Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 6: Palmi – Scalea 192 km (Thursday, May 12th)

[SHAD0W93]

Hope for Cav but disappointed about today. If not Cav then Demare or Ewan.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Maybe my memory is selective and I just remember the good times.

Also, the peloton is leaving Sicily

Did Cav manage to get up that ramp to get onto the ferry or was he dropped?

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Did Cav manage to get up that ramp to get onto the ferry or was he dropped?

Mareczko decided to retire to avoid the climb on the ferry

 

[Lequack]

Gaviria being angry at his bike

https://twitter.com/x/status/1524675594596028417

View: https://twitter.com/SophieSmith86/status/1524675594596028417?s=20&t=FlewnIh308taMbg1EH2Few

 

[Mayomaniac]

Gaviria being angry at his bike

https://twitter.com/x/status/1524675594596028417

View: https://twitter.com/SophieSmith86/status/1524675594596028417?s=20&t=FlewnIh308taMbg1EH2Few

Gaviria just earned himself an Italian passport with that one.

 

[Laplaz]

Sunday stroll

 

[Samamba]

What am i watching

 

[glassmoon]

What am i watching

i'm just waiting for the Event Horizon Telescope press conf regarding the Sagittarius A*

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration to Announce Groundbreaking Milky Way Results on May 12th, 2022, at 13:00 UT | Event Horizon Telescope

eventhorizontelescope.org

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

• RACETIME 00:29:57
• KM DONE 18.0

 

[Faserr]

What am i watching

Lying at the hotel pool and listening to rhe poor comentators.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Wildcard teams' presence in breakaways (including today)
Drone Hopper 3/5
Eolo 3/5 (edit: 4/5 now)
Bardiani 1/5

Wildcard teams' best stage result
Drone Hopper 8th
Eolo 12th
Bardiani 12th

Wildcard teams' number of stage top-10s
Drone Hopper 1
Eolo 0
Bardiani 0

Wildcard teams' number of stage top-20s
Drone Hopper 1
Eolo 3
Bardiani 3

Wildcard teams' best-placed rider on GC
Drone Hopper 68th
Eolo 38th
Bardiani 72nd

Seriously, UCI, please revise the wildcard system so that only the top-25 teams on the UCI ranking can get GT invites, because this is just pitiful. None of these teams are capable of being anything more than breakaway fodder (hardly surprising when they rank alongside the better continental teams), and they can't even be trusted to do that much. You could have had one of the more exciting talents in the sport in Tobias Halland Johannessen battle it out on GC, instead we get to be reminded what the Bardiani jersey looks like once a week.

 

[movingtarget]

21 time trials!

What a sad state of affairs...........a slap fight in the feed zone might break some of the monotony............hopefully Ewan can avoid another bum surf.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Also, watch this stage finish an hour later than planned and riders to subsequently complain again that they go to bed too late and the stages should therefore be shorter.

 

[tobydawq]

Wildcard teams' presence in breakaways (including today)
Drone Hopper 3/5
Eolo 3/5
Bardiani 1/5

Wildcard teams' best stage result
Drone Hopper 8th
Eolo 12th
Bardiani 12th

Wildcard teams' number of stage top-10s
Drone Hopper 1
Eolo 0
Bardiani 0

Wildcard teams' number of stage top-20s
Drone Hopper 1
Eolo 3
Bardiani 3

Wildcard teams' best-placed rider on GC
Drone Hopper 68th
Eolo 38th
Bardiani 72nd

Seriously, UCI, please revise the wildcard system so that only the top-25 teams on the UCI ranking can get GT invites, because this is just pitiful. None of these teams are capable of being anything more than breakaway fodder (hardly surprising when they rank alongside the better continental teams), and they can't even be trusted to do that much. You could have had one of the more exciting talents in the sport in Tobias Halland Johannessen battle it out on GC, instead we get to be reminded what the Bardiani jersey looks like once a week.

Albanese, Fortunato, Rosa, Tesfatsion, Cepeda and Zana are certainly capable of being more than breakaway fodder...

 

[Red Rick]

Guys

Riders do indeed make the race

And the races made by riders in flat stages gets worse every year

 

[tobydawq]

Guys

Riders do indeed make the race

And the races made by riders in flat stages gets worse every year

Or people just forget boring stuff from the past?

But okay, I will concede that the wild card teams usually are a bit more offensive in their approach in the Giro.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Albanese, Fortunato, Rosa, Tesfatsion, Cepeda and Zana are certainly capable of being more than breakaway fodder...

 

[Potomac]

Who are the commentators this morning?

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Are there any drive through coffee shops along this route for Rosa to pop into?

 

[Pirazziattacks]

5 years ago it would've been crazy to suggest that Rosa would end up trying for fairly pointless solo breaks at the Giro.

 

[tobydawq]

I wondered whether to put him on the list given today's development. And maybe his level is not to anything else. But I really don't think we can assess the reasonableness of their inclusion yet.

I at least think that EOLO deserve their spot.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

There hardly any point for Diego Rosa (2nd at Lombardia!!!) to continue in the attack. Nobody is watching this stage so he doesn't get TV time for sponsors

 

[tobydawq]

TTT by Drone Hoppers.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Devil's Elbow's joy with stage 6 of this Giro challenging Libertine Seguros' joy with stage 6 of 2020 Tour.

 

[tobydawq]

Girmay is quick!