Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024 Stage 15, Manerba del Garda-Livigno (Mottolino), 222 km

[Salvarani]

This is one of the most impressive mountain climbing show I've ever seen.

It is one for the ages

Legendary stage and performance in the end

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar killing Foscagno is hilarious!

 

[Brullnux]

Pogacar lost 10s on that final climb to a 38 year old Thomas.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Thomas attacking the most mythic moment today

I must've missed it when I blinked

 

[wheresmybrakes]

It's the riders that make the race, not the route.

 

[ice&fire]

Pog could claim the win and ask an exemption to ride the final week.

 

[glassmoon]

I dont care what anyone says he will pay for this at the Tour

Vinge and Rog love this

JV will not even be there!

 

[ppanther92]

Pogacar lost 10s on that final climb to a 38 year old Thomas.

Easily explained by celebrating and smiling while Thomas and Martinez did some mountain sprint.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Pogacar lost 10s on that final climb to a 38 year old Thomas.

Bufalo Thomas!

Tiberi pulling Aru-faces...

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Why Are they interviewing that bald fraud? Give me mou in monitor!

 

[kingjr]

Who wants to see an interview with that bloke right now for ***’s sake!!!!

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Totally disagree. It's a long ways to the Tour, and his investment in this ride today pays off by letting him finish the rest of the race riding like 'Il Patrono'. No one is even going to dream of attacking him; he can just monitor what podium riders are left and watch the peons fight for stage wins. He's winning this in the TT's, and a big day today (which also has the added effect of reducing/eliminating talk of this being a panache-free win), and barring accident zero drama for him in the week to come.

This is what he needed to do today and he did it in as spectacular a fashion as possible given the opposition.

well we can only wait and see in week 3 of the Tour
and no one was ever going to attack him.....He was the best before the race even began and has won enough stages to show his 'panache'

The target is the Giro/Tour double and not today

only time will tell and I think a 14km alone is alot of energy when you want to do the double against better opposition like Vinge , Rog , Evenepol

 

[perico]

LOL Watching Thomas and Martinez is like watching two puppies fighting over the dinner table scraps while the Big Dog is already taking a nap with a full stomach.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Pogacar lost 10s on that final climb to a 38 year old Thomas.

Ah but GC Thomas is actually several years younger. You just have to write off the first several years of his career to see a normal development pathway, so he's really performing like he's ~32 here.

 

[Poursuivant]

Insane performance

 

[Volderke]

It is one for the ages

Legendary stage and performance in the end

Is this legendary? 30s on granpa Quintana, minutes on great granpa Thomas and the superstar Martinez?

Like the whole year already, efforts are being exaggerated because the competition isn't there.
A good Vingegaard would have easily followed this legendary performance, so with real competition, this stage would have been a close-knit fight and not something heroic / legendary.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Did I blink
or did the cameras
miss Nairo's finish?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Chapeau, Pog! I'm so jealous of him, that kid has it all right now plus he's likeable. (If this was Froome I'd be...,well, not very congratulatory.)

Great job by Nairo also, hopefully this means he still has some racing left in him.

 

[scribers]

Is this legendary? 30s on granpa Quintana, minutes on great granpa Thomas and the superstar Martinez?

Like the whole year already, efforts are being exaggerated because the competition isn't there.
A good Vingegaard would have easily followed this legendary performance, so with real competition, this stage would have been a close-knit fight and not something heroic / legendary.

Vingo never needs to actually race

 

[Froome]

LOL Watching Thomas and Martinez is like watching two puppies fighting over the dinner table scraps while the Big Dog is already taking a nap with a full stomach.

Probably one of the worst fields ever in the Giro(except Pogacar).

 

[Mayomaniac]

I mean, it wasn't the smart thing to do, but at least he's putting on a show.
If this was like last year all the action we'd have seen would have been the final 2kms.

That said, poor Quintana.

 

[Salvarani]

Is this legendary? 30s on granpa Quintana, minutes on great granpa Thomas and the superstar Martinez?

Like the whole year already, efforts are being exaggerated because the competition isn't there.
A good Vingegaard would have easily followed this legendary performance, so with real competition, this stage would have been a close-knit fight and not something heroic / legendary.

Yup it was legendary and a great one

Classic

 

[yaf]

Goat Goat Goat🙌🙌🙌🙌

 

[solo80k]

Impossible to be in trouble when the pace of this stage has been so low, even if it is a stage with 5600 vertical meters.

Well, I was wondering why the early pace isn't high, now we know... OMG, almost 3 minutes to the rest of GC contenders in 12-13 kms, 👽 performance...

 

[ppanther92]

Pogacar lost 10s on that final climb to a 38 year old Thomas.

I still think, and results of the recent years seem to prove it, Thomas is after Pogacar and Vingegaard in the next tier. Maybe Roglic and Evenepoel have a slight edge. But slight (last years Giro?). The next tier with Mas, Hindley, Carapaz I see weaker than Thomas tbh.