Giro d'Italia 2021 Giro Rosa - 2nd to 11th July

[Samu Cuenca]

Now they're saying Ash has a lead of more than a minute with 5 km left.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Spratt is dropped from the group, which is 2 minutes behind. Only seven riders left in it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Breggen, Vollering, Deignan and Cavalli have catched ELB.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Less than 3 km left, and nobody knows what's happening!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In the end Simona Gerranso appeared out of nowhere and won the stage.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Moolman-Pasio allegedly held on, but I don't know what happened behind her.
Leah Thomas finished 12th at 3:33 according to Movistar.

 

[BlueRoads]

In the end Simona Gerranso appeared out of nowhere and won the stage.

Just read through your descriptions and that was a surprising end indeed!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

1. Moolman-Pasio
2. Vollering
3. Van der Breggen
4. Cavalli
5. Deignan
   
   12. Thomas

 

[RedheadDane]

1. Moolman-Pasio
2. Vollering
3. Van der Breggen
4. Cavalli
5. Deignan
   
   12. Thomas

But nobody finished between 6 and 11?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

But nobody finished between 6 and 11?

I assume so, I just don't have any info about it yet. Radiocorsa broke down.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

At least someone saw her cross the line

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413865089594269701

View: https://twitter.com/ros_svit/status/1413865089594269701

 

[Northerner]

But nobody finished between 6 and 11?

DSM think Labous is somewhere in the top 10. Lol. I was assuming when we were waiting hours for results that the people at the finish at least knew what had happened.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It seems that even the teams don't know an awful lot.

Sara Poidevin finsihed first of the remaining Rally riders while Pauliena Rooijakkers abandoned.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Merckx should have some comments on Vos DNS

 

[BlueRoads]

This is supposed to be the biggest women's stage race. It's ridiculous.

 

[sir fly]

Struggling to watch the stages (unappealing production) but aware of the terror.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413874987979640832

View: https://twitter.com/ElisaLongoB/status/1413874987979640832

 

[Northerner]

Results now on First Cycling.

Moolman Pasio won by 1:26 ahead of Vollering and Van der Breggen, Cavalli 13 seconds further back.

The unknown placings 6-11 were Garcia, Labous, Guderzo, Fisher-Black, Muzic, Realini.

Fisher-Black took 30 seconds in the white jersey competition, now leads by 1:09.

Van der Breggen leads the GC now by 1:23, Cavalli (6th) and Realini (10th) into the top 10 at the expense of Chabbey and Magnaldi.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Cavalli was the only one who was able to follow Vollering and Van der breggen, but she had to give up inside the final 500m.
If it hadn't been for the TTT she would have finished fourth. At least she will win the maglia azzurra, because Magnaldi had an awful day and lost more than six minutes.

SD Worx now leads 4 out of 6 competitions. They'll probably lose one of those, but then Moolman-Pasio still has chance of winning the QOM.

01	Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio		Team SD Worx	03:52:35​	25​
02	Demi Vollering		Team SD Worx	+ 01:26​	20​
03	Anna van der Breggen		Team SD Worx	+ 01:26​	15​
04	Marta Cavalli		FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope	+ 01:39​	12​
05	Lizzie Deignan		Trek-Segafredo	+ 02:14​	10​
06	Mavi Garcia		Alé BTC Ljubljana	+ 02:27​	8​
07	Juliette Labous		Team DSM	+ 02:37​	6​
08	Tatiana Guderzo		Alé BTC Ljubljana	+ 02:46​	4​
09	Niamh Fisher-Black		Team SD Worx	+ 02:56​	​
10	Evita Muzic		FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope	+ 03:25​	​
11	Gaia Realini		Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria	+ 03:28​	​
12	Leah Thomas		Movistar Team Women	+ 03:31​	​
13	Elisa Longo Borghini		Trek-Segafredo	+ 03:41​	​
14	Eider Merino		A.R. Monex Women's	+ 04:31​	​
15	Amanda Spratt		Team BikeExchange	+ 04:53​	​
16	Brodie Chapman		FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope	+ 04:58​	​
17	Sabrina Stultiens		Liv Racing	+ 05:41​	​
18	Elise Chabbey		CANYON//SRAM Racing	+ 05:41​	​
19	Alena Amialiusik		CANYON//SRAM Racing	+ 05:50​	​
20	Maria Novolodskaya		A.R. Monex Women's	+ 06:13​

01	-	Anna van der Breggen		Team SD Worx	24:04:12​
02	-	Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio		Team SD Worx	+ 01:23​
03	-	Demi Vollering		Team SD Worx	+ 03:05​
04	-	Lizzie Deignan		Trek-Segafredo	+ 06:48​
05	2	Mavi Garcia		Alé BTC Ljubljana	+ 08:06​
06	5	Marta Cavalli		FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope	+ 08:09​
07	1	Juliette Labous		Team DSM	+ 08:20​
08	1	Tatiana Guderzo		Alé BTC Ljubljana	+ 08:52​
09	1	Niamh Fisher-Black		Team SD Worx	+ 09:24​
10	2	Gaia Realini		Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria	+ 10:33​

 

[Dk one]

AVDB: You get a win, you get a win and you get a win!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

This is highly reminiscent of what happened when they finished on Altopiano di Montasio a couple of years ago. We knew that Anna was chasing Annemiek. Then we knew they were together. Then there was no signal. Then we heard Anna had won, but no time gaps. Then we heard Moolman-Pasio and Spratt had finished but no idea of timegaps or what position. It took an age for information to filter through.

We did have broadcast issues with Prato Nevoso, but we didn't have total radio silence. However, it seems that we do get issues with the broadcast in the Friulian mountains every time the race goes there, which makes me wonder if it's a geographical thing.

Anyway, it looks like a safe podium for SD Worx, first lockout since 2014 Rabo (and that was without the benefit of their main competition and another rider off the previous year's podium not starting!), and great for Ash to belatedly get her first Giro stage win. And we may just have lost the one race in a year where Lizzie Deignan subsumes her own goals to those of the team, since the Giro was the only time she would be a good teammate back in the day (kidding on the square, she's been a much more team-oriented rider since returning from the baby break). And Niamh Fisher-Black does what should be enough to guarantee the maglia bianca. And sad to see the DNFs for Koppenburg and Rooijakkers, two riders who would have been looking forward to today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Breggen, Chabbey, Rivera, Brand and Deignan are leading the stage with a gap of 2:28
They were being followed by a group consisting of Moolman Pasio, Fisher-Black, Vollering, García, Cavalli, Muzic, Thomas, Roy, Labous, Lippert and Longo Borghini, but I'm not sure if they are all back in the peloton now.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Well, Anna's going to anchor that group then lol. Bad SD Worx if they throw away my prediction game bonus by letting Demi fall off the podium. Double boo if they let it be for Lizzie Deignan.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

35 km left and the latest known gap is 45 seconds.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

54 seconds inside the last 20 km of the race.