Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2023, stage 21: Roma - Roma 126 km

[Mayomaniac]

Milan got sick the night before the Tre Cime stage and only had about 1.5H of sleep before that one. He's just cooked. That said, Pasqualon is also not able to do a proper leadout, this time he even managed to block Milan and forced him to move wide to the left to get around him after launching his sprint.

 

[tobydawq]

Milan got sick the night before the Tre Cime stage and only had about 1.5H of sleep before that one. He's just cooked. That said, Pasqualon is also not able to do a proper leadout, this time he even managed to block Milan and forced him to move wide to the left to get around him after launching his sprint.

I don't think the swerve had any influence at all on the sprint. Those things look much more dramatic on a front-on view than they are for the riders. He just had no legs.

 

[Lequack]

Cort and Healy on their way home from the Giro

 

[Lequack]

The guy on the right? None other that former Giro winner Ryder Hesjedal

 

[RedheadDane]

Cort and Healy on their way home from the Giro

Love how the journalist seems to be just interviewing like that's perfectly normal post Giro attire.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I don't think the swerve had any influence at all on the sprint. Those things look much more dramatic on a front-on view than they are for the riders. He just had no legs.

Yeah, maybe you're right. The main thing is that he got sick before the Tre Cime stage and was super happy that the team somehow managed to drag him over the mountain passes.

 

[Red Rick]

Blythe actually commented from the motor bike that the cobbles seemed smoother on the right side of the road, the side where Cavendish sprinted from. It would explain why nobody from the other side got any speed.

 

[Carols]

I don't think he walked it or ran up it, that was just a throwaway line when they asked him if he was ever up the mountain and he said he was there by foot a long time ago. Unless I am not aware of more recons he did..

He put up pics on social media when he ran up it. If other teams can't follow what a big fav is doing that's their fail.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Love how the journalist seems to be just interviewing like that's perfectly normal post Giro attire.

Isn‘t ‚the journalist‘ Hannah Walker?

 

[Mayomaniac]

The guy on the right? None other that former Giro winner Ryder Hesjedal

I guess it's mainly the grey hair and the beard, but Ryder looks old.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Blythe actually commented from the motor bike that the cobbles seemed smoother on the right side of the road, the side where Cavendish sprinted from. It would explain why nobody from the other side got any speed.

Wait, actually good and insightful commentary from Blythe? That's something unexpected!

 

[SHAD0W93]

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Two legends comparing their bags

 

[Wyndbrook]

Isn‘t ‚the journalist‘ Hannah Walker?

Yes and if that's today she has has pink trousers two days kn a row.
Orla would not approve.

 

[DNP-Old]

The future of Canadian cycling is in good hands with Derek Gee? Just you wait until Ashlin Barry comes along.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

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Two legends comparing their bags

Nibali has a very intense looking bag carrier.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Nibali has a very intense looking bag carrier.

“Step away from the bag and nobody gets hurts.”

 

[RedheadDane]

Isn‘t ‚the journalist‘ Hannah Walker?

I don't know all the GCN journalists by sight.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't know all the GCN journalists by sight.

Do you know them by height or smell then?

 

[RedheadDane]

Do you know them by height or smell then?

By their voice.

 

[Tobi]

What a legend congrats Cavendish! If he can win here despite the level of competition he can get a win at the tour with luck if everything goes right.

Also Gaviria got to stop with these long sprints it doesn’t work and he should know by now.

 

[Bonimenier]

I guess it's mainly the grey hair and the beard, but Ryder looks old.

Not as old as RhD

 

[Avoriaz]

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Adorable

 

[DaLong]

The guy on the right? None other that former Giro winner Ryder Hesjedal

Pretty sure that's just Sagan after he starts mountain biking for 2 years and starts drinking IPAs all the time.

 

[Rackham]

So who else reckons Ineos & Thomas were attempting a stealth attack like in the Dauphiné two years ago when they launched Thomas in the final technical km's of a stage which he won?

It seems like a pretty funky coincidence he suddenly found himself at the front of the bunch "for reasons" (which is what his post race interview implied). I think they sort of fancied a stage win + 5 second gap.

Other than that, well done everyone for not wrecking themselves or each other (Ackermann notwithstanding) & causing a split in the bunch. I think one of these days a GC leader on the last day of a GT is going to lose the race due to a crash or mechanical. The writing is on the wall.

 

[dobrien]

I guess it's mainly the grey hair and the beard, but Ryder looks old.

Look at his skin; hardly any wrinkles. Unless he's getting botox injections if you took away the grey hair it seems to me he would still look relatively young.