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

[AmRacer]

GC already decided, as it was last year.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Nico Denz I hope you like controlling breakaways

 

[saunaking]

Van Aert just done no tt work probably

he's sick. he said he was sick. he's not one of the aliens

 

[Didinho]

Mads also has an insane sprint at the end of TT’s. He could hold it.

 

[AmRacer]

he's sick. he said he was sick. he's not one of the aliens

.anymore

 

[titan31]

Suppose ideal now for RB Bora is that someone who can climb well enough gets in the break tomorrow and takes a few minutes and they can let pink go until the next TT

 

[Devil's Elbow]

GPS times being made up to maximise tension would be classic Giro.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Result for Bora if he can hold this pace

 

[Red Rick]

Van Aert doesn't look like a guy who didn't try.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van Aert doesn't look like a guy who didn't try.

That grimace tells me he won't see Rome.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Van Aert doesn't look like a guy who didn't try.

Sickness and stuff, just not on great form for longer efforts

 

[Tim Cahill]

If you're a 3rd tier GC contender who wants a free 10 minutes get yourself in a breakaway tomorrow.

 

[Peyroteo94]

So Tarling wins it

 

[nightowl]

I am typically very anti-live time gaps in TTs for ruining the suspense, but blatantly wrong ones like these are pretty fun I guess.

 

[Boehmand]

BTW - I wouldn't put it past Trek to put Mads in the morning break tomorrow, - even if he retains pink.

It's his only chance to keep it/take it back and it would mean Trek could do zero work until the big climb and then all be there for Ciccone.

 

[Didinho]

Mads taking pink back from Redbull in the next Redbull intermediate.

 

[Netserk]

Hell yeah!!!

 

[Boehmand]

2 seconds, damn

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If you're a 3rd tier GC contender who wants a free 10 minutes get yourself in a breakaway tomorrow.

So Ayuso will be in the break?

 

[Tim Cahill]

"Oh for *** sake" - Roglic

 

[Brullnux]

I am typically very anti-live time gaps in TTs for ruining the suspense, but blatantly wrong ones like these are pretty fun I guess.

They were accurate re Roglic and Mads

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Tarling best man today. Congrats.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

German commentators failing first grade

 

[Netserk]

V$ne the moral winner today, he'd have bossed them without the crash yesterday.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So not making it over the climb yesterday actually was a saving grace for Tarling, because with a later start the wind probably swings this one to Roglic and then he would have been left with nothing.