Got me, that dude has a motor.

Go LFF!

That was awesome.

Ok, Patrick, now go fuck right off!!!

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

wow. was that a better ride than V-P-P? than Narvaez? than Sanchez to beat him?
there have been a $hit-ton of amazing stages already.
Just looking at the slower moving chess game of gc riders/teams - it looks like a lot of defense. I wonder what Saturday will look like - probably a brutal team workers procession until the last 10k. this race looks brutally hard.

Despite the GC snooze fest, this has indeed been an exciting race. The Giro is bringing it with these good rides.

It was a remarkable ride. The gap was around 1:00-2:00 for a loooong time with a lot of firepower chasing two guys. And then one guy.

I think they underestimated LFF by a fair amount in not working with a sense of urgency from a lot further out. Didn't help that the break was too big to promote good cohesion.

Gosh what a nightmare crash in Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. It gave me Jakobsen vibes. Balsamo has a broken nose, concussion, broken hand and whatever else.

Ala going old skool and with flair. Love it. And how he just goes about his business.

After tomorrow’s snoozer Ferris should be well rested and climbing the walls. Imagine he’s going to lite it up this weekend.

It'll be a big weekend for him. I bet its hard not taking almost every stage. ;)

Sammy Ben showing signs of life for the second day in a row by soaking up the Van Rysel magic. I'm going to get one of those bikes and start flying!

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Yeesh, not going to watch the replay. Hope she's fine.

Mixed feelings about MdVP choosing Olympic RR over MTB. Dutch v. Belgies in the RR will be great. OTOH, I would immensely enjoy watching Piddles get smacked down by MdVP (if that were to happen, of course Piddles is perfectly capable of beating MdVP in MTB, and the full-time XCers might also have something to say in the matter).

I'm sure the full time MTBers will be happy to see this news. Must really grind their gears to be MTB lifers and have dudes just parachute in like that. I think Pidcock intends to defend his gold, right? Has he indicated any kind of an XC schedule? He's supposed to ride the Tour too isn't he?

Yeah, he's going to be starting the XC race eight days after the end of the Tour. Almost literally parachuting in.

Really more added pressure on the full-timers to take care of business against the roadie.

I don't know if Pidcock is planning to participate in any World Cup events between now and then.

So cool.
And kudos to The Maestro!
Those guys smashed it.
Master class in working together.

The best moment for the two, I think, was after the top of the penultimate climb when Alaphilippe gave Maestri a pat on the back/butt to say "See, that wasn't so bad? We still have a bunch of time on them"

What's the acronym for LFG/"Let's fucking GO!!!" in French? Or Italian, for that matter?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Maybe Sagan texted him on it… The RR course is a good fit, can see why he wants to take a shot. And there’s always come back to the MTB when he’s bored of winning everything on the road. Plus, being WC and OC at same time? He’d have a helluva bike paint scheme.

Vento Forte day at the Giro

Shame he's not Irish; y'know the gold + rainbows thing?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Some real racing happening in Charleston, WVa Sunday. US Pro Nats. I've got my protege (a little Cat 3 humor there) racing against the big boys. Complex strategy: find Bam Bam's wheel and stay as close to it for as long as possible. Then, um, go around him?
I think our brain trust came up with the same strategy last year. No rain hopefully this year.

Us Nats - WVa - keeping McNulty close is good strategy (execution is likely the issue). In the men's race - I'll be curious if Stites can get the better of the World Tour guys. Will Stites having a team be a benefit on this course? After his knee issues this Spring - I'm pulling for Powless.
On the women's side - I can't find a start list - I'm very curious if Knibb has any intention of giving this a go. If she doesn't I have to think if Faulkner can win it's a strong result for any hope she has to getting an Olympic rr start over Knibb.

I said Saturday for the mountain gc showdown in Livigno - but there's a pan flat 30k tt saturday with the mountain slog sunday. after some amazing racing - the battles for the break have been incredible - I'll forgive a slow burn until the last 10k of that marathon sunday stage.

Did not expect Ganna and Ineos deciding to disrupt a pan flat sprint stage. Not sure what their goal is since they don't have a sprinter.

Jon Milan doing a lot of work to get back. Or not.

Just getting a little warmup before the ITT.