Six reasons why a Giro that can still be salvaged fails

No time to read?
Get a summary

HE return to Italy This Tuesday enters the decisive week. In the first 15 days of the competition, he does it without emotion, despite almost nothing but Remco Evenepoel’s past two time trial victories. However, the 23-year-old Belgian phenomenon had to leave the event due to covid, feeling that the Italian round was orphaned, injured without a main favourite, and entering a period of hardship where he had to quit. four of the six stages remains controversial.

What went wrong at the Giro?

Giro had gotten used to centralizing all the hardness over the past few years. so it makes it hardest of the three big rounds with stages. But that doesn’t become synonymous with emotion, because favorites waste most days feeling afraid of what has yet to come. Probably deploy more key stages as they are Type And The rest will be a solution as it is not the first time. The same thing happened in 2020 and 2022 and it’s just genius Egan BernalThe winner in 2021 saved the race two years ago.

Why didn’t the cyclists who bet on the show go?

formula Giro-Tur couple already outdated. Since then, there has been no winner of the tours of Italy and France. marco pantani in 1998. And the truth is, there is little to praise about his victory at the Grande Boucle. doping scandal It sheds light on the history of cycling, with atrocities among journalists and participants due to news of police arrests, runners’ strike, suspended stages and retreats. Cyclists who really put on a show, like Tadej Pogacar, who crashed in Liège and won’t be able to ride in Italy, Jonas Vingegaardand with them, Mathieu van der Poel And no van aert needed, reserved for the tour. Last year van der poel It was one of the Giro attractions but arrived in France dead and eventually abandoned.

What will happen to Roglic?

Cousin Roglic He has always been an agile and maverick cyclist and yet he rides a low profile bike in this Giro. According to what he said from Italy, he was affected by the decline that led to his abandonment. Tao Geoghegan Hart. Additionally, tactically, his team has already gone well for Ineos himself. Geraint Thomas, not to forget, took the helm of the race in a second week. He’s only two seconds behind Thomasyou don’t need to attack like crazy or as you will double bonus in action and just the arrival of the Dolomites and above all he has enough strength to win the race, beating his Welsh opponent in the next Saturday time trial. Moreover, he knows that he has been falling apart all the time lately. It’s understandable that she saved her strength for last because she didn’t have a more attractive route, because she had physical problems from falling.

Why doesn’t Thomas attack?

Geraint Thomas He is a cyclist who has won the Tour (2018), which was second in Paris (2019) and third in the Champs-Élysées last year. But he was in no condition to fight for victory in 2022. take revenge And pogakar. He turns 38 on Thursday and didn’t even come forward by attacking from afar even in his victory in the Tour de France. He counts on Ineos’ support and argues that the winning conditions are similar to Ineos’s. role: bonus and play them all in the final ‘chrono’.

Why didn’t the Spaniards go?

For reasons similar to the absence of cycling’s great heroes. enrik mas, Michael Landa And bilbao hair They’re getting ready for the tour, just like carlos rodriguezThe one who will debut outside of the surprise on the tour de France. Juan Ayuso He had physical problems all season and was unable to debut on the Tour de Romandie until the end of April. Reserved for the vuelta. Only seven runners participated, and six remained after the fall and abandonment. Oscar Rodriguez. The role can only be secondary and it seems impossible for them to win a stage in the remaining days.

How to activate Giro?

Undoubtedly, with attacks from the first in general (we must not forget the Portuguese. joao almeida nor italian Damiano Caruso) in three planned online mountain stages (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday), with enough summits to topple the Giro and have something to remember above all else.

HE return to Italy This Tuesday enters the decisive week. In the first 15 days of the competition, he does it without emotion, despite almost nothing but Remco Evenepoel’s past two time trial victories. However, the 23-year-old Belgian phenomenon had to leave the event due to covid, feeling that the Italian round was orphaned, injured without a main favourite, and entering a period of hardship where he had to quit. four of the six stages remains controversial.

What went wrong at the Giro?

Giro had been accustomed to centralizing all the hardness in recent days for several years. so it makes it hardest of the three big rounds with stages. But that doesn’t become synonymous with emotion, because favorites waste most days feeling afraid of what has yet to come. Probably deploy more key stages as they are Type And The rest will be a solution as it is not the first time. The same thing happened in 2020 and 2022 and it’s just genius Egan BernalThe winner in 2021 saved the race two years ago.

Why didn’t the cyclists who bet on the show go?

formula Giro-Tur couple already outdated. Since then, there has been no winner of the tours of Italy and France. marco pantani in 1998. And the truth is, there is little to praise about his victory at the Grande Boucle. doping scandal It sheds light on the history of cycling, with atrocities among journalists and participants due to news of police arrests, runners’ strike, suspended stages and retreats. Cyclists who really put on a show, like Tadej Pogacar, who crashed in Liège and won’t be able to ride in Italy, Jonas Vingegaardand with them, Mathieu van der Poel And Wout van Aert, reserved for the tour. Last year van der poel It was one of the Giro attractions but arrived in France dead and eventually abandoned.

What will happen to Roglic?

Cousin Roglic He has always been an agile and maverick cyclist and yet he rides a low profile bike in this Giro. According to what he said from Italy, he was affected by the decline that led to his abandonment. Tao Geoghegan Hart. Additionally, tactically, his team has already gone well for Ineos himself. Geraint Thomastook the helm of the race in a second week to forget. He’s only two seconds behind Thomasyou don’t need to attack like crazy or as you will double bonus in action and just the arrival of the Dolomites and above all he has enough strength to win the race, beating his Welsh opponent in the next Saturday time trial. Moreover, he knows that he has been falling apart all the time lately. It’s understandable that she saved her strength for last because she didn’t have a more attractive route, because she had physical problems from falling.

Why doesn’t Thomas attack?

Geraint Thomas He is a cyclist who has won the Tour (2018), which was second in Paris (2019) and third in the Champs-Élysées last year. But he was in no condition to fight for victory in 2022. take revenge And pogakar. He turns 38 on Thursday and didn’t even come forward by attacking from afar even in his victory in the Tour de France. He counts on Ineos’ support and argues that the winning conditions are similar to Ineos’s. role: bonus and play them all in the final ‘chrono’.

Why didn’t the Spaniards go?

For reasons similar to the absence of cycling’s great heroes. enrik mas, Michael Landa And bilbao hair They’re getting ready for the tour, just like carlos rodriguezThe one who will debut outside of the surprise on the tour de France. Juan Ayuso He had physical problems all season and was unable to debut on the Tour de Romandie until the end of April. Reserved for the vuelta. Only seven runners participated, and six remained after the fall and abandonment. Oscar Rodriguez. The role can only be secondary and it seems impossible for them to win a stage in the remaining days.

How to activate Giro?

Undoubtedly, with attacks from the first in general (we must not forget the Portuguese. joao almeida nor italian Damiano Caruso) in three planned online mountain stages (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday), with enough summits to topple the Giro and have something to remember above all else.

No time to read?
Get a summary
Previous Article

MP Zatulin said he could not explain the border guards’ attempt to prevent him from entering Kazakhstan

Next Article

“He lost a friend”: Malysheva spoke about the death of her husband Diana Gurtskaya