Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 11: Foiano di Val Fortore – Francavilla al Mare, 207.0k

[QueenStagiaire]

Those Italian teams look weird.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Good to see some of the lesser teams getting a bit of TV time

 

[yaco]

Bet Simon Clarke and Di Marchi are wishing they hadn't wasted all that energy yesterday right about now

I posted testerday that De Marche had to wait for stage 12 and 13. Stage 10 dinnt suit his characteristics and today is a sprint day.

 

[tobydawq]

Good to see some of the lesser teams getting a bit of TV time

I don't know about lesser, Cofidis is the team with the most wins in pro cycling the past week.

 

[Rob5091]

A sharp right turn then another onto the finishing straight BUT just before 3 km to go, so if anything happens there, guys will lose time.

 

[Netserk]

Cian admits to the Pogi sniffles and more have it apparently
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...t-giro-summit-finish-i-hope-it-wont-get-worse
"Things are going around in the peloton, so I hope it won't get worse."
We might well see a few more DNS then.

If Pogi gets similarly ill, he will likely also abandon to prepare for the Tour.

 

[Rob5091]

207 km today and for the guys suffering it's going to be a long day in the saddle.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It might be better for the break to knock off the pace a bit to try and incentivise more people bridging on the cat 3

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Visma bouncing back (2 in the break) from Cian's DNS

 

[Peyroteo94]

If Pogi gets similarly ill, he will likely also abandon to prepare for the Tour.

Pogi said he is feeling better. He got a cold last week and still won 2 stages. He will be fine.

 

[Rackham]

If Pogi gets similarly ill, he will likely also abandon to prepare for the Tour.

I don't think anyone would throw away a certain Giro victory just to prepare for the Tour. Not even Pogačar.

He'll see this one through until the end no matter what IMO.

 

[topcat]

If Pogi gets similarly ill, he will likely also abandon to prepare for the Tour.

And can we have a race then or will G stifle it?
Also nice to see Cian's dns has given Wisma a lift-all out attacking racing. I'm back from Vancouver-I don't know how the forum survived without me.
Vancouver on a shoestring:
As I bid adieu to beautiful British Columbia, it would be remiss of me if I didn't thank all the kind people who made my visit so complete. To the fledgling couple (love's young dream) who hosted me, I say a big thank you. To the city of Vancouver that gave me such a warm welcome, I am forever in your debt. This is not goodbye, it is more a "see youse later". We'll meet again, I don't know when but Vancouver is indelibly in my heart.

 

[Netserk]

I don't think anyone would throw away a certain Giro victory just to prepare for the Tour. Not even Pogačar.

He'll see this one through until the end no matter what IMO.

Depending on how ill he'd get, it wouldn't necessarily be a certain victory.

 

[Potomac]

Thank you, Daniel Oss.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Uh oh, Milan looks like he's had enough of UAE, handbags!!!

Enjoying some of the ill-feeling developing in the peloton at the moment, hopefully we are treated to a decent punch-up out on the road before the end, really spice things up a bit.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Luckily we get this report on Mauro Vegni sitting around eating *** eggs in his car.

 

[saunaking]

Chad is out with the sniffles. But people think Jonas can do something in the tour

 

[scribers]

And can we have a race then or will G stifle it?
Also nice to see Cian's dns has given Wisma a lift-all out attacking racing. I'm back from Vancouver-I don't know how the forum survived without me.
Vancouver on a shoestring:
As I bid adieu to beautiful British Columbia, it would be remiss of me if I didn't thank all the kind people who made my visit so complete. To the fledgling couple (love's young dream) who hosted me, I say a big thank you. To the city of Vancouver that gave me such a warm welcome, I am forever in your debt. This is not goodbye, it is more a "see youse later". We'll meet again, I don't know when but Vancouver is indelibly in my heart.

I hope this means the the Canucks will beat Edmonton! I’m very superstitious like that

 

[scribers]

Looks windy

 

[Potomac]

I know a lot of people don't like him, but this broadcast today needs Vaughters because whoever talking now is soporific

 

[scribers]

I think vaughters is quite good on broadcast

 

[QueenStagiaire]

My goodness, the German commentators still haven‘t understood the rules of the points classification.

 

[Rob5091]

Toon Cruyt, team doctor at QS dismisses talk of raging pandemic in the Giro peloton, but says to Sporza,
QS have had a guy down with bronchitis but "fortunately he responded well to the antibiotics."
https://sporza.be/nl/2024/05/14/plo...een-virus-rondwaart-in-peloton~1715690197051/

English googling translation at https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-tired-youre-just-more-susceptible-to-illness

 

[Sciatic]

Anyone care to interpret Ganna there?

 

[Sciatic]

Toon Cruyt, team doctor at QS dismisses talk of raging pandemic in the Giro peloton, but says to Sporza,
QS have had a guy down with bronchitis but "fortunately he responded well to the antibiotics."
https://sporza.be/nl/2024/05/14/plo...een-virus-rondwaart-in-peloton~1715690197051/

English googling translation at https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-tired-youre-just-more-susceptible-to-illness

I guess we’re forever fated to people using “pandemic” for every instance of illness going around.