Pro Cycling Opinion & Analysis
Stage 12 Results General Classification after Stage 12 Stefano Oldani (Alpecin Fenix) made it two in a row for Italy yesterday. After Alberto Dainese won the first stage for the home country on stage 11, Oldani repeated for Italy in what was his first professional victory. Alpecin seems to have learned from stage 8, when…
Alberto Dainese (Team DSM) won stage 11 of the Giro, his first ever Grand Tour (GT) stage victory. His power in the last 50 meters was surreal. Everything seemed set for Fernando Gaviria to win the sprint in front of Simone Consonni until Dainese just burst past both of them. Arnaud Demare took off way…
Stage 10 Results General classification after stage 10 Finally!!! Biniam Girmay is a Grand Tour (GT) stage winner. Not that he’s late by any means – this is his first GT after all. But, at least for me, the inevitability that he would eventually win a stage made it seem like he had gone ages…
Stage 9 Results General classification after stage 9 The first big GC battle is behind us and one of the biggest GC favorites is sadly out of the fight for GC. Simon Yates lost 11m15s to Jai Hindley, the stage winner, and his aspirations to the maglia rosa are done. The British rider unfortunately wasn’t…
A wonderful stage with a profile reminiscent of classic race was won by a Belgian. Fitting. Thomas de Gendt was the strongest of the breakaway and took home his second stage win in the Giro, the first for Lotto Soudal in the 2022 edition of the Italian Grand Tour. Mathieu Van Der Poel and Biniam…
Stage 7 Results I hope cycling fans all around the world watched the first 100km of the race instead of the final 100km. Koen Bouwman (Jumbo Visma) won the stage authoritatively, in a three man sprint against Bauke Mollema (Trek Segafredo) and Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates). The first 100km of the race were very…
Stage 6 Results Yesterday Arnaud Demare was the best sprinter in a reduced field. Today he was the best. Period. The stage itself was the most standard flat stage you can imagine. Diego Rosa (Eolo Kometa) spent nearly the whole day alone in front. He was caught with around 30km to go and the sprinters…
Yesterday, in the preview of this stage, I did mention the possibility of the big climb in the middle of the stage making a difference in the end. That was about the end of the extent to which I was right, though. Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan were, in fact, the only two of the…