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

[TourOfSardinia]

So G came 4th and 9th

 

[Salvarani]

AH... no words for this imbecile.

 

[fbjim]

Only if they cut Simplon, so it‘s definitely going to be a sprint stage.

Simplonpass is a main road climb and if it's there it's obviously going to be a tempo ride. You might eject a few guys with absolutely no climbing legs but it's one a lot of sprinters should get over

 

[Gigs_98]

I honestly wonder if anything would have gone differently with Remco and Tao still there. My guess is probably not, but maybe Ineos would have tried to ride a bit more offensively.

 

[StryderHells]

or both of them broken collar bones cause cleats are slippery...

As long as someone rips out the front wheel to use as a weapon like Carlos Barredo then I’ll be happy.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

there's still hope

There‘s not necessarily extreme weather forecast and the descent is not technical but I‘m bracing for the worst possible outcome and I have no confidence in the CPA at all. But generally you would expect them to not pull the same stunt twice in a row, but I also have zero confidence in Vegni, so I‘m kind of split.

 

[carton]

I thought it was a rather nice breakaway stage. An over-the-top battle between Pinot and Cepeda topped off by a courageous Rubio that had the third-best legs and was clearly burned out by being in the break the previous day. A hard-won win by a rider who risked losing the stage but saved all his matches to have a shot at being there for a sprint which he would have had a very tough time winning. But Cepeda went gone from too far out and Pinot followed allowing Einer to win a 600m climby-boy sprint he had no business contesting much less winning. But that's cycling for you.

And to top it off we saw Bahrain give it a proper go and a vintage Gerraint Thomas last km attack surely just to test some legs and an Almeida finish line sprint. Not bad for the first mountain stage of the second week.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why is not having the leader jersey suddenly such a good thing?

I spent last decade watching Froome take the jersey at stage 8 and keep it till stage 21. Riders always took time when they could.

Seems like excuse of roglic fans for his bad riding

 

[Netserk]

Adam Hansen

@HansenAdam

I will speak out and defend the riders for the dry roads. First, we were told stage 10 we could not negotiate just before the start when the weather is most accurate. 20 guys went home in a 24-hour period. We were told we can not negotiate days in advance because the weather can change. So we did it the day before, and the prediction was much worse. We did it then because we had no alternative. We also agreed to stick to it.

Professionals operate with several scenarios when the future is uncertain. They make conditional plans.

IF the weather is bad enough, then this is our demand.

IF the weather is not bad enough, then we'll race it as is.

 

[saunaking]

Rohan Dennis again with the headwind excuse for the lack of attacks by the GC guys. I can't take it anymore.

When a stage is neturalized like this it makes no sense to attack. Everyone fresh, lots of doms. Attack is just stupid.

Ask Piont.


These guys are all trained to do 6 hour hard stages. Nobody is even close to tired today

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Oomen with his best Geoghegan Hart impression.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Guy's i'm gonna hop on my bike to get the stage results and GC standings in Italy. Will be back in a few weeks and post asap.

 

[HelloDolly]

I'm thinking EF are the best team of the Giro

They dont mind a bit of weather with Hugh attacking into head wind and Healy wanting the full stage while the rest visible or winning stages

 

[Ricco']

Just checked what was the altered version of the Lavaredo stage in 2013 and I'm already depressed for next friday.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Headwind? The final climb is a typical zig-zag but on average headed north while according to the forecast 6 mph breeze was coming from the east. So yeah some would have been headwind but most would not

 

[wheresmybrakes]

They should draft in Remco tonight, now that he negative on covid. Give him 10 minutes penalty for missing 4 stages but let him start tomorrow as if he finished stage 13

Please no. I really can't be bothered to read an extra 25 pages of each stage thread to the end.

 

[KOM]

Headwind? The final climb is a typical zig-zag but on average headed north while according to the forecast 6 mph breeze was coming from the east. So yeah some would have been headwind but most would not

First rule of cycling: there is always a headwind even if there isnt unless we have (too) fast climbing times then we have monumental tailwind

 

[rallybanana]

They should draft in Remco tonight, now that he negative on covid. Give him 10 minutes penalty for missing 4 stages but let him start tomorrow as if he finished stage 13

Let him ride the stages he missed like Lachlan Morton and catch up to the peloton

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Apparently the 22 % time limit works out to exactly 30 minutes, which means it‘s all scripted.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Guy's i'm gonna hop on my bike to get the stage results and GC standings in Italy. Will be back in a few weeks and post asap.

Van Welder moved up to 14th and overtook Haig and Konrad

 

[HelloDolly]

Geraint Thomas saying Roglic happy to leave jersey with him
Says Rog looks good and Almeida too

 

[Elos Anjos]

So until now it turns out that Amore Infinito forces Giro fans to love an old widowed rag with crooked teeth and bad breath.

 

[Red Rick]

Headwind? The final climb is a typical zig-zag but on average headed north while according to the forecast 6 mph breeze was coming from the east. So yeah some would have been headwind but most would not

Headwind just adds to everyone being fresh on an easy climb.

 

[The fridge in the blue trees]

Not unexpected the lack of action today: When you backload a GT as much as the Giro is doing, then you go into a stage like today with such a tight GC. AND you then have to cut more than half the stage, and end have a rather easy final climb.. Absolutely normal what happened today. Roglic has no interest getting rosa now, attacks are hard on a climb like this. This stage could be great action if on top of the Croix de Coeur the selection is already big. Which wasn't going to happen most likely with the shortened stage, even with the normal one with this GC situation.. Now if Evenepoel was in rosa with 2' and his team still not performing, then we might have seen something, but like this? This was the more expected and logical way.

As for what happened in front, Rubio wasn't trolling, he was suffering, it's Cepeda who stopped collaborating in the flat. Rubio did what he had to do. If Pinot and Cepeda continue for once it's rather unlikely that Rubio manages to come back.

 

[movingtarget]

Van Welder moved up to 14th and overtook Haig and Konrad

Haig was struggling early in the stage.