Tour of the Alps 2026, April 20-24

[AnotherArmChair]

Tuned in to see Pozzo leading a bunch including Vlasov and co up a hill. At 43 he is beating guys who weren't even born when he took up the piano

It does the heart good to see that God awful style back in the peloton. pity no Giro as he might have pulled off something on a stage

 

[Berniece]

RBH is here with quite a strong team. I guess they will just control it. They might let the break win, but make sure they aren't too far ahead.

 

[Brullnux]

Graphic says the first climb earlier in the stage is 22.4km at 5.7%? But agree a breakaway win is the obvious outcome.

Yeah I exaggerated. After the first climb it is up and down on very shallow gradients I guess is what I actually meant

 

[Remy55]

start at 10:30, finish expected for 14:30

broadcast starts at 12:30

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The stage finishes earlier, but it will obviously still lose the competition against FW for viewership and attention, so I don't think it's a problem that it isn't harder. They probably want the GC to still be fairly tight before the last two days or hope someone can make an Arensman/Gee like ambush today or tomorrow. However with BORA looking very strong they should be able to keep things under control and decide for themselves whether they want to go for the stage wins or not.

 

[SafeBet]

Massive crash. Finn DNF.

 

[Remy55]

Finn abandoned

 

[Faserr]

A shame. Hopefully not badly injured.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So much for me saying BORA had a strong team. Howson also out after looking decent yesterday so it's all about Harper now for Q36.5.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Langelotti also abandoned, engelhart too.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Too bad about the crash.
Anybody with local knowledge about the weather.

 

[Remy55]

weather is good

 

[Netserk]

Massive crash. Finn DNF.

30 riders down after just 4 km on what i suppose is the main valley road . we should get some images of it at the start of coverage

 

[Brullnux]

Massive crash. Finn DNF.

Real shame. He looked like the had the form to keep up with WT climbers.

 

[tobydawq]

6 DNFs from one crash. That sounds very serious.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Only two riders up the road with 2mins. Hopefully that will change when we hit the Andalo in about 10kms. Live pics coming shortly (5 mins or so).

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Wow, I didn't realize that Picnic's last victory was 10 month ago. That's quite impressive for a WT team...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Wow, I didn't realize that Picnic's last victory was 10 month ago. That's quite impressive for a WT team...

I wonder how they entire Picnic team would perform as a competitor in the 'most top 10s without a win' leaderboard. I don't even think they get a lot of top 10s.

 

[Netserk]

dafuq

basically at km 0

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I wonder how they entire Picnic team would perform as a competitor in the 'most top 10s without a win' leaderboard. I don't even think they get a lot of top 10s.

The Top results on PCS count 9 Top 10s this season. 5 of them Bittner. ...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Really nasty crash at the start, high pace, right at the front of the peloton.

 

[armchairclimber]

Finn having to DNF ... couldn't make it up.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Good chance for Pidcock to win a stage today by outsprinting the likes of Vlasov and Florian ‚Cipollini‘ Stork

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Good chance for Pidcock to win a stage today by outsprinting the likes of Vlasov and Florian ‚Cipollini‘ Stork

looking better today. team's pulling.

 

[Berniece]

Good chance for Pidcock to win a stage today by outsprinting the likes of Vlasov and Florian ‚Cipollini‘ Stork

Dati Tommaso still there?