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

[Rackham]

Somewhere in Ecuador there's a riot happening right now.

Good decision though. It's not about the time loss (or gain), it's about the precedent the rule creates whereby all GC leaders, their teammates, sprinters + their teammates would be racing to the line in a sprint stage.

Aka deliriously dumb - especially after there's already been a crash in the bunch.

 

[Netserk]

Somewhere in Ecuador there's a riot happening right now.

Good decision though. It's not about the time loss (or gain), it's about the precedent the rule creates whereby all GC leaders, their teammates, sprinters + their teammates would be racing to the line in a sprint stage.

Aka deliriously dumb - especially after there's already been a crash in the bunch.

Bad rules must give bad results. They wanted to change a completely fine rule, then they better own the result of that change.

 

[Red Rick]

Letting this stand woudl have been the greatest injustice in cycling since the disqualification of Vincenzo Nibali from the 2015 Vuelta a España.

 

[Rackham]

Bad rules must give bad results. They wanted to change a completely fine rule, then they better own the result of that change.

I'm detecting some real Dark Knight "some men just want to watch the world burn" vibes with this post.

 

[Gigs_98]

Just came home from work, when are the echelons starting?

 

[Red Rick]

Just came home from work, when are the echelons starting?

There were echelons in the last 2km but because a Polti rider crashed the gaps were all neutralized.

 

[staubsauger]

Richard Carapaz is quite simply the greatest rider in the world

Not Mirco Pantini?

 

[search]

Bad rules must give bad results. They wanted to change a completely fine rule, then they better own the result of that change.

to be fair, the new rules says "fall involving several riders", not that more than one needs to go down. The guy almost hit by Munoz' (?) bike was certainly involved in it, for example.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Today wouldn't be the day to do it, but sometime, just to give the riders a warning against complacency, they should apply strictly the clause:

will of remaining with the riders in whose company he was riding at the moment of the
incident.

I do not believe that it is the intention of the rule to legitimise soft-pedalling of the last 2km by half the field, because of something that need not have made much difference at all them. We have all seen how quickly and effectively the peloton can pass a fallen rider any farther than 3 km from home.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Olav Kooij for winning the sprint and a nice leadout effort done by van Aert.

This is on how sprint stages will likely look like in the future, GC times taken some km before the finish line, to reduce the initiative for GC riders and teams to be there, at the finish line, sprinters to take over. As for that rule they made just because of Rogla and now basically admitting they were just wasting everybody time, sometimes i guess you need to waste a bit of effort, to realise you are acting wonky.

 

[tobydawq]

I didn't expect there to be a grand total of one leadout man left with 600 metres to go. That was an uncharacteristically awful job by most teams, all too scared of going too late so they all went too early.

On the plus side, that did limit the speed going into the final corner...

For what it's worth, the corner being so sharp means that the speed would in any case be quite low in the event of a crash there. I agree it wasn't ideally planned and that we probably got as lucky as we could get with one rider crashing early causing the bunch to stretch, but I don't think it was as dangerous as you made it out to be. If it had been sloping downhill toward the bend, that would have been something else entirely.

 

[tobydawq]

I think he might have been referring to the strength he showed, rather than the result. Wout does seem to be coming into his legs right now, which is nice to see.

Nice to see him remembrering he is Wout *** van Aert

So doing a leadout is now better than basically winning Strade Bianche (sans Pog)?

 

[KZD]

Great leadout from Van Aert to deliver Kooij to the win.

Love to see Del Toro with this attacking mindset and taking another 2 bonus seconds.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Carapaz and Gee got absolutely robbed here. Haven't seen a bigger disgrace since Fuglsang got scammed out of a deserved Amstel 2019 win.
Looks like the jury is so intimidated these days by the army of Slovenian Klöden fans that they're just giving him the most preferable outcome possible no matter what.

 

[Gratemans]

Fuglsang got scammed out of a deserved Amstel 2019 win.

Lolwut?

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

No

So doing a leadout is now better than basically winning Strade Bianche (sans Pog)?

No, it was just nice to see him flex some strength.