cycling

[rpo.castro]

Remco Evenepoel was just superb in LBL and became the younger to have 2 wins here. It was his first classic this season.
Now he will fight for Giro.
Pogacar has a broken wrist and will go for surgery but he had schedule a competition break. He will be back to prepare the Tour.
If everything goes as planned we will have to wait for Vuelta to watch these two sharks duelling.

[rpo.castro]

1st day of Giro d'Italia and Remco Evenepoel already smashed gis rivals in the initial time trial. 29 seconds over João Almeida. Roglic, Thomas, Vlasov all lost between half and a minute to Remco.

In La Vuelta Feminina, with one stage to (mountain stage, Lagos de Covadonga) Annemiek van Vleuten (40 y.o.) got the red 1m11s ahead of former leader Demi Vollering.

[NederPAOKtzis]

@rpo.castro your countryman Iúri Leitão won the 2023 International Tour of Hellas. The tour started on Crete and the finish was in ancient Olympia.

[rpo.castro]

@rpo.castro your countryman Iúri Leitão won the 2023 International Tour of Hellas. The tour started on Crete and the finish was in ancient Olympia.

Wow. Thanks
His biggest result on his short road racing career (he is better on track with several medals in European championships and one silver in WC).

[rpo.castro]

Demi Vollering won the last stage but 9 seconds short on GC to get the red from Annemiek van Vleuten that won her 3rd consecutive Vuelta.

[rpo.castro]

Giro d'Italia: Remco Evenepoel wins the time trial, increases the lead and retires due to COVID-19

[NederPAOKtzis]

And now four teammates of Evenepoel have to retire due to COVID-19.

[rpo.castro]

And now four teammates of Evenepoel have to retire due to COVID-19.

36 retirements, 16 due to COVID.
Yesterday Vlasov (6th, COVID), today 3rd Tao Geoghegan Hart (crash) and the stages are simply hell. Very long distances, lots of mountain and really reall bad weather (rain and cold).
Can't they reach in the middle (not to easy, not too hard)?

[Ricardo]

very long distances? I am always surprised by that opinion.
I started following cycling in the eigthies, when 150km for a stage was very small. 200-250 was normal. 300 was very long distance.
And nowadays 190 is seen as very long. Times change

But the weather is making it very hard this Giro, not that it's just cold, but riders have to be alert constantly, as the fall of the top 3 showed
(It was not Covid, but Covi who caused the exit of Geoghegan Hart)

[offside]

Giro d'Italia: Almeida won the stage today on the sprint over Thomas, the new maglia rosa. Roglic lost a few seconds.

[offside]

Giro d'Italia - Thomas and Roglic gained a few seconds over Almeida today.
Tomorrow there is the decisive time trial: Thomas is currently maglia rosa, Roglic has 26" from Thomas, Almeida has 59" from Thomas.

[offside]

Giro d'Italia - Roglic, who won the stage today, is the new maglia rosa, with Thomas losing the leadership for only 14"!
Tomorrow the Giro d'Italia ends with the final stage in Rome.

[rpo.castro]

In his last Giro (retiring this season) Mark Cavendish wins the celebration stage at Rome, by a lot in final sprint!

[NederPAOKtzis]

The talented Gino Mäder from Switzerland died today after a severe crash in the Tour de Suisse yesterday. RIP, Gino!

[Lyonnais]

for those interested in cycling I watched the Netflix Series called Tour de France I think and although not big fazn of cycling I found it enoyable to watch and understand teams strategies.