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

[Didinho]

Danish commentators have speculated that he may be ill.

Bakelants on Sporza just said he thinks that other riders are warm enough from riding hard and to see someone with extra layers on is a good sign.

 

[glassmoon]

Couldve just had an "easy" stage if they let the first break go

but this is Giro and it's better that way

 

[JosefK]

Healy again?

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Crazy, enjoyable stage so far. Makes some of the 'keeping the powder dry' in previous days worth it...
Not sure PL will be having a relaxing lunch though.

 

[Didinho]

Grupetto has formed. The breakaway not. Crazy start.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bakelants on Sporza just said he thinks that other riders are warm enough from riding hard and to see someone with extra layers on is a good sign.

If you're in the Belgian media right now, you're obligated to put a positive spin on literally anything for Evenepoel. What Sporza concludes from it is therefore irrelevant.

 

[staubsauger]

Evenepoel, Roglic & Tao are constantly a bit far behind.

Asking for problems. Tao nearly paid the price already.

 

[Samamba]

Healy is insane. The best De Gendt but without having throubles riding in a peloton.

 

[fox]

Remco completely isolated

EDIT: forgot Van Wilder was in white. He's a bit further in the peloton.

Vervaecke and Serry also with him.

 

[rokovski]

After all the talk of Jumbo being ***ed over by illness, would be a dark irony if it's Evenepoel rather than Roglic who gets taken out by falling ill.

Dream scenario, both ill, rescheduled to Tour and we have clash of the titans.

 

[Didinho]

If you're in the Belgian media right now, you're obligated to put a positive spin on literally anything for Evenepoel. What Sporza concludes from it is therefore irrelevant.

It's just the view from an ex pro rider, he tells a lot of info what others riders would think in the peloton. Even in SanRemo he said it like he sees it, even with his trainer partner Van Aert when he's suffering etc.
But it could be both indeed. Just love to hear his opinion in certain situations.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

All 8 Corratec jerseys in the gruppetto I think. Best stage result of 81st so far, nobody in top-100 of GC, dead last in the team classification almost half an hour behind second-last (who are less than 20 minutes down on first place). Surely the worst team ever invited to a GT?

 

[Netserk]

Giro d'Italia stage 4 action. 2015, 2021 & 2023.

 

[Samamba]

Feel like guys like Healy and Leknessund will have no legs anymore on the last climb even if they get in the break.

 

[glassmoon]

Healy's contract is ending this year so...

 

[will-10]

Healy's contract is ending this year so...

not convinced he fits the "contract year" type of rider as a neo-pro who just finished on the podium at Amstel...

 

[Didinho]

Long climb now, surely the break will form.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It's just the view from an ex pro rider, he tells a lot of info what others riders would think in the peloton. Even in SanRemo he said it like he sees it, even with his trainer partner Van Aert when he's suffering etc.
But it could be both indeed. Just love to hear his opinion in certain situations.

The Belgian media treatment of Van Aert is pretty normal for the way a big name is treated by his country's media. The love-in with Evenepoel is unlike anything I've ever seen, and I spent a my teenage years listening to NOS obsessing over where Gesink and Mollema were rather than focusing on the important parts of the race.

 

[will-10]

What a shame we don't have Jumbo's actual Giro team vs QS looking this weak, could've been fun

 

[Netserk]

Reminder: the climb ends at 110.8 km to go.

 

[fox]

The Belgian media treatment of Van Aert is pretty normal for the way a big name is treated by his country's media. The love-in with Evenepoel is unlike anything I've ever seen, and I spent a my teenage years listening to NOS obsessing over where Gesink and Mollema were rather than focusing on the important parts of the race.

Because Belgium has had a lot of Van Aert type cyclist the last decades. But Evenepoel is the first in 40 years that has the ability to win Grand Tours.

 

[search]

All 8 Corratec jerseys in the gruppetto I think. Best stage result of 81st so far, nobody in top-100 of GC, dead last in the team classification almost half an hour behind second-last (who are less than 20 minutes down on first place). Surely the worst team ever invited to a GT?

yes, but they won't get three riders to Rome anyway, so the gap in the team classification isn't an issue

 

[Didinho]

At this rate we're gonna have the GC guys in the break.

Vervaecke now pacing. Let these guys go.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Because Belgium has had a lot of Van Aert type cyclist the last decades. But Evenepoel is the first in 40 years that has the ability to win Grand Tours.

Dumoulin was the first Dutch GT winner in 37 years (and podium finisher in 29 before Mollema was retroactively awarded third in the 2011 Vuelta) and also got the Van Aert treatment rather than the Evenepoel one. It's no excuse for the complete absence of neutrality on all matters Evenepoel.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Mcnulty and Healy must be absolutely stuffed, they've been doing intervals for the last 90 minutes