Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2023, stage 15: Seregno - Bergamo 195 km

[Netserk]

That was it. Healy is a monster. It's insane actually. Now he's also a climber.

I'm not going to lie, I'm usually pretty good at knowing which young riders are going to be good, but I never saw this in Healy. A really good attacker sure (some of the solo's he was doing at u23 level were already insane), but first the Ardennes, now this. Dude has been in superform for 2 months straight.

It was discussed before the Giro to what degree his improvement on hills translated to mountains. Can't wait to see him bag Bondone as well.

 

[HelloDolly]

Healy has always been good ??? ...he is very good on long hard stages and can climb very well

 

[Gigs_98]

How good can McNulty and Frigo descend compared to Healy? Maybe it's not quite over yet.

 

[Red Rick]

Remember when people were discussing the value of Pogacar's AGR win because he only had to beat Ben Healy?

No people were mad about the car and motor drafting.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

At long as Mcnulty isn't allowed on the front on the descent they could theoretically make it back

Frigo is even worse in that regard, they will only lose more time on the descent.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

At long as Mcnulty isn't allowed on the front on the descent they could theoretically make it back

I don't watch u23 racing but I heard Frigo is also very bad in descent. Looks good for Healy

 

[Red Rick]

How good can McNulty and Frigo descend compared to Healy? Maybe it's not quite over yet.

FWIW McNulty is a disasterclass descender

 

[Salvarani]

Bling on the front in the peloton

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Brutal Michael Matthews attack

 

[Samamba]

It was discussed before the Giro to what degree his improvement on hills translated to mountains. Can't wait to see him bag Bondone as well.

With the way the GC riders are scared of riding for a stage win he might just win every mountain stage.

 

[Salvarani]

McNulty caught a second wind?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

What a farce.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Michael Matthews probably regretting not keeping himself up there in GC the way this is going

 

[Ricco']

Not enough altitude, better wait for tuesday

 

[Red Rick]

Armirail surviving may just mean Roglic is more likely to attack the final hill.

Don't take my copium please

 

[Filippo_3467]

Roglic must be really in horrible shape. The whole Jumbo Visma team is there and they do absolutely nothing.

 

[Gigs_98]

No people were mad about the car and motor drafting.

That was the main thing, but the quality of the field was 100% a topic of discussion too.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

With the way the GC riders are scared of riding for a stage win he might just win every mountain stage.

Tbf this was a fairly weak break, if the Pinots, Buitragos, Van Wilders get up the road with him it will be harder for him. Not like he's destroying McNulty here like he annihilated everyone in Fossombrone either.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Main group shouldn't get a rest day tomorrow. They've been resting all week.

 

[glassmoon]

McNulty's coming back!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why is nobody attacking? There is a rest day tomorrow, rest day yesterday, 74km stage on Friday. Almida, Lenkessund, Dunbar, Roglic, etc don't want to get time?

 

[Salvarani]

Cmon McNulty so we can get an exciting battle for the stage-win

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Jens Voigt with some valuable insights. The guy in the front is Ben Healy, the guy chasing is Brandon McNulty. They are riding fast.

Thanks Jens.

 

[Filippo_3467]

Too bad that Vlasov is out and wasn't looking good before that. Bora seems to be the only team that did go to this race with the plan of actually trying something. Without them Roglic hasn't even attacked on Fossombrome.

 

[Samamba]

Tbf this was a fairly weak break, if the Pinots, Buitragos, Van Wilders get up the road with him it will be harder for him. Not like he's destroying McNulty here like he annihilated everyone in Fossombrone either.

Yeah i was obviously joking a bit. Normally last week mountain stages are either won by a GC rider or a top climber that already lost a lot of time early in the GT. THat being said. Normally those climbers are already 20 minutes behind, now it seems different so they might not be able to get in the break.