Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 5: Catania – Messina 174 km (Wednesday, May 11th)

[sir fly]

IWG, ISN and UAE should probably help after climb.

UAE already there.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Whats up guys? Just got home, I hoped to catch the climb, but apparantly its just over...

 

[spalco]

Whats up guys? Just got home, I hoped to catch the climb, but apparantly its just over...

I can't say you missed anything, except pretty landscape.

 

[Samamba]

Is Ewan just going to be OTL with his whole team

 

[MartinGT]

Whats up guys? Just got home, I hoped to catch the climb, but apparantly its just over...

Cav & majority of QS dropped. Ewan dropped. MvDP put the boys to work. Now UAE & IWG helping out on the descent.

 

[Bonimenier]

Good thing Marezcko didn't make it yesterday. If he was still here Alpecin would have never gone for it because Marezcko would OTL easily here.

 

[spalco]

Ooh, Ewan *** this up more badly than I thought; possibly a tough 100km still to go for him...

 

[Bonimenier]

Is Ewan just going to be OTL with his whole team

Wasn't there only 1 teammate with him?

 

[tobydawq]

I can't say you missed anything, except pretty landscape.

What? Hard man to please...

 

[Bonimenier]

Wasn't there only 1 teammate with him?

I guess I saw wrong

 

[Red Rick]

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Naa he's always horrible on longer climbs. Climbing worse than Cav a bit weird tho.

Yeah but 6-7 minutes is actually a pretty long climb for Ewan to be pretty decent at.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Ewan just wants to keep an eye on Cavendish from the back.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

A camera being with Ewan and not Démare or Cavendish is another bizarre decision...

 

[Ricco']

Is Ewan just going to be OTL with his whole team

If they do the rest of the stage in around 2 hours he would need to lose another 20 minutes to be OTL.

 

[Samamba]

Demare and Cav going to come back I think. Ewan is over & out.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Démare about to make it back, Cavendish on the precipice, Ewan should be done.

 

[Samamba]

Does Theuns think he can beat guys like Gaviria, Girmay and VdP?

 

[Samamba]

Cav is far, not making it back.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

If Cavendish is over two minutes down he's done too...

 

[Bonimenier]

It's going to be difficult for Cav to return. Still 2 mins 30.

 

[titan31]

Really didn't think Ewan would be dropped here, and he look strong on that stage 1 finish pre crash. He's usually a much better climber than Cavendish too.

 

[Ricco']

Really didn't think Ewan would be dropped here, and he look strong on that stage 1 finish pre crash. He's usually a much better climber than Cavendish too.

I have Ewan as being Yates levels of inconsistent with his climbing.

Remember Tirreno 2021, where was climbing like a Mareczko in the stage to Gualdo Tadino, only to be one of the best in the Poggio in MSR the week after.

Even this year he looked strong in the climbs in the 1st stage of Tour des Alpes Maritimes.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Surprised there aren't more teams working.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

I assumed Quickstep must have given up to be more than 2 mins behind still but it seems they're still trying. They've got most their team chasing but gained nothing

 

[Samamba]

I have Ewan as being Yates levels of inconsistent with his climbing.

Remember Tirreno 2021, where was climbing like a Mareczko in the stage to Gualdo Tadino, only to be one of the best in the Poggio in MSR the week after.

Even this year he looked strong in the climbs in the 1st stage of Tour des Alpes Maritimes.

He was sick in that tirreno tho.
Ewan trained hard on minus 10 minute climbs, he's pretty good at them if there's only one or 2 in a race. He can go incredibly deep on one of those climb (poggio, first stage this year, etc.). He's bad at actual long climbs, this isn't new. What is new is that he's even worse than Cav on those climbs.

 

[tobydawq]

I assumed Quickstep must have given up to be more than 2 mins behind still but it seems they're still trying. They've got most their team chasing but gained nothing

They were 3 minutes behind at the top.