Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 19: Marano Lagunare – Santuario di Castelmonte 178 km (Friday, May 27th)

[Rollthedice]

Not much "dead wood" in the break says Wiggo.

 

[noob]

Lol it's all about whether the winner will finish 20 or 8 minutes ahead of the GC riders

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

WTAF with Eurosport.

 

[sir fly]

Amazing piece of art, indeed.

 

[Izzyeviel]

This the most the GC group has been shown in the Giro since Blockhouse

 

[glassmoon]

WTAF with Eurosport.

Muchova should scratch the game - she has no chance with that sprained ankle anyway. And we would get the Giro broadcast. This way it's not on until that match is over unfortunately. They are showing tennis on all 3 channels assholes

At least the Tiz is working fine so far...

 

[CyclistAbi]

Shark Landa on Kolovrat. Unless i guess tennis spoils it all.

 

[Aimar16]

Bora in front

 

[glassmoon]

it's a scratch... will get Giro pictures shortly

Bummer for Muchova though.

 

[hayneplane]

The Home of Cycling showing Whensitova vs Stillnotova. After an hour and a half they're just starting Set 2

I wish Roland Garros was a week later so stupid matches involving players who are not even household names in their own residence don't intrude on key Grand Tour stages.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

A very generous gift of a grand tour stage from the peloton to some random journeyman. I love seeing outsiders win, but I do prefer them to actually have to do something to earn it.

 

[The Barb]

An astonishly bad break.

Bike Exchange, DSM even Astana etc … why are you still in the race if not to put a rider in the break.

 

[CyclistAbi]

In case anybody is wondering. Translating Kolovrat would come down to "spinning wheel". Here is Landa spinning his wheel free:

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Guys Slovenians really seem to love cycling and I'm not sure hwo that happened all of a sudden.

All Jan Tratnik fans

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Guys, Kolovrat is brutal. It's like 10 km of 9%+.

A classics rider like Schmid should lose at least 2 minutes at the top to Bouwman. I'd give Attila Valter a slightly better chance, If I had to name a rival.

Kolovrat is very hard, but Schmid isn't a classics rider and Bouwman has done as well as he has by making the fuga de la fuga before better climbers could let the breakaway explode on each of the three previous mountain stages, something that will be a lot harder in this smaller group.

I also think Bouwman is droppable on a descent and the ones in this stage are quite technical.

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

Now for an hour of adverts.

 

[sir fly]

Hatch could try with translations since pronunciations he's doing quite right.
Might start with Kolovrat.

 

[ppanther92]

Why is Bora riding? Not given up on the stage with Hindley?

 

[sir fly]

Bora just keeping working temperature...

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Break is so weak that bringing it back even from here may be possible, but if Bora wanted to bring it back why the hell did they let it take huge gap in the first place?

 

[Velolover2]

Kolovrat is very hard, but Schmid isn't a classics rider and Bouwman has done as well as he has by making the fuga de la fuga before better climbers could let the breakaway explode on each of the three previous mountain stages, something that will be a lot harder in this smaller group.

I also think Bouwman is droppable on a descent and the ones in this stage are quite technical.

He isn't a classics rider in the cobbled sense. His strengths is tougher hills and medium mountains.

But against a 10 kg lighter rider on a real climb like Kolovrat, I'm not sure even a technical descent and rolling valley will save him.

Bouwman should ride Kolovrat as a MTT in order to gain as much time as possible.

 

[hayneplane]

Bizarrely anonymous breakaway. Nobody within an hour on GC up the road and arguably nobody who can climb other than Valter and Bouwman with the latter likely already shattered from the previous efforts in the Giro.

 

[SafeBet]

Let's see what the gap is when they hit the first climb. Aleotti could make it interesting if he's got his Turin legs.

 

[Red Rick]

I bet even with this current gap not yet all the bonis are gone.

 

[ppanther92]

Bizarrely anonymous breakaway. Nobody within an hour on GC up the road and arguably nobody who can climb other than Valter and Bouwman with the latter likely already shattered from the previous efforts in the Giro.

And the first one on a very bad level so far.