Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2025, Stage 12, Modena-Viadana, 172 km

[movingtarget]

Groves v Pedersen ?

 

[Laplaz]

That turn with 400 m to go looks horrible:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qJHhsYtDfRPrxBGFA?g_st=ac

 

[Berniece]

Groves v Pedersen ?

More like Groves v Kooij?

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Harry Kane won his first trophy this year, Tottenham won their first major trophy in ages, the NBA will have a champion that has never won it or hasn't won it since about 50 years...
... so if ever there was a time for a brutal Echelon stage in the Giro it's now! I'm officially a believer today!

 

[CyclistAbi]

So if the opportunity knocks, does del Toro set up Ayuso, for potential bonus seconds, or sprints for himself?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Big fan of some cycling media finally picking up on how dangerous this finish is three weeks after I talked about it in the stage-by-stage analysis. The entire ecosystem is so broken - RCS should never have designed this finish, the UCI should never have approved it, and the riders/CPA should have complained (in the media if they had done so internally and RCS weren't listening) ages ago.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

That turn with 400 m to go looks horrible:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qJHhsYtDfRPrxBGFA?g_st=ac

I'm hoping the peloton will be sufficiently informed and alert and will handle it like pros... I think it's mostly when they are ill informed and unaware of the upcoming dangers that they crash.

 

[topcat]

Big fan of some cycling media finally picking up on how dangerous this finish is three weeks after I talked about it in the stage-by-stage analysis. The entire ecosystem is so broken - RCS should never have designed this finish, the UCI should never have approved it, and the riders/CPA should have complained (in the media if they had done so internally and RCS weren't listening) ages ago.

I think we need to stress-test this finish. What's the worst case scenario? After a day of no echelons, a full peloton hits the turn at warp speed and 170 riders go down and dnf. The lone survivor Fuglsang finishes, and struggles through the remaining stages and gets the Trofeo Senza Fine.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The riders should just agree not to start racing until after the corner.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think we need to stress-test this finish. What's the worst case scenario? After a day of no echelons, a full peloton hits the turn at warp speed and 170 riders go down and dnf. The lone survivor Fuglsang finishes, and struggles through the remaining stages and gets the Trofeo Senza Fine.

That sounds like a nightmare. Especially for Fuglsang who would no longer be able to chill in the Froometto.

 

[topcat]

That sounds like a nightmare. Especially for Fuglsang who would no longer be able to chill in the Froometto.

A win is a win.

 

[gregrowlerson]

A win is a win.

Sounds like a quote taken from the Don Vino himself.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

That turn with 400 m to go looks horrible:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qJHhsYtDfRPrxBGFA?g_st=ac

WTF, that looks like a *** horrible idea.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

90 degree turns just aint enough at the giro. Gotta make it closer to 180.
Anyway maybe Corbin Strong can get a result.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Let's hope that they have at least taken out the stop signs and the street light. Even if they have removed the raised island entirely, it is far too sharp a corner for that late.

Whatever happened to the Case Management Committee which "meets weekly to review race incidents, anticipate issues for upcoming races and conduct safety audits of teams and races"?

I wonder if anyone will claim that the rce finishes on a loop, so they will have seen it: the circuit starts on this corner: only the stretch that will be the last 375m (if this is at 400m) will be run twice.

 

[noob]

Anyone else have buffering eurosport? :O

I get no nothing, I'm going crazy here! I hate streaming television

 

[Heston]

Anyone else have buffering eurosport? :O

I get no nothing, I'm going crazy here!

Working fine on Max here.

 

[tobydawq]

Crap, Brian Holm makes his entrance in the commentary booth.

 

[noob]

Working fine on Max here.

Then it was probably my internet. After buffring for 10 minutes now it's working

Edit: very unstable. Maybe I should just restart it

 

[Heston]

No one wants to go in the break

 

[ice&fire]

It's obvious that everyone with a word to say on the route design must have thought that a sprint at the end of a 2km long straight road is far more dangerous than that narrow silly corner.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

and we have a trio of italians in the break.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It's obvious that everyone with a word to say on the route design must have thought that a sprint at the end of a 2km long straight road is far more dangerous than that narrow silly corner.

The problem is that the route into that corner is already kilometres of uninterrupted straight road.

 

[movingtarget]

A win is a win.

Simon Gerrans concurs.........

 

[movingtarget]

No one wants to go in the break

Even the break need a break.