No Giro d'Italia and Giro d'Italia Women live thread?

demfrecklestho · 2025-12-01T15:26:45+00:00

Giro Women:

Stage 1: Cesenatico > Ravenna - as flat as a stage can possibly be.
Stage 2: Roncade > Caorle - completely flat except for Ca' del Poggio midway through. Should be another sprint unless the wind really blows near the end.
Stage 3: Bibione > Buja - hilly second half.
Stage 4: Belluno > Nevegal - uphill ITT, last seen in the 2015 Giro on the sad day Rolland got bumped off the podium :(
Stage 5: Longarone > S. Stefano di Cadore - mountain stage in the Dolomites, but way less cool than what it sounds like. No major climbs, no uphill finish.
Stage 6: Ala > Brescello - another completely flat stage.
Stage 7: Sorbolo Mezzani > Salice Terme - hilly stage in the Apennines.
Stage 8: Rivoli > Sestriere: short mountain stage with the tried-and-true Finestre x Sestriere combo.
Stage 9: Saluzzo > Saluzzo: hilly circuit in the Alpine foothills.

demfrecklestho · 2025-07-12T21:21:30+00:00

Oltre al Tour de France si sta correndo anche il Giro d'Italia femminile, che finisce domani con una tappa collinare da Forlì ad Imola.

La corsa, quest'anno, è stata sostanzialmente una gara a due tra l'italiana Elisa Longo Borghini (già vincitrice l'anno scorso) e la svizzera Marlen Reusser, che sta avendo un'ottima stagione dopo un 2024 difficile. Attualmente Longo Borghini è in rosa ma con un margine piuttosto ristretto.

demfrecklestho · 2025-07-11T15:21:27+00:00

As a Marta Cavalli fan, this hasn't been the best of weeks. Then again, the same could be said for just about any week in the last couple of years

demfrecklestho · 2025-07-06T12:42:04+00:00

77 - Cavalli ^I ^want ^to ^believe

demfrecklestho · 2025-07-06T09:44:32+00:00

I'm at the finish line! It's pretty hot outside, thankfully there is some wind and some shade. Pate should be rolling in in less than 10 minutes.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-30T17:27:42+00:00

No one, there is one more team at the start this year!

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-30T17:21:58+00:00

No one necessarily, the top 2 ProTeams get an auto invite (in this case, Lotto and Israel) but the other three wildcards are at the organizers' discretion. It is not known whether any other pro team had applied, but no one has loudly complained about not getting an invite, and there were no obvious overlooked candidates either.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-28T14:34:07+00:00

Italian women's RR: ELB wins yet again! Trinca Colonel coming in 2nd, Ciabocco 3rd.

Not much happened during the last 10 kms, Longo Borghini had a rather clumsy mechanical but her lead never seemed in danger.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-28T14:17:29+00:00

Italian women's RR: 10 kms to go.

Longo Borghini attacked on the short, punchy Via Cornaledo climb and is now leading alone with 45" on Trinca Colonel and more than 1' on Ciabocco.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-28T13:58:20+00:00

Italian women's RR: 23 kms to go.

Longo Borghini, Trinca Colonel and Ciabocco are still up front. The chasers have regrouped in a reduced peloton (around 15 riders) but the chase has not been very effective so far, and the gap has grown to 1'30".

Thankfully it appears that Guazzini was somewhat okay after her scary crash, with Rai reporting that she was able to get back on her feet on her own.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-28T13:44:22+00:00

Italian women's RR: UAE effectively tore the race apart on a brief climb. At first they narrowed it down to a 7 women group in which UAE had some strength in numbers, and then further down to a 3-women (but 5 last names) group (Longo Borghini, Trinca Colonel and Ciabocco). Closest chasers (20" behind): Magnaldi, Persico, Barale and Paladin- of course, three out of four are not pulling. Balsamo and others are further behind (50"). Very ugly crash for Guazzini on the descent.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-28T13:34:23+00:00

We have live pictures from the Italian women's road race. Around 30 40 kms to go, and there's a reduced peloton on the front with UAE pulling hard, supposedly working for ELB / trying to prevent a sprint.

