Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 5: Atripalda - Salerno 171 km (Wednesday, May 10th)

[tobydawq]

No, but not knowing that a well-known Danish song from the 80s was a cover absolutely does.

I hope the crashed riders, dogs and posters will recover before tomorrow and be able to bury the hatchet and exchange eggs during the stage.

I must have been too busy running away from rabid dogs on my paper route (apparently because I was a bad person, I realise now) when I was a kid to have paid attention to that song and its origin

 

[Eeslliw]

That was straight up hilarious. Dude just wipped his well yk out while the cameraman was - luckily from the back - filming him. Chaos around him, Bouwmann just casually pissing against a wall like it's 4 AM after a night out.

Poor guy had to hold it in for quite a while and DS probably didn't allow him to go before, if Roglic would have had any problems. I guess Addy Engels learned something from his inability to hold it in Giro 2019 .

 

[dgodave]

Dogs are a great judge of character.

You are a bad person, if they dont like or behave towards you.

Unless youre on a bike... then all bets are off.

 

[ice&fire]

Back to c rash #1 and Sporza have compiled a list of animals vs the peloton. I forgot all about Philiipe Gilbert's angry confrontation with a dog's owners during the 2012 Tour.

'Hondzetting' in de koers: ook paarden, koeien, bijen, vogels en antilopes zorgden ooit voor onheil | sporza

Een hond heeft onbedoeld een hoofdrol opgeëist in de 5e etappe van de Ronde van Italië. Het was niet voor het eerst dat een trouwe viervoeter de renners de stuipen op het lijf (en meer) jaagde. Bovendien heeft bijna een hele dierentuin het peloton al eens opgeschud.

sporza.be

I haven't forgotten the worst I recall, almost 40 years ago, not in that list: Joachim Agostinho.

 

[laarsland]

If Kirsch is the guy with whom he collided, no. He wasn't "drifting" he was moving to his left with intention and vision, into a wide open space. Completely normal and how one advances in a pack. Remco lets himself move laterally right while looking left, directly into the rear wheel of Kirsch(?).

If you move laterally in a pack without looking where you're going, you are at fault. Period. 100%.

If Remco's coaches and staff tell him anything different, they're enabling behavior that will make him crash again. This isn't complicated.

DID YOU NOT SEE THE PHOTO WITH THE LINES WHICH DISPUTES THIS?!?!

(And yes, agree. It's really simple. One movement was intentional into an open space, as you see in any pre-sprint bunches, another was erratic and sudden)

 

[dgodave]

This was the worst bike race Ive seen in a while. And not a even a good basilica or castello.

 

[Gratemans]

I'm still waiting for an epic pic from the front with Cav flying over the finish

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

DID YOU NOT SEE THE PHOTO WITH THE LINES WHICH DISPUTES THIS?!?!

(And yes, agree. It's really simple. One movement was intentional into an open space, as you see in any pre-sprint bunches, another was erratic and sudden)

OMG CAN YOU PLEASE LINK ME TO THIS IMAGE BECAUSE I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS YET!!!

The image i posted was to show posters who claimed Evenepoel changed direction much more than Kirsch did and claimed that was "verifiable", to show them they were mistaking.

 

[staubsauger]

I haven't forgotten the worst I recall, almost 40 years ago, not in that list: Joachim Agostinho.

Agostinho passed away after that crash, didn't he?

 

[will-10]

I'm still waiting for an epic pic from the front with Cav flying over the finish

 

[Wvv]

Agostinho passed away after that crash, didn't he?

In the very last days of his long career. Yes. Heartbreaking.

 

[Gratemans]

I'm still waiting for an epic pic from the front with Cav flying over the finish

To be clear, I'm not happy about him falling or anything, it just looked pretty spectacular. Of course I hope he's okay.

 

[dedekmraz]

Cav thought it was speedway?

 

[MartinGT]

Madness, just madness.

 

[search]

did Cav go down faster than the phone?

 

[Lequack]

Motorbikes also crashed

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656372659947466783

View: https://twitter.com/eduardochozas/status/1656372659947466783

 

[Danskebjerge]

How often in the history of cycling has a rider had so hard crashes in a Grand Tour and still won the GC?

 

[tobydawq]

How often in the history of cycling has a rider had so hard crashes in a Grand Tour and still won the GC?

I think Roglic crashed at least four times in the 2020 Vuelta.

I know that doesn't answer the "how often" part but I think that's beyond the scope of my evening to check that.

 

[Lequack]

This Almeida with mustaches still weird me out

 

[BR2]

This Almeida with mustaches still weird me out

I still think it's a film prop.

 

[red_flanders]

How often in the history of cycling has a rider had so hard crashes in a Grand Tour and still won the GC?

 

[Cookster15]

How often in the history of cycling has a rider had so hard crashes in a Grand Tour and still won the GC?

Cadel Evans didn't win GC, but it certainly didn't help when this happened on stage 9 of the 2008 TdF. I really doubt Remco is that bashed up.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecSC6S24XA

 

[Lequack]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnCU5njhxc

 

[King Of The Wolds]

Cav thought it was speedway?

Madness, just madness.

I turned off after the early break crashed in the first corner, and then turned on just for the last 20 mins or so. I knew it would be a tough watch. To be honest, I'd have been fine with them neutralising the stage. I like bike racing, but don't like down right sadism.

 

[Lequack]

Pozzovivo also crashed and hurt his knee

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656365905679646720

View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1656365905679646720