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

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Apparently Cataldo won a sheep with that sprint against Ciccone (put up as a prize by the town of Filetto for the first rider from Abruzzo to cross the intermediate sprint).

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Why is Bardet off the back? Mechanical?

 

[roundabout]

Apparently Cataldo won a sheep with that sprint against Ciccone (put up as a prize by the town of Filetto for the first rider from Abruzzo to cross the intermediate sprint).

Ha, I was wondering what was that all about.

 

[ice&fire]

Apparently Cataldo won a sheep with that sprint against Ciccone (put up as a prize by the town of Filetto for the first rider from Abruzzo to cross the intermediate sprint).

When I hear Filetto I think of veal or cow not sheep.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I hope pello can survive today but I think he will fall off GC

 

[Escarabajo]

I really hope today that there will be a camera with the peloton.

 

[HelloDolly]

The billing for this stage was bigger than it needed to be

 

[Red Rick]

The billing for this stage was bigger than it needed to be

Glorified Dospuerto stage smh

 

[ppanther92]

What kind of stupid tactics is this from Androni?

 

[Bonimenier]

What kind of stupid tactics is this from Androni?

Why is it stupid? The break is not going to make it anyway, better to get away from it.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

What kind of stupid tactics is this from Androni?

They are going for the Fuga classement, sending their drones up the road

 

[perico]

#FreeLanda

just to keep the convo going.

but don’t free him off the back

 

[Eclipse]

Rosa's got such good legs it's a shame he's wasting them completely

 

[Bonimenier]

#FreeLanda

just to keep the convo going.

Nice jinx

 

[Netserk]

Landa searching for his car.

 

[Valv.Piti]

It makes me sad so little the peloton actually gets covered in this Giro. Please have a little reason, whats happening right now is not uninteresting.

Amateurs man

 

[Netserk]

It makes me sad so little the peloton actually gets covered in this Giro. Please have a little reason, whats happening right now is not uninteresting.

Amateurs man

We have seen that it is still Narvaez in front and that Landa went back to his car. What more did you wish to see?

If there is a novel development, I expect them to show it, but if there is not, then they don't need to show the bunch yet.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Like, this break is not winning. The peloton is therefore a lot more interesting, even if not much is happening, on a stage like this. Its incredible how obsessed these amateurs are with breakaway riders.

 

[Valv.Piti]

We have seen that it is still Narvaez in front and that Landa went back to his car. What more did you wish to see?

If there is a novel development, I expect them to show it, but if there is not, then they don't need to show the bunch yet.

What more? People that gets dropped, who's making the tempo (apart from just a 2 sec picture), zoom-in on favorites etc. etc. At least just 50-50 at this point, its getting ridiculous.

 

[Bonimenier]

We have seen that it is still Narvaez in front and that Landa went back to his car. What more did you wish to see?

If there is a novel development, I expect them to show it, but if there is not, then they don't need to show the bunch yet.

It's more a matter of who in this case

 

[Red Rick]

Ineos doing the slowpace

 

[Rackham]

Eurosport's commentary is golden, i.e. "he hasn't been aggressive at setting the pace".

It's called being a wheelsucker.

 

[dercuforever]

Ineos doing the slowpace

is Carapaz not in good form ? or is he better on short effort ?

 

[Valv.Piti]

They are applying the 2-second rule now. 2 seconds of picture from the peloton where its impossible to actually get an impression of the bunch, then back to a completely doomed breakaway. Where the Maglia Rosa? Whos struggling? How does Carapaz look? Thats all the goddamn intrigue on this stage.

 

[Sciatic]

What more? People that gets dropped, who's making the tempo (apart from just a 2 sec picture), zoom-in on favorites etc. etc. At least just 50-50 at this point, its getting ridiculous.

Exactly. Part of watching cycling is anticipation, to see in the the course of this long narrative what will be the next plot development, and try to anticipate (or imagine) what will happen next. Sometimes nothing much happens, it’s true, but that’s part of the narrative too. If we only wanted get information about a specific action (attack, crash) we could just watch a ticker or wait for replay of highlights.