Giro 2023: Stage 20: Tarvisio – Monte Lussari 18.6 km ITT Half Flat, Half Cliff ***Spoilers***
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Well dispite being a flawed giro you'll remember 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 pm0
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He doesn’t sound American either, more like an East European who has learned ‘American’ Englishmididoctors said:SEP kuss looks like a thunderbird jerry Anderson character
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Based on previous form isn't it worth ignoring this poster entirely?Pross said:
Yeah, of course he did. No rider is deliberately giving their opponent a 24” lead into the final proper stage.zest28 said:Roglic gave Thomas the Pogacar treatment. Letting Thomas race in 1st place for weeks and take it on the last day.
Obviously Roglic wanted to be in the leaders jersey...0 -
Truebianchi_dave said:
Not knocking him at all, just the accumulated fatigue will have affected him more than a few years agomididoctors said:
G rode a perfect race to maximise his ability ... Ineos RODE FANTASTICALLY. he came 2nd in that ttbianchi_dave said:G's age catching up with him there I reckon 😪
He rode as good a race as he could"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 pm1 -
“At least he smashed me” great response. Blythe really didn’t want to ask the question1
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TGH would have won"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 pm2
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Great interview"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 pm0
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“What is it with the Gees in the race coming second”
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G - "I'm on the piss for the next few months!" 😂Scott Foil RC
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Surprising for that eraRichN95. said:
1948 - 11 secondsrick_chasey said:Were any Giros closer than that?
"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 pm0 -
"What is it with G's finishing 2nd in this race?" 🤣0
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
The perfect, mega steep ITT, virtually on home Roglic soil was always going to be a bridge too far for Geraint.
Roglic has now won a GT without making a single, time gaining attack. (unless you count his 3 second sprint)
Overall, a deadly dull affair.
The RCS need to take a long hard look at how they put this race together. Back loading to this extent isn't working. Fewer huge mountains and more rolling terrain which favours attacking must be the way forward."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.2 -
Yeah I was dubious tooPross said:
Don’t see how they catch Cort if Geraint hadn’t tried to attach, it was that which pulled him back.mididoctors said:
I saw somewhere if he had just ridden defensive pace roglic would have gained an extra sec because cort would have been caught .roglic sprints gets time bonus and dispite g finishing with no time gaps loses 4 secsPross said:I reckon that bit of extra effort at the end yesterday may have done the damage there.
"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 pm0 -
Whole race was attritionalblazing_saddles said:The perfect, mega steep ITT, virtually on home Roglic soil was always going to be a bridge too far for Geraint.
Roglic has now won a GT without making a single, time gaining attack. (unless you count his 3 second sprint)
Overall, a deadly dull affair.
The RCS need to take a long hard look at how they put this race together. Back loading to this extent isn't working. Fewer huge mountains and more rolling terrain which favours attacking must be the way forward."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 pm0 -
All anyone will remember is that the race lead changed hand by a few seconds on the final stage which will turn it into an exciting race. Basically the way to get a close finish in a GT seems to be to make it boring so no-one gains big time early.blazing_saddles said:The perfect, mega steep ITT, virtually on home Roglic soil was always going to be a bridge too far for Geraint.
Roglic has now won a GT without making a single, time gaining attack. (unless you count his 3 second sprint)
Overall, a deadly dull affair.
The RCS need to take a long hard look at how they put this race together. Back loading to this extent isn't working. Fewer huge mountains and more rolling terrain which favours attacking must be the way forward.
Good timing to wear pink for the first time in your career.0 -
Very classy from G in the interview. Hats off to the guy, I'd be fuming lol.1
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The fact he doesn't go around kicking puppies or slashing the tyres on the JV bus on these occasions might be exactly why people always underestimate him.bobmcstuff said:Very classy from G in the interview. Hats off to the guy, I'd be fuming lol.
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I thought a lot teams rode well .... It got super tactical everywhere .
The dumbest tactical moment was pinot but it was kinda entertaining too"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 pm0 -
Class act and gets betterbobmcstuff said:Very classy from G in the interview. Hats off to the guy, I'd be fuming lol.
"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 pm1 -
Got to be absolutely mentally nails to be able to prepare and then race like he does and then also have perspective.Lanterne_Rogue said:
The fact he doesn't go around kicking puppies or slashing the tyres on the JV bus on these occasions might be exactly why people always underestimate him.bobmcstuff said:Very classy from G in the interview. Hats off to the guy, I'd be fuming lol.
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Decent TT. Much more interesting than the usual ones.0
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Well, yeah. I mean Gee, not Geegethinceri said:We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Obviously I've no way of verifying this from Twitter
But sharing anyway
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
And just caught up with the stage. Jings. Good watch. Well done Primož, tough on G.1
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I was just coming on to post that. Very cool if true. Lots of people saying it is so below.tailwindhome said:Obviously I've no way of verifying this from Twitter
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Apparently most of the Slovenian ski jumping team was on the climb supporting so it's very credible0
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Not sure I agree Thomas rode the best race he could - maybe a bit more ambition could have put time into Roglic earlier in the race.
We don't know of course but if Roglic has been gaining form since the crash maybe there was an opportunity to take advantage before today.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0
