Giro 2024:- Stage 2: San Francesco al Campo – Santuario di Oropa (Biella), 161.0km ***Spoilers***

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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,026

    4.3 kms to go. No one able to go with him

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,952

    Pogacar leaves the building.

    Nobody can live with him.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    The most predictable attack ever but hardly anyone can stay with him.

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,026

    G & Ben O'Connor next on road.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    G and O’Connor working to hold on but it’s already a decent gap.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,611

    Not getting as big a separation as expected....

    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    Fair sized group reforming behind but steepest section to come

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,952

    LOL

    Pozzovivo isn’t too far off.

    A different set of casualties today.

    Not going to be many left standing after today

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,952

    Dani Martinez not helping the pursuit.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,611

    O Conner dropped himself

    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,952

    O’Connor’s wheels come off. The price for trying to go with Pog.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    O’Connor showing what happens when you try to follow a Pog attack and gets dropped from the chasing group

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    Gap not really going anywhere at the moment, a lot of effort for 30”.

  • jgsi2024
    jgsi2024 Posts: 11

    A Cat 1 on Day 2...well who'd a thunk it.. mind you... he's a beast to appreciate.. killed the race tho , lol

  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,026

    Martinez second, G third

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,611

    G is so experienced

    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    Martinez from G to complete the podium. 27” behind.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,611

    Funny old sport cycling innit

    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    Narvaez put in a decent effort but loses 2 minutes in the end.

  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,012

    Hatch, I think, asked what was going through O'Conners mind as he went backwards. "At least no one would of been dumb enough to of picked me for stage and GC in the BR Forums PTP game...." 😕

  • jgsi2024
    jgsi2024 Posts: 11

    On RAI , I've lost count of the Pantani mentions..

  • stage_hunter
    stage_hunter Posts: 239

    I wouldnt be so sure. An attack like that 5km from the finish and he gains 27” only? This race isnt over- though he is very likely to win

  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,187
    edited May 5

    He's taking it easy. There's no point working harder than he needs to. I'm not sure the other teams are trying to race him anyway. Ineos looked to be riding the race as though he wasn't there (fairly sensibly IMO)

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 41,183

    He didn’t look like he was taking it easy, his face was showing far more effort than it usually does when he’s on the attack.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,101

    I agree. G very much looked like he is racing for second.

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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,217

    Which is what he should be doing. Look what happened to Ben O'Connor when he tried to hang with Pog. Race for second then if incident or accident intervenes you might end up in the Maglia Rosa

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,101
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • stage_hunter
    stage_hunter Posts: 239

    My feeling is that he may be a little under cooked deliberately and will get better in week 3, but you never know, and it is not a race to write off yet.

  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,187
    edited May 5

    They're not delusional enough to believe Thomas can beat Pogacar in a straight race. By far their best chance of winning the Giro is to be in second place if something goes wrong with Pogacar. And if it doesn't they're still second, which is great for a rider that turns 38 this month. Uijtdebroeks was three years old when he turned pro.

    I see a lot of Twitter DSs, who are unencumbered by reality, thinking they should take the fight to UAE (on Stage 2!) with some ropey tactics (e.g. send Ganna in the break and wear them down, as if that's going to work). They are not racing UAE, they're racing everyone else.

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,101
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.