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

[Baldinger]

Cba with the Giro if Yates is out

BikeExchange is riding in formation just behind Ineos in the peloton.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Practically, we're getting half of the original stage broadcast.

And we’ll probably lose pictures when they start climbing Giau anyway.

 

[Red Rick]

Now that we were having live pictures again obviously eurosport showing 10extrachannel from the roland garros showing nothing because it is raining in paris as well. Shocking day so far

Roland Garros isn't even starting this week.

 

[Rollthedice]

Ghebrezgabier there and not Brambi in the front group?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

We had a weekend where Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig won a World Tour race and a rider won a mountainous one-day race with a 90km solo (for Euskaltel, no less), and I was kind of thinking all was right with the world.

And then this.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Oh yes, the always great live images from the finish....

Why does it have to rain today. Shortened stage and suspect coverage

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali going brrrrrrrrr on descent

 

[Red Rick]

Puccio without the leg warmers. Another clue it's all Vegni watering the cameras

 

[Giro1914]

Roland Garros isn't even starting this week.

It is the bloody day one of qualifying

 

[Eyeballs Out]

The official site is saying that the first climb was a Cat 2 and not a Cat 1 as it was depicted on both the original and amended profiles (so Bouchard only got 18 pts instead of 40).

Who knows really ? Just keep making it up on the fly

 

[Valv.Piti]

I understand why they had to cancel two passes, this looks like your average day in Denmark and thats very unpleasant. Nobody wants to ride in that kind of weather apart from Mads Pedersen and Alexander Kristoff, totally reasonable, trust.

 

[Bolder]

On the plus side, I doubt we'd have seen both Nibali and Almeida in a break today if the stage was run in full...

 

[Giro1914]

Ghebrezgabier there and not Brambi in the front group?

And that is very good for Vince. Brambilla would have not given everything

 

[topcat]

Today is a day where I'm hoping they give the breakaway 15 minutes

 

[Libertine Seguros]

This can only be salvaged with a compulsory Fedaia MTT next year, broadcast from the very start, with Mauro Vegni paying out of his own pocket to mend the road through the Serrai di Sottoguda if need be. Regardless of whose fault it is. He can take some money from Acquarone who also ignored it for years too if he wishes.

 

[Volderke]

A stage this short could have cameras at fixed positions in order to cover the whole stage, no?

 

[Tim Cahill]

We now pan to a shot of Caleb Ewan and his lotto teammates dancing on a Brazillian beach somewhere laughing their heads off.

 

[sir fly]

Misplaced rest day.
Nap weather.

 

[Red Rick]

On the plus side, I doubt we'd have seen both Nibali and Almeida in a break today if the stage was run in full...

Nah they would've tried as well

The cancellations actually greatly reduce the chance of the break succeeding.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Today is a day where I'm hoping they give the breakaway 15 minutes

See, chances of the happening are kinda slim since THERE ARE NO MOUNTAINS. Imagine this start with Fedaia and Pordoi, complete carnage.

 

[Red Rick]

Oh ffs, guy can't catch a break.

Look what I found

 

[Valv.Piti]

I cannot describe my hatred towards Vegni and these little shitters we for some reason call professional bike riders. This is not a *** +60 y/o sportif you fucktards.

 

[pvieira91]

The front group has quite strong riders. Can they actually win this?

 

[Red Rick]

See, chances of the happening are kinda slim since THERE ARE NO MOUNTAINS. Imagine this start with Fedaia and Pordoi, complete carnage.

What's especially importnat is there would be no Puccio and Ganna before Giau, and even Moscon and Narvaez would probably struggle to contain a breakaway very well.

 

[BlueRoads]

Let's face it, if the only live picture you will get from now on is seeing Nibali cross the finish line first 60% of the forum will say this was the best GT stage in three years and nothing could have been done better.