Bit late, but this week is also the week of Tirreno-Adriatico.

PCS Overview

It seems to be a pretty light edition - which makes it more interesting, I think.

  • CarstenBoll@feddit.dkM
    1·
    1 day ago

    I was very very impressed with Tobias Lund today, his victory after such a long race and against such competition was the most impressed I have been with him. And the leadout was sublime, great work from Decathlon.

  • Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.worksM
    2·
    2 days ago

    Stage 2

    The peloton was riding like maniacs despite the fact that there was no one ahead. That’s a (relatively) new habit, riding at excessive speeds in downhill false flats, side by side in relatively tights pelotons, when there are still dozens of km to go and no real reason to go nuts like that.

    It started raining a few miles before the gravel sector near the end. Marcellusi (🇮🇹 Bardani) crashed into a meadow or wasteland, his bike flew in the air; while he looked physically OK, he also looked quite shocked.

    Ganna (🇮🇹 Ineos) lead the pack a good while, but he couldn’t find a teammate anywhere behind him. So after his effort on the asphalt, he also had to represent his team on the gravel section.

    There were several falls on the gravel section, especially on dirt areas that the rain had made slippery. Notably, Jorgenson (🇺🇸 Visma) fell as he was trying to follow Van der Poel’s (🇳🇱 Alpecin) acceleration; his crash slew down Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) who was right behind him. Anyway, a trio broke away, with the Dutchman, the Mexican and Pellizari (🇮🇹 Bora) joining up.

    Del Toro🇲🇽 did all the work once he caught up with **Van der Poel🇳🇱 ** and, after a bit of sliding here and there, he was himself caught up by Van der Poel🇳🇱. At Bora, there must be a religion of never relaying anyone 🙄 , for Pellizari🇮🇹 stayed in others’ wheels 100 of the time, until he attacked in the last hectometres. It looked like he could make it, but luckily, the other two outsprinted him in the last yards, so that Van der Poel🇳🇱 got his stage victory and Del Toro🇲🇽 the GC position for which they worked.

    Johanessen (🇩🇰 Uno-X) detached from the group behind a bit.

    First Frenchmen were Champoussin🇫🇷 (Astana) and Lapeira🇫🇷 (Décathlon) around position 10 in that group 2, about 15 seconds behind the winning trio. But they hadn’t done well in the TimeTrial the previous day, so they’re rather far in GC.

    Cosnefroy (🇫🇷 UAE) only arrived with some sort of gruppetto after almost 5 minutes…