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

[titan31]

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.

Thomas is way less attacking that Roglic though and defends the cut stages cos of the weather. Roglic is actually way better

 

[Peyroteo94]

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.

You are right but you never said anything like this to your beloved Valverde and he is exactly like Roglic.

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic sucked but can’t believe anyone is praising Thomas lmao. Bloke did absolutely nothing all race either

Thomas had the 200 IQ master strategy of landing on top of another rider when Covi caused a pile up

 

[Escarabajo]

Einer and Santi are 11 and 12th. I think this is it for them. The first 10 km tomorrow is enough to kill their chances against the better time trialists. But Chapeau for the couple of stages that they are bringing home.

 

[geisterhome]

4 seconds would have been good, and a stage win always helps morale. But yes, he is trying, they all are. It's just really close and that's part exciting and part boring. Similar to last year, until that last mountain stage... So tomorrow it is. G in poll position to take the giro.

Maybe the domestiques are just too good, they can pace until their and all other leaders are very close to their limit, also the margin btwn the podium guys to those down to like place 15 seems rather small. The result is what we are seeing.

 

[tobydawq]

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.

Lol, what was Valverde then?

 

[Oldermanish]

Roglic sucked but can’t believe anyone is praising Thomas lmao. Bloke did absolutely nothing all race either

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?

 

[movingtarget]

Seems fitting that the TT will decide it as the TTs so far have been more interesting............

 

[Elos Anjos]

This stage was no fun, but the level in this thread is going way down. Bye.

 

[Scarponi]

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?

I’ve been defending him all race lmao and you pick me out when the literal dribblers are all around my posts

 

[Devil's Elbow]

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.

So just like the rider you've named your account for?

 

[Pirazziattacks]

There were like 194 guys in that group with 1.5 km to go, of course they could have tried harder. And of course they're going to be knackered at the finish line anyway because they sprinted there instead of upping the pace from afar, but it's still not the same kind of effort.

And most of them disappeared as soon as De Plus upped the pace, despite the fact that he'd already done a fair bit of work. The fact that more non GC riders from teams other than Ineos weren't able to have an impact on today's stage even though their Giro effectively ends here if they're not supporting a sprinter seems like pretty obvious evidence that there's a lot of fatigue in the peloton.

 

[Bonimenier]

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?

Surgically rebuilt?! Get out of here. You're acting like he had a Bernal type of accident.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Lol, what was Valverde then?

A relatively conservative rider, but he was never talked up the way Roglic was.

 

[topcat]

Almeida paced a bit. Roglic then attacked. Then Thomas attacked, Roglic chased him back and then attacked him, dropping Thomas.

Are you serious? Almeida (sp?) gets a pass cause he’s funny. But G and Rog are two of the most boringly defensive riders ever.

 

[Didinho]

What a great day for cycling!

Because Lazkano won today.

 

[Red Rick]

Are you serious? Almeida (sp?) gets a pass cause he’s funny. But G and Rog are two of the most boringly defensive riders ever.

Roglic is closer to losing the Giro by racing too aggressively than by too passively.

 

[Sciatic]

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.

They need to add someone like Charles Barkley to their panel so he can blab out the real deal.

 

[movingtarget]

Roglic was winning everything early in the season, he could also be paying for that. He'll probably win the Vuelta again.

 

[Scarponi]

So just like the rider you've named your account for?

Didn’t Valverde attack early in a local Spanish race once ?

 

[Riek s]

He would have been destroyed but the Remco degenerates on here can’t grasp he is struggling

namecalling? for stating roglic isn't good enough??

 

[Valv.Piti]

They need to add someone like Charles Barkley to their panel so he can blab out the real deal.

The NBA media doesn't give a *** honestly and calls what they see. Charles Barkley and Stephen A doesn't have a filter, and its very refreshing (and entertaining).

 

[Scarponi]

Banging song for the white jersey haha

 

[IndianCyclist]

This stage was no fun, but the level in this thread is going way down. Bye.

The level in the thread reflects the quality of racing. Even the commentary talks about other things weather, sky, food, scenery, history etc. if there is nothing to talk about in the race.

 

[Oldermanish]

Surgically rebuilt?! Get out of here. You're acting like he had a Bernal type of accident.

Try riding with a chronically dislocated shoulder. Your entire body torques and you can't apply any power. The surgery to correct that means most training is done indoors and, when you get outdoors you still need to rebuild your real world form. I'm not acting like anything; I know what this entails and it usually takes two seasons to get back to form. And then, of course he's criticized for racing like a "wheel sucker" and other pointless armchair analyses. I like Remco but his season has been treated like the Resurrection by comparison.