Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 2: Teramo – San Salvo 201 km (Sunday, May 7th)

[Lequack]

Why there a stage today, when the race finished yesterday? This is an insult to Remco.

 

[Didinho]

Why there a stage today, when the race finished yesterday? This is an insult to Remco.

So he could high five Oumi 10 minutes ago. Would be harsh to leave her hanging there.

 

[HelloDolly]

oh Gawd aero skin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tobydawq]

Roglic dropped on a cat 4 climb.

 

[Valv.Piti]

A finish around Chieti would just make this stage so much more interesting to follow. I never really understood why you have to put stages like this on the weekend, but I say that every year, so I realize I sound like a broken record.

 

[Salvarani]

Tafi and Astarloa go 1-2 in the first stage of Giro E.

 

[tobydawq]

A finish around Chieti would just make this stage so much more interesting to follow. I never really understood why you have to put stages like this on the weekend, but I say that every year, so I realize I sound like a broken record.

I never saw a problem with weekend/week day stages.

And this is the only flat stage until the last Wednesday of the race, so I think we will survive.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Tafi and Astarloa go 1-2 in the first stage of Giro E.

Maybe they gifted Tafi the win for his birthday… The Giro E field dynamics might be interesting.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I never saw a problem with weekend/week day stages.

And this is the only flat stage until the last Wednesday of the race, so I think we will survive.

The weekend/week day 'problem' is pretty straight forward - in the weekend, you can choose to watch it all if you deem it interesting enough (which I do in Flanders and Roubaix, for example, or lots of the TdF-stages last year), where as week days is usually just 1 or maybe 2 hours.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Breakaway chatting and looking like they're having a good time, good to see! (I'm sure they already know they won't make it, peloton is less than a minute behind with 56km to go.)

 

[tobydawq]

The weekend/week day 'problem' is pretty straight forward - in the weekend, you can choose to watch it all if you deem it interesting enough (which I do in Flanders and Roubaix, for example, or lots of the TdF-stages last year), where as week days is usually just 1 or maybe 2 hours.

Not for me. For me, it's just as likely that I won't be able to watch on a weekend day than on a week day.

And in the week days, there is no other sport going on at the same time.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Thats true, but I don't really watch that much other sport than cycling apart from NBA and yeah, thats not at that time of the day.

I just much prefer having actual good stages on a weekend where I generally have more time (especially sundays) compared to a week day where I don't have a problem not tuning in with 5 km to go on a flat day (if I even do that).

 

[Sciatic]

Did you folks get (just now) that piano interlude with no announcing and just some ambient sound? Brought me back to CBS coverage of Le Tour with John Tesch (sp?)

 

[Aimar16]

Breakaway chatting and looking like they're having a good time, good to see! (I'm sure they already know they won't make it, peloton is less than a minute behind with 56km to go.)

I'm sure they knew at 0km that they weren't going to make it

 

[JosefK]

Did you folks get (just now) that piano interlude with no announcing and just some ambient sound? Brought me back to CBS coverage of Le Tour with John Tesch (sp?)

Good nostalgia. And Italy's scenery does make an impression.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Rohan Dennis casually changing shoes a little bit ago, peloton chatting amongst each other, this definitely looks like a relaxing Sunday ride.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Love these lazy 200km flat stages, half asleep on a Sunday watching the scenery go by, one for the real enthusiasts!

 

[skippo12]

Full time travel commercial with occasional cycling cameos.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Love these lazy 200km flat stages, half asleep on a Sunday watching the scenery go by, one for the real enthusiasts!

We get a good look at the fisherman huts!

 

[Sciatic]

We get a good look at the fisherman huts!

Admittedly they are pretty interesting

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Love these lazy 200km flat stages, half asleep on a Sunday watching the scenery go by, one for the real enthusiasts!

Would have been a perfect day for Kirby. He'd have prepared a few stories about fishermen's huts.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Admittedly they are pretty interesting

Architecturally they certainly are fascinating.

 

[Potomac]

EF all at the back of the peloton with13 km to go.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

11km to go, riders putting their game faces on now.

 

[DNP-Old]

You can just feel a crash coming seeing how nervous everyone is.