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

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the official Giro forecast on 3bmeteo only reports rain for the finish. But no idea which one usually is how reliable

 

[greyclouds]

There seems to be orange warnings from the italian met service for Lombardia - from 11 or 12 today, rain and thunderstorms. There’s a good chance of raining the whole day, especially in Santa Cristina and Aprica. Temperatures between 15 and 20 celsius.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Sadly MAL isn‘t there any more. He is always the man for the epic shows - a pure showman.

Imagine MAL in the third week of Giro, standing somewhere at the side of the road high up in the Dolomites: shaking of anger, crying, and screaming because he cannot feel his fingers any more. „Oh no, I quit this f*cking bike race now and here. Where is the team car?!“…

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Sadly MAL isn‘t there any more. He is always the man for the epic shows - a pure showman.

Imagine MAL in the third week of Giro, standing somewhere at the side of the road high up in the Dolomites: shaking of anger, crying, and screaming because he cannot feel his fingers any more. „Oh no, I quit this f*cking bike race now and here. Where is the team car?!“…

He even can't punch a spectator anymore (like he did a few years back at the Giro). No Superman, no drama.

 

[Lequack]

Will Yates win this stage from the break or the GC group, that is the only question for today.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Sounds like weather for a memorable stage.
Disaster for some GC prospects and joy for others.

 

[ice&fire]

Sadly MAL isn‘t there any more. He is always the man for the epic shows - a pure showman.

Imagine MAL in the third week of Giro, standing somewhere at the side of the road high up in the Dolomites: shaking of anger, crying, and screaming because he cannot feel his fingers any more. „Oh no, I quit this f*cking bike race now and here. Where is the team car?!“…

MAL would have looked for the team car after missing the split in the stage to Torino

 

[RedheadDane]

I think Valv.Piti meant smashable in this way:

Smashing baby Yeah !!! | Make a Meme

I refuse to engange in that kind of conversation.

 

[SafeBet]

No rain on the route at the moment. Weather could worsen later.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Everyone and their grandmother wanting Nibali to win this stage.

Spoiler

Except for Valverde's grandmother....probably. Not sure that she'd still be alive.

 

[topcat]

Nibali versus a load of young fellas. Sounds like myself and Greg battling it out in this forum.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Nibali versus a load of young fellas. Sounds like myself and Greg battling it out in this forum.

We're a chance tonight mate. We're from the dodgy 90's era, and we're coming off a rest day.

It's in the bag

 

[Rollthedice]

We're a chance tonight mate. We're from the dodgy 90's era, and we're coming off a rest day.

It's in the bag

I'm 59 and can confirm it's in the bag.

 

[gunara]

We're a chance tonight mate. We're from the dodgy 90's era, and we're coming off a rest day.

It's in the bag

The 90s is probably dodgy but it's surprisingly surviveable, somewhat.

In for the bag.

 

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Caicedo DNS after testing positive for corona yesterday

 

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about Nibali, I'm really not sure what to expect. Has been a while since he did a good mountain stage. Saturday's performance could of course be an indication that he is at his best again, and goes even stronger today - but it also was a very special day, in terms of racing and temperatures. Maybe it just suited him particularly well

 

[CyclistAbi]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gst-Ryh3g

 

[sir fly]

Windyyy...

 

[Netserk]

Why the silence at the (late) start?

 

[gregrowlerson]

Why the silence at the (late) start?

The calm before the storm.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Why the silence at the (late) start?

Stefano Martolini, the ds of Viris Vigevano, died 2 days ago when a rider crashed into him (he was standing at the side of the road) with around 400m to go at an Italian one day race.

 

[sir fly]

Ellen's bike's terrific!

 

[Rollthedice]

The calm before the storm.

 

[Valv.Piti]

The number of better ways to mix it up than this stage is greater than the number of Colombians Ryo claimed to be better than Nibali.

I think you can do exercise on basically every stage, and especially a stage such as todays that has limitless opportunities with all the different sides of Mortirolo and the opportunity to go Padrio/Trivigno in the final. Sure, most likely the big guns will only attack with 10-15 km left, but its the first big mountain stage in this block of stages, so I wouldn't have expected much more.

 

[Eclipse]

Let's do thiiiiiis