Giro d'Italia 2018 Stage 21: Roma - Roma, 115 KM

Inquitus

STAGE 21: Roma – Roma 115 km

What we hopefully see!



May 27th




Technical Overview:
Final parade in Rome. The shortest stage of the race, 10 laps over a 11.5 km flat circuit. At least the scenery should be pretty. And then the celebrations will begin.

Final km


What to Expect:
The colosseum, glasses of Spumante, a bunch sprint and finally the trophy.


Roma

Bookies Odds

Elia Viviani 4/5
Sam Bennett 11/8
Danny Van Poppel 9
Niccolo Bonifazio 9
Sacha Modolo 16
Tony Martin 40
Jens Debusschere 66
Matej Mohoric 50
Clement Venturini 80
Manuel Belletti 100
Baptiste Planckaert 80
Jurgen Roelandts 125
Mads Pedersen 100
Ryan Gibbons 100
Jempy Drucker 125
Marco Coledan 150
Kristian Sbaragli 200
Michael Morkov 200
Rohan Dennis 150
Zdenek Stybar 150
Davide Ballerini 250
Enrico Battaglin 250
Luis Leon Sanchez 200
Alexey Lutsenko 250
Lars Bak 250
Mads Wurtz Schmidt 250
Paolo Simion 250
Enrico Barbin 250
Guillaume Boivin 250
Jose Goncalves 250
Diego Ulissi 250
Eugert Zhupa 250

odyssey06

Any idea of the expected finish time?

Inquitus

Stage 21 in the 2018 Giro d’Italia starts at 16:00 and the expected finish is at 18:45 – both local times (scheduled times).

retalivity

Go on Tom, break out the tt bike for this

CptMackey

Are sky looking to neutralise the race? It's a joke

Grassey

Looks like they got it. 8 neutralised laps, then let the sprinters off for the final 2. Might as well switch off now

CptMackey

Grassey wrote: »

Looks like they got it. 8 neutralised laps, then let the sprinters off for the final 2. Might as well switch off now

It's a complete mockery

RobertKK

It is a site seeing day.
Love Rome, not the cycling today.

fat bloke

RobertKK wrote: »

It is a site seeing day.
Love Rome, not the cycling today.

Love both?

Buttros

CptMackey wrote: »

It's a complete mockery

Only turning it on now.... say the split and got excited..... why are the times neutralized

RobertKK

fat bloke wrote: »

Love both?

Well both might be: the hurling on one TV and the Giro on the other TV...I'll see how the hurling and Giro ends and I will tell if I love both
But I don't like the winner of the Giro...

RobertKK

Buttros wrote: »

Only turning it on now.... say the split and got excited..... why are the times neutralized

The GC contenders were concerned about injury with racing on shiny cobbles, and agreed to end that contest early.

velo.2010

On Cyclingnews, Thomas Dekker summed it up fairly well talking about Froome and Sky... 'The problem with Froome and Team Sky is a lack of transparency.'

Something as simple like the Velon information. Everyone of the top riders had their power data on screen. There was none for Froome.

Froome was also asked about using salbutamol during the Giro and refused to answer.

His power data may be nothing extraordinary and he may have an honest use for Salbutamol but we don't know either. That is a problem as it creates the void for people to fill in the gaps with different theories.

Weepsie

Now that seems like a farce. Course selected months ago. Fair enough you don't know what some of the conditions will be in mountain stages etc, but why not flag it months ago as a hazard.

Pointless, you'd hope some of the riders protested on principle at least

marvin80

Looking like a decent finish

Great way to finish the Giro for Mullen.

bazermc

Nice one. Take that Viviana

Felexicon

Go on Sam!!!!!!!!!!

RobertKK

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Love Rome :pac:

Inquitus

Nice one indeed, well done Sam!

Itziger

Formidable!!!!!!!!

marvin80

Beautiful

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fat bloke

Sweeeet!!!!

griffin100

He showed some guts to sprint along those tramlines / metal studs.

Great way to finish his first GT for Mullen and another brilliant win for Bennett!

cunavalos

3 Stage wins is an amazing result for him and great reward for him.

To be so close to giving up on his dream not so long ago and now he is a genuine superstar. I am delighted for him and all those who have supported him in Carrick and Irish cycling in general

f1000

Sammy seemed to pick the better line as Elia was struggling to put the power down, his rear wheel was all over the shop

Inquitus

If Sam had his leadout man he may well have won the sprint jersey, he was definitely the fastest sprinter in the race, just struggled with his positioning versus the Quickstep train at times.

MPFGLB

Sam Bennett has had a great Giro and this should improve his confidence no end

What I like is that unlike most fast men he can also climb so there alot of possibilities in the future

dastardly00

Well done Sam! 3 Giro stage wins is phenomenal!
Also great GT for Bora with having 2 riders finish in top-10 in GC.

Well done to Ryan Mullen also for finishing his first GT!