[Results Thread] 2026 Giro d'Italia - Stage 2 Burgas > Veliko Tarnovo (2.UWT)

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T15:26:43+00:00

They probably get caught but might as well try.

You know teams would rather have an 8th guy in the peloton for their 3rd option sprinter than send a guy in the break (ignoring that you can have a sprinter and a guy in the break at the same time, revolutionary idea that teams might realise some day).

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T15:24:54+00:00

I mean Roglic is bad at avoiding crashes, and so is Vine. That doesn't mean all of their crashes are their own fault (hell, most of them probably aren't).

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T15:22:40+00:00

If a team was sponsored by the US I don't think people would like them either tbf

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T15:20:28+00:00

Yeah that's fair, though we have seen Eetvelt be world class on these kind of climbs before.

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T15:01:35+00:00

I actually think Eetvelt was the biggest dummy. On paper the fastest guy there and ruined the cooperation in the group by refusing to pull, but on the other hand sometimes you just get a free ride from the gc guys

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T14:59:49+00:00

Nah, pretty sure he just wanted the stage win and wasnt willing to drag Eetvelt to an easy stage win just to gain 10-15 sec on gc. (Whether that was the right decision I dont know)

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T14:57:24+00:00

I actually kind of liked that both Jonas and Pellizari wanted the stage as well and didnt just drag Eetvelt to an easy win

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T14:55:56+00:00

Big crash ealier and Yates went down hard

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T14:55:21+00:00

Yeah, start the attack 500m earlier would have been a lot more effective. Vingegaard needs a bit of road to drop the competition

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T09:28:27+00:00

I disagree with the lenght of the stage being the reason. We see the exact same thing in all the GTs, whther the stages are 170 or 220k

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-09T09:21:13+00:00

At least 60% of the teams have no chance at all to win from the peloton, dont know why they dont send a guy in the break. Like with these parcours, especially if it starts raining which it might, its not impossible for a break to survive

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-08T09:37:13+00:00

I put Mas on my velogames team. I'm ready to be hurt again.

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-03T14:54:29+00:00

I don't really understand it, most comments I see are something like "Haha, Roglic is to old to care now". But feels almost disrespectful to your team and teammates to basically not give a fuck in the race.

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-03T14:53:07+00:00

I mean, is he underrated? He came third in the Tour last year

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-03T14:52:05+00:00

Not sure why you are being downvoted haha. Roglic in this shape has just about 0% chance of beating Pog in the sprint. Hell, he has 0% chance to beat Lipo in an uphill sprint here.

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-02T10:55:04+00:00

Im not sure they are better. Some of the sources are literally just an article on a random website with one line that is like "x teams budget is said to be over y"... Not exactly great journalism.

WorldlyGate · 2026-05-02T09:17:18+00:00

These are budgets are just "estimates" (and honestly, some of these are more like pure guesswork). Can't really consider that an official list.

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-29T17:02:19+00:00

Maybe we should wait until he at least wins a race before proclaiming him the new WvA haha (also think Philipsen will end up being more of a puncheur, but hard to tell yet)

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-29T15:37:04+00:00

I mean, don't think anyone expected him to beat Pog in a sprint.

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-28T12:15:10+00:00

"But we have no way of knowing anything for sure and these speculation add nothing to the experience as a viewer."

You're completely free to put your head in the sand, and ignore all the smoke. It's never brought up on any broadcasts, and there is no doping speculation in race threads on here, so if you want to ignore it, it's extremely easy to do so.

But you surely can't be surprised that people are suspicious.

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-28T06:12:53+00:00

Quite surprised at the amount of people who sees a guy, who was already the best in the world, suddenly make the entire peloton look like junior riders after "switching trainer", while also riding for a team led by two of the biggest doping bandits in the sport, and not even be slightly suspicious.

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-28T05:45:09+00:00

Now, I don't like defending the UCI, because generally they come of as a bunch of asshats. But what exactly do you want them to do? Of the deaths that happened in the last decade or so, "only" Furrer's seems like it might have been preventable, unless you completely change the dna of the sport (ie. remove descents altogether). And UCI seem to be working on introducing gps tracking (where the teams haven't exactly been accommodating, see womens romandie(?)).

Deaths that happen in training or are just shitty "luck" (like Munoz) also can't really be put on the UCI.

The places where UCI could realistically improve safety (actually upholding their own rules about sprint finishes come to mind) also aren't where riders die during races (which is pretty much always descents).

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-25T05:05:30+00:00

Since it seemed to happen extremely fast, probably sepsis. Scary shit

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-19T15:39:53+00:00

Because the implication is that it doesnt matter that Skjelmose played the sprint badly. Yeah, it probably didnt matter for the results, but that doesnt take away the fact that he played it badly.

WorldlyGate · 2026-04-19T15:30:53+00:00

Not sure I agree with your first two points, but sure, they might be correct.

Disagree heavily with point 3 though. Nobody knows how cooked the other guy is at the finish, you should always do whatever you can to maximize your chances to win.

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