Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d’Italia, Stage 20: Tarvisio- Monte Lussari, 18.6km MTT

[Izzyeviel]

Happy to see Roglic finally win a big one, he deserved it. Jumbo less so, they were useless & boring.

 

[wirral]

Drop the stick NOW.

 

[Miha81]

It has to be said, as much as I love this outcome and the drama - the coverage of this stage was the icing on a horrendous Giro. Like, show the riders, give us the fecking time gaps between Thomas and Roglic. Just incredibly bad.

This stage could be covered soo much better.

 

[Valv.Piti]

He lost more than 10 seconds in the last 800 meters.

Its called Roglic being stronger in a discipline like today and G trying to overcompensate, and ultimately loosing in the end. Gosh.

 

[saunaking]

See Koen Bauman with Roglic was beautiful!!
Tells you what kind of leader and teammate Primoz is

 

[movingtarget]

The helmet change cost him the Giro.

Cost a couple of seconds tops.

 

[benzwire]

Thomas did not choke. Roglic rode an incredbible ride. I in no way expected that ride based on this Giro performance so far by Roglic. I would have been heartbroken if he lost because of a stupid mechanical. Thomas still classy after the stage. Overall a beautiful day of racing to close out a meh Giro.

 

[Berniece]

Congrats to Roglic, he was the best of the rest

 

[dgodave]

He lost more than 10 seconds in the last 800 meters.

ok. After 5km on 15%. Probably something had to give somewhere. I think he did what he could. Rog was just better.

 

[kn0s]

G. was very salty for such a relatively short effort. Think there was a problem for him.

 

[zlev11]

This stage could be covered soo much better.

what you mean you dont want to see 1 full minute slow-mo replay of every finisher followed by a standings update?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Roglic really looks to be riding into some form....

 

[Krzysztof_O]

OMG, what drama! Primoz, you f**king legend! Amazing win despite bad luck again. In the first (harder) part of the climb Primoz was great but Thomas was hanging on pretty well (16' after almost the whole super difficult part) and it was looking to be decided by seconds. And then disaster struct, Primoz's chain dropped. How unlucky! I was furious when watching this thinking that the race had just been decided (he must have lost his advantage over Thomas then). But you know what? Primoz kept pushing big watts, he never gave up while Thomas started cracking in the last 3 km! (losing close to 40 seconds in that section), I couldn't believe it. What a legendary moment. I was so happy seeing Primoz, who seemed shocked at the end. MTT at the end of the race can deliver big things (@Red Rick , I told you).

 

[Red Rick]

Also redemption for Jumbo teammate reaction memes.

 

[staubsauger]

Thomas is the prime example (just like Roglic in 2020 Tour) that you need to attack even you are the maglia rosa

Thomas couldn't do anything more. There's a reason Tao was promoted to team leader. Thomas actually attacked once on Bondone!

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Thomas didn't pace it well (or blew up). Clearly losing a lot more time on the second half of the climb compared to the first. Actually quite similar to his ITT on stage 1. With better pacing, maybe it's really close (although only because of Roglic dropping the chain)

 

[Bolder]

XD

Kuss did though, lets be fair to the lad.

Yep. Without Kuss I think he would have started the MTT down by more than a minute.

 

[saunaking]

I'm on the piss for the next 2 months!!

gotta say, he's a good dude

 

[HelloDolly]

G usual sound bloke says he is happy for Rog but his legs went on the climb
"At least he smashed me"

Even joked about G's coming in second in this Giro

What a great rider ..WHO DIDNT BOTTLE IT

 

[torbar4life]

This Giro really didn't deserve that kind of good drama in the end. Gives far too good a chance to gloss over the s**tshow that took place for much of the race and justify the backloading. At least Roglic and his fans got a bit of redemption for what happened three years ago at the Tour.

I would like to see you riding day after day for weeks in horrible weather, battling injuries, illness, ...

This year's Giro is the result of those circumstances. Yes, it's disappointing, but it's understandable.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Primoz son shadow fighting the camera in the interview has been more entertaining than the majority of stages in this Giro.

 

[Blanco]

God is great. He doesn't deserve the win

Oh yes he deserve. And God is great!

 

[kingjr]

Sure, no problem! The final 800 meters have an average gradient of 4.6%. Super steep, I know.

You should add "and-Slow" to your name. Until about 500m to go it's much steeper than that, 10 seconds are almost nothing if one rider still has an acceleration in him and can carry that momentum into the flat/downhill part. Aside from that, your argument does absolutely nothing to support your claim that he "choked" either way.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Oh yes he deserve. And God is great!

Cheers mate. I'm back to my cave

 

[Miha81]

Also redemption for Jumbo teammate reaction memes.

Almost made new meme when chain went off