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Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 19: Longarone – Tre Cime di Lavaredo 183 km (Friday, May 26th)

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The time gaps are so small. It's literally the last mountain stage of the Giro and every gc rider is in 40s of each other.
 
Come on guys, I'm sure commentators were as disgusted as us by the show, they just got paid to hde it. Not sure if we could in his position.
Yeah I don't buy this. They would probably get told off if they like mercilessly trashed the whole peloton and called them names or whatever but there's a lot of room between that and shameless hagiography. Plenty of commentators have been critical before and they weren't thrown in jail or anything. It's a choice commentators like Hatch make.
 
You guys always say that... I would still have liked to be able to watch it.
The worst part is that it was because my finger spassed, so I accidentally paused it (which is possible for live coverage, for... some weird reason), so when I had to renew the page, I got thrown off, but couldn't get back on...
I've told you this before, don't refresh the page, click on the "Live" button:

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He would have been destroyed but the Remco degenerates on here can’t grasp he is struggling
Yes indeed. It's so obvious Roglic simply can't do any better, he arrives at the finish line white as a sheet. He tried, but he just can't do it at the moment. That's unfortunate, but somehow all the frustration of a lot of guys on this forum is reserved for him and Jumbo. They can't work wonders. Yes, they maybe could have increased the gap on Thomas by 4 seconds more. Well, whoopty doo.
 
I'm happy just because there's a very high probability that one or more riders will be after tomorrow thinking 'if only I've tried harder at some stage"
Did any of those GC riders aside from Thomas strike you as having the legs to simply try harder? I don't think anyone on this forum actually watches what's going on. Just play pro cycling manager instead of constantly doing the "I would simply attack" thing.

Without the MTT tomorrow I'm sure there would've been more action. Based on what we saw I think they all went in with the assumption that that any potential gains today would be nothing in comparison to potential losses tomorrow. Without that MTT Thomas probably would've buried the race today.
 
I'm not talking about field quality, I'm talking about the racing. 2015-2018 was a series of good to fantastic years. 2019-2021 was already a step down on the whole, then now we've had a very bad and an atrocious edition back to back. The growing apathy in the Giro pelotons is reflected by both that and the number of breakaway wins rising sharply.
Ok totally agree then, though not sure if that's apathy or just the kind of racers and teams we currently have outside of Pogacar. We were having similar discussions ten years ago with reference to ten years before that, too. But yeah, this has been a terribly raced Giro
 
I've told you this before, don't refresh the page, click on the "Live" bottom:

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It was still red, but because I accidentally paused it, I obviously missed a few seconds.
I've had to do that before; refresh because even though it seemingly was up-to-speed, I was pretty sure it wasn't, and once I'd gone through that silly step of pointing out that, yes; I obviously want to watch live, it turned out that... it really wasn't quite up-to-speed.
 
That was a bit weird but it if you think about it looking back it makes sense. Almeida didn't have the legs but he at least tried, and had the pace been harder he would have just lost more time. I thought Ineos slow-paced it a bit but in the end maybe they were just lacking the riders. Roglic wanted to go for a short sharp effort and he almost had them at the end but Thomas is also really strong in those last km efforts on his day. I guess Roglic needed Kuss to carry on the pace from Dennis if he wanted to make a difference. Maybe he didn't feel strong enough to go then. Gerraint looks to have the edge but anything goes tomorrow.

Also, that was a great win by Buitrago. As Pinot taught us, it can be really hard to win from the break when you're the heavy favorite. But Santi took it on and tempoed plenty on the steeper bits and was thus able to ask for turns with some success on the gentler slopes. The attack at the end was almost comical, Buitrago doing a 30s full gas Ardennes attack and meanwhile Gee was gasping for air and just pedaling squares to the finish. But great effort by both of them and also by Cort Nielsen outsprinting Roglic for the podium.