Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 14: Santena – Torino 147 km (Saturday, May 21st)

[groogster]

There are 7 riders in front of Nibali.

So maybe if we saw 3 crashes and 4 riders having a bad day !

 

[Lequack]

In Italy everything is nicer, even the police.
Also at today's stage, Marcell Jacobs , Olympic champion sprinter, with the local police force.

 

[movingtarget]

Another stage win for Yates wouldn't surprise me.

 

[RedheadDane]

Every sprint stage should be designed like today, keeping the sprinters in the groupetto where they belong. Just a nice medium mountain stage.

So... every sprint stage should not be a sprint stage?
I'm pretty sure today was not designed as a sprint stage.

Another stage win for Yates wouldn't surprise me.

Me neither.
He already won.

 

[movingtarget]

There are 7 riders in front of Nibali.

Even the voodoo gods have limits........

 

[OlavEH]

Yes! You could have a killer stage between, for example, Rome and Rieti or Gubbio and San Marino

Yep. Or the muritos in Abruzzo and Marche, for instance a stage with finish in Fermo. The Ligurian hills are also really good. And an area almost never used; the hilly terrain south and west of the towns in Emilio Romagna (Bologna, Imola, Fanza, Forli). Here there are hills and valleys enough to create medium mountain stages of epic proportions.

 

[Extinction]

Yep. Or the muritos in Abruzzo and Marche, for instance a stage with finish in Fermo. The Ligurian hills are also really good. And an area almost never used; the hilly terrain south and west of the towns in Emilio Romagna (Bologna, Imola, Fanza, Forli). Here there are hills and valleys enough to create medium mountain stages of epic proportions.

Indeed, pretty much anywhere along the spinal cord of the boot will do.

 

[noob]

With all that damage I was so disappointed that the shark didn't win. Not that I mind Yates in the slightest but still I always cheer for the elderly.

 

[Didinho]

First stage this Giro I couldn't watch, offcourse it was full carnage.
Wanted to check the last 30km without knowing anything and I saw only 12 riders left. Had to go all the way back to when Bora started pushing.
So Almeida rode the whole stage yoyoing at 15sec or so and finished only 24sec down, what a heart on this guy. Hope he can win this Giro!
Hindley and Carapaz the better climbers so far. Would've loved to see Bardet with them here.
MVDP having fun everyday, more of this in the Tour please.
And happy to see the shark riding with grinta again!

 

[HelloDolly]

There are 7 riders in front of Nibali.

There are only 4 possible contenders at this stage

 

[Tricycle Rider]

In Italy everything is nicer, even the police.
Also at today's stage, Marcell Jacobs , Olympic champion sprinter, with the local police force.

Track and field participants will always be under review (Clinic stuff), but it was nice of Jacobs to show up for some pro cycling!

 

[jsem94]

I have missed a few stages this year and had to watch them on GCN+ hours afterwards. Never have I genuinely not skipped through as many parts of the race as today. What an incredible stage, truly.

 

[MarkTusa]

Maybe today's stage too tells us all as pro racing fans that we <<really>> wouldn't mind missing the long slugs up a mountain pass as we once thought.

The Giro every year in my mind delivers the creative stages that includes considering 4 foot wide alley ways actual roads in Italy.

Just saying...

 

[fbjim]

I've seen plenty of mediocre intermediate stages, we had one earlier to Potenza. A bunch of TDF ones go to the break, while we remember the great ones like Saint-Etienne 2019.

That said T-A and the Basque tour frequently consist of these routes and they're usually some of the better stage races of the year

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In Italy everything is nicer, even the police.
Also at today's stage, Marcell Jacobs , Olympic champion sprinter, with the local police force.

The fashion sense of Italian sprinters has really deteriorated since Cipo retired.

 

[gregrowlerson]

I’m not saying you have to like him. He is Australian so of course a wheelsucker by nature.

however you criticize Bora, which for me isn’t fair at all. And I also think Hindley had some entertaining moves today. Definitely not wheelsucking all the time.

"I was born a wheelsucker, and I'll die a wheelsucker."

Jai Hindley, probably.

 

[SafeBet]

What an insane pull by Giovanni Aleotti. He went to the front with 85 km to go and sat up 15 km later, having destroyed the race in the process.

 

[BigCoward]

SK and Chavez sat at home with PTSD. They know what's coming.

 

[tobydawq]

I just finished watching the stage. Decent enough, I guess.

 

[Netserk]

I just finished watching the stage. Decent enough, I guess.

You know how we felt if you imagine Valverde and Nibali trading place.

 

[perico]

This stage proved that we need more of those medium mountain stages with ups and downs!! Getting tired of those high mountains uphill finishes where the GC guys only attack a few kms from the finish.

That’s why I prefer the Vuelta most years.

 

[StryderHells]

"I was born a wheelsucker, and I'll die a wheelsucker."

Jai Hindley, probably.

If you redefine the word wheelsucker