Giro 2021:- Stage 9: Castel di Sangro – Campo Felice 158 km **Spoilers**

daniel_b said:

bobmcstuff said:

Yeah he said something about touching wheels with an Ineos rider on Twitter or Instagram (forget which), which put him out of position for the gravel bit.

Sounded like excuses to me, his posts often come off a bit like that. But from the sound of it he is under a lot of pressure from the domestic press, so perhaps feels the need to be defensive.

I just watched the English version - I'll paraphrase, but he said than an Ineos rider nearly caught Bernal's wheel, which meant that both him and Bernal went backwards a bit.
It didn't come across as an excuse, more just explaining what had occurred.

Interesting, since his Instagram post reads like an excuse as to why he lost time on Bernal:

Has there been any explanation of why Mohoric's front wheel just stopped?

kingstongraham said:

Has there been any explanation of why Mohoric's front wheel just stopped?

I read that he locked up.
Just what I read though as I've not seen it. Any links?

pblakeney said:

kingstongraham said:

Has there been any explanation of why Mohoric's front wheel just stopped?

I read that he locked up.
Just what I read though as I've not seen it. Any links?

I think Blythe said on the commentary that it looked like he clipped the back wheel then locked up the front in response (or hit something).

I thought he had hit the kerb myself.

bobmcstuff said:

daniel_b said:

bobmcstuff said:

Yeah he said something about touching wheels with an Ineos rider on Twitter or Instagram (forget which), which put him out of position for the gravel bit.

Sounded like excuses to me, his posts often come off a bit like that. But from the sound of it he is under a lot of pressure from the domestic press, so perhaps feels the need to be defensive.

I just watched the English version - I'll paraphrase, but he said than an Ineos rider nearly caught Bernal's wheel, which meant that both him and Bernal went backwards a bit.
It didn't come across as an excuse, more just explaining what had occurred.

Interesting, since his Instagram post reads like an excuse as to why he lost time on Bernal:

Perhaps they summarised it - here is the interview - not sure if this link will work.
https://twitter.com/deceuninck_qst/status/1393977944750559234?s=20

In the post you screenshotted above it just says that 'I lost some spaces' where as in the interview he says 'we lost some places together' so either the article is innacurate, or a press officer realised it would be better to reword for the actual interview.

Regarding which Ineos rider it was, am I right in thinking by the time they reached the tunnel it was only Moscon who was still around - or did more than one Ineos rider go into the tunnel with him? I think the former.

rick_chasey said:

MattFalle said:

Pross said:

It's weird how the hardest of crashes often have a lesser impact than some of the innocuous tumbles.

adopt geeky work voice:

a lot of it is to do with the big ones being massively unexpected so you remain all relaxed and literally bounce along, small ones you see coming you tense up and so the compressive forces travel smack into ypur body breaking and shredding and ripping and tearing things apart.

its why if you see something about to happen you should just chill and go for the ride - its a big thing for motorbike racers - don't fight it, just slide along.

Dramatic crashes usually means the energy is dissipating more slowly - all that energy flipping people, breaking bikes, wheels etc - isn’t going into breaking the rider.

Same with F1 - the dramatic flipping and bits flying off the car means the energy is going into doing that and not into the driver.

It’s the sudden halts that mean the body is having to absorb it all.

its all coup and contra coup, fam.

pblakeney said:

kingstongraham said:

pblakeney said:

kingstongraham said:

Has there been any explanation of why Mohoric's front wheel just stopped?

I read that he locked up.
Just what I read though as I've not seen it. Any links?

https://twitter.com/Sammy__Edmund/status/1393894341194571781

Definitely lost the back wheel, but his front then just stopped.

Could have been an accidental snatch of the brakes, or hitting some kerb as he was close but we can't see. I've done similar twice. Once the bars catching a fence post, the other an accidental brake snatch when hitting a speed bump. Both gave me a hell of a fright but no real damage. I did a fuller somersault both times though.

tbh the roads are so rubbish he could have hit one of the standard issue Abbruzese frickin massive potholes that are dotted everywhere

The trouble with the roglic method of winning stage races the time gaps you gain don't produce a buffer if there is an incident .