Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 18: Borgo Valsugana - Treviso 152 km (Thursday, May 26th)

[F_Cance]

trek is so laughable. How can you lose almost 3 minutes in 25km with your team fully chasing

 

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it looks like somehow de Bondt ended up with the pineapple in the end - and Oldani with a megaphone. What the heck happened there?!

de Bondt will probably have a pineapple every day now

 

[Cagalitroso]

isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?

 

[StryderHells]

isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?

It is

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Hindley is s.t to the rest on the Tissot page

voodoo fail

 

[Red Rick]

Are you peopel really complaining the Giro isn't over yet thanks to a mechanical after they haven't gapped each other in road stages since stage 1?

 

[JosefK]

isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?

Not sure why, exactly--maybe so a rider with a flat won't impede the charging peloton while trying to get the tire or biked changed in the sprint chaos. Also possibly a rule in the "fair play" principles of competition. A flat further out is possible to recover from, but a flat in the final 3km is almost impossible to recover from.

 

[RedheadDane]

isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?

Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?

 

[StryderHells]

Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?

Yes, article 20 in rule book

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Arensman was also in the Lopez group, so Buitrago moves up to second in the youth classification, but he's still 5 minutes behind.

 

[topcat]

Did he get dropped and then stab his tyre with his pineapple knife? It wasn't caught on camera or was it?

 

[StryderHells]

Did he get dropped and then stab his tyre with his pineapple knife? It wasn't caught on camera or was it?

I’m so sick of riders getting pineapple knives out

 

[JosefK]

Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?

Better said than my long-winded musing.

 

[tobydawq]

isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?

It just is.

 

[saunaking]

Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?

that is the rule but i would hardly say its things out of a riders control!

 

[Netserk]

Hindley is s.t to the rest on the Tissot page

When I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.

EDIT: But the overall is:

 

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When I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.

yeah, he somehow moved up to 42nd with s.t., which definitely was the wrong position. I think he finished with Gamper?! Seems like they are adjusting this now

 

[RedheadDane]

that is the rule but i would hardly say its things out of a riders control!

What else would you consider a flat tire? I think rider's don't generally go around stabbing their tires with pineapple knives...

 

[movingtarget]

I fell to sleep with the gap reducing fast and the break won ................now I'm awake and confused..........

 

[tobydawq]

When I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.

Those results didn't make sense it all, there was no way he was the rider next on the results sheet after De Marchi.

But of course he will not get his real time.

It would be hilarious if he got the sprinters' time and got in pink. I know that's not the rule, though.

 

[staubsauger]

Arensman was also in the Lopez group, so Buitrago moves up to second in the youth classification, but he's still 5 minutes behind.

Wasn't he even taking pulls at the front of the peloton shortly before? If so idiotic. Could've taken an eye on the white jersey otherwise.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wasn't he even taking pulls at the front of the peloton shortly before? If so idiotic. Could've taken an eye on the white jersey otherwise.

He probably also could have lost less time yesterday, but he obviously didn't know Almeida would be out today. But the team has other priorities, of course.

 

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He probably also could have lost less time yesterday, but he obviously didn't know Almeida would be out today. But the team has other priorities, of course.

he may not plan to go full out over the weekend anyway, and save himself for the ITT, I guess

 

[StryderHells]

Have to enjoy seeing 2 Wanty riders in the top 10 in the GC at this stage in the Giro.

 

[saunaking]

What else would you consider a flat tire? I think rider's don't generally go around stabbing their tires with pineapple knives...

at the risk of a pointless debate there is a non-zero percentage of flat tires that are the riders fault.
And for crashes in the last 3 km - lots are the riders fault