Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12: Parma – Genova 204 km (Thursday, May 19th)

[Devil's Elbow]

I wonder if Carapaz will try to snatch bonus seconds today as well...

You'd expect there will be at least three riders up the road by the time we get to the second intermediate sprint.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

If Yates isn't entering the breakaway BEX should try sending Sobrero in the breakaway. ...

Craddock BEX it seems

 

[Mayomaniac]

Sobrero in a 4 man group 15 seconds clear.

The move didn't go anywhere, but I called him being in the breakaway.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Craddock BEX it seems

Another good pick for the breakaway on a stage like today, a rider with a big engine who can climb.

 

[tobydawq]

To help him distinguish left from right?

Doesn't he know that the right foot is the one where the big toe is the leftmost toe?

 

[gregrowlerson]

I take back every sligh comment that I ever made about the apparent regularity of soft-pedalled Giro stages.

Spoiler

So long as Red Rick takes back his comments about MVDP's apparent lack of tactical nous....if he wins the stage.

 

[Eclipse]

What a relentless start

 

[Devil's Elbow]

As entertaining as this battle for the breakaway is, it had better not last all the way to the descent of Bocco...

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

They have ridden 54.7 km in the first hour.

 

[Laplaz]

Almost 55 km in the first hour

 

[Faserr]

And 400metres uphill

 

[glassmoon]

They have ridden 54.7 km in the first hour.

but but but... how?

 

[spalco]

And 400metres uphill

Right, I was going to say the same. Even if Eshnar calls it a "false flat", I know I would definitely feel it in my legs and think it's "real".

 

[Faserr]

Is bilbao in the front?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Carapaz is a madman.

 

[glassmoon]

Ineos trying stuff...

 

[Rollthedice]

Carapaz is a madman.

I also noticed Nibali chasing closing Carapaz group.

 

[gregrowlerson]

The move didn't go anywhere, but I called him being in the breakaway.

He's in the right move now

 

[Breezy1985]

You die 3 deaths. Your physical death, the last time your name is spoken, and the day the last person with any memory of you dies.

Which means Pinot will never die

 

[MartinGT]

Big Group now, is MVDP there?

 

[noob]

Why won't Ineos just let this breakaway go? Don't they need to save Carapaz legs? :O

 

[glassmoon]

Wilco in the break?

 

[gregrowlerson]

Right, I was going to say the same. Even if Eshnar calls it a "false flat", I know I would definitely feel it in my legs and think it's "real".

The peloton read Eshnar's stage preview and are trying to insist that is they who make the race.

 

[noob]

Wilco in the break?

yup

 

[gregrowlerson]

MVDP and Wilco are there.

Spoiler

And most importantly Sobrero.