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

[Andy schleck]

Indeed, Thomas is the winner we all deserve.

All the Roglic-hype and no risk no glory bs makes me vomit. He has always been like this, a conservative flame rouge type of rider.

Roglic is clearly not at his best. He is not the most offensive rider in the world, but he already did in the past better than this.

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

Roglic sucked? The guy was surgically rebuilt before this season and, IMO wasn't going to be remotely ready to race this GT. Add to the crashes he's had and continued racing I don't think you have a clue about the effort required. The "greats" of recent decades had the benefit of many doctors and a UCI willing to look the other way to aid in their heroic attacks.
This may be the real cycling that isn't conducted at "otherworldly" speeds?

He has always been a conservative and now he has turn to being an extremely conservative rider. But he could still win la vuelta, as weak as this field was. II Giro is still outta his reach : D

 

[Andy schleck]

Roglic even if he is not at 100%, will win the giro tomorrow.

 

[jmdirt]

Pretty evenly matched guys fighting for the top step on the box.
Tough TT tomorrow. Who has the best legs and mind for this?
JA need to be spectacular to cover that gap.

 

[zlev11]

this race is like when you're constipated and you sit on the bowl for forever, pushing and dying for relief. then you push out a tiny little pebble and you still feel constipated. tomorrow when Thomas wins will be like pushing too hard and your whole ass-hole comes out.

 

[Netserk]

Seems Netserk was right.

Or was he, because it was even more conservatively ridden than I could have imagined, so it was a worse than worst case scenario. Ugh.

It was definitely worse than I expected, but I think I had pretty realistic expectations. It has just been a very bad race.

 

[Netserk]

But what if the GT is the first you're tuning into, and they're telling you it's terrible and all these top riders don't race like they used to. Would you ever tune in again?

But we are not disappointed because of expectations rooted in ancient racing. We are disappointed because this particular edition has been especially horrible, whereas Ronde was fantastic and the Tour last year was the best modern edition.

If commentators conveyed that, I think viewers would be more inclined to give other races a chance.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Roglic even if he is not at 100%, will win the giro tomorrow.

Have you not seen his record in final week time trails?

 

[Blanco]

remco would have 10 mins on those clowns before stage 20 :/

Remco is a clown.

 

[bill1109]

this race is like when you're constipated and you sit on the bowl for forever, pushing and dying for relief. then you push out a tiny little pebble and you still feel constipated. tomorrow when Thomas wins will be like pushing too hard and your whole ass-hole comes out.

taking a bike race way too seriously. but best of luck with your issues ..i.e., the last 6 words...i cant identify w that

 

[staubsauger]

Guys I'm having tapas and can't watch the stage did anything interesting happen yet?

Pal you should've taken some San Miguel as well!

 

[hrotha]

taking a bike race way too seriously. but best of luck with your issues ..i.e., the last 6 words...i cant identify w that

Who reads a post comparing a race to pooping out your own ass and thinks "this guy is taking things too seriously"

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I'm just shaking my head at Hatch; it is so painful listening to the commentators trying to put lipstick on this pig. Uggh.

"And here come the killer bees"

He's so proud of thinking that one up. Clown.

 

[Escarabajo]

Ben Healy attacking Pinot were the highlights of the day!!!

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

Ben Healy attacking Pinot were the highlights of the day!!!

I thought it was Roglic changing his bike and Contador saying something

 

[bill1109]

Who reads a post comparing a race to pooping out your own ass and thinks "this guy is taking things too seriously"

i did. as posted. pretty obvious. say what you want to say instead of asking a question.

 

[Escarabajo]

I can't wait for tomorrow to see Roglic and Thomas having mechanicals with their bikes and Almeida winning this Giro!!
Can't wait for this forum to collapse.

 

[kingjr]

Which makes it even more important to not get further delayed.

Just avoid spoilers and watch the VoD, you can even skip the boring parts then

 

[Andy schleck]

Have you not seen his record in final week time trails?

Thomas is not pogacar.

 

[nightowl]

Thomas is not pogacar.

He’s also not a minute behind Roglic

 

[RedheadDane]

Just avoid spoilers and watch the VoD, you can even skip the boring parts then

Well, that would definitely defeat the purpose of live sport...

 

[KOM]

The fact that Primoz fkn Roglic has won 6 bonus seconds in 3 weeks really tells you all you need to know about this race

 

[kingjr]

Well, that would definitely defeat the purpose of live sport...

Yeah, it's overrated. Unless it's something like football, where you can hear the whole street shouting.

 

[KOM]

IMO he, and any other commentators sugarcoating this race, are a hindrance more than a help. Yes, it may put off some casual viewers if you're being honest about this race, but sometimes a race is so bad that it's unhealthy for there not to be proper backlash and this is one such occasion.

It could concieveably have an offputting effect on new/casual viewers aswell, if for some reason this is the first GT im watching and am bored by it and guys like Hatch trying to upsell this "OH MY WORD WHAT GREAT DAYS OF RACING WEVE HAD THIS GIRO D'ITALIA OH MY WORD OH MY WORD" Id probably be like "aight back to the football then i guess if this is how its gonna be all the time"

 

[Riek s]

Well, that would definitely defeat the purpose of live sport...

I still remember a fragment( from the tour? ventoux?) where you see some spectators watching the race on a small TV while the riders passed behind them (so 'live' is overrated )