Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2021 stage 16: Sacile - Cortina d'Ampezzo 212km

[Lequack]

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[Netserk]

There was probably a lot of pressure to race it because they had already canceled the stage one year earlier.
I also get why ASO shortened the Tignes stage in 2019, when landslides and hailstorms happen during a race you have to react quickly.

Yes, Tignes was a clear cut force majeure (although from what I gathered, the mudslide was on the lower slopes on the ascent to Tignes, which could be skipped if they took the route of 2007).

 

[Jagartrott]

Just for reference. Sometimes it's better to be wrongly wrong 100 times than rightly wrong once...
China ultramarathon: Severe weather kills 21 runners

There is no extreme weather protocol in place today. The risk of thunderstorms and hail is approximately zero, the risk of snow on the road as well. So your comparison makes no sense.

 

[roundabout]

Riders agreeing to what the organisers decide =/= riders have complained and made ethe organisers change the stage lol...

It's a short quote, but let's still skip the part that doesn't suit your argument

 

[Red Rick]

Disgusted at the amount of people defending the cancellations on other media tbh.

It's all the same, pathetic, predictable holier than thou ***.

 

[RedheadDane]

They're racing! Some riders attacking, I... can't tell you who, coz the weather's ***, and the camera moto doesn't want to be told he's too close.

 

[BlueRoads]

I really don't need gladiators, but obviously this is not happening due to danger but just because some don't feel like doing it. And then they don't even come out?

Which reason would the organizers have to cut the stage against the rider's will? Absolutely none. (Apart from the possibility they won't have pictures and want to hide that...)

 

[Nirvana]

Here people always dreams about a rainy Roubaix but with these pussies of riders you should thank god every time it doesn't happen because would be a cutfest with the excuse of muddy and/or submerged sectors. In recent years they needed multiple times extensive extra cleaning of some sectors on friday/saturday for the mud and wasn't raining since the week before, with rain on the race day we'll be lucky to see one third of the sectors actually ridden...

 

[topcat]

What is two steps below a Queen stage? A Horse stage? .

Pantani 98 TdF and Hampsten 88 Giro surely won in far worse conditions?

Yes, very revealing.

Are they racing the descent of Giau?

 

[luckyboy]

It's a short quote, but let's still skip the part that doesn't suit your argument

You're just deluding yourself if you think that quote is evidence that the riders have protested or complained when literally everyone is saying they haven't.

 

[SafeBet]

Lol weatherman on RAI just said the worst conditions are expected on Giau. Close to 0 degrees, can't rule out snow on top of it...
Great decision!

 

[Red Rick]

Lol weatherman on RAI just said the worst conditions are expected on Giau. Close to 0 degrees, can't rule out snow on top of it...
Great decision!

Just go straight to Cortina then.

Sagan hasn't won a big mountain stage in too lol

 

[roundabout]

You're just deluding yourself if you think that quote is evidence that the riders have protested or complained when literally everyone is saying they haven't.

ok, i'm deluding myself, but what do you think the riders have given up if they all wanted to do the original stage

i'm all eyes, fire away

 

[gregrowlerson]

I want to vote "meh, medium mountain stage on Zomegnan scale" now.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yes, Tignes was a clear cut force majeure (although from what I gathered, the mudslide was on the lower slopes on the ascent to Tignes, which could be skipped if they took the route of 2007).

Yes, but when something like that happens during a race I'm willing to cut the race organizers some slack.
Back to the race, they are using this one right before the Giau:

 

[RedheadDane]

Vervaerke with a bit of a gap.
Some chasing behind. I think an Israel rider, and... someone else.

 

[Fantastico]

You're just deluding yourself if you think that quote is evidence that the riders have protested or complained when literally everyone is saying they haven't.

I mean some riders say they haven't, but not all have made a statement. Vegni's comment and CPA justifying the cancellations, indeed imply that at least some riders must have been involved.

 

[Netserk]

You're just deluding yourself if you think that quote is evidence that the riders have protested or complained when literally everyone is saying they haven't.

Say that to Matti Breschel, DS of EF. It was pretty obvious that it was on the initiative of the riders.

 

[Kangaridoo]

Just go straight to Cortina then.

Sagan hasn't won a big mountain stage in too lol

Yes! Sagan should finally get his Queen stage!

 

[RedheadDane]

De Gendt out?

 

[Poursuivant]

Everyone waiting for that first mountain

 

[Bolder]

I understand decisions like this, to a point, but would say only that yesterday's easy, flat stage led to the worst carnage so far, in terms of injuries. The thing that somewhat bugs me is that every apparel company is touting miracle fabrics that will keep you warm and dry in even the worst weather... So isn't this a perfect chance to prove it?

 

[Netserk]

Yes, but when something like that happens during a race I'm willing to cut the race organizers some slack.

Agreed, it's not like you can re-route the stage fifteen minutes before they get there. And I was totally okay with that at the time too, just like yesterday's neutralisation. This is something entirely else.

 

[Skalman]

Is Almeida in the break yet?

 

[RedheadDane]

Vervaerke still with a gap.
An attempt at an attack by a Bardiani rider. Looks like it was caught.