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

[Mayomaniac]

They're lucky that half the peloton had been dropped, what a strange finale.

At least they put that kind of final after a hilly final, imagine if it was on an easy sprint stage, wouldn't have been pretty.

 

[Berniece]

I thought Matthews started to early, those last 100m seemed to take very long. Good that he held them off.

 

[Samamba]

WTF Is Oldani doing????

Man, what a horrible teamwork from Alpecin

 

[DNP-Old]

Loldani just tried to drive his leader Groves into the barriers.

 

[Didinho]

WTF Is Oldani doing????

Man, what a horrible teamwork from Alpecin

Really strange, could do better for Groves instead of sprinting himself.

 

[red_flanders]

Oooh, little move left at the end there from the overhead shot...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So much for Alpecin having the best train...

 

[tobydawq]

Matthews - the one guy from 1990 who stays on top.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Wow, they‘re so lucky the stage was hard enough, almost as if they designed it.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Hello. Can anyone say "unique pick in the CQ Giro game"?

unique pick in the CQ Giro game

 

[RedheadDane]

unique pick in the CQ Giro game

Well played...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Cattaneo and Zana riders of the day. Cattaneo do incredible job for Remco and Zana pace into the final exceptional. Also those 2 guys from Corratec deserve a beer

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Wow, they‘re so lucky the stage was hard enough, almost as if they designed it.

If anything, they were unlucky it rained, makes any finale twice as technical.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Hello. Can anyone say "unique pick in the CQ Giro game"?

unique pick in the CQ Giro game

 

[Valv.Piti]

Wow, they‘re so lucky the stage was hard enough, almost as if they designed it.

Was thinking the same. Lulz.

It turned out the sprinter teams had too many riders left to realistically try anything, but its not like anyone tried anyways. Hard stage and with this kind of weather, we could see some decent gaps tomorrow

 

[Eyeballs Out]

WTF Is Oldani doing????

Man, what a horrible teamwork from Alpecin

He might have won if he'd not done the finale with a rain jacket stuffed in his pocket

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Groves has to win this after all this buildup from the commentators.

Was that Rob Hatch? He was quite horrendous without a co-commentator. Think Kelly went for a nap.

 

[HelloDolly]

Matthews is 11/2 fro the points jersey

 

[Mayomaniac]

Really strange, could do better for Groves instead of sprinting himself.

That's what happens when you tell 2 guys on the same team that they can both sprint for themselfs, they end up blocking eachother.
It's one thing if one of them can't climb to safe his life, but since Groves also gets over the hills pretty well it can get messy if you give both guys the ok.

That final had big "finishing circuit of a flat TdS stage" energy, put it at the end of an easy stage and we see a crashfest.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Looking at it again Albanese was in great position when Matthews went for it, but he just didn't have the legs.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

With that win I wouldn’t want to be a Jayco AlUla domestique in the next two weeks, they might be riding on Wednesday and Thursday and on Stage 10 and 11…

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Looking at it again Albanese was in great position when Matthews went for it, but he just didn't have the legs.

It's still his career second-best placement in a Giro stage, not bad given that he started his season less than a month ago. Based on today, a win can only come from the break though.

 

[Salvarani]

Did Almeida come back?

 

[Pinot's goat]

Looks like no proper results for a long time is going to be the norm. TDF so much better, especially with tracking.

 

[johnymax]

Why are they so slow with the results...only the top10 for the stage is up