Johan, Spencer, and JB bring you up to speed on the highlights from stages 10-12 of this year’s Giro, including the media backlash surrounding Remco Evenpoel’s early exit from the race due to COVID, how Tao Geoghegan Hart abandoning due to a broken pelvis has drastically changed the GC calculus for Geraint Thomas and Ineos, and if Mark Cavendish’s flash of form on stage 11 is enough to consider him a serious threat to take the all-time Tour de France stage win record later this season.
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I was very much looking forward to this trio's next recap!
Let’s go, Rogla!
I’m loving the nice variety of teams getting wins!
what about Peter Sagan world champ 3 years in a row so popular
JB2 I think Remco get heat for his first few years he was quite arrogant, he's gotten better but as JB1 said he opens his mouth and says things that are polarizing and that's not popular. There was also his riding ability in the bunch and descending, he's much better but no MVDP or Pidcock. He's still really young and doesn't seem to have a lot of humility in his character 🤷🇧🇪
great show guys
🇩🇰M.P & M.C.N🇩🇰
@mazing couple of Vikings. 💪💪💪
Stay safe🤘🇺🇲🇩🇰🤘
"Passo Joäo", hahaha, Johan is the best!!!
At the rate of attrition, Covid and weather has and will be a major factor in determining winner of this race-imho
Weather forecast for tomorrow/ today 90% rain😢😢
Johann; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cmu8LYK8jo&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3htll5Qxt3Jnos6YTPArt3tC3lPzSSgxeOqF9xId1UtMnT2lqAwihQHyI
Thank you guys. Appreciate the analysis and honest views and stories.
Honestly how are we not getting on team doctors more? These teams pay BIG MONEY for these doctors, they study every drop of sweat that comes from these riders, yet NONE of the docs was snart enough to say "hey dumb dumb you guys might want to politicize covid, but it's real and it will fuck you up if you catch it, so keep masking regardless." Amazing teams even continue to put their investments – these riders – at risk all because they dont want to wear masks and take covid precautions
Simply superb standard of commentary
Hi guys love the show and have been listening since it was called Stages! About Remco: I personally can’t stand the guy and am also super critical of him because of his arrogance. I was really turned off a few years ago in the Worlds (I forget the year), when he had a temper tantrum about who is going to be the leader, him or Wout van Aert. Wout was the superior, established veteran at that point and I thought that Remco didn’t know his place and blatantly disrespected a superior, veteran rider. I have never liked him since. He came off as an entitled brat. That said he is a fucking great rider and I still like watching him and I’m really sad he’s out of the race. But because of his antics at the Worlds a few years ago it doesn’t seem far fetched to think he’s throwing a tantrum and just wants to leave the race. Thanks guys and I hope Remco does recover quick because I’d love to see the Pog vs Remco showdown.
Whatever you think of Remco, the Giro has lost a lot of his appeal when he dropped out with covid (and yes he was sick). Love him or hate him, he brings extra spice in the race by his style of riding or by his comments. Strange that people criticize him ( also in Belgium) for being honest and telling it how he sees it. Right or wrong with Remco you know what you gonna get and that's refreshing if you compare it with others. 😊
Today (May19th) last climb: Almeida will blast away from ineos and roglic will ride with him and attack him the last km,(roglic will win the stage )
I think the kid was clearly sick before that TT… Four layers of clothing on days before ?
Johan is like a angry father… nobody is going to talk about my son Remco like that 🙂
hunger games in Italy
Am I the only one who finds Remco to be a bit of a one dimensional/boring rider to watch? For mine, he seems like a bit of a one trick pony. Attack on the last climb and TT to victory, rinse and repeat.
It's impressive when it works but as we saw in Cataluya, when someone can follow his attack he doesn't have an answer for it. I think he'll have a run of a couple of years where he'll be pretty hard to beat but once he's no longer the strongest rider in the race he's going to need a deeper bag of tricks to stay relevant.
Re crashes. I've been in Turkey in the summer during some unseasonal rain and cars have been skidding about like there is diesel on the road. Combination of dust, old oil and rain make the roads lethal. Descending mountain roads on two skinny tyres, yikes!
Two words for you johan… giro
2021
Spencer speaking undiluted twodle…. vuelta doesnt even deserve to be a GT
Think I heard Jumbo got in the break to police the break. They had instructions, if any large break, they had to have a guy in there. Not sure why Jumbo worked on the last climb though as lots of hard miles ahead. Sitting on the back is fine but working hard when the win has gone is odd. Not slick roads in Italy as they've had loads of rain. I've never slipped on white lines in the uk so why on the continent? Weirdly weird viewing from the uk, different white paint?? More crashes may be younger riders who are at the pointy end without the experience.
I’d say that disc brakes allow you to have a different kind of crash! You’ll hit the deck because your wheels went from under you instead of riding off the side of a cliff because your rim brakes barely slowed you down at all 😂
The thing with Kuss. Maybe they realy want him to be better int the GC. Remember, Roglič had the fall and is injured. So maybe he will lost the Giro like Tour last year.
Roglic got ill in 2019 Giro. Thats why he was 3rd. He continued with fever and there was one big flop from team director.
When he had a mechanical and waiting for a bike there was no team car because team director went for a nature break in key moment of the race…
The main reason the peloton switched to disc brakes is because of the introduction of carbon wheels which don't disapate heat as well as aluminum which caused the glue to melt and the tubular tyres to slip off the rim on long fast descents. Since that time the materials have improved such as better braking surfaces and rim cooling features making this problem obsolete, even in the wet . The bikes during Lance's days were far lighter and you didn't see as many crashes due to over braking. What makes disc brakes better is the bike manufacturers can make more money and the race promoters have a more exciting race because everyone comes into the corners full gas and then full brake, causing huge pile ups, instead of slowing into the corners keeping everyone upright. I believe if you asked most professional riders after happy hour they would tell you that they would prefer to have a lighter bike, faster wheel changes, less crashes, and less injuries from brake rotors slicing during a crash.
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Il Giro seemed very relaxed with the COVID prevention measures. Hence, it’s partially responsible for Remco’s departure.
Johan is a friend with Lefevere, which is great but you have to take what he says about Quickstep with a pinch of salt. For many, the fact that 4 other riders withdrew the consecutive day made it even more suspicious.
6:58 It has to be a consequence of covid, not of an experimental drug he took. Those heart issues didn't happen more in 2022 than in 2020 and 2021 🤡