Teams & Riders Giulio Pellizzari is the next Giulio Ciccone

[Samu Cuenca]

Bora made a tactical mistake. Should have sat up in stage 16, so he would have freedom to infiltrate breaks. he would have won today's stage from the break.

He's already raced one Giro where that was his goal. He went to this race to be a domestique, but now he's proved to be one of the strongest climbers himself and it's still possible for him to break into the top 5. There's absolutely nothing wrong with targeting the GC now, which will also be a more valuable experience for him going forward.

 

[Red Rick]

He's already had raced one Giro where that was his goal. He went to this race to be a domestique, but now he's proved to be one of the strongest climbers himself and it's still possible for him to break into the top 5. There's absolutely nothing wrong with targeting the GC now, which will also be a more valuable experience for him going forward.

The stage to win easily from the break was yesterday, today it got mowed down on a false flat where he wouldn't have survived.

And he still might get a stage win if he gets away with the right group.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The stage to win easily from the break was yesterday, today it got mowed down on a false flat where he wouldn't have survived.

And he still might get a stage win if he gets away with the right group.

I think he would have had a chance from the break today if he had failed to follow the favourites yesterday. Bardet wasn't far from making it.

If Roglič hadn't started yesterday, then I still think it would have been a reasonable choice to see what he could achieve from the GC group before deciding on something else. Of course if he now cracks on Friday, then he and the team risk going home with nothing, but you can't blame Pellizzari for their other riders not reaching their best levels/not having better luck.

 

[Brullnux]

He's already raced one Giro where that was his goal. He went to this race to be a domestique, but now he's proved to be one of the strongest climbers himself and it's still possible for him to break into the top 5. There's absolutely nothing wrong with targeting the GC now, which will also be a more valuable experience for him going forward.

I also think, given the circumstances, a top five in GC is a better/more fulfilling achievement than a stage win from the break.

 

[Links2003]

I also think, given the circumstances, a top five in GC is a better/more fulfilling achievement than a stage win from the break.

For the team, a stage win would be more important than 5th place. They need a success after the difficult Giro and the generally poor first half of the year. Chef Denk also made it clear today that they want a stage win, which will be difficult.
I don't know what's better for Giulio. Top 5 or top 8 would of course be a great achievement. Maybe that's even the bigger goal for him personally. But a stage win remains. He hasn't won much as a pro yet. As a clear classification rider, it doesn't get any easier if you're not so strong in sprints. That's why a stage win would be worth more than 5th place from my point of view, even if a performance over 3 weeks is stronger than on a single day.

 

[Red Rick]

Given circumstances, top 5 is clearly better especially if you do it with a show of force in the final 2 mountain stages.

 

[Pippo_San]

I expected a little bit more from him today. He really looks like an Ivan Basso sort of climber, tho without his panache yet. A very diesel sort of climber. And a naturally aspirated one, not turbo.

 

[yaco]

He's already raced one Giro where that was his goal. He went to this race to be a domestique, but now he's proved to be one of the strongest climbers himself and it's still possible for him to break into the top 5. There's absolutely nothing wrong with targeting the GC now, which will also be a more valuable experience for him going forward.

You ride for GC when you specifically prepare for this event. For example, he rode a soft 2nd ITT which is not conducive to GC. It will be hard but not impossible for him to win a stage from the GC group.

 

[SafeBet]

Rewatched his Mortirolo descent.
Dropped the maglia rosa group quickly. Bridged to Carapaz. Dropped Carapaz for good and was at least 20" ahead at the end of the descent.

Not bad for someone who was perceived as a terrible descender.

 

[Red Rick]

Rewatched his Mortirolo descent.
Dropped the maglia rosa group quickly. Bridged to Carapaz. Dropped Carapaz for good and was at least 20" ahead at the end of the descent.

Not bad for someone who was perceived as a terrible descender.

Took 30s on anyone who matters on the Strava segment, and all of that was in the final 10 minutes of the descent so he wasn't even trying in the first part.