Giro d'Italia 2025 spoilers
- Thread starter Adam4868
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
4 times the Colle delle Finnestre has been climbed in the Giro and only once has the race action been less than brilliant.
Today’s course comes the closest to the one tackled in 2005, it’s inauguration. After the initial flat kms and 4th cat, it is identical in fact.
Today’s course comes the closest to the one tackled in 2005, it’s inauguration. After the initial flat kms and 4th cat, it is identical in fact.
DeVlaeminck
Regular
- Location
- East Midlands
I'm hoping Del Toro holds on though Carapaz is an exciting rider and him returning to grand tour winning form after so many years would be a good story. I find it very hard to warm to Yates - apart from his riding being so conservative he's not a kid and his stonewalling every interview verges on disrespect to the media, fans and sport. When he said he'd rather not ride on gravel my reaction was well go home then.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
what time is early ?? didnt know it was on earlier
DeVlaeminck
Regular
- Location
- East Midlands
Yes I thought one of the reasons he left Ineos was he felt he was more suited to one day races - missing the cobbled classics seemed a mistake but I assumed he was being used to get his team a Giro invite. He's shown nothing to suggest he can win a grand tour - he's experienced enough that talk of trial runs seems odd - how many trial runs has Del Toro had?
And he was 2 minutes down on the one stage of this year's race that was tailor-made for him. You kinda sense he's an overhyped version of Ben Healy.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
Fair zinging along at 51kms per hour.
30kms covered already.
Shopping done, so I am here for the duration.
30kms covered already.
Shopping done, so I am here for the duration.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
Surprisingly, it looks as if we have our BOTD already.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
With the arrival of Pedersen, the points for the breakaway competition have disappeared.
No Ta Doctor
Senior Member
From his interviews earlier in the race (about halfway), his aim is for a top ten here and it's a challenge for him because it's not very interesting and he's not racing to win. He's not really built entally for doing what e.g. Caruso has done this year (just sitting with the GC group as long as possible limiting losses). He loses concentration and motivation, so the challenge was to keep at it and see how far he could get up the standings. I think he feels he's not really tried that properly, partly because he's always had a bad day and given up, partly because when he's had a bad day Ineos have just switched focus to a different leader or to stage hunting.
I can't say I've seen any great breakthrough or that much potential to win a GT but maybe he just needs to fail under his own power to have the right context to give it up?
No Ta Doctor
Senior Member
Not really - he's already won the ciclamino, just needs to finish the race. So it depends on whether he wants to annoy de Bondt or not - I think they've buried the hatchet now though
No Ta Doctor
Senior Member
Except of course that Mads is actually leading the intermediate comp... I thought de Bondt was ahead.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
I thought that the breakaway only scored points in that competition if there are less than 10 riders in the break?
I wasn’t referring to the intermediate comp.
Anyhow, the big group has now been caught by the even bigger group, so it’s moot.
Breakaway stage winner most likely now. Probably by one of the Zubeldia types hiding at the back.
Blazing Saddles
Senior Member
Pedersen doesn’t contend the intermediate sprint, so de Bondt gains 12 points.
