Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025, Stage 8: Giulianova > Castelraimondo (197 km)

[Unchained]

Also very practical and economical. (Very little need for haircare products.)

Australian inmate number 1 !! Plapp despite his scary photo presence is a pleasure to watch race, the guy does it with zest!! Pure gusto!!

 

[noob]

Car 1 or car 2 you're still not car 30

 

[Netserk]

Good stage, full gas all day but still not decided early

Imagine the unreal tension if Ulissi and Kelderman had stayed away and were sprinting for the stage win. Would be an all-time classic.

 

[Boehmand]

watching this stage without commentary, bored to tears. then i turned on the commentary with 30k to go and according to Rob Hatch it's been an epic, amazing, 'festival of cycling'. these guys really love to pee on us and tell us it's raining.

happy for Ulissi tho

I you didn't think today's stage was exiting, I am guessing you are bored by 99 % of the race days in a season?

 

[Unchained]

Plapp is wearing an ankle monitor!!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Imagine the unreal tension if Ulissi and Kelderman had stayed away and were sprinting for the stage win. Would be an all-time classic.

Unstoppable force vs. very movable object

 

[zlev11]

I you didn't think today's stage was exiting, I am guessing you are bored by 99 % of the race days in a season?

what was exciting about it? it was a run of the mill breakaway stage.

 

[Boehmand]

Plapp is wearing an ankle monitor!!

Makes sense - a bike rider isn't worth much if his ankle goes missing

 

[Netserk]

Depends on how the rule is defined. They didn't finish on a categorized climb.

3" is only for stages designated as expected to finish in a bunch sprint. That is stage 4, 6, 12, 18 and 21.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

What in god's name is Orla wearing today? Those super poofy sleeves...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Is that ankle monitor allowed, didn’t someone get dqed for that a while ago, COMMISSARIES

 

[Peyroteo94]

I you didn't think today's stage was exiting, I am guessing you are bored by 99 % of the race days in a season?

To be honest, I also think this stage wasn't great.
We didn't have GC action and we knew Plapp would win with 40 km to the finish. This stage had potential for a lot more to be honest.

 

[RedheadDane]

Plapp is wearing an ankle monitor!!

What?

 

[noob]

Cataldo went from retiring to DS directly?!

 

[Red Rick]

3" is only for stages designated as expected to finish in a bunch sprint. That is stage 4, 6, 12, 18 and 21.

Could've added this one after the first 6 stages tbh.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pidcock literally said he was going for GC.

It doesn't matter. Do you really think he can be a GC contender (top10 material)? I don't.

 

[Unchained]

* for Americans* maybe some Euros, does anyone remember the name of the guy from Michigan, that promoted races in Michigan, Florida and Illinois, (?)
It's funny to see Plapp and other winners get what looks like a big Italian gift card!!!
Back in the day, the American promoter gave some of your prize winnings in fake funny money that you could redeem at his " prize booth" bunch of old jerseys, shorts and hats, junk abandoned at bike shops. I hope Plapp can cash it in!!!! Don't want to get stuck with a dirty, thick Decca jersey!!!

 

[zlev11]

To be honest, I also think this stage wasn't great.
We didn't have GC action and we knew Plapp would win with 40 km to the finish. This stage had potential for a lot more to be honest.

yeah like, it was fine. i enjoy the boring stages too. but the potential was way higher than what we got imo. people lose their minds over the "fight for the breakaway" which i just find very unremarkable unless someone dangerous on GC is trying things.

 

[Netserk]

Unstoppable force vs. very movable object

Yeah, I guess Kelderman winning a sprint for 2nd is quite deceiving like that. The universe would never allow him to win outright.

 

[noob]

Fun with someone who actually looks good in that pink jersey! It really suits Ulissi!

 

[RedheadDane]

Cataldo went from retiring to DS directly?!

Well, he retired at the end of last year, and became a DS this year. That's... quite normal.

 

[noob]

Well, he retired at the end of last year, and became a DS this year. That's... quite normal.

It probably is, but I'm old so a year is like a week

 

[noob]

Is Ayuso worse than Rogla on gravel? Bernal I know is good!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Yeah, I guess Kelderman winning a sprint for 2nd is quite deceiving like that. The universe would never allow him to win outright.

I mean, realistically Kelderman won the sprint mostly because they were out of the fight for the stage win and Ulissi went all in for Rosa, in the fight for the stage he might have played it more defensively

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

Astana 1-2 in GC plus KOM jersey and it feels 2015 all of a sudden.

In the GC group Roglic is either not feeling great or really distracted, I can't tell.