Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 5: Ceglie Messapica – Matera

[Dazed and Confused]

The only thing that could make this an acceptable day would be Milesi winning....

 

[Tim Cahill]

Break actually made it way further than I thought they would

 

[SafeBet]

Break actually made it way further than I thought they would

Way further than Lollo Milesi hoped too.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm afraid Milesi is not going to win.

 

[Divergence]

It taks all kinds mate, that's the beauty of cycling

The problem is that it takes more than just being the fastest in order to win a sprint. A lot has to do with taking risks and bumping shoulders. And that is something I absolutely despise in road cycling
Edit: By all means have a hilly stage where some race craft is needed and not just a pure W/kg test. But sprinting... there should be no place for it in Grand Tours

 

[KOM]

It's carnage

Hoping that im missing the irony, even for "carnage" being that grotesquely overused here as it is, this use is particulary insane

 

[Mayomaniac]

Basilicata actually has a decent amount of Muritos, if the regions was willing to pay for one could have a stage with 2-3 muritos near the finish.
Something like this would be great for the first week: https://www.cronoescalada.com/tracks/view/140681

 

[postmanhat]

Italians when founding a town - this place is incredibly beautiful, if impractical

Northern Europeans - there's a river

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Does UAE have a sprinter in this race?

 

[Andre]

Ineos lied: they said they would attack like crazy

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Does UAE have a sprinter in this race?

No

 

[Tim Cahill]

Majka got dropped last climb but made it back on the Masnada/Kanter train so the pace isn't too high.

 

[Landeirovic]

Majka got dropped last climb but made it back on the Masnada/Kanter train so the pace isn't too high.

That was Baroncini

 

[SafeBet]

Busatto, De Pretto, Dani Martinez all dropped.

 

[Sciatic]

Italians when founding a town - this place is incredibly beautiful, if impractical

Northern Europeans - there's a river

there's the whole defending against attackers, including other Italian cities.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

We've made it, only 10km to go!

 

[Sciatic]

That last steep part with like 2 km to go might provide a launch pad for non-sprinters--including Roglic.

 

[Mayomaniac]

there's the whole defending against attackers, including other Italian cities.

Mainly other Italian cities!
Interesting fact, The Passion of Christ was filmed in Matera because it looks like ancient Jerusalem.

 

[RedheadDane]

there's the whole defending against attackers, including other Italian cities.

In Northern Europe - specifically Scandinavia - we needed easy access to water, so we could sail out and do the attacking!



(I say "we", I obviously weren't there...)

 

[SafeBet]

Scary Scaroni dropped

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Mads for the win, I guess

 

[postmanhat]

there's the whole defending against attackers, including other Italian cities.

Yes. But sometimes I think they just really fancied living there, and who can blame them.

 

[Boehmand]

The problem is that it takes more than just being the fastest in order to win a sprint. A lot has to do with taking risks and bumping shoulders. And that is something I absolutely despise in road cycling
Edit: By all means have a hilly stage where some race craft is needed and not just a pure W/kg test. But sprinting... there should be no place for it in Grand Tours

It feels like I could respond to this with:

"It taks all kinds mate, that's the beauty of cycling "

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Rogla!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Mads looks done come on Simon attack these fools