Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 13: Borgofranco d’Ivrea – Crans Montana, 199 km (Friday, May 19th)

[Samu Cuenca]

The solution is for us as a forum to infiltrate the CPA and demand a leadership election, in which our candidate, Adum Hanson (sponsored by Ilmaestro99's disslexia), gets over 80% of the votes.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Doesn‘t freezing rain mean rain freezing to the road, not cold rain? I don‘t think that actual freezing rain happens much in the mountains.

 

[Elos Anjos]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1659525367013552131

View: https://twitter.com/HansenAdam/status/1659525367013552131?s=20

Some comments have a point. It would be wise to wait for the morning and actually assess the weather conditions instead. All images show pretty normal weather, thus thwarting the voting assumptions.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

I have contempt for Vegni, not the riders to be honest.

The fact that there's very little trust between riders and race organisers won't be solved by beating riders with sticks or whatever people seem to want on here.

 

[stetre76]

Official start at 15.00 CET...so another 30min later than originally planned
Well, maybe they come with another excuse to shorten the stage even further...

 

[DNP-Old]

Those 30 minutes sound really inconvenient. I'd hereby like to request to shorten the stage by 20 kilometers so everyone can be in their hotel rooms nice and early.

 

[HelloDolly]

what the hell is going on ...some buses late ???

 

[DenisMenchov]

So busses were slower than cyclists? I guess it was a jam on the downhill, but still sounds really strange, no?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

what the hell is going on ...some buses late ???

Maybe they stopped to take in the nice weather.

 

[HelloDolly]

Does every rider get their own car? Or does each team have to fit in a single car like a clown car?

each team have one car but places only for 5 riders...the others need to walk (or ski downhill)

 

[OlavEH]

Are you unfamiliar with Netserk?

I don't care much about him, but the tone in your posts. You think you have the moral high ground and have more or less concluded with statements like "The level of contempt most sports fans have for athletes is truly nauseating". I find moralists like you far more naseating than sports fans who thinks this stage should have been ridden according to the original plan.

 

[glassmoon]

ridiculous, amateurish, pathetic

 

[ashhutch1997]

Oh yes, busses 'breaking down' so they can't start the stage

 

[Devil's Elbow]

They also ended up running way behind schedule in the shortened stage of the 2020 Giro, not surprised whatsoever. Good to see that those riders who voted for scrapping GSB are facing at least some consequences, as they’ll be in their hotel later.

 

[Gigs_98]

It's so stupid. A sport that lives on the reputation of being tough and is both dangerous and unhealthy by it's very nature shortens a stage because of rain.

I understand the riders, I completely get why they don't want to do this. But if we let them decide what kind of races they want to ride the sport will simply lose it's defining feature, that it's a brutal test of endurance. I hate to have this opinion. I'm all for more rights for the athletes in basically any sport. Better safety refulations in the NFL, athlete unions and improved rights for salary negotiations against billion dollar corporations. But this is the one big exception, because this isn't about the role of the athletes within the sport. It's about the foundations of the sport itself.

 

[ppanther92]

So LLS is one of those losers not wanting to race. Never really liked him anyway.

 

[Elos Anjos]

The cure can indeed be worse than the disease. Bravo.

 

[KOM]

In 10 years Paris-Roubaix gonna be a a 100km version of Scheldeprijs just too long, hard and dangerous otherwise

 

[Bonimenier]

ridiculous, amateurish, pathetic

RCS or the reactions on this thread?

 

[Elos Anjos]

It's so stupid. A sport that lives on the reputation of being tough and is both dangerous and unhealthy by it's very nature shortens a stage because of rain.

I understand the riders, I completely geht why they don't want to do this. But if we let them decide what kind of races they want to ride the sport will simply lose it's defining feature, that it's a brutal test of endurance. I hate to have this opinion. I'm all for more rights for the athletes in basically any sport. Better safety refulations in the NFL, athlete unions and improved rights for salary negotiations against billion dollar corporations. But this is the one big exception, because this isn't about the role of the athletes within the sport. It's about the foundations of the sport itself.

+100000 likes.

 

[Samamba]

Ben Healy is my idol!

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Vegni confirmed to RAI that idea of most of the riders was to do Gran San Bernardo and not do Croix de Coeur, going directly to Crans Montana.

He reached an agreement to not do san bernardo and instead do croix de coeur.
In the problem Vegni at least obtained the best compromise

 

[Scarponi]

Those 30 minutes sound really inconvenient. I'd hereby like to request to shorten the stage by 20 kilometers so everyone can be in their hotel rooms nice and early.

Didn’t the tour of Malaysia or China do a 20km climb stage ? Let’s do it here

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Vegni confirmed to RAI that idea of most of the riders was to do Gran San Bernardo and not do Croix de Coeur, going directly to Crans Montana.

He reached an agreement to not do san bernardo and instead do croix de coeur.

Is he stupid?

 

[staubsauger]

The fact that there's very little trust between riders and race organisers won't be solved by beating riders with sticks or whatever people seem to want on here.

They've made the stage more hectic and dangerous! You do realize that?