Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 3: Kaposvár – Balatonfüred 201 km (Sunday, May 8th)

[RedheadDane]

I watched the first hour, went for a jog, took a shower, went for groceries, swept the sidewalk in front of the house, and still back for the last 30 km. All good.

I went to my grandmother's 90th birthday.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Average speed of 39 km/h and the breakaway still managed to get caught with almost 30k to go. The Italian domestic teams are somehow still getting weaker with each passing year...

 

[sir fly]

I went to my grandmother's 90th birthday.

Helped her blow the candles?

 

[RedheadDane]

Helped her blow the candles?

Naah.

 

[Netserk]

Average speed of 39 km/h and the breakaway still managed to get caught with almost 30k to go. The Italian domestic teams are somehow still getting weaker with each passing year...

Seems quite reasonable to me when no others wanted to join them. Now they clocked some good km in the fuga competition and for the intermediate sprint competition with minimal effort.

 

[sir fly]

Naah.

She must've panted.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Erik Zabel has no son.

 

[Lequack]

We have racing!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Just tuned in to see if I could still catch the finish - perfect timing! Unfortunately, it looks like this has all the ingredients for a massive crash at the end. Let's hope we can avoid that!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Interesting that Jumbo are allowing their domestiques to attack. Disappointing that nobody was both capable and willing to join in, though.

 

[Netserk]

Zabel will stay in blue?

Confirmed by the Danish commentator Thomas Bay that Zabel will stay in blue (if he doesn't lose time at the finish).

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I went to my grandmother's 90th birthday.

She was only 72 when the stage started...

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

CAV!

 

[Salvarani]

MVDP should have tried it with his teammate nowhere to be seen.

Lotto fail for the leadout with Ewan. Maybe not feeling too good after the crash.

Great sprint by Cavendish.

 

[Tim Cahill]

They gave Ballerini(?) a nice big open gap to sprint down at about 1.5 to go, their train was way down before then but Cavendish was fastest.

 

[noob]

Quite impressive long sprint of Cav!

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Classic Lotto fail.

 

[Lequack]

Cavendish now the favorite to go to the Tour.

 

[sir fly]

Doubted he'll keep up that long.

Congrats.

 

[tobydawq]

First Giro win for QuickStep since Schachmann on Pratonevoso in 2018.

 

[RedheadDane]

She must've panted.

No candles

Just tuned in to see if I could still catch the finish - perfect timing! Unfortunately, it looks like this has all the ingredients for a massive crash at the end. Let's hope we can avoid that!

Luckily we - or more precisely the riders - did.

 

[Lequack]

From the replay it seemed Girmay might have won if not boxed in.

 

[HelloDolly]

2 things

Cavandish at 36 ? yeah

Will Gaviria ever win again ?

 

[Samamba]

Cav is going to win every single sprint stage he, bar maybe one where Ewan actually is placed well.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Démare's elbows are faster than his legs.