Giro 2021:- Stage 8: Foggia – Guardia Sanframondi 170 km **Spoilers**

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  • Think we might finally have a break.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Looks like we might finally have our break and it’s not one packed with potential stage winners.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Peloton still strung out though, this is brutal.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    ....... or not
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Reminds me of a stage in Tour (last year or the one before?) where it took something like two thirds of the stage for things to settle down, at which point everyone was cooked.
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784

    It was due to the crash apparently.
    Wondering about Nibali now

    My feed tells me Ewan was struggling to hang on, and had already indicated he was going to give up sometime today, and then came the crash, so his retiring came a couple of hours earlier.
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    edited May 2021
    PS. Ewan apparently got a 'knock on his right knee'.
    But unclear if that happened before the crash or in the crash. But supposedly he was in pain, and didn't want to carry on.
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 784
    Evidently Ewan had been dropped, was held up by the crash in the tunnel which had happened ahead of him, and although not involved, having lost so much time due to the hold-up, and already not in the best condition, decided to call it a day.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Good that he started in the jersey.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Just in . What's the story so far? this break going to make it?
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Electric gears 🤔😉
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    jimmyjams said:

    Evidently Ewan had been dropped, was held up by the crash in the tunnel which had happened ahead of him, and although not involved, having lost so much time due to the hold-up, and already not in the best condition, decided to call it a day.

    Hang over?
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Ok I’m up on this for a bit.

    40km to go, break at 5”50, long descent into the final rise
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Gouvesrd, Lafayette, ardnt, campanaerts, olivera, gavaira, and a few others

    Gavaria attacks out of the group on a flat section at 37km to go
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited May 2021
    And he crashes
  • Gaviria puts a dig in then instantly stacks it on a corner.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Gaviria attacks the breakaway and ends up going into a concrete wall.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited May 2021

    Completely irrelevant but my nephew just messaged me that he had a bottle of this for his birthday.



    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    He has lost his bottle
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Better safe than sorry
    "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: 22,730
    Groupama rider cornering like a 1970s American saloon.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Good use of the medical car
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Finally a bit of fun in the comms box
  • Breakaway starting to test each other
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    So it is going to come down to who is the least worse climber, wins....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Soz dealing with toddler stuff. At 9km to go the break is still together with 6 minutes but had spent the last 15 or so attacking each other
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Pace picking up in the peloton
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    "He's going to leave him behind. He's going to leave him behind!"

    Thanks to whoever pointed this out, now I can't stop noticing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    I wonder what odds were available on a Cofidis, Kometa, Bardiani stage podium?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Cut back to the GC guys FFS
    "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