2024 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1: Venaria Reale - Torino, 140 km (Saturday, May 4)

[AnotherArmChair]

og god...Adam Blythe ...thinks he is the Peter Kay of cycling
Himself and Rob Hatch and their lads together e Yorkshire and Italian accents ..........please

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Hmmm… I think they want to win the stage. So
much for the energy saving plan

 

[Tim Cahill]

Nvm, 1.40, nervous times in the peloton, Giro could be lost right here with Calmejane so far up the road

 

[gregrowlerson]

Voigt doesn't know anything about cycling. He is choosing Ganna for stage winner???

Up there with Contador's prediction for MVDP podium in Rome.

 

[tobydawq]

It's a good thing I'm not a betting man, because I would have bet my left kidney on a Bais brother being in the first break when there are 6 guys in it.

Also if the return was, say, 2.5 kidneys?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Luckily Migels has told us that we do not need to fear because Jens will return to the commentary team with his „expertise“. I am relieved.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

If you were a DS in say Trek or Ineos or Quickstep what could you do today to get the win...is there anything ???

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If you were a DS in say Trek or Ineos or Quickstep what could you do today to get the win...is there anything ???

Try and wind Nairo up so he elbows Pogacar off the road

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Luckily Migels has told us that we do not need to fear because Jens will return to the commentary team with his „expertise“. I am relieved.

I actually like Jensi, he's so enthusiastic it's kind of infectious.

 

[Tim Cahill]

No more untraditional medium mountain stages to start please, I want 200k flat where the break gets 10 minutes and everyone is catching up with each other and we get some good shots of the fans lining the road

 

[QueenStagiaire]

If you were a DS in say Trek or Ineos or Quickstep what could you do today to get the win...is there anything ???

Go full gas on the long climb and hope Pog‘s teammates blow up, then attack on the downhill and pray that it works. It won‘t but it would be great television.

 

[AmRacer]

Go full gas on the long climb and hope Pog‘s teammates blow up, then attack on the downhill and pray that it works. It won‘t but it would be great television.

Even if they go full gas, Poggi drops them.

 

[Taxus4a]

There is 2 ways Pogacar can afford this Giro:

1: To be main character every day and make history and a good remember on fans...so he can win 10 stages, pink, ciclamino, mopuntains.....even to be pink all the race, wich is really a handicap and no easy, and at le Tour we will see, ha can even crash or something and ypou have already won the Giro in al espectacular way.
2. To try to win with no big probpems, but saving ebergy thinking to le Tpour and just try to win the nesseary stages, but not thinking in that, If he win le Tour as well (I think this way is a good preparation for le Tour, maybe the best), is another way, more important, to make history.

Of course is Vingegarrd is not in the race or he is al 80 %, Pogacar is able to do both things, but no very likely.

 

[Taxus4a]

It Poggi and the team chosse option 2, today is not a good day to win except rivals put him easy the victory. Maybe is better to make descent alone for security, but no sure....much to lose, little to gain in his case....for other riders ans tage at the Giro and wear pinbk would made sense to his career, but he can easy to do that stage 2.

 

[Tim Cahill]

If you were a DS in say Trek or Ineos or Quickstep what could you do today to get the win...is there anything ???

Ineos don't really have anyone because it doesn't suit Thomas/Arensman's characteristics, their best chance would be to attack with Foss, Ganna. Sheffield and Narvaez on the first or second climb and hope they can get some decent separation and a proper advantage before the last climb.

It's day 1 of a GC though, for teams with a decent puncheur, everyone is fresh and the last climb isn't long enough to get much separation on, they just need to make sure when he attacks that there is immediate co-operation, they should be having conversations on the road now with teams with riders likely to be there near the end and agreeing to pull him back in the 5k before the finish line.

See; Victor Lafay Stage 2 in the Tour

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Seemingly Ineos are working for Narvaez

 

[Peyroteo94]

People, we still have San Vito before Maddalena, if UAE goes hard there, peloton will be reduced to 60/70 riders and 20/30 riders in the middle of Maddalena. Time for Pogi to put a nuclear bomb

 

[pastronef]

from like 105 km to go to the start of Superga I've been turning pedals on those roads since 94. nice places

 

[pastronef]

Excellent satire @topcat

now jokes aside, can you tell me, with easy words, what he meant? translate it for me. for real, I'm serious

 

[AnotherArmChair]

I suppose one good thing about this race is alot of teams will be giving freedom to their riders to go for stage wins like Ineos because they cant win or feel they cant win GC

 

[tobydawq]

Hmmm… I think they want to win the stage. So
much for the energy saving plan

They've been saying that all week.

 

[Kazistuta]

Even if the Bais boys didn't hit the breakaway today, I'm sure at least two of the most prominent breakaway artists this year are in it: Calmejane and Fiorelli.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I actually like Jensi, he's so enthusiastic it's kind of infectious.

Agreed, it's also pretty funny imo when he brings an absurd take once or twice, or thrice in one broadcast, or sometimes within 5 minutes.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Still surprised why teams like Visma and Bora didnt send better GC riders who could podium ? Seems a great opportunity to get on the podium of a GT and if Pog doesn't make it to the end a great opportunity to win a GT ????

 

[pastronef]

Casalborgone, before the foot of the first KOM. exactly 30 km from my door. turned around that roundabout and headed back home dozens and dozens of times

ps. over the hill of Casalborgone, in Castagneto Po, there's the mansion of the Bruni family (yes, Madame Sarkozy)