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Still got it!
Wow I thought he had gone far too soon, bloody good win that.
I like Orla's outfit today too 🤪
I thought she was heading straight out as a dancer of debatable reputation
Orla's outfits are legendary, they need a FB feed on their own. You're hosting a cycling show, but going straight to the nightclub after...... what do you wear?
Cav is my man crush and I don't mind admitting it.
The year is 2054. 'Surely Cav is past his best now' say the pundits as he wins his 350th grand tour stage.
Any channel showing it without Hatch commentary?
>Any channel showing it without Hatch commentary?
S4C, with Peredur ap Gwynedd
Missed the first three stages and didn't hit record 😭
Where's best for write ups? I think my usual go-to (Cyclingnews I think) is now paywalled for me...
Ta
>Missed the first three stages and didn’t hit record 😭
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Thanks nbt 👍
Note, the S4C coverage is welsh language commentary...
On another note - Lol
https://twitter.com/DanDeakins/status/1523335234380439552
This transfer is crazy.
I don't think the cycling is in the free catch up. That's just the dregs of an already awful package @nbt @13thfloormonk
This transfer is crazy.
didn't give it a second thought until I looked, 1800 odd km and 22 hours of driving, bit of a logistical nightmare that
Riders are flying, but someone will have to drive the buses and team trucks. I'd imagine they'd have set off yesterday
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Re: transfers, tour of Hungary starts on Wednesday so perhaps teams with sufficient number of buses can leave a bus and teams cars in Hungary and have more waiting in Sicily.
Not sure if pro riders use several 'copies' of the same bike or have a proper A bike and don't really like using the back up. Either way guess some poor sods are driving to Sicily.
Not sure if pro riders use several ‘copies’ of the same bike
will depend on the team budget I would have thought,
Stage 4 Avola - Mount Etna
https://inrng.com/2022/05/giro-stage-4-preview-etna/#more-40685
Think the burden of taking pink too early might lead to something of a stalemate amongst GC contenders. One for the opportunists.
Fascinating thread on the 2002 Giro here from a fairly notorious Twitter source.
https://twitter.com/oufeh/status/1523937827234492416?s=21&t=KqpAateHpJ0E8xjUOOcGZA
So I am paying for Euro/discovery...why is there no commentary?
Miguel Angel Lopez has climbed off, left hip injury apparently 🙁
Etna!
Any channel showing it without Hatch commentary?
He's actually not too bad, they rotate the commentators a bit on EuroSport now so you don't have to sit through 6hrs of the same guy.
Robbie McEwen is a co-commentator at the moment, he's good.
Edit: Sean Kelly is maakin de cal-cul-aation about time gaps now.
This is shaping up to be a goodun. Taaramae, in my dream team, looking strong.
Nibali pops!
Kiss of bloody death right there...
I've had two winners and a second and a third yet am something like 8,000th in the league 😳
So ....
Plenty of the big names have either quit or have fallen away from GC on the first mountain stage... Bit disappointing.
Plenty of racing left still to come...
Please let 'Yatesy' be ok. It looked as though he had a knee injury, but I didn't see the crash.
Any channel showing it without Hatch commentary?
He’s actually not too bad
He's fine IMO, but having come back to watching road racing after a bit of a break, I've notice he's got more lyrical and Kirby-esque. Might not be to everyone's taste.
Plenty of the big names have either quit or have fallen away from GC on the first mountain stage… Bit disappointing.
It's looking quite interesting now with some good climbers holding holding a solid lead over the favourites. I suspect Ineos were working to limit the losses yesterday, rather than to go for the stage.
It looked as though he had a knee injury, but I didn’t see the crash.
It looked like a fairly slow coming together of several riders in a narrow street. I'm not sure Yates actually went down. Maybe he just knocked his knee.
I suspect Ineos were working to limit the losses yesterday, rather than to go for the stage.
Ineos seemed to be riding on the front for little actual purpose. Weird. They had no particular reason to be there but the whole team was setting tempo on the front of the peloton, it just seemed like burning energy for little actual reward. At one point Carapaz had to do a fair chunk of work to get back to the front - not sure if he had a mechanical or just went to the team car or what but he was way down in the field for a while before clawing back to the front.
there was a suggestion that they were pushing the pace to see how Yates would respond given his pparent knee issues.
"Quite well" would seem to be the answer
I hear Richie Porte was transferred off the mountain by helicopter. Is he the Ineos leader now?
yeh yeh racing, but the topic of the day has to be - Orla's socks. And high heels. WTAF?
Snoozefest with a good sprint yesterday. Fast-forwarded to the last 5km, then watched Robbie McEwan and Adam Blythe do the sprint analysis on the Breakaway show which is always interesting.
Apparently if you can knock out about 220W for 5 hours you could have finished in the bunch yesterday: https://cyclingtips.com/2022/05/by-the-numbers-just-how-easy-was-the-giros-stage-6-snoozefest/
Hilly, probable breakaway stage today.
https://inrng.com/2022/05/giro-stage-7-preview-potenza/
Tom Dumoulin on the break today. Lots of ways to interpret this but I just love seeing a GT winner squeezing what they can out of a race once they’re out of GC
Early days but RedAjax - Tove W, is doing well in the STW velogames league, 97th position out of 18268. Good rider choice.
Yesterday was a goodun and today looks another. Hoping for some MvdP action but if Cort pulled something out the bag for my dream team I'd be happy.
Rapid start to today's stage.
Even Sean Kelly is managing to sound excited!
This is cracking, Thomas de Gendt is a machine.
Looks like the break might come back together.
Thomas de Gendt is a machine
aye
Thoroughly deserved.
Called that wrong didn't I? Great racing and good team tactics.
. Still lots of people close on GC, and reassuring to see that Guillame Martin has lost some time that he’ll get back in a breakaway.
Just quoting myself from 6 days ago because I like to congratulate myself for pointing out the obvious