Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 6, Torre del Lago Puccini (Viareggio) – Rapolano Terme, 180km

[Tim Cahill]

I'm all for a gravel stage in the tour but it should be one of those 14 hour night-stages too, riding in the dark is part of the skill of cycling and adds to the heritage of our great sport.

 

[Sciatic]

splits in the peleton but I dont think sokmething will come out of it. Ineos just at the front to avoid crashes not to keep pushing.

They’ve taken back a minute on the break so it seems like they are pushing for more than that?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Very weird that Ineos are continuing to pull now after being content to give the break 1.5 additional minutes after the penultimate sector.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

They’ve taken back a minute on the break so it seems like they are pushing for more than that?

They were maybe just pushing hard because speed is good on gravel. And maybe to loose an opponent, if things go well. They're loosing time now again, so that might just be it.

Edit: nope gaining time. They are in attack distance for Pogacar on that last climb.
Edit 2: now it's more than a minute again. So let's see.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Ala struggling now

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Pelayo Sánchez needs a crash course on the working of roundabouts.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Lmao Ala

 

[Salvarani]

Ala couldnt close it, done

 

[Netserk]

Beautiful, fantastic to see Plapp like this.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Alaphilippe's past 2.5 years in a nutshell.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Alaphillipe right up his backside

 

[Sciatic]

Lmao Ala

Wasn’t his fault?

 

[Salvarani]

Sanchez strong!

Ala back

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Funny breakaway dynamics.

 

[Netserk]

Ah, too early. I hoped it was a done deal.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ah, too early. I hoped it was a done deal.

Pelayo Mayo bringing back the Aladonkey...

 

[Red Rick]

Surely positioning battle for the final hill will doom the breakaway now

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Wasn’t his fault?

He is the weakest of the three

 

[Unchained]

As a person never holding a professional racing license, it's always awesome to see how pros work really really hard together for the breakaway to work and wait until @3-400 meters to play games about who will win..Amateur racers play games the first 3-800 meters of the breakaway almost always ensuring it won't work!!! Nobody wants to work!!!

 

[Salvarani]

They look pretty spent in the break

But peloton not riding very fast, yet

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Similar to Grace Brown in LBL, Dirty Sánchez is destined to win now.

 

[Tim Cahill]

The french go-compare man looks good for this, that 20% ramp suits him down to the ground

 

[ontheroad]

Looks good for the break now.

 

[scribers]

Ineos doing a lot of work

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pretty good stage considering the low amount of gravel sectors