Giro d'Italia 2025, stage 2: Tirana - Tirana (13.7k ITT)

[SafeBet]

Great time by Affini at T1.
Rizzato from moto RAI reports it took Affini 2'32" to climb Sauk.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Blush away, I agree with SafeBet

 

[Tim Cahill]

Baroncini, a decent rider but the man with the hardest job of the Giro. I'm surprised he managed to make the start on time actually, he had to get all his teammates together onto the bus this morning but they were all wandering around on their own sulking and not listening to anyone.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Affini in the hotseat now

 

[Dazed and Confused]

yea, good effort by Affini, leading the tt

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Affini dropped the helmet with purpose....

 

[wirral]

Did Kelly just f-bomb? That would beat his "shitty shorts" description of AG2R's brown shorts.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Unexpectedly low speed on the course so far, average just north of 50

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Camera focusing on Baroncini's butt for the longest time and commentators not saying a word seemed a bit awkward

 

[wirral]

Yeah, it is quite slow but 13 corners including 3 'dead turns'. Maybe somebody will hit 53 kph later on.

 

[Links2003]

PCS has it up but it's pretty slow

Thank you very much for that information. Too bad he has so much bad luck. As a junior, he was seen as the next high-flyer. Then he turned pro at a very young age, probably too early. Things have been better since he joined Tudor. Even before the Giro his form was okay. But then such a start, yesterday and today, phew.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hoole is out of contract apparently, he should be inundated with offers if the big WT teams have any sense.

 

[Salvarani]

Looks close between Hoole and Affini

 

[Dazed and Confused]

wow, that was tight. Still Affini

 

[Salvarani]

Affini still in the lead by 2 seconds!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

German ES commentators got fooled by the GPS time difference they showed between Affini and Hoole. They thought his time was already up, and he was waaaay down. Quite confusing because they make you ask yourself "wasn't that just the GPS difference?", and of course it was.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Fausto on the course

 

[Tricycle Rider]

German ES commentators got fooled by the GPS time difference they showed between Affini and Hoole. They thought his time was already up, and he was waaaay down. Quite confusing because they make you ask yourself "wasn't that just the GPS difference?", and of course it was.

Dang, that's just much too deep to be thinking about at 6am in the morning. (My time zone.)

 

[tobydawq]

Hopefully now Hayter is fastest all that freshly laid concrete can start breaking apart. Perhaps the green screens will also fall down, revealing those hastily concealed brutalist commie apartment blocks that we were all hoping to see yesterday.

They were there in the beginning of the stage.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

While straight the last stretch of the road looks so bumpy, think the riders might get cobble brain from riding on it at full speed

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Vine's knee still bleeding through the bandage but hopefully he'll have a good ride

 

[Tim Cahill]

Felt sorry for V$ne, his knee looks screwed and he was in such good shape, a man with humpty-dumpty tendencies but that wasn't his fault.

 

[Netserk]

Plapp down. Same corner where Affini had his wobble.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Plappy crashed

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Plapp crashed, don't think its serious.