Giro d'Italia Giro D'Italia 2025 Stage 9: Gubbio – Siena (181km)

[RedheadDane]

I feel like it's critical to point out that this was Han Solo. You're welcome.

Don't they all say it at some point?
Even Chewie and R2.

 

[Netserk]

Tarmac has been associated with roads in most parts of western Europe since internal combustion engine vehicles became more popular than mules and donkeys for transportation.

Just saying.

Riders are more like donkeys than ICE vehicles.

 

[vladimir]

Indurain was the most boring rider in the history of cycling.

A really nice guy that you couldn't help having sympathy for, but God was his riding style boring.

I don't remember seeing him ever attack, except for ONCE where he was annoyed by a break he didn't like, so he rode himself to the front and made them slow down and get caught

I also never remember him standing up on the bycicle, he was forever in the seated position.

He just sat there, stage after stage maintaining his diesel engine, and then demolished everyone on the FAR too long TTs.

The most boring 5 years in Tour history.

Ahhh, you must have forgotten this stage?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVZZcvhlXM

 

[Boehmand]

Ahhh, you must have forgotten this stage?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVZZcvhlXM

Sure, but you should note you can find a single example of a stage he attacked - and he didn't win it

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

I'd missed it at first so went back, I think same time as Roglic, he just got straight back up look on the right hand side, he's blocked by the trees a bit.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1924105237851152788

Yeah I totally missed that Ayuso was impacted. I’m not sure he actually went down. Maybe he stepped off and his casette, or someone else’s, caught his calf?

Watching this again, Roglic never should have been gapped. He started riding right after Bernal and Ayuso but didn’t seem to take off with any urgency, to be honest. Was his bike not working from the get go?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Oh nononononononononoo!!!! Primož Roglic is in crisis at the giro ditalia!!!!!!!!

Far from my worst prediction to be honest.

 

[Lequack]

Tomorrow

I need to take up sports betting.

 

[Lequack]

Yeah I totally missed that Ayuso was impacted. I’m not sure he actually went down. Maybe he stepped off and his casette, or someone else’s, caught his calf?

So is this from the Roglic crash or did he have a later crash?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1924215752518733873

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/1924215752518733873

 

[Gratemans]

Far from my worst prediction to be honest.

To other riders, this would feel like a crisis. When it's concerning Roglic, I just expect it by now. I'd even wager he himself expects it.
"Ah bit of bad luck, what can you do, eh?"
He didn't seem to badly hurt though. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we'll end up with him holding the Trofeo senza fine in Rome.

(And can I take a moment to express my admiration for the single most beautifully designed trophy in all of sports?)

 

[Red Rick]

To other riders, this would feel like a crisis. When it's concerning Roglic, I just expect it by now. I'd even wager he himself expects it.

I'm at the point where I'm annoyed that it's basically a meme at this point when he's taken out by a different rider and I feel like I'm an old man shouting at the clouds when guys are taking each other out.

 

[Gratemans]

I'm at the point where I'm annoyed that it's basically a meme at this point when he's taken out by a different rider and I feel like I'm an old man shouting at the clouds when guys are taking each other out.

Yeah well, sometimes he takes himself out, sometimes it's others.
What makes me like him though is his stoic reaction each and every time. 90% of the riders would completely flip out and lose their sh**. I like his zen-like approach: Stuff happens. You carry on. No stress, make the best of it. It's a mental fortitude that I think is quite rare among top GC riders, and greatly underappreciated.

 

[hayneplane]

Have to laugh at Geniets and Plankaert. Lot of effort today for nothing since not GC guys

Advertising their talents. Not as if they even had a GC guy to work for worthy of the description here.

 

[nightowl]

Potential UAE civil war and Roglic forced to attack? We might have a fun Giro after all

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Potential UAE civil war and Roglic forced to attack? We might have a fun Giro after all

I think Ciccone, Tiberi , S Yates and Carapaz are all still in the Giro ..and of course Bernal ....at least enough to put the cat among the pigeons

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

What a stage!

I don't even know where to start. So I will just say:

What a stage!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I think Ciccone, Tiberi , S Yates and Carapaz are all still in the Giro ..and of course Bernal ....at least enough to put the cat among the pigeons

Never heard that one before, what does it mean exactly? And who's the cat?

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Never heard that one before, what does it mean exactly? And who's the cat?

it means to cause an upset or a disturbance in a group ...usually undesirable to the group

GC Group being the pigeons
Rider who attacks and causes mayhem being the cat ..could be Carapaz or S Yates or Tiberi .....so everyone is marking each other and this rider attacks ...maybe doesn't win the Giro but causes another rider to lose it due to chasing , etc

 

[red_flanders]

Never heard that one before, what does it mean exactly? And who's the cat?

Buy some World Cycling Productions videos and you can hear Phil and Paul saying about every 12 seconds for 30 years...

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Buy some World Cycling Productions videos and you can hear Phil and Paul saying about every 12 seconds for 30 years...

I've watched quite a lot of old stuff (pre Armstong) with Ligget and I can't recall that phrase. Funny thing. Probably never asked myself the question before because it was clear enough from context.

Thx for the explanation @AnotherArmChair.

 

[saunaking]

Let me break it down for y'all
Its a stage race, there is no shame in Wout for wheelsucking Del Toro in this case.
Del Toro still 'won' with a HUGE lead in GC.
Wout would have been borderline regarded to work with him?
Like why?

 

[saunaking]

I always was a big Van Aert fan. And always (though I am Austrian) cheered for Flemish riders. But I definetly did not like the wheelsucking he did today. And I do not understand, that some here consider that as tactically suberbe. It was simply wheelsucking. And unfair. That was not the Wout, I was supporting through all those years. For example against Mathieu.

And I also think, that his best years are behind him. I do not see him winning Flanders and Roubaix anymore. Okay, if neither Mathieu nor Tadej or Mads are there, than maybe...

Did you know that this is a 3 week race?
Its kind of like 20 races together.
So the rider with the lowest overall time wins.
If you want to win the race overall, it is much less important if you win a stage or come second with the same time but up a minute on all your overall competitors.
I think there is a good wiki page that explains this.

The reason he rides with Mathieu is because they are racing for a finish line, not a time after 3 weeks

 

[saunaking]

And Ciccone dive-bombing Carapaz?
Holy poop that was amazing!!! So close to bashing the barrier!!
Ballsy move for 4 seconds!

 

[Hugh Januss]

So is this from the Roglic crash or did he have a later crash?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1924215752518733873

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/1924215752518733873

I thought that same thing when I saw the video of the Roglic etal. crash, Ayuso way over on the right side seems to only have to put a foot down.

 

[Keldergoat]

What a stage.

Quite baffled by both UAE's and Lidl Trek's strategy, both didn't really seem to pan out a winning strategy. If UAE truly wants to put minutes into Roglic they would let Yates and McNulty ride their asses off until the last 1,5km but both were fresh enough to end in the top-12 on a steep climb like Sta Catharina, then you've been sandbagging all along.

And Lidl-Trek: what was Vacek's move all about, blowing yourself up to close a 1 minute gap to get dropped right after? If he would play the domestique role for Ciccone it would be end of story for Roglic, Gee and Storer's GC right now.

Kuddos to Ineos for their ballsy strategy, it's a bummer that Arensman got a mechanical cause he was crazy strong next to Rivera, they diserved more than what they got for. Apparently Arensman finished the last 40 km on Ben Turners bike btw.

Anyhow, I loved it.