It takes an almost inhuman effort to write anything interesting about this Giro. We can talk about the truly beautiful landscapes, the gastronomic tastes and tastes of the places where the race takes place, because attacks between numbers It’s like making it from a mirage in the desert.
There’s nothing wrong. Seriously bad so far. Many stages –watching TV– It’s like standing in a straight line on a Sunday morning and devoting yourself to watching groups of cyclists use their powers to attack each other when it’s time to climb the day. But when there’s a climb in the Giro, everyone gets promoted to the wheel, except for escapees that aren’t considered overall and are allowed to fight for stage victories.
Too many transitional stages
All three-week races have phases, like Thursday, where everyone’s strong when a race is scheduled for the next day. load collection. But in the Giro, the transitional stages (the proper name for this type of day) occur daily. A second week has been grappling with transition days, when it’s only possible to speak of covid’s presence in the peloton and notorious retreats as Tao Geoghegan Hart’s after breaking his hip when he occupied third place overall.
Nothing else happened. Tactically, it makes sense to have Primoz Roglic, second in the overall standings and the big favorite for the win, courtesy of the ‘pink jersey’. Geraint Thomashe decided to add mileage because he was not interested in carrying the burden of the leadership.
Looking at Crans Montana
Something has to happen this friday crans montanaIt’s like two and two make four, because the reverse is inexplicable and it’s almost an insult to cycling. Even if the rise doesn’t seem serious St. Bernardthe first of three planned summits. On the 12th stage there was a victory for the Germans. Nico Denz as the best prepared among the fugitives. The peloton arrived in 8 minutes. And point. After the flight of 30 riders, there is nothing more to say, the attacks between them and the day passed between the favourites, as a match that ended 0-0 with no chance of two goals.