Giro d'Italia Giro D'italia 2025 Stage 16: Piazzola sul Brenta – San Valentino

[Brullnux]

3 minutes is still pretty difficult to make up on the remaining stages.

You haven't factored in the sub hour Finestre he's riding on Saturday

 

[skippo12]

McNulty successfully defending his top 15 GC position. Finished s.t. as Majka.

 

[Climbing]

Pellizzari would have won the Giro with one leg!
Howdy btw

 

[kingjr]

Looking at how Carapaz flew away from Yates/Del Toro made me think he's going to win this Giro and then he gets dropped by Pellizzari, who was on the attack for most of the climb. I don't know what to think anymore.

He doesn't really pace himself, once he's committed to a move he just goes as hard as he can from there. It's like last year when he tried following Pogacar everytime even though he knew it was hopeless, he's just built that way.

 

[Unchained]

Del Toro smelling like a rose, got absolutely shelled and still walking with pink for another day

 

[Red Rick]

You haven't factored in the sub hour Finestre he's riding on Saturday

I did not.

It also explains why I already have 3 missed calls from Roglic' agent if I wanna sign him

 

[AnotherArmChair]

There will definitely be no smiling at UAE hotel tonight

 

[Netserk]

@Netserk

Gee has finally convinced me.

All is forgiven for those who find Geesus!

 

[Rackham]

Ask yourself: did I like the 2023 queen stage (the one to Tre Cime) better or did I like this one better? If the former, then I think most people would say you are doing this wrong.

It's a sunny day outside. Anyone who wasn't at work and was sitting watching the Giro on TV for whatever their reasons (or were sneakily watching it at work) are cycling fans. No matter their reasons, whether it's out of broader interest or because they support a particular rider. Hell, people who hate-watch just to see someone they don't like lose are also arguably fans in their own sort of way.

It's sport. There's no added virtue for watching it from a position of self-awarded grandiosity.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Finally a classic mountain stage in the Giro with everything still up for grabs. When is the last time we have seen this in the Giro? I simply cannot remember which is kinda sad.. and more to come on Friday and Saturday where it gets even harder

 

[noob]

The first podium Del Toro enjoyed himself

 

[staubsauger]

Mein lieber Schwan! 🦢

 

[AnotherArmChair]

So Visma will be drilling it tomorrow ?

 

[Andre]

Italian cycling woke up today

 

[Red Rick]

Ask yourself: did I like the 2023 queen stage (the one to Tre Cime) better or did I like this one better? If the former, then I think most people would say you are doing this wrong.

This one is better, obviously. It was really good. Really overperforming in the plot twist department and the setting up the rest of the Giro department.

But it's not an all time stage because despite all that it was still all about the final 10km on good MTF.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

But it's not an all time stage because despite all that it was still all about the final 10km on good MTF.

I agree. Good thing we are odds on to get an all time stage on Saturday.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

That's Carapaz for you. Very unreliable, very fun!

He defintively has the acceleration to drop everyone but not such a big advantage in W/kg over a longer period, so the gaps were not as big as one might have thought at the beginning.
Also Pellizzari had a breather on his wheel on a easier section.

 

[solo80k]

So Visma will be drilling it tomorrow ?

I don't think anyone from the top GC will try to move tomorrow after such bloodbath. Stages 19&20 are designed for this.

 

[Alien Performance]

All is forgiven for those who find Geesus!

My / Gee's old bedroom

https://imgur.com/a/8GLP3tD

 

[AnotherArmChair]

I don't think anyone from the top GC will try to move tomorrow after such bloodbath. Stages 19&20 are designed for this.

I dont agree ...need to hit home while del Toro is vacillating and they know this
And it s not like they need to attack from far out ...just drill it hard to the last climb KMs

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

I don't think anyone from the top GC will try to move tomorrow after such bloodbath. Stages 19&20 are designed for this.

Someone might not recover and suffer on Mortirolo, or an attack by someone who is not super close. Bernal and Caruso are my hopes

 

[Gigs_98]

I've tried to warn y'all since last year that he could win this Gee-ro!

I actually tried to be careful mit mocking your comments too much because I thought there was a chance he was gonna be quite good. I think we tend to underestimate how much riders who turned pro relatively old can improve year to year. A little how Roglic made a jump in performance every year from 2016 to 2019. But I never saw him being in this position and I definitely didn't after he was dropped on stage 1.

 

[Unchained]

Eddy Merckx speaking Italian (on Italian TV) with an accent like he's from Südtirol

You can get by pretty well in German in Bergamo, Bolzano! I like the north because after little provocation, drink or 2 start complaining about the south, as an American it makes me feel at home to hear gripes about fellow citizens not pulling their weight!! It's an international common subject to wail about!!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It was a great stage today, but it has to be said that the mere fact that a guy who is not even a top 10 climber is leading the Giro after 16 stages is a proof that the route has been pretty poor up to stage 16.

Thomas Voeckler led the Tour de France after the Col du Galibier stage in 2011. Isaac del Toro is a far better climber than TV Tommy ever was.

I really hope we are on for a Tour de France 2011 kind of scenario, because for all my slating of the race for being a really good one week race masquerading as a three week race where the first couple of weeks had served to give us nothing but crashes and a TTT to break up the field, at least unlike, say, the 2012 Giro, it did actually catch fire when the ridiculously-backloaded route finally reached the denouement and despite two weeks of very disappointing inaction, most of those last few stages were genuinely great. Sunday's stage showcased a péloton that was keen to race but the effectiveness of their racing was neutered by the course, today the organisers gave them better tools to work with, and they delivered. You had all the archetypes as well, with guys like Storer and Bernal doing salvage jobs after looking like they were suffering earlier, and then picking their way through the guys who'd looked great and then fallen away; you had riders going too deep to hold on at the front, going into the red and then hitting the wall, you had surprising names being among the strongest (GC Gee is a bit of a thing but it's more because I think like with O'Connor's original 4th place in hte Tour, the fact they've been allowed to gain time by not being marked means other riders, let alone the fans, had rather underestimated them) and, with Ayuso, you had a proper old-fashioned GC pajará compounded by the fact that UAE's DSes haven't really had to tax the old grey matter for a while with guys like Pogačar in the squad so now having to manage workloads and balance off riders when they aren't the strongest is proving a bit of a challenge for them - all while Astana treat the mountains like 2008 CSF-Navigare up front.

All too often at the Giro in recent years things have been way too cagey all the way to the line, we should celebrate getting stages like this when they happen, they've been all too rare in the Corsa Rosa in recent years.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

You can get by pretty well in German in Bergamo, Bolzano! I like the north because after little provocation, drink or 2 start complaining about the south, as an American it makes me feel at home to hear gripes about fellow citizens not pulling their weight!! It's an international common subject to wail about!!

While the dialect from Bergamo is as incomprehesible as german to other italians, it has, in fact nothing to do with it.