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

[torbar4life]

Roglic has a terrible day that day. Thomas today was quite decent.

He was 5th, 25s off the second place. Without Pogačar no one would say he had an off day. Without Pogačar his time at the finish would also be a bit better, because it's hard to be on your limit when you know all is lost... Try to put yourself in his shoes, maybe you will understand.

 

[KOM]

Wait what, Roglic after riding this Giro doesn't stand a single chance, and is likely not participating.

Next year he is 34, and even with different focus, Vingegaard and Pogacar has to crash out.

Yea I love Roglic, but baring any 2014esque twists of fate he aint winning the tour in his career

 

[victorschipolrijk]

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! 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).

I was going to write a similar post.
You save me the time.
Great post!!

 

[Nick2413]

Big daddy Roglic stomps the guy who doesn’t think it’s possible to ride a real Grand Tour anymore. So fitting. Happy for him.

 

[dobrien]

Gutted for GT but overjoyed for Primosz; after all he's been through, to win like that in front of so many home fans is a dream come true for him. I thought it was all over after the mechanical but the guy is such a fighter; never say die for him and it paid off today. As others have said, barring a miracle he's not winning a Tour but this is a pretty nice feather in his cap, won in about as dramatic a fashion as possible. Career day for sure.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Kuss pulling him when he had his bad moment might've won him the race in the end

@Libertine Seguros

 

[dazaau]

He choked.

He came second. Beat everyone except roglic. That was a solid TT. Just fatigued in the last 1.5k.

 

[victorschipolrijk]

Without the dropping chain, Primoz woulda won by a country mile.

What a performance!!

 

[Andon]

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

Yeah the stage was brilliant but we saw like 3-5 minutes total of the CG battle. At some point a think I had memorized the top 10 standings by heart, and meanwhile Giro was being decided by a matter of seconds.

 

[noob]

This stage in the end was absolutely beyond all expectations epic.

 

[victorschipolrijk]

Brailsford couldn't find enough marginal gains for Thomas.

Thomas didn't choke.

He just didn't have it in him.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

He was 5th, 25s off the second place. Without Pogačar no one would say he had an off day. Without Pogačar his time at the finish would also be a bit better, because it's hard to be on your limit when you know all is lost... Try to put yourself in his shoes, maybe you will understand.

I somewhat agree, but I think if he had ridden that day like he rode today, he would have won the Tour. Always tough to compare courses and competition, but he looked imperious today and like he was going to pieces in 2020. And of course he smashed everyone today vs nearly 2’ behind Pogacar that day. For whatever reason, he just didn’t have it that day. But he did today.

 

[victorschipolrijk]

Epic performance by Roglic.

Today's stage will live forever in my memory.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Jesus what an end to the Giro.

Overall it was still a very crappy Giro. I hope they don't take the excitement of 1 stage as a proof this concept works. Because it was honestly terrible

 

[vwpe]

the problem isnt the route the problem is the riders you have here. THE GC guys are ALMEIDA, G. THOMAS and ROGLIC all are notoriously knowned for riding defensive all the time.....ofcourse its gonne be a snooze fest.

Same route and put Pogacar in it, attacked left and right and sprints in intermiditates sprints too..its the riders not the course and their all notoriously knowned for riding this way all 3 of em so yeah here you go ofcourse this is the outcome then..their riding this non stop all their life its just these riders way of riding.

Ofc would pog ride there wouldnt be much excitment in the GC apartments in terms of time so in that perspective that also could been boring in the sense of easy win but wouldnt lack of attacks left right and center.

Also Roglic will win tomorrow, just a well educated guess from inner circles, run to the bookies.

I hop you all ran to the bookies.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I hop you all ran to the bookies.

Did you?

 

[victorschipolrijk]

Yeah, you might be right. His shorts has huge salt stains which looked like they were from a 6 hour ride. Who knows...

I was wondering, why he had so much minerals showing on his outfit.

That's not normal.

 

[Bonimenier]

Without the dropping chain, Primoz woulda won by a country mile.

What a performance!!

He still did win by a country mile.

 

[Valv.Piti]

He was 5th, 25s off the second place. Without Pogačar no one would say he had an off day. Without Pogačar his time at the finish would also be a bit better, because it's hard to be on your limit when you know all is lost... Try to put yourself in his shoes, maybe you will understand.

Disagree. It was pretty bad, borderline terrible. He was the best climber and time trialist on paper that year, and stage like that is really his specialty.

 

[Red Rick]

Jesus what an end to the Giro.

Overall it was still a very crappy Giro. I hope they don't take the excitement of 1 stage as a proof this concept works. Because it was honestly terrible

This ITT would be much better if it's the start of the 3rd week after a rest day.

 

[movingtarget]

Expect the birth rate to skyrocket in Slovenia in mine months time.....................

 

[Krzysztof_O]

This ITT would be much better if it's the start of the 3rd week after a rest day.

Nah, MTT at the end of the race has its drama. But the race would've been better if it wasn't so backloaded (i.e. TreCime stage and this ITT separated by some easier day, placing a proper MTF instead of Campo Imperatore etc).

 

[victorschipolrijk]

Today Roglic was Godzilla!!

Nothing, and nobody woulda stopped him!

I believe in cycling again

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yes hopefully this Giro doesn't get retconned like the Tour 2020 because of the exciting finish.

That was a crap race as well, heard Lance Armstrong calling it the best race of all time, proving the guy doesn't watch or know anything about cycling.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Yes hopefully this Giro doesn't get retconned like the Tour 2020 because of the exciting finish.

That was a crap race as well, heard Lance Armstrong calling it the best race of all time, proving the guy doesn't watch or know anything about cycling.

He hasn‘t even won a Grand Tour, what does he know?