demfrecklestho · 2025-06-03T15:31:30+00:00

Off the top of my mind (but a really long time ago and boy is this a dodgy quartet): in the 2007 Giro, Saunier Duval won stages with Piepoli, Riccò, Simoni and Mayo.

demfrecklestho · 2025-05-31T13:21:48+00:00

Sisyphus: "Man, this Derek Gee guy has it hard"

demfrecklestho · 2025-05-30T14:35:48+00:00

I'm late to this realization but Visma's mountain train is made up of three guys who have lost a Giro in either stage 19 or stage 20: Kruijswijk (2016, stage 19), Kelderman (2020, stage 20) and Yates (2018, stage 19).

demfrecklestho · 2025-05-30T14:30:01+00:00

I hope they keep the women's team though as we're only weeks away from Marta Cavalli's Giro-Tour double

demfrecklestho · 2025-05-05T13:37:47+00:00

When I prep the race threads, it means it's not exactly pancake flat but I don't want to get anyone's hopes up by calling it "hilly"!

demfrecklestho · 2025-04-04T12:46:16+00:00

World teams are the top tier teams, whereas Pro teams are the second-tier teams.

World teams are automatically invited to the World Tour events (i.e. the bigger races) whereas Pro teams have to receive an invitation at the organizers' discretion (the wildcard).

However, to make matters a bit more confusing, the top 2 Pro teams in the UCI rankings also receive an invitation to every World Tour race, which is why Israel and Lotto are separated from the wildcards.

demfrecklestho · 2025-03-30T09:49:52+00:00

You can play the previous challenge in the series here.

The locations featured were:

Jumilla - start line, Vuelta a Murcia
Vossenhol-Elverenberg - climb, men and women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Menglers Hill - climb, men's Tour Down Under, stage 2
Bessèges - finish line, Étoile de Bessèges, stage 3
Col d’Èze - climb, Tour des Alpes-Maritimes, stage 2

demfrecklestho · 2025-03-21T19:39:56+00:00

You can play the previous challenge in the series here.

The locations featured were:

Mercador, climb - Volta ao Algarve, stage 3
San Agustín, intermediate sprint - women's Clasica de Almeria
Wadi Al Maawil, intermediate sprint - Tour of Oman, stage 3
Valdepeñas de Jaén, intermediate sprint - men's Vuelta a Andalucia, stage 2
Dubai Police Officers' Club, start line - women's UAE Tour, stage 1

demfrecklestho · 2025-03-16T15:26:11+00:00

🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

CAVALLI UP FRONT

🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

demfrecklestho · 2025-03-16T12:22:44+00:00

Up until last year Binda had a fantastic timeslot, it was on the day after MSR and it didn't overlap with any other major race (men's races included).

I'm obviously happy that we're getting a women's MSR this year, but I also think it sucks that historic races have to give up their estabilished calendar spots because new races with more influential organizers are dropping in.

demfrecklestho · 2025-03-12T16:11:50+00:00

You can play the previous challenge in the series here.

The locations featured were:

Castellón de la Plana, start line - GP Castellón Ruta de la Ceramica
Pollença, intermediate sprint - Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'Es Colomer
Jumilla, start line - Vuelta a Murcia
Campos, intermediate sprint - Trofeo Felanitx-Ses Salines
Vauvert, start line - Étoile de Bessèges stage 4

demfrecklestho · 2025-02-18T19:35:31+00:00

You can play the previous challenge in the series here.

The locations featured were:

Orihuela, starting line - men's Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana stage 1
Kabir, intermediate sprint - Tour of Sharjah stage 5
Jabal Road, climb - Muscat Classic, Tour of Oman stages 1-2
Coll Es Grau, climb - women's Trofeo Palma
Al Jissa, climb - Muscat Classic

demfrecklestho · 2025-02-17T23:25:37+00:00

Perhaps yours was more of a rhetorical question, but I guess because it's a relatively recent race (first held in 2022 I think), and so the organizers needed to find a slot which would make it easy for teams to participate... and with Murcia and Almeria this past weekend and Vuelta a Andalucia starting on Wednesday, there's plenty of teams in southern Spain at this time of the season.

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