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

[Tricycle Rider]

I do not like UAE man's Hitler mustache.

 

[Salvarani]

Quintana will have to settle for a stage or something later

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Nairoman will go stage hunt in week 3. Rubio will try to hold GC place.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Lol ineos domestiques getting dropped from the pace set by uae domestiques

 

[Tim Cahill]

Maybe Lipowitz dropped on purpose yesterday, nose breathing today

 

[Netserk]

Bjerg again the second best climbing dom for Pogi.

 

[Scarponi]

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.

Oh I agree 100% this climb was never going to be insane and obviously Pantani was the most insane climber we will ever witness just seemed all the cool things happened before. Thank god for YouTube

 

[Tim Cahill]

Dani Martinez realised he wasn't in Algarve anymore

 

[Salvarani]

Martinez at the back

 

[titan31]

This is going to be brutal when Pog attacks

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hardest part done

 

[Brullnux]

There's something odd about Oropa that always puts people in trouble. Nibali really struggled here in 2017

 

[wheresmybrakes]

G will ride his own race up this hill, playing the long game.

 

[Scarponi]

you know you are a beast of a rider when your domestique is a grand tour podium getter

 

[AmRacer]

Did I spot Pozzo

 

[Salvarani]

Majka leading out

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Reckon Pantani would struggle to keep up with these guys

 

[Peyroteo94]

Bye bye!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Narváez reacts well!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

pozzovivo still there

 

[titan31]

Narvaez is doing better than I thought

 

[Salvarani]

POG

HE IS GONE

 

[Brullnux]

Thomas looks good in all honesty

 

[Tim Cahill]

O'Connor foolishly tried to follow, Thomas steadier

 

[Scarponi]

I don’t mean to be rude but I felt back even in Contador days the lesser riders could follow him on early stages, obviously crack later. Pogacar just walks away from everyone stage 2