Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 4: Venosa – Lago Laceno 175 km (Tuesday, May 9th)

[Samamba]

Leknessund again, this time in the descent. doesn't look as wet as the climb.

 

[Netserk]

Primož Roglič will win this bike race.

 

[MrTea1976]

Feels like a one-day race.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The break has one descent and one climb left to form, and even then this is now far easier for a GC team to control if they fancy the stage win.

 

[Samamba]

Ok but what's the reason they're showing the grupetto lmao.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ok but what's the reason they're showing the grupetto lmao.

It's their only opportunity to show an Italian team right now.

 

[Didinho]

Just hoping everyone is spared from bad luck/crashes.

 

[Samamba]

Vanhoucke still the same after his move to DSM. Attacking uphill in the first week (to just be in the grupetto in 2nd and 3rd week) and dropping on the descent.

 

[Didinho]

Oomen puncture front and back.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Vanhoucke still the same after his move to DSM. Attacking uphill in the first week (to just be in the grupetto in 2nd and 3rd week) and dropping on the descent.

Him being the first of the peloton on Etna is definitely the most underratedly random thing about the 2020 Giro.

 

[Escarabajo]

Ok but what's the reason they're showing the grupetto lmao.

It could be the last time we see them!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Eolo guy who forced the breakaway on the descent is a killer

 

[tobydawq]

What a wonderful stage so far.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

so far today i saw dennis dropped like a hot potato, oomen with mechanical and hessman with a crash. And yesterday kuss with a mechanical.

 

[glassmoon]

no McNulty, no Healy... this might be it finally

 

[Samamba]

Him being the first of the peloton on Etna is definitely the most underratedly random thing about the 2020 Giro.

He's always been good in a first unipuerto mountain stage. And then he fades after. For example Catalunya the year after. Or UAE Tour.

And he probably already would've won his first Giro stage if he wasn't as crash prone as he is (He rode a monsterclimb in the stage Schmid won to Montalcino after he crashed and lost more than a minute before the climb).

But his last 1.5 year was horrible. Crashing in literally every GT and being super demotivated. Never went on training camp or anything. Kept training in Flanders thinking it would make him climb better. I think he can get his old level again at DSM, but he will never be a GC rider (even tho he thinks he can).

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Did Almeida get dropped again? Now I understand why nobody wants to do domestique duty at UAE when Pogacar isn't there, it must be infuriating...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Him being the first of the peloton on Etna is definitely the most underratedly random thing about the 2020 Giro.

Compared to the rest of the Giro, what wasn't random about that Etna stage? Wilco being strong, but that's about it...

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Peloton so spread out even the commentators don't know which group is which.

 

[Samamba]

So break is finally gone. Leknessund there. Could succeed and get pink here.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

nasty crash this

 

[Mayomaniac]

Did Almeida get dropped again? Now I understand why nobody wants to do domestique duty at UAE when Pogacar isn't there, it must be infuriating...

With him the DS probably has to scream "hands on the drops" constatly during every descent.

 

[Netserk]

EF should chase now.

Ugh, ugly crash.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Crash

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Williams did not look good at all there...