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Race Thread: Giro d'Italia 2025 (self.procycling)

submitted 3 weeks ago by EvilCartyen to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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It's the first (and often best) GT of the season!

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[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stage 7 : Castel di Sangro – Tagliacozzo, 168 km (Friday 16, dep. 12:50-12:55, ETA 17:00-17:30)

First arrival on a summit. The stage starts directly with a climb, like Stage 6 just did but harder: every non-GC climber on the Giro will want to join the breakaway...

Stage with high difficulties, 15 points to the winner.

The 3 km rule doesn’t apply.

Delays : 16% if ≤ 30 km/h; 17% if ≤ 34 km/h; 18% otherwise.

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The stage starts directly with a climb, like Stage 6 just did but harder: every non-GC climber on the Giro will want to join the breakaway…

No one managed to break away in the first climb!

It only happened on the plateau and the small hills it harboured, after UAE riders gave up being part of the breakaway, as Bora was chasing while they were in it.

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Gaudu managed to fall and take Bardet down with him. 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷

I don't know what happened to Roglitch in the last mile: he seemed stuck when the final attack/acceleration occurred, but still finished very well (4^th^) and looked jolly after dismounting from his bike.

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gaudu managed to fall and take Bardet down with him. 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷

Reminder.

This year, Gaudu fell successively:

on the Tour of Oman (nothing serious) 11 or 12 Feb;
while training 🐈 (which forced him to cancel the small French mountain races he should have ridden (Var, Alpes-Maritimes 21-23 Feb) and then forbid him to replace them with the following similar small French races (Drôme, Ardèche 1-2 Mar));
twice on Strade Bianche (abandon) 8 Mar;
3 days later, on the 1^st^ stage of Tirreno–Adriatico (abandon and hand surgery); 11 Mar : all those falls happened within 1 month!
he finally restarted 7 or 8 weeks later on the Tour of Romandie mostly as a tourist, only race without a fall;
now he's fallen again on his next race, the Tour of Italy (hand injury for the umpteenth time, stitches (?), consequences unknown so far) 16 May.

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t know what happened to Roglitch in the last mile: he seemed stuck when the final attack/acceleration occurred, but still finished very well (4th) and looked jolly after dismounting from his bike.

By the way, I am not sure, but just after the finish, while Ayuso was sitting for a few seconds, I think I heard him asking "¿Soy en rosa?" and the staff answer him "Si, si.", which was obviously wrong already at that moment.