Giro d'Italia 2022 Giro d'Italia, Stage 9: Isernia – Blockhaus 189 km (Sunday, May 15th)

[perico]

Juan Pedro not blowing up and holding the jersey after losing the group on misfortune was amazing for him. He’s got a future.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

The front 3 are going to regret letting Hindley and Almeida back in, and probably not just on this stage. Carapaz failing to win that sprint against competition he should crush shows that he's definitely not a level above the rest.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Won't start to hype him because come on, there is a 99.9% chance he implodes suddenly and spectacularly, but these legs might be just enough for a good breakaway performance...

Wonderful ride from our Shark.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Seeing Pozzovivo in the top 10 is great

 

[JosefK]

Great stage for entertainment value! Curious to see Bardet, Landa, and Carapaz slow up in the last kilometer to let the eventual stage winner back in. Also, if Almeida rides this well on a day when he wasn't feeling good, how well can he go in the coming days if he feels great? Giro not over yet!

 

[perico]

Landa lost the race with his stupid tactics, I guess he was in the limit

Nah he’s just that bad in the sprint

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Jai!

It sounds like it was a great battle at the front!

Carapaz was adamant he could win the sprint of three, Bardet and Landa were so terrified of not having the chance to win in a three-up against Carapaz that they slowed down to mean that they lost time and couldn't get the bonus seconds either. It was Longo Borghini and Niewiadoma in Amstel Gold level shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Nah he’s just that bad in the sprint

He should have put time to Almida and Hidley not let them catch back on

 

[Peyroteo94]

Landa was very smart. He knows his biggest opponent is Carapaz so why would he give a stage win to Carapaz?

 

[Eclipse]

Great stage for entertainment value! Curious to see Bardet, Landa, and Carapaz slow up in the last kilometer to let the eventual stage winner back in. Also, if Almeida wasn't feeling good today, how well can he go in the coming days if he feels great? Giro not over yet!

GC is very nicely poised now. Lots of riders in touching distance with different routes to victory

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

What a climb. Hindley proving he can be amongst the best, the old Italians surviving, Bardet born again, Landa kinda free, Carapaz looking strong but not so strong that the Giro seems over with Yates gone.

 

[fbjim]

None of those three are without blame but Carapaz was doing a lot of looking around and swinging around, which: he's the one who instigated the attack in the first place!

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar laughing at home and thinking he would put 2 minutes on these bastards

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What a climb. Hindley proving he can be amongst the best, the old Italians surviving, Bardet born again, Landa kinda free, Carapaz looking strong but not so strong that the Giro seems over with Yates gone.

8 riders inside a minute on GC after Blockhaus is quite something to be honest.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Pogacar laughing at home and thinking he would put 2 minutes on these bastards

Pogacar would have put 2 minutes on stage 7

 

[Climbing]

Must be said that there was a strong wind, not trying to justify the riders.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Pello Bilbao +1'08

 

[Ilmaestro99]

On reflection i think Carapaz tactics are worse than Landa

 

[red_flanders]

Must be said that there was a strong wind, not trying to justify the riders.

Do they need to be justified? That’s a brutal climb.

 

[Filippo_3467]

What a Giro for Bora. Winning the 2 mountain top finishes in the first week.

Obviously the best climbing performance for Hindley since 2020. Also the best climbing performance for Buchmann since 2019. The question is what happened to Kelderman. It didn't seem like too bad of a situation to catch back up in the downhill. Also there were domestiques left. 10:53 down on the stage.

The story of the day is pozzovivo. Unbelieveable that he's up there.

I think it's over for S.Yates at the Giro. I don't hink he will start on Tuesday.

 

[fbjim]

The best moment of the climb was Dominico putting in an attack and immediately realizing "oh wait I'm like 40 years old lmao"

 

[Escarabajo]

If they had told me before the Giro that Lopez would be wearing the leader's pink jersey after Blockhaus I would not have been surprised!

 

[hfer07]

I quite understand Bardet's anger, but that's expected when a 3 riders sprint to the finish becomes 6
Congrats to Hindley nonetheless

 

[Bolder]

Almeida is a really impressive rider. He could be hard to beat in a GT with old school TT kms.

Also happy to see Hindley silence some of the doubters, including me...

 

[Climbing]

The best moment of the climb was Dominico putting in an attack and immediately realizing "oh wait I'm like 40 years old lmao"

That's his normal attack, it was like that in his 20' too

 

[Escarabajo]

Pogacar laughing at home and thinking he would put 2 minutes on these bastards

Headwind was an issue. But yeah, Pogacar can laugh almost at anything. So no point there TBF.