Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 15: Grado – Gorizia 147 km

[Pirazziattacks]

he focused more on steep short climbs, this stage actually suits him better than the high mountain stages, in current form.

He seems to be trying to do too many things at once, I'd understand more if he'd saved energy yesterday to target today's stage. It won't be easy to win from this group with so many fast sprinters he'll need to drop. If he's still after the KOM jersey there are lots of climbs to come too.

 

[roundabout]

Movistart making their team GC bid

 

[Pirazziattacks]

He wants to get away from the other Trek riders or they might ask for some help.

TGBM (Team Great Bauke Mollema)

 

[Red Rick]

I hope every one of you finds something you're as passionate about as I am passionate about hating stages like these

 

[Orbit501]

No one will be wanting to take Oldani to a sprint that's for sure.

 

[broppo]

He seems to be trying to do too many things at once, I'd understand more if he'd saved energy yesterday to target today's stage. It won't be easy to win from this group with so many fast sprinters he'll need to drop. If he's still after the KOM jersey there are lots of climbs to come too.

i think some riders can recover really fast. So many times have we seen riders get in the breakaway two days in a row and doing great, O'connor last year's giro for example.

 

[Scarponi]

All medical staff was occupied with riders crashing. Good neutralization after all. Imagine if there was another big crash a bit later.

that would happen after every big crash though

 

[Samamba]

No one will be wanting to take Oldani to a sprint that's for sure.

Oldani isn't super fast. Walsheid, Arndt and Molano are also pretty fast. I do think Arndt and Oldani have the best chance at surviving that hill tho.

 

[Cian]

Oldani isn't super fast. Walsheid, Arndt and Molano are also pretty fast. I do think Arndt and Oldani have the best chance at surviving that hill tho.

Torres and Consonni are pretty quick too. I'd say Consonni is the quickest in that group.

 

[RedheadDane]

that would happen after every big crash though

There were, what? Four of five ambulances after the peloton... surely they'll not usually all be busy after a crash. Seems a bit like that incident in the Tour back in, I think, 2015, when they stopped the race after a second crash in a few minutes. Except this time they stopped it before any potention second crash.
BTW... did you delete a part of your post that was quoting me...?

 

[Samamba]

Torres and Consonni are pretty quick too. I'd say Consonni is the quickest in that group.

Oh yeah forgot about Consonni. Just hard to predict this break tbh.

 

[Wvv]

No one will be wanting to take Oldani to a sprint that's for sure.

Oldani isn't super fast. Walsheid, Arndt and Molano are also pretty fast. I do think Arndt and Oldani have the best chance at surviving that hill tho.

Torres and Consonni are pretty quick too. I'd say Consonni is the quickest in that group.

Don't underestimate Hermans as well. He's one of the faster CX-riders and showed speed in (minor) road races too.

 

[Red Rick]

Wiggins being asked about his *** descending in the 2013 Giro lol

 

[ice&fire]

I hope every one of you finds something you're as passionate about as I am passionate about hating stages like these

You may switch to the ladies' Vuelta a Burgos

 

[BlueRoads]

These days each and every break looks underwhelming, could be me, could be the breaks.

 

[Red Rick]

These days each and every break looks underwhelming, could be me, could be the breaks.

It's the breaks.

 

[Eclipse]

All men need to allow themselves some vices.

That's what whisky is for Greg.

Women too.

<3

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Sad to read about the crash and the withdrawals

Looks like a very quiet affair today so perhaps a half watch before the final day of the prem.

 

[Samamba]

It's the breaks.

It's the stage designs. First half of every stage is almost completely flat. Tomorrow is different luckily.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Consonni is fast after a hilly stage, he finished 3rd on the stage that Kragh won at the Tour last year.

 

[SafeBet]

Does anybody know what is the record for breakaway stage winners in a GT? This will be the 8th in this Giro. There could be more than 10 by the end of the race.

 

[the delgados]

I hope every one of you finds something you're as passionate about as I am passionate about hating stages like these

Red Rick! Take it easy, bro. Since I had nothing to do on a Sunday morning, I figured I'd tune into a grand tour stage with 100 km's remaining. Maybe there's a reason to watch, I thought. Then I came across your post and the balloon burst before I got to see a rider go to the team car to fetch a bidon. Thanks a lot!
P.S. Sir Bradley is in da house and is providing some laughs by defiantly giving props to Armstrong and co. First he said Matt White was sought out by none other than Armstrong for his abilities as a domestique. Then he credits Van de Velde for turning him into a mountain goat. And then there was the time he finished fourth behind Armstrong at Le Tour.
Awkward silence follows.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Dark clouds gathering

 

[Jungle Cycle]

very windy now.. dark clouds..
ps; if i remember correctly there was a tour stage that it stopped for the same reason. Cancelara was wearing yellow..

 

[RedheadDane]

very windy now.. dark clouds..
ps; if i remember correctly there was a tour stage that it stopped for the same reason. Cancelara was wearing yellow..

The same reason being the big crash, I pressume. Not windy... or dark clouds. Or... Cancellara wearing yellow, for that matter.

 

[sir fly]

very windy now.. dark clouds..
ps; if i remember correctly there was a tour stage that it stopped for the same reason. Cancelara was wearing yellow..

More than once, I think, a pileup suspended racing there.