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

[Savant12]

Get those glasses ready. Fuse is lit. Pogenheimer is here.

 

[Tim Cahill]

They were just riding a mediocre tempo, Vino would've had the boys on the front

 

[AmRacer]

Teddy should've stopped before the right turn.

 

[titan31]

Boourns, that really did nothing.

 

[Didinho]

The not-so-bald Slovenian will stomp soon.

 

[Salvarani]

Teddy should've stopped before the right turn.

Yeah, with the front tire it was bad to try and take the turn.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Teddy is angry!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I know it's frowned upon but Ineos should put the hammer down

Probably too early really, otherwise they'd run out of guys. They got the bonus seconds out of continuing to ride, but between that and the climb there wasn't really much to be gained now that the guys like Swift have been dropped, and it would just have angered UAE more and caused them to go hard and ruthless in response.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

UAE drilling it now

 

[Lequack]

What would happen if @Froome was here.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Who has the Oppenhemmer pic?

 

[Salvarani]

UAE looking pretty good today

 

[Scarponi]

Did you people alive in the 90s understand how great the drama was back then? How boring now 😂

 

[Gigs_98]

Boooooo, I wanted to see Pogacar chase the front group on his own on the climb.

 

[Netserk]

Get those glasses ready. Fuse is lit. Pogenheimer is here.

 

[topcat]

I still fancy Piccolo's chances. G2 dynamics and all that.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Maybe Ineos were racing for the Intergiro classification

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wtf was that, the tyre completely exploded

 

[AmRacer]

Maybe Ineos were racing for the Intergiro classification

Thomas got two boni

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Did you people alive in the 90s understand how great the drama was back then? How boring now 😂

This is Premier League Cycling. This is what the UCI and the teams want. The same field in every race and a massicely reduced discrepancy between the best and worst rider, meaning much bigger fields for longer. Tight racing until very late on, youtube cycling where the action can be condensed into a 10-15 minute hype video.

That said, in almost any era of cycling, Oropa would be like this if included at this stage in the race when there are no big time gaps yet. It's effectively Unipuerto, it's not very difficult, and it's a tempo climb.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Piccolo just about caught, but great ride today!

 

[Savant12]

Boooooo, I wanted to see Pogacar chase the front group on his own on the climb.

He still has a Tour to win.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Quintana is cooked

 

[Salvarani]

Quintana ouch

 

[AmRacer]

Nairoman dropped