Giro d'Italia 2023 Giro d'Italia, Stage 9: Savignano sul Rubicone – Cesena 35 km ITT (Sunday, May 14th)

[Netserk]

So much TTing ruins the race, they said. They make bigger differences than the mountain stages, they said. They were wrong.

Please, can we dare to have a proper ITT once in a while?

 

[Rackham]

Rogla only 17 seconds down is very interesting. Great job recovering at the end.

 

[Didinho]

Evenepoel will be happy he gained 2kg muscle to give the competition this monster blow of 1s, with the mountains coming up.
Giro over. They are never going to take this time back.

Maybe he lost 3kg overnight.

 

[Samamba]

So do we trust Tudor or...

It's a win for Remco but they can't actually be happy with this. This isn't looking good for him imo.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Well, at least he was a cyclist. Remco was a footballer, Roglic a ski jumper.

Yes, but Remco became a cyclist young and is still young so isn't a valid comparison. Roglič is, but he didn't really massively change the type of rider he is, his discovery of how good a TTer he was when he moved from Adria Mobil to whatever Jumbo were called at the time was the crazy thing with him more than anything else; he's still pretty much the same rider he was when he first turned pro. We had a decade of knowing what Thomas was like as a rider, and then he changed it completely and the 37 year old Thomas is completely unrecognisable from the 27 year old Thomas that in theory should have been his peak years.

 

[Red Rick]

So much TTing ruins the race, they said. They make bigger differences than the mountain stages, they said. They were wrong.

Please, can we dare to have a proper ITT once in a while?

They have tiny gaps exclusively if you exclude TTs where gaps aren't tiny.

 

[BR2]

I would love to see the Ineos and UAE riders do the same course with a switch of equipment and preparation.

 

[Elos Anjos]

The real question is if Remco will quit the Giro with covid-19.

 

[Netserk]

Lame duck in pink now. Ineos smell blood.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Evenepoel will be happy he gained 2kg muscle to give the competition this monster blow of 1s, with the mountains coming up.
Giro over. They are never going to take this time back.

Remco is coached by Skiijumper Roglic fan.??

 

[saunaking]

remco fallen off a cliff since stage 1. Lucky no mountains for a few days yet

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Andre]

Remco in pink...a rest day coming...wounds healing....and will only get better in form

 

[Valv.Piti]

What the...

Roglic my favorite now, and Tao my 2nd guy.

 

[JosefK]

What a rollercoaster for Roglic fans. First time check: catastrophic. And beaten by Tao AGAIN. But ... down only 17 seconds to Remco. Rog may have been fastest of all riders on the last 5 kilometers. Day saved.

 

[Panda Claws]

Looking really exciting now. Evenepoel looks to be in trouble but there is a good chance he is still recovering from the crash.
Ineos surprisingly strong.

I don't think it's likely that Evenepoel mistimed a peak

 

[Berniece]

Stage 13 will tell us if Remco has any chance in winning this Giro

 

[noob]

I love Tao soooo much!

 

[Salvarani]

Let not forget.... Küng 4th again

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So do we trust Tudor or...

It's a win for Remco but they can't actually be happy with this. This isn't looking good for him imo.

At this moment i would be very surprised if he finishes top 5. I'm not being sarcastic. Instead of leading by 3 minutes, thinking it might be enough to survive the mountains with his less than optimal weight, now he has only 40s and he looks, by far, as the worst of the favorites.

 

[KOM]

When was the last time the stage winner was the obvious overall loser of the stage?

 

[Bonimenier]

What a rollercoaster for Roglic fans. First time check: catastrophic. And beaten by Tao AGAIN. But ... down only 17 seconds to Remco. Rog may have been fastest of all riders on the last 5 kilometers. Day saved.

He was 2nd fastest in T3 to finish to Kung.

 

[Netserk]

They have tiny gaps exclusively if you exclude TTs where gaps aren't tiny.

What has been the most decisive ITTs in the past 5 years? The Vuelta ITT last year where Rogla lost close to half as much as on Pico Jano?

 

[staubsauger]

Italian camera man. That pan shot of Oumii was like the only correct camera work today.

 

[Climbing]

If Vincenzo was still riding he would toy with these amateur TTers!