Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro d'Italia, Stage 21: Senago – Milano 30.3 km ITT

[Samu Cuenca]

What a shame

 

[BlueRoads]

Damn bad luck. He looked so amazing.

 

[limak_]

He'll win regardless making it even more incredible

 

[Tim Cahill]

Just started watching it last night. How cool would it be if every team did one of those?

Yes, was expecting it to be a bit guarded but I loved the brazen footage of them cheating on several occasions. They are becoming more commonplace (the Tottenham amazon doc was good too), so hopefully a few more teams will do it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He held on to the speed record for a Giro ITT of more than 16 km., but it might be beatable.

Maybe they should have changed the bike earlier, cause I expected Cimolai to be further behind at that point.

 

[BlueRoads]

Incredible if he wins this nonetheless, but it's a shame anyway, this could have been such a perfect ride.

 

[ppanther92]

Affini took 18s from Ganna in the last sector. Ungortunate but than Affini is also probably one of the strongest, so Ganna might still win.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Ganna is just so dominant...I'm not even sure Cancellara was so dominant as he is right now. Then again Spartacus had a bunch of other skills in his arsenal, while being the best TTer in the world...

Please don

Flat for Ganna!

And that's okay, he'll beat your arse anyway!

 

[RedheadDane]

And that's okay, he'll beat your arse anyway!

Purito would beat my arse in an ITT...

 

[limak_]

Now I can only see Cavagna as some of a threat for Ganna. Foss and Almeida are too tired for extraordinary performance today.

 

[KZD]

Affini took 18s from Ganna in the last sector. Ungortunate but than Affini is also probably one of the strongest, so Ganna might still win.

This shows that Affini faded a bit in the end, no way the bike change only cost 18 seconds. Cavagna and Foss are the only ones that could beat him realistically.

 

[johnymax]

If Almeida wins, I won't be mad. I don't expect him to, though. Cavagna should be dangerous.

 

[ppanther92]

This shows that Affini faded a bit in the end, no way the bike change only cost 18 seconds. Cavagna and Foss are the only ones that could beat him realistically.

Walscheid in 3rd even lost 1s in the last part. Just think Ganna also rocked that (more than Affini fading). Bike change and lost momentum on such a high speed course hast to cost more than 18s in my opinion as well.

 

[Bonimenier]

According to PCS Molano averaged a speed of 156 kph. What a beast.

 

[Keram]

Wasn't aware that Movistar season 2 was out.

That's fantastic news, although I'm not sure how they will do it without the small screen titans of Quintana and Landa, I'm sure old favourite Marc Soler will be up to his old tricks.

Marc got fair share of his screen time

 

[Panda Claws]

Filippo's not Ganna win

 

[Mayomaniac]

Walscheid would be a good rider for Quickstep.
Fast guy with a huge engine and great TT skills, potential Roubaix rider and absurdly high wattages for 25-30sec as a potential leadout guy (he did over 1300W for 25sec at the end of the German U23 NC RR back in 2014)

 

[Keram]

Great ride by Ganna. I hope he wins despite that puncture. He passed how much? 4 riders? Incredible.

Also seen Sagan three times today in ciclamino. Nice.

 

[Panda Claws]

Biggest what-if of the decade

 

[staubsauger]

Ganna certainly would have catched 5 riders without that flat tyre!

 

[Breezy1985]

Ganna has really ugly looking TT bars on that bike

 

[Red Rick]

Walscheid would be a good rider for Quickstep.
Fast guy with a huge engine and great TT skills, potential Roubaix rider and absurdly high wattages for 25-30sec as a potential leadout guy (he did over 1300W for 25sec at the end of the German U23 NC RR back in 2014)

Lotto-Soudal should get him.

 

[staubsauger]

Walscheid would be a good rider for Quickstep.
Fast guy with a huge engine and great TT skills, potential Roubaix rider and absurdly high wattages for 25-30sec as a potential leadout guy (he did over 1300W for 25sec at the end of the German U23 NC RR back in 2014)

He's got a good sprint as well to develop further. Indeed an excellent addition to their classics rooster!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

It happens. Just look how many pan-flat sprint stages showed up in the Giro when Cipo and Ale-Jet were at their peak, how many garage ramps showed up in the Vuelta when Purito and Piti were the top wallriders in the world, and how the neutered 2009 Tour parcours with a TTT (not seen since Lance's retirement) and mountain stages specifically designed around not being decisive until as late as possible was engineered around ensuring Armstrong would still be in contention as long as possible. ASO had designs on the UK (a comparatively untapped potential audience, and the organic rise to prominence of some British riders like Cavendish coming so soon after the loss of the German market probably made it a more attractive proposition) and if you look at the stage race wins Sky manage in their earlier years, there is a massively disproportionate number of them in the small percentage organised by Amaury. It's a business, after all. C'est la vie.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Going to be very close between Cavagna and Ganna. +18 at the 2nd split but Affini gained that exact amount back in the final part.