Giro Stage 2 2021 Stupinigi (Nichelino) - Novara **Spoilers**

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  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    edited May 2021
    Is Bernal going for the stage?!


    No, just staying safe through that narrow section.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Tim Merlier takes it with ease
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,833
    Barriers did their job there...
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Very, very poor from Lotto. Terrible positioning.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Poor Nizzolo
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    bobmcstuff said:

    Very, very poor from Lotto. Terrible positioning.

    Far too far back when it mattered.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    mrb123 said:

    Barriers did their job there...

    Shouldn’t have had to given Gaviria was put into them by Richeze. :o

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    What’s happening?
    _
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited May 2021
    Not so Caleb Ewany 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
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Lol at UAE.

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited May 2021
    Ganna was pulling hard even after the 3km ... Expected a split in the bunch through the bendy bits maybe ?
    "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
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    rick_chasey said:

    What’s happening?

    absolutely nothing tbh.

    dull as.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    blazing_saddles said:

    Marengo is in the break and less than an hour down the autostrada, is where the Battle of Marengo (That bloke Napoleon again) took place, near the city of Alessandria. (can be seen on the stage map.)

    If only Carlton had been commentating, we'd have had something about will Marengo win this battle or will he meet his Waterloo.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    MattFalle said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What’s happening?

    absolutely nothing tbh.

    dull as.
    Pan flat stage of the first GT of the year the day after a full-effort time trial. What do people expect?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Marengo is in the break and less than an hour down the autostrada, is where the Battle of Marengo (That bloke Napoleon again) took place, near the city of Alessandria. (can be seen on the stage map.)

    If only Carlton had been commentating, we'd have had something about will Marengo win this battle or will he meet his Waterloo.
    The trouble is, that as funny as this is, it's absolutely guaranteed to be true.

    A bit worrying that both Dan Lloyd and Brian Smith are adopting some of his isms.
    Today we had several "buying the right to fights" from BS.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,489
    edited May 2021
    mididoctors said:

    Ganna was pulling hard even after the 3km ... Expected a split in the bunch through the bendy bits maybe ?

    That's what I thought but he eased up after the bendy bits.
    A combination of fearing a split and/or an ouch moment?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    blazing_saddles said:

    Pross said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Marengo is in the break and less than an hour down the autostrada, is where the Battle of Marengo (That bloke Napoleon again) took place, near the city of Alessandria. (can be seen on the stage map.)

    If only Carlton had been commentating, we'd have had something about will Marengo win this battle or will he meet his Waterloo.
    The trouble is, that as funny as this is, it's absolutely guaranteed to be true.

    A bit worrying that both Dan Lloyd and Brian Smith are adopting some of his isms.
    Today we had several "buying the right to fights" from BS.

    I think it might be a bit of inside Micky taking (or at least I hope so).
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    mrb123 said:

    Barriers did their job there...

    I haven't seen a replay, only live when it happened, but how come Gaviria didn't manage to rip open his forearm, unintentionally running it all along the barrier like that?
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    andyp said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    Very, very poor from Lotto. Terrible positioning.

    Far too far back when it mattered.
    I heard someone during the stage say that Ewan never tries for the first sprint stage in any GT.

    I also read earlier today, that Nizzolo said the following before the stage, "Today is for me a less good stage than tomorrow.“

    If true about Ewan, I wish I had known beforehand. And also that I'd not believed Nizzolo.
    I mean both before today's PTP deadline.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited May 2021
    salsiccia1 said:

    MattFalle said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What’s happening?

    absolutely nothing tbh.

    dull as.
    Pan flat stage of the first GT of the year the day after a full-effort time trial. What do people expect?
    Someone to post who the winner was!

    Anyway, I picked a good day to have a very long lunch with the family in the garden by the sounds of it
    _
  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    Will Viviani ever win another stage or has the curse of moving to Cofidis set in.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    edited May 2021
    rick_chasey said:

    salsiccia1 said:

    MattFalle said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What’s happening?

    absolutely nothing tbh.

    dull as.
    Pan flat stage of the first GT of the year the day after a full-effort time trial. What do people expect?
    Someone to post who the winner was!

    Anyway, I picked a good day to have a very long lunch with the family in the garden by the sounds of it
    What, something like this for example?
    blazing_saddles said:

    Tim Merlier takes it with ease

  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,982
    How about actually going for a ride and getting back and watching the last 10 minutes...that's what I did.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:


    rick_chasey said:

    salsiccia1 said:

    MattFalle said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What’s happening?

    absolutely nothing tbh.

    dull as.
    Pan flat stage of the first GT of the year the day after a full-effort time trial. What do people expect?
    Someone to post who the winner was!

    Anyway, I picked a good day to have a very long lunch with the family in the garden by the sounds of it
    What, something like this for example?
    blazing_saddles said:

    Tim Merlier takes it with ease

    Proof, once again that Rick rarely reads my posts unless they contain the abbreviation WVA, or the many "E"s of Dylan Groenewegen.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Honestly, I thought you meant he was taking it up on the front!
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited May 2021
    Tim Merlier pulling on the front instead of sprinting?
    Sounds plausible.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    blazing_saddles said:

    Tim Merlier pulling on the front instead of sprinting?
    Sounds plausible.

    Yeah first I'd heard of him. I'm not as up on cycling as I was pre-child.
    _

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