The main gc contenders all deserve a lifetime ban for softpedaling a proper Giau+Tre Cime stage.
Seriously what did Jumbo do with his numbers and Roglic's shiny new bike with a mono-chainring and extra training wheels? They let Ineos dictate a pace that was good for Thomas for the whole stage. Up the pace on the Giau and turn this one into a proper war of attrition. Then again, that might not suit Roglic well, but I assume Almeida would have benefitted from that kind of racing more.
Seriously, I'm happy the breakaway won this one and not someone from the main gc guys. Frankly Thomas is probably the least guilty of them all today, at least he and the team executed a plan that suited him really well from start to finish.
Yeah as much as it's boring, and i really hate sky train strangling races, ineos did their job correctly to defend the lead and dictate exactly what was best for their leader.
Roglic and Almida should get permanent blacklisted from il Giro. Only Catalunya tour and Vuelta for them. They didn't bother to test if G Thomas was on a bad day, they didn't dare to win the Giro. The gregario have no bad days left. Its the day to burn them all in pursuit of the victory of the 2023 Giro ditalia. To be remembered as a legend, a winner of this great sport in the greatest theatre of them all, the dolomites.
Jumbo had 6 riders doing nothing in peltoon on the Giau. They could at least have paced to test ineos and get roglic some extra bonus seconds back by catching break riders. But they just sit there and roglic does a purito attack at 2km.
If you don't feel the best on the climbs, try and take time on a descent. Like bardet 2 years ago. Roglic is stronger in descending. But I guess nobody bothers to de recons anymore so this is becoming a lost skill
Roglic seems useless at communicating and leading as well. Almida not much better.