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

[Devil's Elbow]

Yes, but my point is that normal sprinters have no business on those stages (maybe stage 11 is realistic).

You have watched first-week Vuelta stages before, right? Stages 5, 6 and 11 can all very easily be (close to) full bunch sprints. Stage 10 could be the same, but there the break has an actually-good shot. Only way for a lot of sprinters to get dropped is Jayco or someone else pacing the climbs.

 

[search]

15 minutes and still nothing more than a top 10. This is unacceptable.

they are still trying to figure out why their result has McNulty as the winner

 

[HelloDolly]

Remco Evenepol handing out the blame

 

[RedheadDane]

they are still trying to figure out why their result has McNulty as the winner

Maybe they're just trying to see how many things they can wrongfully award to Brandon McNulty...

 

[Valv.Piti]

Tudor is indeed a complete joke. Yesterday was terrible, and so is today. Absolutely garbage of a job they are doing, unfortunately.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Mickey Mouse wears a Tudor watch

 

[JosefK]

GCN after-race show (Orla) says Tao lost 19 seconds today.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

My favorite application of the 3km rule was 2011 Tour stage 1, when there was a crash within the 3km that held up a crash that happened earlier

Same happened in California a few years ago.

 

[Jagartrott]

There was a lady there (in grey) getting hit pretty hard. She was filming on her cellphone, and thus not paying attention to the crash unfolding (others there stepped back, she didn't).

 

[houtdffan]

My favorite application of the 3km rule was 2011 Tour stage 1, when there was a crash within the 3km that held up a crash that happened earlier

That was just so ASO and UCI could give Contador a time penalty

Stage never should have had a 3km rule as it finished on a climb!

 

[Black Betsy]

My favorite application of the 3km rule was 2011 Tour stage 1, when there was a crash within the 3km that held up a crash that happened earlier

Wiggo '12, work of art! Don't recall the stage now.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

There was a lady there (in grey) getting hit pretty hard. She was filming on her cellphone, and thus not paying attention to the crash unfolding (others there stepped back, she didn't).

First of all I hope she, like everyone else who took a hit, is okay, but it was definitely her own fault for both standing too close to the riders and not paying any attention whatsoever.

 

[Mayomaniac]

This top-3 though.. looks beyond dreadful!

Have you seen Milan in Croatia last year and in the Saudi Tour during the pre-season (beating Groene in a sprint stage and loosing only 28sec to Guerreiro, Buitrago and Formolo on the stage with the 3kms at 12% murito with 8kms to go?) The dude is a fast big guy and has a decent punch.
Without sickness/crashes I actually expected him to show something in the cobbled classics.

 

[search]

Tudor is indeed a complete joke. Yesterday was terrible, and so is today. Absolutely garbage of a job they are doing, unfortunately.

I don't think Tudor itself has much do with it. They are just the sponsor, and as far as I understood, the timing company is still the same as before.

But as the sponsor has changed, they obviously can't use Tissot's live platform anymore to provide the results, but need to rely on their own. Which seems to be crap.

 

[MartinGT]

First of all I hope she, like everyone else who took a hit, is okay, but it was definitely her own fault for both standing too close to the riders and not paying any attention whatsoever.

But she needed the pics for the Gram!!!!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Milan is fast if he's in the right place - Groenewegen could not run him down in the last 100 metres of a Saudi stage.

Big track guy with a strong sprint and punchy on short, steep hills.
Thank god for the track guys, because atm they carry Italian cycling...

 

[Mayomaniac]

I don't think Tudor itself has much do with it. They are just the sponsor, and as far as I understood, the timing company is still the same as before.

But as the sponsor has changed, they obviously can't use Tissot's live platform anymore to provide the results, but need to rely on their own. Which seems to be crap.

Having Tudor as a sponsor and not giving their team a wildcard is the most non-RCS thing that they've done in years

 

[Pantani_lives]

Hart and Vlasov have lost time due to the crash.

 

[DNP-Old]

48 USA MCNULTY Brandon UAE Team Emirates + 12
54 IRL DUNBAR Edward Team Jayco-AlUla + 19
65 AUS HAIG Jack Bahrain Victorious + 19
67 AUS VINE Jay UAE Team Emirates + 19
76 GBR CARTHY Hugh EF Education-EasyPost + 19
77 GBR GEOGHEGAN HART Tao INEOS Grenadiers + 19
78 FRA PINOT Thibaut Groupama-FDJ + 19
84 COL URAN Rigoberto EF Education-EasyPost + 19
87 IRL HEALY Ben EF Education-EasyPost + 19
96 COL BUITRAGO Santiago Bahrain Victorious + 19
113 NED ARENSMAN Thymen INEOS Grenadiers + 31

 

[DNP-Old]

Hart and Vlasov have lost time due to the crash.

Vlasov did not lose time.

 

[titan31]

This is taking forever to update the results.

 

[search]

Having Tudor as a sponsor and not giving their team a wildcard is the most non-RCS thing that they've done in years

They didn't apply, I think. Cancellara said that they were not interested in doing a GT in year one, at least.

 

[search]

48 USA MCNULTY Brandon UAE Team Emirates + 12
54 IRL DUNBAR Edward Team Jayco-AlUla + 19
65 AUS HAIG Jack Bahrain Victorious + 19
67 AUS VINE Jay UAE Team Emirates + 19
76 GBR CARTHY Hugh EF Education-EasyPost + 19
77 GBR GEOGHEGAN HART Tao INEOS Grenadiers + 19
78 FRA PINOT Thibaut Groupama-FDJ + 19

McNulty sat up, I think? He was there after the crash, as far as I could see.

 

[Filippo_3467]

Hart and Vlasov have lost time due to the crash.

No Vlasov was the last rider to come around the crash and was at the back of the peleton in the sprint.

I think quite a few others weren't as lucky. I didn't saw Haig and Carthy in the group but without results difficult to assess the situation especially if a rider with hopes for the Top 10 did come down hard.

 

[Netserk]

Tusveld is looking back behind him right at the moment the others are having to swerve/adjust. He is then the first one to crash, because he has very little time to react.

Had he been looking straight forward it probably doesnt happen.

Idk. It is how I saw it.

Came here to post this.