Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 17: Ponte di Legno – Lavarone 168 km (Wednesday, May 25th)

[HelloDolly]

Wiggins is very awkward

But they love him in the GCN studio

 

[noob]

Meida really lost over 1min, according to the RAI motobike he was asking for a gel to eat on top of the climb and cracked on the false flat afterwards, no longer able to push his biggest gear. Maybe a hunger knock.

That wouldn't be the first time for him :O

 

[saunaking]

Big gaps today, but I'm finding Hindley slightly bizarre

Hindley seems stronger, but he only needs to sit tight and drop Carapaz in the final kms of Fedida and with bonus seconds it could be enough to make a buffer he can survive in the ITT

 

[Brullnux]

Nibali at 6 minutes back is ideal for a stage win!

 

[search]

Pozzovivo just finished @ +11:35

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wiggins thinking VDP and Van Aert are compatriots

Tbf Wiggins probably thinks he was born in the Netherlands himself.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I really want to know what Almeidas gap was at the top of the climb

If you want that kind of information, next time you stake out at the top of the climb!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nibali at 6 minutes back is ideal for a stage win!

And all the guys who were behind him on the gc and in the same group lost even more time than him today...

 

[Earns1985]

Hirt with two breakaway days now only 1:24 away from a TOP 5 GC.

 

[Netserk]

Hindley is doing exactly the same and tbf the parcours incentivises this kind of racing with little TT and final climb-centred mountain stages. Such a poor edition.

Remember the objections to the comparison to the 2012 and 2014 routes before the race?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Hindley seems stronger, but he only needs to sit tight and drop Carapaz in the final kms of Fedida and with bonus seconds it could be enough to make a buffer he can survive in the ITT

The fact that this is a genuinely possible strategy is such a damning indictment of this route. While racing everywhere else has become more attacking in recent years, GTs have become worse and it's entirely related to a really poor slate of GT routes in recent years.

 

[Netserk]

Big gaps today, but I'm finding Hindley slightly bizarre

He would not be able to hold a gap on his own today, and why should he then commit more to the group than Carapaz did?

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Don't tell me Valverde is still 9th or 10th on GC?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Remember the objections to the comparison to the 2012 and 2014 routes before the race?

Yes, sadly that's what a lack of kms of ITT does to the race.

 

[spalco]

You have to think that Landa and/or Hindley go long range on Friday? Or try to properly go Carapaz? Ineos aren't strong but they're unable to gap Carapaz uphill, and the TT is a bit unreliable

I would think if Carapaz is capable of it, he'll want to go himself to make a point.

 

[durtyfat7]

It seems that Landa can't compete with the other 2 in terms of explosivity & sprinting. His only option to win the race is to go on a long rang attack on Friday or Saturday.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I care more for the GC guys as well, but that's super disrespectful.

Well, I wouldn't say that so his face and it has nothing to do with him, its just how I feel about a race where the best riders dont care about stages and the producers rarely show images of the leading group. I literally could not care if it him him, Buitrago or a 3rd rider. I would have forgotten that in a week. Simply put, its not what I tune in for. I know some people care a lot about that stuff - well, I don't. Theres no point for me to tune in if thats all what Im getting. I might as well read the results on PCS or somewhere else, because I learn close to nothing about the race I really care about (the GC) watching the images they are giving me.

Anyways, enough ranting for today. Its probably a tune in with 14 km left on Passo Fedaia-angle and pray to the cycling gods that the break will be caught by then so they don't have to waste 80% of their time showing images of some decent to good climbers fighting it out instead of trying to show us who's actually winning the overall race.

 

[Rollthedice]

Three dudes incapable of dropping each other and only marginally dropping the fourth are dragging their bikes through Italy hoping to take home a sweaty pink colored jersey to their loved ones. I kind of prefer to see a Slovenian coalminer and a compatriot ski jumper.

 

[movingtarget]

Think Hindley will have trouble gapping Carapaz. That said, he's obviously riding well. Think Landa is riding for third at best. cracks starting to show for Almeida which will be a relief to the riders in front of him re the TT. Gutsy ride by VDP and a well taken win by Sanchez. Poels didn't leave anything in the tank for his team. Hindley probably has to do the TT of his life to win the race as Carapaz is looking better than he did earlier in the race.

 

[gigadeath]

The fact that this is a genuinely possible strategy is such a damning indictment of this route. While racing everywhere else has become more attacking in recent years, GTs have become worse and it's entirely related to a really poor slate of GT routes in recent years.

Also, 3-week competitions are a relic of the past now. I look at them as I look at some 3-day cricket match. Out of this world.

 

[gunara]

The accordeon guy has no explosiveness whatsoever, I keep rooting for him for years but honestly I don't know how he will ever win a race of his level

 

[Netserk]

Don't tell me Valverde is still 9th or 10th on GC?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So MVP strikes again! But he came short again (despite gaining on a descent), big mountains are not for him. Third time lucky for Carthy? No, he lost from the breakaway again, for the 3rd consecutive mountain stage. Great finish by Buitrago, after Sunday's 2nd he's the best today. The same guys are in breakaways all the time, Hirt being another example.

As for GC guys, the Big3 almost unseparable again (except last meters). They will be on podium probably and the fight between Carapaz and Hindley will be continued until the very end. Almeida prefered bigger distance than 20 meters today and he lost the Giro as well as the podium (probably, given two mountain stages remaining).

 

[topcat]

Nibali at 6 minutes back is ideal for a stage win!

Every silver lining has a cloud

 

[movingtarget]

People talked about it here, but the TV production ignored it entirely.

The Giro TV coverage has definitely faltered in the past few editions . They just miss so much of the action. Maybe they have a new TV producer ?