Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 3: Vasto – Melfi 216 km (Monday, May 8th)

[Rob5091]

Bonus seconds at the sprint at the base of the descent plus 10 seconds at the finish, might tempt some GC guy to go for it. Ineos, I would guess.They do have a Pavlovian reaction to climbs.

 

[Tonton]

I know Fabio Quaranta isn‘t winning on any stage because who tf is Fabio Quaranta,
but Ivan Quaranta, or his son Samuele for that matter, aren‘t winning either. I definitely approve of this stage design as well.

Should we start a "Quaranta is the Newest Quaranta" thread?

 

[hayneplane]

Trying to look beyond the most obvious names and my mind comes to Bora having form for drilling these kind of stages and Konrad showing a decent sprint in Frankfurt that might be enough if the Cort/Pedersen types are dropped by enough not to get back on. UAE with Covi/Ulissi/McNulty should have someone in the mix as well.

 

[Eshnar]

In the technical overview it says the last climb is @ 29.5 km to go and I count 26 Km. Not a big deal but could be corrected.

done. Maybe I still had the old profile when I was writing this.

 

[DenisMenchov]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ntkrDyQfU

 

[gregrowlerson]

Seems like a very difficult stage to predict the stage winner. Pederson looks too short in the odds. Roglic a decent chance as others have mentioned, unless he prefers to wait to unleash tomorrow. A small group could stay away in the last 30kms as it doesn't sound like mostly straight roads into the finish. Looks like a MCN type of stage too.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

It looks like there could be rain for the finale so I'm expecting a greater degree of chaos than yesterday. On first glance at this stage while the Cat 3 is quite a bit harder than it looks it seemed like any attacks would be negated once teams got themselves organised in those final 9 km which are slightly uphill. Now I'm not so sure - maybe this will be quite selective

 

[Didinho]

I can't imagine any GC guy trying anything. Should be between the likes of Matthews, Cort, Pedersen and Albanese

How about Milan again? Was really impressed by his climbing in Saudi Tour this year, or is this climb maybe to long if they drill it for Pedersen/Matthews.

 

[Bonimenier]

Exciting battle for the breakaway

 

[Aimar16]

170 kms of peaceful slow ride ahead

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Time to switch off this stage, then switch back on for the last half hour.

 

[awavey]

leaders jersey stopping for a pee break, watchout if Movistar send a bunch of riders up the road

 

[Didinho]

Hope these 2 make it to the finish.

 

[Lequack]

Remco got egged

https://twitter.com/x/status/1655517792005660680

View: https://twitter.com/giroditalia/status/1655517792005660680

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't understand why more teams haven't send riders into the breakaway. Tagliani and Pellaud are deeply missed.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

I don't understand why more teams haven't send riders into the breakaway. Tagliani and Pellaud are deeply missed.

In my opinion, many teams made the (correct) reasoning that today with an acceleration on the last two climbs the chance of a successful action is not zero (while is zero with a long haul action), so it is better to keep the energies for the final part

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Time to switch off this stage, then switch back on for the last half hour.

Maybe today is better 1 hr before finish

 

[yaco]

Why are Jayco pacing at the front when there is no certainty Matthews will get over the final climbs - I hope they have a back up plan.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Why are Jayco pacing at the front when there is no certainty Matthews will get over the final climbs - I hope they have a back up plan.

Matthews who won in Mende why should not be able to pass the final climbs ??

 

[Remy55]

Matthews who won in Mende why should not be able to pass the final climbs ??

because he is not in the same shape

 

[Gratemans]

And it was from a break. Totally different scenario.

 

[Tour de Berghem]

And it was from a break. Totally different scenario.

Defeating people like Pinot Soler Bettiol Fuglsang...these climbs are ok for bling

 

[BR2]

When did breaks become so completely irrelevant?

 

[Samamba]

because he is not in the same shape

Ok but if he would get dropped before the other sprinters that are putting a guy on the front here, he simply shouldn't be riding this Giro (or even any race) right now.

If there is a stage he can win, it's this one. Obviously they're going to control the break.

 

[Samamba]

When did breaks become so completely irrelevant?

People memeing teams that only go in breaks
UCI points becoming too important (even smaller PCT teams need them now)
Cycling becoming super predictable in general. Everyone knows the break doesn't stand a chance here.