Giro D'Italia Stage 6: Castrovillari to Matera (188km)

mr spuckler

A rolling stage to calm things down for the GC riders today, it's probably a toss up in advance as to whether it will go to the breakaway or sprinters as seen through the favourites for the day showing a mix of both types of specialists.








Favourites from Bet365...
Peter Sagan 5/2
Michael Matthews 17/4
Arnaud Demare 7/1
Diego Ulissi 8/1
Davide Ballerini 9/1
Andrea Vendrame 14/1
Thomas De Gendt 18/1

Tim76

mr spuckler wrote: »

Favourites from Bet365...
Peter Sagan 5/2
Michael Matthews 17/4
Arnaud Demare 7/1
Diego Ulissi 8/1
Davide Ballerini 9/1
Andrea Vendrame 14/1
Thomas De Gendt 18/1

No Ganna???

mr spuckler

Tim76 wrote: »

No Ganna???

80/1 :pac:

geotrig

I know its the giro and its information re GC is terrible in general most years but jesus I've struggled to find GC information this year

mr spuckler

geotrig wrote: »

I know its the giro and its information re GC is terrible in general most years but jesus I've struggled to find GC information this year

Here you go.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/2020/stage-5-gc

Official Giro website has it fairly handy too!
https://www.giroditalia.it/en/classifiche/

De Bhál

coverage starts at 11:25 on Eurosport

Tim76

mr spuckler wrote: »

80/1 :pac:

Lump on boys

Macy0161

Bora to push on. Sagan to blow it.

Inquitus

Macy0161 wrote: »

Bora to push on. Sagan to blow it.

Was about to say the same, this stage seems made for it. Sagan ftw imho!

MPFGLB

Ulissi ?

Inquitus

Bora could perhaps hold fire and try to get rid of the other sprinters on the Cat 3 nearer the end, would save them having to ride all day 4.7km @ 6.9% is probably enough to do the job and prevent anyone dropped getting back on?

Macy0161

I'd reckon if Sagan can get over, Demare can. And Demare is faster, and has a better lead out.

geotrig

mr spuckler wrote: »

Here you go.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/2020/stage-5-gc

Official Giro website has it fairly handy too!
https://www.giroditalia.it/en/classifiche/

haha, that's the 1st time the giro site has loaded with the GC info for me ,bookmarked the procyclestats site though :cool:

LCD

225km up & down yesterday, 188km today & straight out the door into a climb today, uncategoirsed. That means 40mins odd of riding the turbo before the day even starts. Am sure not many guys in the bunch feel that they're "living the dream"

Dodge

geotrig wrote: »

haha, that's the 1st time the giro site has loaded with the GC info for me ,bookmarked the procyclestats site though :cool:

I’ve had trouble with the Giro site too. Very slow in getting results up!

neris

thats some village even if it is abandoned

neris

neris wrote: »

thats some village even if it is abandoned

The sights you see watching cycling. Amazing to see.

Tim76

neris wrote: »

thats some village even if it is abandoned

The Italians even do ghost estates with style.

Richard Hillman

Loving all of these hill top towns

Smith on commentary now hatch must have needed the loo .

neris

Tim76 wrote: »

The Italians even do ghost estates with style.

Think the south is covered with a good few abandoned hill villages & cave towns. Though some of them have started to be repopulated and you can buy a house for a few euro but you have to do it up in a time frame and you can spend a fortune doing a pile of crumbled bricks up

neris

Pink jersey down

mr spuckler

neris wrote: »

Pink jersey down

That looked a bit nasty.

More bonkers stuff at the giro. Shoved into a ditch 🀣

Tim76

Tim76 wrote: »

Lump on boys

Ganna on the front!

dastardly00

I hope Sagan wins

mr spuckler

dastardly00 wrote: »

I hope Sagan wins

He was miles back before the sprint started and didn't look like he really got fully going at all.

Mefistofelino

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory again!

De Bhál

dastardly00 wrote: »

I hope Sagan wins

somehow he lost it on that last bend whatever happened - lost about 10 places

neris

well done Arnold

Tim76

Nearly got a heart attack, thought that was Ganna in the blue for a sec when Demare came out!