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

[Stringer Bell]

If that breaks stays clear, Oldani should win this in his sleep, right? Or has he lost all his sprinting abilities when he became a climber?

Rota is no mug in a finish

 

[Samamba]

If that breaks stays clear, Oldani should win this in his sleep, right? Or has he lost all his sprinting abilities when he became a climber?

Oldani's sprint is overrated. Rota is not slow. Hard to predict after a hard race.
I would still give him the edge in a sprint, but it's definitely not clear cut.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Counted 39 s with my head.

 

[sir fly]

Counted 39 s with my head.

What heart says?

 

[Eclipse]

Kelderman would have been pretty happy with even 5+ mins recovered today I'd think.

 

[noob]

Wilco clawing back a good deal on his GC today

 

[durtyfat7]

Why is the peloton taking it easily and letting Wilco coming back in the GC picture, that's so stupid.

 

[Rollthedice]

Kelderman would have been pretty happy with even 5+ mins recovered today I'd think.

Stupid thing to do for all the GC teams interested to let Bora have 3 riders in contention.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

What heart says?

Just wanted to point out i didn't need my fingers to count to 39.
It was a joke referring to people ''hand-clocking'' the time.

 

[spalco]

Why is the peloton taking it easily and letting Wilco coming back in the GC picture, that's so stupid.

He's not even top10 in virtual GC, and the gain might drop a bit yet. But yeah, it's possible some will regret this day.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Yeah, very surprised that the peleton is gifting Keldermann all those minutes. Not that I think he'll make up 3-5 minutes in the final week (assuming the gap stays as it is right now) but it's just handing Bora another card to play with for seemingly no reason. Strong team + Hindley, Buchmann and Keldermann all in contention is a great look for them.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

46km/h with 2.800m......

 

[Tim Cahill]

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Javier Guillen must be very jealous of these motorways in the final 15 kilometres of a stage.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Crazy that this trio gets the stage.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

roughly 44s i think
edit: and now the gps drops as well, lol

 

[Bolder]

I would not give Keldeman 8 minutes back, but on the other hand it would be a lot of work for a single rider who isn't really a podium threat (now watch him pull a Floyd^^)

 

[Red Rick]

Movistar should start riding to protect Valvderdes GC soon

 

[F_Cance]

Crazy that this trio gets the stage.

it's the annual group of randoms getting to contest the stage stage. Last year Lafay and so on

 

[Eclipse]

Yeah, very surprised that the peleton is gifting Keldermann all those minutes. Not that I think he'll make up 3-5 minutes in the final week (assuming the gap stays as it is right now) but it's just handing Bora another card to play with for seemingly no reason. Strong team + Hindley, Buchmann and Keldermann all in contention is a great look for them.

Yeah, it's less about Kelderman and more about Bora as a unit. That's a lot of very competent cards to play now.

 

[HelloDolly]

Crazy that this trio gets the stage.

why is it crazy ?
Its cycling ...ebb and flo and strongest isnt always predicted...plus tactics is a major aspect

 

[DenisMenchov]

Just wanted to point out i didn't need my fingers to count to 39.
It was a joke referring to people ''hand-clocking'' the time.

Well you can surely count to 39, but they use fingers for starting and stopping a stopwatch.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Crazy that this trio gets the stage.

All three of them had teammates behind and BikeExchange were the only other team with multiple riders, so the circumstances were there. Of course, you still need some short-sighted tactics behind for it to play out that way, but it also helps when the climbers pull back just 20 seconds on the climb. Which only happens when you have a strong group up front, so whoever wins this deserves a fair bit of credit for more reasons than just tactics.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Well you can surely count to 39, but they use fingers for starting and stopping a stopwatch.

I can start and stop my stopwatch with my toes. So what do you know.

 

[Red Rick]

All three of them had teammates behind and BikeExchange were the only other team with multiple riders, so the circumstances were there. Of course, you still need some short-sighted tactics behind for it to play out that way, but it also helps when the climbers pull back just 20 seconds on the climb. Which only happens when you have a strong group up front, so whoever wins this deserves a fair bit of credit for more reasons than just tactics.

Stage has been super hard as well, loads of effort spent to get in the breakaway, it would hardly ne about climbing legs in the first place