Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 14: Castigliano delle Stiviere – Desenzano del Garda, 31.2k (ITT)

[Brullnux]

19 seconds lost in the final part. I find it likely that he maybe took the foot a little bit off the gas pedal when he realised he couldn't win, also because of tomorrow.

Potentially but Ganna averaged 58kmh in that section - I think Pog was still 2nd in that bit

 

[TourOfSardinia]

TOP Ganna

 

[Red Rick]

19 seconds lost in the final part. I find it likely that he maybe took the foot a little bit off the gas pedal when he realised he couldn't win, also because of tomorrow.

Lol

He just tried to win and couldnt keep it up

 

[KZD]

For sure one of the best TTs in Ganna's career, great win.

Pogačar really good though he faded a little bit in the last part. Still, showing an improvement.

Arensman, Tiberi and O'Connor with really good performances too.

 

[Netserk]

Top-5 in Best of the Rest:

Arensman
Thomas +07"
Tiberi +12"
O'Connor +18"
Martinez +38"

 

[tobydawq]

Lol

He just tried to win and couldnt keep it up

Okay Rick.

 

[Monsi]

19 seconds lost in the final part. I find it likely that he maybe took the foot a little bit off the gas pedal when he realised he couldn't win, also because of tomorrow.

14 seconds lost from T1-T2, 19 seconds lost from T2 to the finish. Ganna just bossed that part of the TT.

 

[Salvarani]

Lol

He just tried to win and couldnt keep it up

Lol

He increased the gap overall to over 3 minutes, jokes on you.

 

[Tim Cahill]

A great performance from Pogacar on a flatish tt, despite some of the more lofty pronouncements on here a while ago that he would take 30 seconds on Ganna.

 

[Savant12]

Top Ganna wins "Best Picture" ahead of Pogenheimer.

 

[Brullnux]

Lol

He just tried to win and couldnt keep it up

Agree, I think Pogacar went very hard in the first part to gain as much as possible as it suited him more, with the risk he'd fade later. Ganna meanwhile properly negative split it, and made up ground where he is best.

 

[Netserk]

19 seconds lost in the final part. I find it likely that he maybe took the foot a little bit off the gas pedal when he realised he couldn't win, also because of tomorrow.

He was second fastest in the fastest part of the route, despite not having as big a gear as the Ineos riders.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Fortunato being still in the gc top 10 after 2 mid length tts is the biggest surprise so far, compared to pre-race expectations.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Big for Ganna.
Bigger win for Pogacar.

 

[Monsi]

Agree, I think Pogacar went very hard in the first part to gain as much as possible as it suited him more, with the risk he'd fade later. Ganna meanwhile properly negative split it, and made up ground where he is best.

That first part was the one that suited Pogacar more anyway. I wasn't surprised that Pogi was ahead of Ganna at the first TT. And of course Ganna was always gonna take massive time on the part that suited him more.

 

[dgodave]

Good outcome.

 

[Brullnux]

I think Pogacar confirms it there, "what did you do in the final".

 

[memyselfandI]

Surprisingly well Thomas against Martinez. It's crazy how little Pogi lost against heavy supertrackie tt-specialist.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Fortunato being still in the gc top 10 after 2 mid length tts is the biggest surprise so far, compared to pre-race expectations.

Biggest surprise is how Arensman can be in 6th when having a fraud of a trainer even bigger than San Millán!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Just kidding

 

[Sciatic]

Ha! Stars Wars graphics on Processo alla Tappa

 

[movingtarget]

O'Connor should be happy with that. Battle for second and third still looks poised to go down to the final mountain stage. Bardet had an off day.. If it wasn't for the fall Ineos would have had four in the top five.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Congrats to Ganna on a superb performance. Also congrats to Pog on a very good TT - as I expected he lost under 30 seconds. He and Ganna had the same time around halfway but then Ganna's engine prevailed in the fastest part of the course. It's also possible that Pog actually did a positive split strategy here to maximize his gains in the hillier section (or did it unintentionally) and lacked a bit at the end.

Anyway, Pog put substantial time into GC guys again and his advantage is approaching 4 minutes already. It seems he's almost won the Giro thanks to TTs alone and no big efforts in the mountains are needed. But oh boy, he looks really thin. I don't doubt he could demolish opposition on climbs with todays performance (that rivalled Filippo the Tank Engine for most of this quite fast TT).

 

[Mayomaniac]

Dani Martinez actually finished ok after a slow start. At the beginning it looked like an off day.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Ganna - got the job done. G not as good as he would probably like, but is now 2nd on GC. We'll see tomorrow who went too deep or gets hit by the drop in temperature.