Soudal-Quickstep has unfortunately suffered four more COVID-19 positives, with Jan Hirt, Josef Cerny, Louis Vervaeke and Mattia Cattaneo.
Geoghagan Hart taken away in an ambulance. Rodriguez also crashes out.
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Roglic and Sepp Kuss also had nasty stacks.
This year’s Giro has a real “hunger games” feeling about it.
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will be a small field on the last stage.
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Groves abandons after 30km
Cort is a lucky rider - In this stage he could not bridge up to Demarche and Gee to join the breakaway and got lucky when Bais broke away from the peleton and dragged Cort up to the break - Go back to the TDF stage he won from Schultz last year - Schultz attacked the breakaway group and the only reason Cort could get back was because Kamna was chasing the yellow jersey and brought the group back.
Jayco got their tactics wrong in today’s stage - They had to get DeMarche in the break as Bling was never getting over the final climb - At the same time, DeMarche would never let four riders left a group of 24 - Better for Jayco to sit in the peleton in today’s Queen stage and support Dunbar and wait for stage 14 and 15 - Although, Bling won A stage he is not in top form.
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Sep got a finger caught in his spokes trying to get his leg warmers off. Ouch!
Hard to have sympathy for such a dumb move!
That’s a happy stage winner.
Horrible weather again.
Riders being put on a bus and the first climb will be avoided.
Start of the race will be the bottom of the Croix de Couer.
Mads Pederson out with “flu like symptoms”.
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Start is at 10:30 AEST, and as per the last paragraph below could be “fun”.
Stage 13 of the Giro is not currently happening. It started (sort of) but has now stopped, and riders are being driven to Switzerland after the first 125km of the stage were cut due to adverse weather.
The stage will therefore skip the Passo Gran San Bernardo entirely, the highest mountain of this year’s Giro having already been cut down in size earlier this week. We will still do the Croix de Coeur and its descent - despite fears over the safety of the latter - before heading on to the summit finish at Crans-Montana.
The stage is 74.6km long, it starts at 14:30 local time, and it could be absolute carnage as it heads up and down a huge mountain from kilometre-zero.
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Horrible weather entire tour. This is usually a fair weather event?
The Giro has the least predictable weather, being held in spring.
There’s some talk about the Vuelta and Giro swapping time slots, that would mean avoiding Spain’s hottest weather and giving the Giro more stable weather.
I can’t see it happening.
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It only rained one day in the 2022 Giro. They got lucky.
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Make that 11:00
Turns out buses are slower than bikes (yes, they traveled along the race route).
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Watching the SBS replay of the Mathews stage win (compensation for the late start today) , not a mask in sight, crowd around him , lots of hugging
LOL at leading one minute into the race, and your chain breaks! No chance to catch up, day ruined.
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Pinot gets 40 points for the first peak.
It’s a wet narrow bumpy descent.
Try not to die.
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The Giro does not help themselves with their course design - Italy has the best terrain of any of the GT’s but has no idea how to use their natural resources - They should be having two high mountain stages in week one and two and then have 2 or 3 in the final, instead of backlogging the route with monster stages - They should also have more varied transitional stages and get rid of these 220+ flat stages and reduce them to 180kms.
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