Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 4: Avola – Etna 170 km (Tuesday, May 10th)

[will-10]

The first hour should be great, good prospects for the break to go to the line and lots of guys with a shot at a few days in pink. VDP having a go at getting up the road to keep the jersey seems a good bet, not convinced it's doable with guys in the break likely to be close on GC still but I'm sure he'll give us some action.

 

[will-10]

An uphill TTT sounds like a Race Design Thread fantasy...but I'm game for it.

I'd also like to see another Criterium International two-fer, with a morning TT and afternoon road stage...

Tour of the Med 2004 up Mont Faron was a great idea. I'd love to say it worked

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[Netserk]

Tour of the Med 2004 up Mont Faron was a great idea. I'd love to say it worked

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Sensibly, it was with individual times on the line. I think all TTTs should be like that, no matter the route.

 

[Lequack]

GC before the stage

 

[Lequack]

PS: How did Valverde manage to ship that much time, he's in good form.?

 

[Andre]

Mauri Vansevenant for the volcano stage

 

[Krzysztof_O]

GC before the stage

Why did you omit the leader? Etna is shallow enough for him to crush the rest and kill the GC race once and for all.

 

[Lequack]

As much as I want it to happen, I don't think it's realistic.

 

[topcat]

GC before the stage

GC before the stage
1-11 brats the lot of them
12 Nibali
13- ... Many more brats

 

[Kaptain Kool]

PS: How did Valverde manage to ship that much time, he's in good form.?

Outside of a select few races, I think Valverde now avoids what he thinks are even minimal risks. It's possible he still ends up in the GC Top 10 but it won't be intentional.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

GC before the stage

contador will be mad you didn't consider VDP as GC rider

 

[Lequack]

Outside of a select few races, I think Valverde now avoids what he thinks are even minimal risks. It's possible he still ends up in the GC Top 10 but it won't be intentional.

I guess it makes sense, ending a career with a serious crash is no way to go. Better to ride into the sunset by winning on the Angliru at the Vuelta, like Contador.

 

[Lequack]

contador will be mad you didn't consider VDP as GC rider

 

[tobydawq]

Is that Wout?

 

[Red Rick]

Is that Wout?

2nd time hes used that now probably

 

[lenric]

is tomorrow more suitable for a guy like yates/carapaz, or to a guy like landa (if he has the legs obv)?
I can only imagine that people like Almeida, Dumoulin and Nibali will try to do damage limitation.

 

[Savant12]

Ineos to drill it to see who has the legs after the rest day.

 

[skippo12]

Will we see 2018 or 2020 Yates?
And even more interesting. Will the future winner of the race lose nearly two minutes on Etna again. Special circumstances but all of the top guys on Etna in 2020 faded in the third week.

 

[The Barb]

Likely the break takes this. The flat(ish) start makes it hard to predict who will be in the break but I think Bouwman is a really good bet. He has said that he will have the freedom to go for stage wins and his time trial suggested he might be at the high level he was in the Giro last year. He can climb (particularly on moderate gradients) and had a good finishing kick if he can't go to the line alone.

Everyone seems to be on Kamna but he is way too short in the betting. Even if he makes the break then there's a decent chance there will be climbers as strong as him and he does not have much of a sprint. He is better suited on stages that require tactical nous and a bit of descending. This stage shapes as more of a grind.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Load up on Bouwman boy's.

 

[gunara]

Breaks caught early, lots of five-second accelerations by the so-called favorites, then someone more random go berserk and Carapaz to catch him at the last hundred meters just because anyone else is afraid to win.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

As soon as the tempo drops just a little bit on the climb Guillaume Martin will go. Joined by Buchmann and Perez? Something like that. Not sure about the early break taking it.

 

[MartinGT]

Breakaway win. De Marchi FTW! FORZA ETNA!

 

[Lequack]

Riders most likely to surprise today:

• Felix Gall from AG2R
• Thymen Arensman from DSM
• Matteo Sobrero from Bike Exchange

 

[dercuforever]

Off-work today, sun is out, willl watch this outside in a deckchair.
Please be a good stage.