2021 Giro D'Italia

[Over The Post]

Who are these babbling Poms?

 

[Orange Agent]

Who are these babbling Poms?

GCN commentators. One is Dan Lloyd. Just wait till Sean Kelly and Brian Smith come on, can't understand a word.

 

[drd23]

Its Keenan and McEwan on the tv. Was what's streamed on the SBS website just the global feed?

 

[Over The Post]

An hour ago. Sheeit.

 

[Orange Agent]

Think I'll watch the highlights, it's too dark can barely tell who's who.

 

[Over The Post]

Its Keenan and McEwan on the tv. Was what's streamed on the SBS website just the global feed?

Yes, K&McE came on the stream at 9:20

 

[drd23]

Geez it is super dark out there

 

[Over The Post]

Glad they showed us what we missed in the ad break.

Gorka Izagirre was very lucky.

 

[eth-dog]

Yates is struggling here. Reckon Bardet will win this.

 

[Over The Post]

Quite impressed with the quality of the coverage, given no helicopters are up. Excellent fallback to use 4G data from the motos.

 

[eth-dog]

Bernal is crazy good.

 

[Over The Post]

Sorry for jinxing it.

 

[eth-dog]

So it's pretty clear it'll be Bernal winning and Caruso seems like he isn't having bad days (yet).

Yates gave me hope for somewhat of a challenge but today has basically put him on the outside chance of a podium. Bardet, Vlasov and Carthy seem to be the three who'll round out the top 5.

Can BikeExchange get a decent GC chance one of these years or?

 

[drd23]

Dominant again by Bernal.

I wonder if DQT are going to continue to insist on Almeida riding for Remco given Almeida might have gained 10+mins on him today?

 

[eth-dog]

Yates only 40 seconds off a podium still. Damn it, I can still dream.

 

[eth-dog]

So let's have a look at the battle for the podium (because let's be honest, Bernal has it bar a crash).

2. Caruso. Can he maintain this form? He's never been in the position to do this.
3. Carthy. Legs look good but he struggled after the rest day last week, can't have a bad day on Wednesday
4. Vlasov. He's struggling, looks like he'll drop away, not completely sure he'll do much.
5. Yates. STOP GIVING ME HOPE YOU BASTARD
6. Ciccone. He's been good. Really good. Not a great TT though, in comparison to a few here.
7. Bardet. Legs look very good. Needs to carry this momentum post rest day.

Remco's fall away was always going to happen given it's his first 3 week race and has barely raced in 12 months. Looking forward to him probably racing the Vuelta and getting a much better result than this.

 

[eth-dog]

Mountains classification is pretty much a race in 2 at this point. There are a maximum of 118 points left in the race for blue. Bouchard probably needs to get in the break again tomorrow and take as many points as possible to be any chance. He'd want to be over 30 ahead of Bernal heading into stage 20 where there's 45 points up for grabs and he can win it on the first climb.

 

[Orange Agent]

Dominant again by Bernal.

I wonder if DQT are going to continue to insist on Almeida riding for Remco given Almeida might have gained 10+mins on him today?

They don't care, he's already signed elsewhere for next year.

 

[Orange Agent]

Racing in these kind of conditions is brutal. Raced up Mt Buffalo one day and it had started snowing at the top, you can't feel your hands to change gears, can't tell if your legs are about to cramp or just frozen from the cold. For Bardet to ride as well for a really thin guy is really impressive. Now the countdown will be on for the Pogacar/Bernal showdown, might have to wait till next year.

 

[eth-dog]

They don't care, he's already signed elsewhere for next year.

Where's he going?

 

[drd23]

Where's he going?

UCI rules mean that can't be announced until August

 

[Orange Agent]

Where's he going?

UAE tried to sign him for this year but that was before they got Hirschi. Lefevre has said they don't want to deal with his manager so have withdrawn from any new contract talks.

 

[yaco55]

The final climb in stage 17 is the toughest of the Giro - Expect significant gaps.

 

[Orange Agent]

Tonight's stage profile has a bit of opportunity for teams to have a crack. Lower altitude so the weather shouldn't be as big of a factor. Bernal just looks too good to get rid of.

 

[drd23]

The final climb in stage 17 is the toughest of the Giro - Expect significant gaps.

Certainly looks it

Apparently this happened when they used this climb during the 2013 Giro del Trentino