Giro d'Italia 2020, stage 9: San Salvo – Roccaraso 208 km

[Black Betsy]

You forgot that there is also a round of UEFA Nations League tomorrow

This says a lot 'bout football...

Btw, PGA tour in Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and PGA champions tour in SAS Championship are quite thrilling coming the final day!

 

[Oliver]

Haig time today. I fear not much will happen today GC wise but I really hope there will be some action....

 

[RedheadDane]

and that on the day which could see three Danes winning those three races...

He's no longer Danish. I took away his citizenship a while back.
And it looks like we're gonna have to take away his cycling fan credentials as well; picking tennis over cycling?!

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Whoever wins this GT needs to hide the Trophy behind a curtain if ever they get guests round to visit and pretend they were never there.

Carapaz was obviously helped by the theatrics of Nibali and Roglic but I thought an organized Movistar rode that race well which was more unusual. Roglic had peaked too early as many suspected and also had a crash that may have effected him, Lopez had his usual issues. I still think Nibali would have had trouble dropping Carapaz who was in great form. It will be a bigger fail if he loses this race or at least doesn't finish in the top two. Two of his biggest rivals are gone already and he is up against who ? None of the others have won a grand tour, only SK has been close. Obviously he isn't prime Nibali and he hasn't won a grand tour since 2016. The TTs should be interesting as the mountain stages may not decide it and there isn't a dominant team.

His biggest hurdle in the third week could be aging legs. He will be 36 next month. that always counts in grand tours as the record books show.

How can anyone put those 2 words together!

 

[Red Rick]

Whoever wins this GT needs to hide the Trophy behind a curtain if ever they get guests round to visit and pretend they were never there.


How can anyone put those 2 words together!

How to organize Movistar:

No Free Landa

 

[Rollthedice]

How to organize Movistar:

No Free Landa

Sciandri was the DS in last year's Giro. Made some good calls.

 

[Rollthedice]

Already raining at the start, 7 degrees Celsius expected at the finish.

 

[SafeBet]

Ganna among the most active to get in the break. Won't lose the blue jersey without a fight.

 

[Eclipse]

Bunch not letting anyone go easily it seems

 

[Red Rick]

Guys can we take a moment to cry about Roccaraso getting the Cat 1?

 

[SafeBet]

Ganna, Cataldo, Chirico and Frankiny have a 40 seconds gap on the bunch.

 

[Salvarani]

Rain... lo squalo time

 

[SafeBet]

The 4 riders in front have been caught. Still no break.

 

[Gigs_98]

Guys can we take a moment to cry about Roccaraso getting the Cat 1?

It's so weird that the Giro makes climbs first category which would be 2nd category in the Tour, but then let's 1st category climbs from the Tour entirely uncategorized.

 

[sir fly]

Where's the broadcast?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Where's the broadcast?

RaiSport in exclusive

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Holmes, Pellaud + ?

 

[Netserk]

Brambilla should infiltrate the breakaway.

 

[TommyPlus]

Holmes, Pellaud + ?

ČERNÝ

 

[SafeBet]

Brambilla should infiltrate the breakaway.

From what I could see Bernard was the Trek rider trying.

 

[ciranda]

and that on the day which could see three Danes winning those three races...

Stage win and pink sweater for Jakob. He and Nibali reconcile and tear up in front of the cameras. You can borrow some trophies if you want, Nibali says.

SKA in front in Paris-Tours but has four punctures. Casper Pedersen wins instead and Søren gets twenty percent more worked up before Flanders than he already was.

Gent-Wevelgem: all cycloxcross riders can't start because they have to attend a course in learning how to jump over tiny fences. Mads gets it easily.

 

[RedheadDane]

Guys can we take a moment to cry about Roccaraso getting the Cat 1?

I have long since given up trying to find any sort of logic to the categorisation of climbs.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stage win and pink sweater for Jakob. He and Nibali reconcile and tear up in front of the cameras. You can borrow some trophies if you want, Nibali says.

SKA in front in Paris-Tours but has four punctures. Casper Pedersen wins instead and Søren gets twenty percent more worked up before Flanders than he already was.

Gent-Wevelgem: all cycloxcross riders can't start because they havet to attend a course in learning how to jump over tiny fences. Mads gets it easily.

Not cool, dude. Spoiler alert!

I don't want to watch neither tennis nor MotoGP.
Well I'll just have to spend the day looking through the old family album then.

 

[roundabout]

Guys can we take a moment to cry about Roccaraso getting the Cat 1?

cat 2s are overcategorized as well. one can even make and argument that Passo Lanciano historically would not have been cat 1

 

[WKA311]

the shark attacked?