Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 16: Salò – Aprica 202 km (Tuesday, May 24th)

[gregrowlerson]

Most important climb of this Giro starts now.

Perhaps the most important climb of Landa's career.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Probably the wrong place to complain about it, but those Suzuki commericals with a fake Japanese accent on Italian TV seem rather tasteless to me, who the hell thinks that something like this is a good idea, even in Italy?

Payback for Mario Bros.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Imagine if Kämna is on the way to the stage win but has to wait for Hindley

Bora ain't Movistar...

 

[Velolover2]

0:30 gap already?

 

[spalco]

You had that prepared, didn't you?`

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Landa believes

 

[Didinho]

Poels waiting 3min and then riding every GC guy off his wheel

 

[Red Rick]

Bora ain't Movistar...

At this rate it's "wait for Hindley and still win stage"

 

[Lui98]

Probably the wrong place to complain about it, but those Suzuki commericals with a fake Japanese accent on Italian TV seem rather tasteless to me, who the hell thinks that something like this is a good idea, even in Italy?

I thought the same until last year someone I know pointed out to me that the man that speaks in those commercials is actually a Japanese actor that works in Italy since a lot of years, Hal Yamanouchi, and he usually talks in Italian like this.

 

[sir fly]

The gimmick being that they don't actually want to sell any cars?

Err... tired to bother to elaborate.

 

[Fantastico]

Kämna almost with a minute advantage? What are they doing behind?

 

[Sestriere]

Quite a gap for Kämna. But the steep part is still going to be difficult

 

[Mayomaniac]

Klöden 2.0 ftw!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Kämna almost with a minute advantage? What are they doing behind?

Leaning on Valverde lol

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

You had that prepared, didn't you?`

I can comfirm nor deny these allegations.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I thought the same until last year someone I know pointed out to me that the man that speaks in those commercials is actually a Japanese actor that works in Italy since a lot of years, Hal Yamanouchi, and he usually talks in Italian like this.

Ok, then zero complains on my behalf!

 

[Samamba]

Ok what's the GPS moto with the chasers doing right now

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Kämna is in that kind of shape where he's almost impossible to stop from a break. Like Storer at last year's Vuelta, Gaudu the year before it, Hirschi and O'Connor at the Tour and Giro that year, and so on.

 

[Samamba]

I still think the winner is in the chasing group.
No way Kamna doesn't fade a bit on the last steep 5k en 2"30 should be enough for Carthy, Hirt, Valverde or Arensman.

 

[skippo12]

Klöden 2.0 ftw!

Joy to watch. Hopefully they never try to turn him into a GC rider.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Don't think this is done for Kämna by all means. Hirt and Carthy can be monsters on these later 10%+ gradients.

 

[spalco]

Half the peloton is Bahrain it seems.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Joy to watch. Hopefully they never try to turn him into a GC rider.

I don't think Kämna has the requisite borderline insane mindset for it anyway, certainly not in the long-term.

 

[Netserk]

It gets steep with about 11.5 km to go:

 

[Rollthedice]

Not sure that Valverde's turn to pull lasted 10 seconds.