Giro d'Italia Giro Stage 5: Modena – Cattolica 175 km

[Alexandre B.]

You really wouldn't want to be a Pinot and Landa fan in these times.

 

[spalco]

I don't mind these stages when they are useless and boring, but if they are worse than useless it's really ***.

Poor Landa.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Molano is the anti Morkov it seems. Absolutely useless again

He’s been a liability

 

[Escarabajo]

If you are a rider that is constantly crashing you must ask yourself if something is wrong with your skills!! many riders in the past have not been able to cope in the European peloton because of lack of these skills. That is part of the race.

 

[titan31]

If you are a rider that is constantly crashing you must ask yourself if something is wrong with your skills!! many riders in the past have not been able to cope in the European peloton because of lack of these skills. That is part of the race.

I'd like to see the crash again tbh to see what happened with the signal caller

 

[tobydawq]

If you are a rider that is constantly crashing you must ask yourself if something is wrong with your skills!! many riders in the past have not been able to cope in the European peloton because of lack of these skills. That is part of the race.

Yeah, it's so easy to do much when an idiot (Dombrowski) just barges in, crashing directly in front of you because he doesn't have eyes.

 

[Gigs_98]

That finish line camera already zooming in on Nizzolo's face because the camera man thought he would win just to film how he is shaking his head while Ewan crosses the frame celebrating, perfectly sums up Nizzolo's career.

 

[Laplaz]

Poor Mikel terrible stage ffs

 

[Scarponi]

If you are a rider that is constantly crashing you must ask yourself if something is wrong with your skills!! many riders in the past have not been able to cope in the European peloton because of lack of these skills. That is part of the race.

Tbh some people are unlucky, Cadel Evans crashed a lot but was a great bike handler

 

[TourOfSardinia]

6 Italians in top 10

 

[spalco]

Yeah, it's so easy to do much when an idiot (Dombrowski) just barges in, crashing directly in front of you because he doesn't have eyes.

He has a point though. Everyone can have bad luck, but if you're unlucky all the time, maybe it's not about chance.

 

[Panda Claws]

A bit disappointed in Sagan tbh. I expected him to find better form throughout the year but so far it's still not that great.

 

[BlueRoads]

If you are a rider that is constantly crashing you must ask yourself if something is wrong with your skills!! many riders in the past have not been able to cope in the European peloton because of lack of these skills. That is part of the race.

Sorry, no. Although I agree in general that bike handling is part of the job, this was a really dangerous finale after such an easy stage - many, many harsh bends, roundabouts, lots of narrowings and divisions, constantly roads got narrow, than broad again.
If you know there is no way out of a bunch sprint anyway, why then have such last 15k? You KNOW 100% that crashes will happen. In a GT that's just not necessary.

 

[46&twoWheels]

surrounding riders = most dangerous and unpredictable part of the road

bringing the risk to 0 is impossible ...sadly

 

[King Boonen]

Worse than Scheldeprijs.

 

[Eeslliw]

Molano is the anti Morkov it seems. Absolutely useless again

Maybe is Gaviria the one to fault? Unable to follow his teammate?

 

[movingtarget]

Ewan got a nice lead out by UAE before being momentarily balked by the rider that unclipped. Nizzolo thought he had it won by the shake of the head.

 

[saunaking]

Yeah, it's so easy to do much when an idiot (Dombrowski) just barges in, crashing directly in front of you because he doesn't have eyes.

Are you basing this on something you saw or just an assumption?

 

[Red Rick]

Petition to unrelegate Nizzolo from that one time he actually finished first.

 

[tobydawq]

He has a point though. Everyone can have bad luck, but if you're unlucky all the time, maybe it's not about chance.

Or maybe it is.

There was nothing he could have done there.

 

[tobydawq]

Are you basing this on something you saw or just an assumption?

Something I saw, of course.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

That finish line camera already zooming in on Nizzolo's face because the camera man thought he would win just to film how he is shaking his head while Ewan crosses the frame celebrating, perfectly sums up Nizzolo's career.

I don’t know about that. A million second places at the Giro has to be pretty frustrating, but his career as a whole is very good for a sprinter who just isn’t as fast as a load of other sprinters.

 

[Panda Claws]

Nizzolo's bad luck is actually my favorite narrative to follow so far this Giro. It just really needs a happy ending.

 

[shalgo]

Worse than Scheldeprijs.

Yes, I was about to say that this was the Scheldeprijs of GT stages.

 

[movingtarget]

Looks like a a rider rode straight into the marshall where Landa went down.