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

[Cycling111]

Pellizzari looks really strong despite all the work he's done for Roglic since Siena.

Where would he be if he'd had freedom?

 

[noob]

Del Toro doesn‘t look as comfortable today.

I thought I was the only one to think so! He looks visually uncomfortable

 

[Samamba]

He's not a good descender, is he? In the peloton, Caruso, maybe van Aert etc may keep the pace high.

I think the gap is big enough. It's not like the GC guys have been going easy. S Yates looks good tho and yes I'm assuming Van Aert will try to do something but doubt it will be nough. Think Fortunato has been saving himself a bit.

 

[search]

Poole got done over by that gravel stage, top 10 might be a struggle but he is finding his legs here.

are there even 10 GC riders left?

 

[Boehmand]

Del Toro doesn‘t look as comfortable today.

Yep, the last mountain will be interesting, he may crack if Carapaz does a dig

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Might be Copium but Del Toro is not looking good in my opinion... Rocking and glazing face.

Had the impression as well, already a while back.

But we don't know del Toro to well yet, who knows what that means for him when he does that.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Poole got done over by that gravel stage, top 10 might be a struggle but he is finding his legs here.

He‘s getting Top 10 just because of guys going out the back today.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Did Gaudu just turn into Majka?

Maybe that's possible in one of the video games he plays (Majka Simulator 5), but not in real life.

 

[Divergence]

I guess IDT will crack today. Unfortunately there is nobody left in this Giro who is good. I guess go Caruso go...

 

[Red Rick]

Del Toro would be leading this race with 3 minutes of UAE didnt chase him on stage 9 and stage 15. You can add him basically covering moves after Ayuso on stage 7 and some bonus that Ayuso stole as well during the race

And without crashes he'd be a minute down because of TTs and Ayuso wouldn't have been dropped.

 

[perico]

He's not a good descender, is he? In the peloton, Caruso, maybe van Aert etc may keep the pace high.

Bilbao is a great descender.

 

[Unchained]

The front 9 are impressive!!

 

[tobydawq]

Cepeda is making Weening proud with that cadence.

 

[Tim Cahill]

are there even 10 GC riders left?

I counted 13, he's ahead of only Pelezzari at the moment in GC but yeah it looks a bit better than I'd assumed.

 

[Boehmand]

I hope Bilbao guns it on this descent

 

[dgodave]

Sponsored by ham!

 

[AmRacer]

Wout

 

[noob]

The result being all about who crashed and who didn't. That's a bit weird to say the least. It's not cyclocross after all?!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Poole and Storer both have teammates up front, they have options.
Wout in Hautacam version for Simon Yates on the final climb?

 

[red_flanders]

And without crashes he'd be a minute down because of TTs and Ayuso wouldn't have been dropped.

And he hasn’t crashed (much) because he’s constantly been on the front of the race. Because he’s been super strong to this point.

 

[Unchained]

If Del Toro can tolerate 3,4 beats more, just a tiny pulse will burn Carapaz off the back

 

[Valv.Piti]

And without crashes he'd be a minute down because of TTs and Ayuso wouldn't have been dropped.

But they crashed, and him own team still foolishly chased him. Stage 9 was okay, but stage 15 was not.

Still strongest rider in the race so far and not really close. Point being his cushion could easily have been larger

 

[Cycling111]

What a rider Majka.

Vine seemed really strong in Romandie, but in the end, who's always there? Majka

 

[Mayomaniac]

Carapaz suffering?

 

[nightowl]

Carapaz suffering?

You never know with him if he is or if he’s bluffing