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

[Samamba]

Ewan is so washed

Dude made everyone think it was just the bad Lotto train, but it's pretty obvious now he just gives bad instructions. It's the same problem as with Lotto, his teams in at the front waaaay to early and then he gets swamped and pushed away.

 

[tobydawq]

Not a bad move?? he was sitting in the middle and went half a block to the right when he saw Molano coming

Yes, I deleted the comment. I thought Merlier had been closer to the barrier at the moment when he launched, then I watched it again.

 

[Salvarani]

I saw pogi just marking getaint and not much more

Yeah, and staying in the front to avoid crashes like GC guys has done for +20 years now.

But it is Pog. Must find a reason to complain.

 

[RedheadDane]

Jakobsen down with 1x DSM, Arkea, IWG rider, theyre up though

According to the feltet.dk live-update, it was Mikhels having a touch-of-wheels with Aniolkowski, and then hitting Jakobsen and Lund.

I was gonna use Google translate, but... this happened:

Mihkels comes up to ride Aniolkowski and smokes directly over Lund and Jakobsen, who both smoke down. At the same time, they destroy the spirit of Dainese and Ballerini.

 

[Wvv]

Not a bad move?? he was sitting in the middle and went half a block to the right when he saw Molano coming

He was still in front of Molano when he went to the side. Much riskier moves occur in the kilometres running up to the sprint. Stop searching for relegations in every move. #jesuisMatthews

 

[Scarponi]

Dude made everyone think it was just the bad Lotto train, but it's pretty obvious now he just gives bad instructions. It's the same problem as with Lotto, his teams in at the front waaaay to early and then he gets swamped and pushed away.

Was in first 5 for literal kms and as usual unsighted at end

 

[Netserk]

Ineos was in the way of the sprinters far after the 3 km to go. Especially Narvaez disturbed the sprinters in a very unnecessary way.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Dude made everyone think it was just the bad Lotto train, but it's pretty obvious now he just gives bad instructions. It's the same problem as with Lotto, his teams in at the front waaaay to early and then he gets swamped and pushed away.

This, the guy has Mezgec and Walscheid, a potential world class leadout, at his disposal and still blames them...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ineos was in the way of the sprinters far after the 3 km to go. Especially Narvaez disturbed the sprinters in a very unnecessary way.

Has been like that since the Sky days....

 

[tobydawq]

Has been like that since the Sky days....

Yes, but in this headwind, the sprinter teams were probably not interested in getting too early to the front (like Jayco did).

 

[Berflamand]

That cycling path was where the opening stage of last year's race was ridden.

I'm surprised the cycling path is already back in a good state after the demolition job Remco did on it last year.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Chapeau Milan, gave a nice interview.

 

[search]

Merlier was relegated. Groves 2nd, Lonardi 3rd, as just shown on Rai

 

[SHAD0W93]

Dude made everyone think it was just the bad Lotto train, but it's pretty obvious now he just gives bad instructions. It's the same problem as with Lotto, his teams in at the front waaaay to early and then he gets swamped and pushed away.

It’s like 2013-2015 Quickstep with Cavendish and they’d always get overrun by Lotto and Shimano.

 

[RedheadDane]

It’s like 2013-2015 Quickstep with Cavendish and they’d always get overrun by Lotto and Shimano.

With one difference:
Cavendish got wins.

 

[SHAD0W93]

With one difference:
Cavendish got wins.

True but maybe could have gotten more if they didn’t get overrun a lot of the time. You’d think someone would tell Ewan to stop his yapping and just follow the leadout. I wonder where he’ll be off to end of the year if Jayco try moving on.

 

[Wvv]

Merlier was relegated. Groves 2nd, Lonardi 3rd, as just shown on Rai

Ridiculous. It wasn't that nasty a move. They are too soft recently.

 

[tobydawq]

Ridiculous. It wasn't that nasty a move. They are too soft recently.

Yes it was, and it was completely unnecessary.

 

[yaco]

His head's gone when it comes to big, even slightly hectic bunch sprints. Just doesn't seem to want to get involved, which is a shame as pretty sure he's still got the speed?

Mezgec had Ewan perfectly placed in the middle of the peleton BUT when he accelerated, Ewan dropped the wheel - Did post, how I wondered how he would go after his first serious crash in the 2021 TDF when he broke his collarbone. he has not been the same rider since. Even in stage nine he was perfectly placed on Milan's wheel and was too easily pushed off by Kooij.

 

[yaco]

True but maybe could have gotten more if they didn’t get overrun a lot of the time. You’d think someone would tell Ewan to stop his yapping and just follow the leadout. I wonder where he’ll be off to end of the year if Jayco try moving on.

A strong chance that Ewan will retire.

 

[movingtarget]

Ewan isn't prepared to take the risks he used to take it seems and just seems to give up if he doesn't get a clean sprint. From the overhead it looked like a rough sprint and few riders got chopped out and had to stop pedaling on the right hand side. Judging by his jersey Jakobsen landed on his back in the fall but no doubts who is the best sprinter at the moment in this race.. Another well taken victory.

 

[movingtarget]

A strong chance that Ewan will retire.

There are no signs of turning it around at the moment. Think he's had one top 10 finish in this race. Three years since he's had a grand tour stage win. Meanwhile the almost retired Michael Matthews is getting podiums in monuments............

 

[postmanhat]

Looks like Lopez lost a minute today. Anyone know what happened?

 

[RedheadDane]

Seems it was Biermans who was involved in the... smoke crash...

148	MIHKELS Madis	Intermarché - Wanty				0:00
149	BIERMANS Jenthe	Arkéa - B&B Hotels				,,
150	ANDRESEN Tobias Lund	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL				,,
151	JAKOBSEN Fabio	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL				,,

 

[Samamba]

True but maybe could have gotten more if they didn’t get overrun a lot of the time. You’d think someone would tell Ewan to stop his yapping and just follow the leadout. I wonder where he’ll be off to end of the year if Jayco try moving on.

Just watched a replay and you could've given him the best lead out ever he wouldn't have made it into the top 5. God he's gotten slow, even worse than last season. Good luck with that Jayco, it's like he's already retired.