 1st week of GTs, I tend to think of the the “1st Week” as everything that comes before the usual place of the first rest day.

ed. Oops, like you’all just said while I was typing

 

[Vasilis]

No one has ever said "those stages in week 0 were awesome"

BTW - I edited the previous post after you responded.

Maybe that's because those stages in week 0 weren't awesome
But I'm going to talk about week 0 in the future now.

 

[Vasilis]

We could start a new thing (Week 0). For me, because so little seems to happen in the 1st week of GTs, I tend to think of the the “1st Week” as everything that comes before the usual place of the first rest day.

Yeah, but I guess in the Tour week 0 is called the Grand Depart...

 

[BlueRoads]

I haven't looked it up again, but as far as i can remember it's mainly fencing, shooting, swimming and combat sports (the watered down versions of those that you get at the Olympics).

That sounds like a very violent but aqua-affine nation.

 

[Red Rick]

Comon lots happens in 1st weeks

The most favorite GC riders of that race crash out.

 

[Bolder]

Went to the Jai Hindley School of Rain Gear Management?

Graduate with honors...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Remember the days when Ulissi used to win stages with his descending. Now he's losing them with his descending

?
Ulissi was always a bad descender, he often got away because of the gc contenders looking at eachother, but he's a rather poor bike handler.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I haven't looked it up again, but as far as i can remember it's mainly fencing, shooting, swimming and combat sports (the watered down versions of those that you get at the Olympics).

COUGH - "and cycling"

 

[spalco]

Androni winning a stage would be nice.

 

[Eclipse]

Brambilla looking pretty good

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Maybe that's because those stages in week 0 weren't awesome
But I'm going to talk about week 0 in the future now.

Enjoy your loneliness

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Brambilla partying like it's 2016.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Great ride by Brambilla.

Honore seems to have completely blown up?

 

[SafeBet]

Vendrame with a smart attack there. Hardest part of the climb coming now though.

 

[Mayomaniac]

COUGH - "and cycling"

Yeah, could have been even more without Nibali's crash...
Honore dropped.