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

[Red Rick]

I expect a Leemrijze/Alaphilippe attack on the descent of the Mortirolo

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Rowe saying now Thomas is the most likely rider to attack.

Besides it being Thomas, he‘s also the rider for whom it‘s the least sensible to attack.

 

[Netserk]

Lets see but think Großschartner can potentially go for long time. On the only long hard climb so far (Prati di Tivo), he finished 27th and was in the group of last 15 favourites before handing over to Majka.

But yeah, in general - UAE just doesn't seem to be the team that gets it right on delivering the big team efforts.

Pogi has 6 extra helpers in front of him.

 

[Salvarani]

Doesnt seem they are really thinking about the stage at this point from UAE. Seems calm and controlled at the moment.

On the other hand... 5 minutes can tick away fast in the end if they are done at the front. Still such a long way to go. A lot can still happen.

 

[Netserk]

 

[Tim Cahill]

Rowe saying now Thomas is the most likely rider to attack.

Who could possibly forget Geraint Thomas' legendary assault on yellow on the Hautacam stage

2:23

 

[Valv.Piti]

Bjerg digging very deep in two TTs continues to make no sense. You have a job. And same thing goes for Molano in the sprint

 

[Froome]

Ineos is the most useless team in this race.

 

[Berflamand]

Nice to see the two smaller teams (Bardiani and Polti) lighting up the hardest stage and making the big star-team UAE work hard.

 

[ppanther92]

Ineos is the most useless team in this race.

I guess they get the 2nd on GC with their usual strategy that seems to maximize their results.

 

[KZD]

The break is not going to get caught unless someone takes over. UAE is not strong enough.

 

[Samamba]

And same thing goes for Molano in the sprint

That does absolutely nothing and Molano has done way more than you could expect from him honestly. Just don't take him if you don't want him to sprint.

UAE team is simply not strong enough here, not a surprise, not enough power in the mountains. Like are they really expecting Stake Laengen to come closer to a group full of climbers in front?

 

[ice&fire]

Rowe saying now Thomas is the most likely rider to attack.

He must be as bored and pessimistic as I am

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Ineos is the most useless team in this race.

Ganna??

 

[Red Rick]

Bjerg digging very deep in two TTs continues to make no sense. You have a job. And same thing goes for Molano in the sprint

That was about Olympics qualification

 

[Faserr]

Laengen looks a bit dead

 

[Didinho]

Bjerg digging very deep in two TTs continues to make no sense. You have a job. And same thing goes for Molano in the sprint

Heard they are testing some new/lighter parts on the TT bike. Maybe trying to get as much data in race.
But indeed for today it’s not the smartest to go full gas in the TT the day before this. If it was closer in GC maybe he wouldn’t have dug deep.

 

[Brullnux]

Shame, Tonelli done. He's done a very good job, though. Pellizzari and Scaroni time now, this is proper Giro

 

[Salvarani]

If any team had any ambition, more than finishing second, they would try something.

 

[SafeBet]

Second to Del Toro in last year's Avenir, and we've seen how good Del Toro is. Pellizzari probably isn't as good but he's also at a team which isn't famed for fantastic talent development, and he was great at the Tour of the Alps. So we will probably see his level better next year when goes to WT

He is personally coached by Piepoli though and he's been very professional about both his training and nutrition since last year.
I believe there is still room for improvement anyway.

As for this Giro, he was feeling all right in the first week but then hit a wall (not literally) after the rest day. Don't know if he was sick, like some of his teammates, but certainly wasn't at his normal level. He didn't start the Giro for GC so it was expected he would lose big chunks of time whenever he didn't feel good.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

The break is not going to get caught unless someone takes over. UAE is not strong enough.

Break will also stop when Polti runs out of people

 

[Brullnux]

He is personally coached by Piepoli though and he's been very professional about both his training and nutrition since last year.
I believe there is still room for improvement anyway.

As for this Giro, he was feeling all right in the first week but then hit a wall (not literally) after the rest day. Don't know if he was sick, like some of his teammates, but certainly wasn't at his normal level. He didn't start the Giro for GC so it was expected he would lose big chunks of time whenever he didn't feel good.

I honestly thought it was deliberate to lose time, save energy for the final week where he can win a stage. He's 20 and it's his first GT, so I assumed he was deliberately taking the first two weeks very easy to give him the best chance on stages like today.

 

[Salvarani]

Sheffield done

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Ineos have 2 guys up in GC. Two guys ahead in the break, one of them the ex time trial world champion, and UAE is almost out of helpers. Yet we all know neither Arensman nor Thomas will attack here. And Thomas has the audacity to say Bahrain is "only riding for the podium here and had already given up on the win" lol.

 

[Brullnux]

Ineos have 2 guys up in GC. Two guys ahead in the break, one of them the ex time trial world champion, and UAE is almost out of helpers. Yet we all know neither Arensman nor Thomas will attack here. And Thomas has the audacity to say Bahrain is "only riding for the podium here and had already given up on the win" lol.

Imagine if Bahrain were going for the win vs Pogacar with Tiberi. Would be so delusional lmao