Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 20: Verbania – Alpe Motta 165 km

[postmanhat]

If your team says "we don't care about podium we'll try everything to win", then you do nothing to try and win but do ride after those who do to protect your podium, then that's not exactly unfair criticism.

Not the first time this Giro that what Yates and his team says , are not the same thing

 

[HelloDolly]

Its not over yet

 

[movingtarget]

Very nice win for Caruso. Too bad Bardet couldn't contribute more but he came into the race supposedly not in great condition. Great support in the break from Bilbao. Caruso hasn't had a bad day in the race really while Yates is as unpredictable as ever. Once again the Ineos domestiques did their job and kept the gap down.

 

[Red Rick]

Tomorrow is where Bernal drops 1'20 to Caruso in the ITT before I'm once again told I can't know for sure if the Ineos leader wouldn't have won that GT without a ridiculous team.

 

[jaylew]

Nice to see Caruso get a stage win. Terrific work from Dani and Castro but Bilbao deserves some credit as well. He did a great job for his leader today.

 

[hfer07]

amazing stage
Congrats to Caruso - What a masterpiece - what a Grinta & titanic work by Bilbao

and what can be said about Dani that hasn't been said already? What a beast!! Egan better get him a nice bonus when the race is over.

 

[DenisMenchov]

I have.

But I never anticipated myself rooting this hard for Caruso. Feelgood story of this Giro by a mile

I know, you always have favorites and you cheer for them throughout their career.

But Caruso was always under the radar guy, with once in a lifetime opportunity to make the podium, yet he goes for the stage and the pink jersey. I just felt that it was now or never for him, at least he won the stage, and hearts of many fans.

 

[jmdirt]

Good stage.
I'm wondering how the people are feeling who were proclaiming Yates the strongest rider of this Giro?!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Caruso should have ridden all the way to the line. If Bernal, God forbid, crashes tomorrow, every second counts.

 

[Sciatic]

On French Eurosport Jackie Durant saying this is what makes the Giro so great—saying if it was the Tour you wouldn’t see the rider in 2nd risk to go for the win because they would be too concerned about falling to 3rd or off the podium.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yes, I was very wrong when I thought his stage win was quite random. Has he ever shown something like that before?

Not as a pro, but Scinto never took him to the big races.
He has a 6th place on the gc in the Giro della Valle d'Aosta in the u23 ranks, but he was already 22 at the time.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nibali arrives

 

[Rollthedice]

Amazing,
moving,
exceptional,
deserved
unbelievable!

Damiano Caruso, the eternal reliable rock solid gregario about to finish runner-up in the Giro while winning with panache stage 20.

 

[titan31]

I don't think he was riding to protect his podium. He was at his limit.

They had Juul Jensen come to the front on that flat between San Bernardino and Splugenpass to ride to protect his podium tbf

 

[jaylew]

Plus those pulls by Visconti on the flat

Good work from Vervaeke as well.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[gunara]

What a hero Caruso is. I wish Eurosport people could give him more credit, yes Martinez is a monster and Bernal is the best, but come on it's Caruso's day. And did Wiggins really said attacking on descent was bizzare? Maybe for him

 

[Rollthedice]

Tomorrow is where Bernal drops 1'20 to Caruso in the ITT before I'm once again told I can't know for sure if the Ineos leader wouldn't have won that GT without a ridiculous team.

Tomorrow without Martinez, who knows?

 

[Red Rick]

Can we have Nibali reaction video to Caruso winning?

 

[movingtarget]

Caruso should have ridden all the way to the line. If Bernal, God forbid, crashes tomorrow, every second counts.

His legs were still moving...............

 

[jaylew]

So, only likely changes in the top 10 tomorrow to be Almeida moving from 8th to 6th and Dani moving from 6th to 5th, everyone else to stay the same.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Dizzying hairpins, snowy mountains, changing weather and interesting action by DSM and Bahrain. The stage delivered. Congrats to Caruso on a great victory. Very good performance on the last climb and good timing to escape on a descent. Martinez is another hero, he dropped everyone bar his leader. Bernal, afraid to be dropped too, must have been screaming "tranquilo, tranquilo" on steepest sections. And finally congrats to Bernal on a good stage: he showed no weakness today and finished ahead of Yates and Almeida. The race is almost over: 2 minutes is too much to overcome, if the gap was 1 minute then we could speculate.

 

[Poursuivant]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1398662720531177475

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/BHRVictorious/status/1398662720531177475

 

[Red Rick]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1398662720531177475

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/BHRVictorious/status/1398662720531177475

Is he the son of hide-the-pain-Harold?

 

[Rollthedice]

Can we have Nibali reaction video to Caruso winning?

No, but here's a nice story told last week by the hero of the day:

"As an amateur, I lived in the same farmhouse where Nibali was staying. We are three years apart: when I arrived there, Vincenzo was seen as a legend, he was a God. He used to come and play table football with us even when he was a professional and had his house 200 meters away from us. And he never accepted to lose, he has always been very proud and stubborn, it's his strength. But when he lost, we forced him to go under the football table".