Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 10: Lucca – Pisa (Time Trial)

[titan31]

Gee ending up the GC winner here?

Him, Poole, Arensman and Roglic it looks like

 

[pelotonIQ]

Maybe PCS's April fools joke wasn't a bad idea after all, they need money to for better servers.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The south american meltdown. Its time for serious collaboration.

 

[Cycling111]

Roglic takes 70 seconds or so back on del Toro, that went really well for him.
Overall a pretty good result given he started the day with a small crash.

Such an open Giro, every day someone else looks like the strongest.

Roglic's rival is Ayuso.

I don't think he fared as well considering he had a dry first sector and that in other similar ITT in GT, he beat Ayuso by 35-40 seconds.

It was a good result because he gained time, but the feeling is that he missed an opportunity to gain much more time.
Ayuso had worse conditions and still lost half as much as in his other GTs ITT against Roglic.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

The south american meltdown. Its time for serious collaboration.

Mythical Bernal, Carapaz, X raid incoming?

 

[zlev11]

Roglic's rival is Ayuso.

told you

 

[Mayomaniac]

Roglic's rival is Ayuso.

I don't think he fared as well considering he had a dry first sector and that in other similar ITT in GT, he beat Ayuso by 35-40 seconds.

It was a good result because he gained time, but the feeling is that he missed an opportunity to gain much more time.

Hard to say how much crashing during the recon ride affected him mentally and his cornering.

 

[Netserk]

 

[RedheadDane]

Maybe PCS's April fools joke wasn't a bad idea after all, they need money to for better servers.

What was the joke?
They keep trying to convince people to buy the pro version...

 

[pelotonIQ]

You know that, or just guessing?

Would seem very unprofessional if they prioritised tarting up the bike to maximizing its performance.

What is your point in relation to my comment?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Mythical Bernal, Carapaz, X raid incoming?

Geriatric Nairo should never be underestimated.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Roglic's rival is Ayuso.

I don't think he fared as well considering he had a dry first sector and that in other similar ITT in GT, he beat Ayuso by 35-40 seconds.

It was a good result because he gained time, but the feeling is that he missed an opportunity to gain much more time.
Ayuso had worse conditions and still lost half as much as in his other GTs ITT against Roglic.

Well, I don't know how valuable this comparison is given that Ayuso is 22 and it's not super surprising that he's better than the last years. He's been pretty good at TTing lately anyways.
Also honestly I have no idea if one can really piece together who was strongest where, because the conditions seem to have been wildly dynamic with wind and rain.

 

[titan31]

4 of the top 7. How fun

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Geriatric Nairo should never be underestimated.

Ok, I now expect him to grow 5 inches before the end of the race.

 

[IndurainsTdF1994]

Ayuso had worse conditions and still lost half as much as in his other GTs ITT against Roglic.

Not on the descent, at least. Both had rain in the finish as well. So, not sure what support you have for this claim.

 

[titan31]

Mythical Bernal, Carapaz, X raid incoming?

Storer would surely join them.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Ok, I now expect him to grow 5 inches before the end of the race.

I'd settle for him just smiling once every five years or so.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Hard to say how much crashing during the recon ride affected him mentally and his cornering.

Eisel at German ES seemed pretty confident that Roglic would not be very affected by that. Even made @Tricycle Rider's point about him being a former ski jumper who's used to crashing and danger. Given that you must be absolutely mad to do ski jumping it makes a lot of sense to me.

 

[Cycling111]

Not on the descent, at least. Both had rain in the finish as well. So, not sure what support you have for this claim.

Ayuso did the entire first sector with rain.
In any case, he´s lost less time than in other GTs ITT against Roglic.

It's a good result for Roglic, but it could´ve been better given the precedents.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Storer would surely join them.

Yes that would be a nice group.
Wasn't a good day for Carapaz, but he's only one mythical raid away from victory right now in the GC. So my hopes are alive he'll make the podium.

 

[Berniece]

What you gonna do Ayuso ??? what you gonna do ?

You cant atatck the pink jersey

He can, and will

 

[Boehmand]

Tiberi and S. Yates in 3rd and 4th - and few (if any) have considered them serious podium candidates.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Eisel at German ES seemed pretty confident that Roglic would not be very affected by that. Even made @Tricycle Rider's point about him being a former ski jumper who's used to crashing and danger. Given that you must be absolutely mad to do ski jumping it makes a lot of sense to me.

Yeah, but he stopped Ski jumping because of a bad crash. Overall you're right about Ski Jumpers, my little cousine did it for a short time and the guy had no fear, you could tell him to jump from the slide or a tree and he did it.

 

[Rackham]

Roglic's rival is Ayuso.

I don't think he fared as well considering he had a dry first sector and that in other similar ITT in GT, he beat Ayuso by 35-40 seconds.

It was a good result because he gained time, but the feeling is that he missed an opportunity to gain much more time.
Ayuso had worse conditions and still lost half as much as in his other GTs ITT against Roglic.

That's a pretty salty take right there. I guess Roglhaters were a bit bitter after those not-so-trustworthy live timings showed a bigger gap in Ayuso's favor before the second intermediate. People should learn not to trust those, at all.

And I reiterate the point that Ayuso had better conditions on the descent. It matters. So I'm pretty sure Rog can be quite positive about those 19 seconds he gained.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Given the amount of climbing left in this race and no more TTing I think there will be alot of movement yet in GC

I think for instance S Yates and Tiberi are in good form and wont just turn up

I also cannot rule out Carapaz and Bernal ...who will be among the best in the mountains

O f course UAE are in the driving seat but who knows what can happen