Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 14: Sierre – Cassano Magnago 193 km (Saturday, May 20th)

[Tim Cahill]

That was a hilarious response to the criticism from that interviewer by Thomas

 

[ashhutch1997]

That was a hilarious response to the criticism from that interviewer by Thomas

It was tbf, although there was a bit of hypocrisy IMO. I'll leave it there....

 

[Samamba]

Looks like Movistar wants a sprint for Gaviria.

 

[gunara]

I sense a lot of frustration building up already, clouding the vision of several posters. I agree the giro has been underwhelming to say the least, but instead of spending your energy on getting more and more fed up with it, just quit watching it. It is actually beginning to get more annoying reading the grumpy posts than watching a rather short highlight reel of each stage...

I'm hating this Giro now so I haven't been posting on how it's going the past few days. I might liking it again anytime so I might post again on the race as soon as I stop hating it. I do whatever I want with it.

 

[Bolder]

Would be better to race this profile backwards

I think we've said that about several stages.

Overall, this Giro has been a damp squib. But that's not really the fault of anyone in particular. Covid took out one of the prohibitive favorites, and the rider we were most hyped to see. As well as a bunch of key domestiques. The weather was horrible; there was a lot of "sickness" (probably covid, honestly) in the peloton; a crash took out TGH who would probably have made things interesting with Thomas. So here we are.

The top 3 are now riders whose MO is not to attack; that's just the way they ride. You aren't going to will Thomas to go on a 40k solo raid, let's put it that way.

On the plus side I got a lot more work done last week than I thought I would.

 

[staubsauger]

Ivan Basso lives in Cassano Magnano. This Giro could use someone like him.

There are already enough riders that can't properly descend!

*SCNR*

 

[QueenStagiaire]

So boring race today, I‘m falling asleep because I hate breakaways!!!!!!!!!!???

 

[Aimar16]

Nasty headwind

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wind causing splits in Italy of all places!

 

[noob]

This noob asking herself if Nibali regrets retiring too early when he sees this giro

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Wind causing splits in Italy of all places!

They‘re still in Switzerland, it‘s illegal in Italy

 

[houtdffan]

Oh my god temperature may be 5 degrees on top of a climb, how will the riders survive.

that interferes with their nap time. How dare we make a modern cyclist to climb something more than 5 km at 5% gradient. How dare we make them ride a stage over 100km

 

[Netserk]

Pretty good opening phase, but maybe it's already over.

 

[Netserk]

Yeah, seems like the gap will quickly be too big for anything to happen on the climb.

 

[Põhja Konn]

I sense a lot of frustration building up already, clouding the vision of several posters. I agree the giro has been underwhelming to say the least, but instead of spending your energy on getting more and more fed up with it, just quit watching it. It is actually beginning to get more annoying reading the grumpy posts than watching a rather short highlight reel of each stage...

There's been several times during different races over the years I've had similar sentiments, but due to the clusterf**k that happened yesterday I believe you just chose completely the wrong time to come up with those . There were just too many legitimate reasons to feel disappointed and angry from yesterday alone and the level and spread of those feelings are clearly a lot higher and wider among the forum users than the usual crumbling about boring racing.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

BALLERINI Davide

SERRY Pieter

PRODHOMME Nicolas

WARBASSE Larry

SÁNCHEZ Luis León

PASQUALON Andrea

SÜTTERLIN Jasha

DENZ Nico

BETTIOL Alberto

BAIS Davide

MULUBRHAN Henok

ARMIRAIL Bruno

REX Laurenz

GAVIRIA Fernando

DE MARCHI Alessandro

MOLLEMA Bauke

VERGAERDE Otto

Williams, Verona and Konychev trying to bridge.

Place your bets.

I'll say Bettiol

 

[Filippo_3467]

Kämna and arensman on the move?

 

[glassmoon]

droplets!!!!

 

[KOM]

Guys, theres someone from THE!! INEOS-GRENADIERS in there!!! This changes EVERYTHING

In fairness though this is the most exciting 5minutes outside of Roglic' first split in the 2nd ITT and his mini stomp on stage 8

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Kämna in the chasing group

 

[Samamba]

Lol Israel guys and Skuijns mad at Arensman but he only followed cause Kamna attacked.

 

[Aimar16]

Dumbass Oldani missed the break again

 

[Netserk]

It's not over. Thank you, Kämna.

 

[Netserk]

Milan tries, now that Kämna and Arensman are back.

 

[KOM]

It's not over. Thank you, Kämna.

Kämna remembered that this is the 2023 Giro just in time