Giro 2022- Stage 1: Budapest – Visegrád 195 km ***Spoilers***

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    ddraver said:

    So...

    Gutted for Girmay (although does go into white)
    MvdP looking on form
    Caleb exceptional
    Carapaz best of the GC

    Pello Bilbao is now 4 seconds of the rest of the GC guys.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Mvdp looks super lean
    "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
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    MvdP almost taking his eye out on the podium
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited May 2022
    blazing_saddles said:

    ddraver said:

    So...

    Gutted for Girmay (although does go into white)
    MvdP looking on form
    Caleb exceptional
    Carapaz best of the GC

    Pello Bilbao is now 4 seconds of the rest of the GC guys.

    Carapaz and Kelderman got the same time

    Martin lost 12, Sivakov 19,
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    I once sat on a safety committee where someone did require treatment following this injury at a staff celebration event . Decision was to request a senior staff member should be present when corks popped.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Health and safety madness
    "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
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Studio team on gcn is excellent. Would be great company in a bar.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Mad_Malx said:

    I once sat on a safety committee where someone did require treatment following this injury at a staff celebration event . Decision was to request a senior staff member should be present when corks popped.

    Someone to aim at I guess
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  • notquite6foot
    notquite6foot Posts: 248
    edited May 2022
    Apparently Magnus Cort is British now, or so the Giro website implies...

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220506160355/https://www.giroditalia.it/en/classifiche/
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    ddraver said:

    So...

    Gutted for Girmay (although does go into white)
    MvdP looking on form
    Caleb exceptional
    Carapaz best of the GC

    Pello Bilbao is now 4 seconds of the rest of the GC guys.

    Carapaz and Kelderman got the same time

    Martin lost 12, Sivakov 19,
    He gets a 4 second bonus for finishing 3rd.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    ddraver said:

    McEwan has thoroughly understood the GCN fashion assignment...

    His airline lost his baggage so either a) that's what he travelled in b) he bought that in the past few days c) he borrowed it from Blythe or d) he borrowed it from Orla
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    blazing_saddles said:

    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    ddraver said:

    So...

    Gutted for Girmay (although does go into white)
    MvdP looking on form
    Caleb exceptional
    Carapaz best of the GC

    Pello Bilbao is now 4 seconds of the rest of the GC guys.

    Carapaz and Kelderman got the same time

    Martin lost 12, Sivakov 19,
    He gets a 4 second bonus for finishing 3rd.
    Of course he does
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    MvdP

    Just lush.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    It is not lost on me that the sprinter with the stupid position which means he can’t see anything crashed into a wheel in front 50m before the line.
    _
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    rick_chasey said:

    It is not lost on me that the sprinter with the stupid position which means he can’t see anything crashed into a wheel in front 50m before the line.

    At least when he withdraws he'll be able to blame it on feeling sore from the crash rather than having to blame a "Twisted Tonsil" (My thanks to Robbie McEwen for that turn of phrase 😎)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    After this clip emerged Van der Poel has been banned from entering Italy, so will abandon after stage 3

    Twitter: @RichN95
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    rick_chasey said:

    It is not lost on me that the sprinter with the stupid position which means he can’t see anything crashed into a wheel in front 50m before the line.

    I don't think his position had anything to do with it, it was just one of those incidents when you are at your absolute limit and make a momentary error in judgement. I think the fact that he was there and contending for the win was pretty exceptional, none of the other pure sprinters were anywhere to be seen.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,165
    I think even he should have been able to see the bike in front.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,475
    "Should have been able" certainly, but maybe he was just so on the limit maxed out HR that he really didn't see anything anymore let alone make a decision. He needed to have moved left if passing was ever supposed to be an option, but MvdP came past there a second or two before. Girmay was maybe tiring just at that moment, Ewan had 1-2 more pedal strokes in him and just clipped the wheel.
    Makes him look really silly, but I feel sorry for him. Was just a mistake anyone could make when maxed out to that level.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Let’s just be clear here, no way was Ewan winning that stage, even with a clear road.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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