Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025, stage 1: Durrës - Tirana (160.0k)

[Didinho]

Wout has been sick the last weeks. Makes it a bit more less predictable for the first stage.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Wout has been sick the last weeks. Makes it a bit more less predictable for the first stage.

It‘s not like he‘d win the sprint with his eyes closed anyway at the moment.

 

[Red Rick]

What's this intermezzo. Did Roglic get lost again?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It‘s not like he‘d win the sprint with his eyes closed anyway at the moment.

That sounds more like Philipsen behaviour anyway.

 

[titan31]

I think it's the kind of stage where if the right riders attacked a big sprint could easily be avoided, but most of those riders are gc guys and so none of them will actually do it.

Maybe likes of Pidcock, Scaroni, Hermans might go.

 

[titan31]

I was just scanning the start list, and other than Pidcock, there are few candidates for hating on.

Any suggestions on who else?

The Max announcers will be British, so if they gush too much over a countryman I suppose I could find a candidate there. Scanning the list for British riders everyone else seems too likable. Maybe Tarling, if they really go overboard, but I expect they will only gush during the TTs

Will Robbie McEwan be broadcasting? But he usually keeps the cheering to a modest level. So the Aussies seem safe enough.

Tiberi is the easiest one (unless you hate cats like he does)

 

[King Of The Wolds]

I was just scanning the start list, and other than Pidcock, there are few candidates for hating on.

Any suggestions on who else?

The Max announcers will be British, so if they gush too much over a countryman I suppose I could find a candidate there. Scanning the list for British riders everyone else seems too likable. Maybe Tarling, if they really go overboard, but I expect they will only gush during the TTs

Will Robbie McEwan be broadcasting? But he usually keeps the cheering to a modest level. So the Aussies seem safe enough.

Don't know where you live, but I'm sure there's some help and support available for people like you 👍

 

[King Of The Wolds]

I've decided to Hayter-watch this Giro, but I don't expect a lot of Ethantainment.

Hayters gonna hayt, hayt, hayt, hayt, hayt, hayt.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Pidcock will probably try to make a big attack on the last climb or descent, that could make the stage more interesting.

 

[Gratemans]

I don't know, it just doesn't look hard enough for an attack to shed the faster riders and make it to the finish. I'm expecting Groves or Pedersen to take this one.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The start of stage 1 is the end of the entry period for the Giro CQ Game. About 37 hours left on both counts.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Giro live team presentations

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IgO0ymsdM

o gawd! Anthony McCrossan is doing his weird "let's stick an -ahh on the end of every name" again

Listened as far as "Derek Gee-ahh", then just decided it would be too irritating to watch any more.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So EF have a fairly tame alternative to some of their historic avoidance-of-pink kits, but they have joined Bahrain/Movistar/UAE in ignoring the rule that their kits must not clash with the young rider's jersey, just as Jayco and all the teams in blue have apparently been unperturbed by the big announcement at the beginning of the year that teams must avoid colour clashes with all the leaders' jerseys in all the GTs (in much the same way as race organisers have ignored the part of that rule that said they must make sure in all other races that their leaders' kits are distinct from any of the competing teams' kits)

 

[SafeBet]

o gawd! Anthony McCrossan is doing his weird "let's stick an -ahh on the end of every name" again

Listened as far as "Derek Gee-ahh", then just decided it would be too irritating to watch any more.

Seriously why does he do that???
Been around Italian people for too long?

 

[tobydawq]

o gawd! Anthony McCrossan is doing his weird "let's stick an -ahh on the end of every name" again

Listened as far as "Derek Gee-ahh", then just decided it would be too irritating to watch any more.

He is just the absolute worst. How can he still be employed?

 

[Heston]

Groves could threaten Pedersen here if he is back in good shape. But doubtful when hes just coming back from injury.

 

[search]

Groves could threaten Pedersen here if he is back in good shape. But doubtful when hes just coming back from injury.

what injury is he coming from? Didn't he drop out of his last race (Catalunya) due to sickness?!

 

[Netserk]

what injury is he coming from? Didn't he drop out of his last race (Catalunya) due to sickness?!

Knee pain in Catalunya, afaik. I guess it was just a precaution then to leave the race as he injured that(?) knee last year.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Groves was also coming back from a knee injury last year and proceeded to finish in between Milan and Merlier in the points classification. I doubt he'll beat Pedersen but I do expect him to be the closest competitor once again.

 

[Poursuivant]

o gawd! Anthony McCrossan is doing his weird "let's stick an -ahh on the end of every name" again

Listened as far as "Derek Gee-ahh", then just decided it would be too irritating to watch any more.

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