Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2024 Stage 2: San Francesco al Campo – Santuario di Oropa (Biella), 161.0 km

[Tricycle Rider]

Piccolo still going strong, I'm starting to feel hopeful he'll actually win this stage.

 

[AmRacer]

Piccolo still going strong, I'm starting to feel hopeful he'll actually win this stage.

He needs way more than minutes.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Narvaez was giving it the biggun before the stage to be fair, they told Thomas not to mention him in the pre-Giro press conference so he went under the radar, maybe he's about to go full Emanuele Sella in this race. Have my doubts though.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Piccolo still going strong, I'm starting to feel hopeful he'll actually win this stage.

Lol. He would lose 2 minutes just in Oropa

 

[Tim Cahill]

At what stage do Eurosport show the Pantani-mechanical footage, 15k to go I think

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Narvaez was giving it the biggun before the stage to be fair, they told Thomas not to mention him in the pre-Giro press conference so he went under the radar, maybe he's about to go full Emanuele Sella in this race. Have my doubts though.

Also noticed that interview, and he did win the Tour of Austria last year with mountains...

Anyways he's about that age where Ineos riders start to demonstrate a small amount of climbing talent

 

[Tricycle Rider]

He needs way more than minutes.

Probably. But I think he's done a good job so far.

 

[Salvarani]

Pozzo...

 

[Squire]

Oh no!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Pozzovivo‘s bike is broken

 

[Peyroteo94]

Also noticed that interview, and he did win the Tour of Austria last year with mountains...

Anyways he's about that age where Ineos riders start to demonstrate a small amount of climbing talent

So Thomas is Aru and Narvaez is Landa?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Time for Pozzovivo to teleport 2 minutes back to the peloton, Italian-broadcasters camera conspicuously absent

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Pozzo having all kinds of trouble at the back ...crash central

 

[Izzyeviel]

Piccolo still going strong, I'm starting to feel hopeful he'll actually win this stage.

Lets hope so. If I hear one more 'Piccolo in a pickle' from Kirby.....

 

[Tim Cahill]

Zakarin absolutely robbed, should've chopped Big Tom into the barriers like he did with Quintana that time

 

[Miha81]

At about this point 25 years ago the one man show started

View: https://youtu.be/4ocv78XS2Lw?si=ZICQetm0ZvwDApOQ

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lets hope so. If I hear one more 'Piccolo in a pickle' from Kirby.....

I get more fed up of the veneration of Oropa like it's somehow equivalent to Gavia, Mortirolo, Terminillo, Tre Cime or Stelvio in Giro lore. If it weren't for that one day from Pantani, nobody would care about this climb in the slightest.

The way Pantani gets more veneration from the Giro in recent years than Bottecchia, Girardengo, Binda, Coppi, Bartali, Magni, Gimondi, Moser and Saronni put together has long been pretty silly, but this climb is probably the #2 in the Pantani legacy after Carpegna.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Zakarin absolutely robbed, should've chopped Big Tom into the barriers like he did with Quintana that time

When Quintana pulled a Remco/Foodball complain and Soviet Froome would have won anyway?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Great crowds at the finish, hopefully none of them will get in the way or otherwise do something foolish.

 

[Netserk]

Sigh, I hope Pogi wins today and spanks Ineos.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

pozzovivo almost back (according to RAI's Giarda on the moto)

 

[Peyroteo94]

Sigh, I hope Pogi wins today and spanks Ineos.

Yeah, I still have PTSD when I see the Ineos/Sky train at the front

 

[Tim Cahill]

When Quintana pulled a Remco/Foodball complain and Soviet Froome would have won anyway?

Yeah Quintana's only non-solo victory

He also beat Alarcon in Asturias but the record books show it as solo due to Alarcon being scrubbed from history

 

[Didinho]

Pogitani nervous. Calma.

 

[snipeheem]

Pantani