Pro Cycling Opinion & Analysis
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…
Stage 4 Results General Classification Standings As previewed yesterday, Lennard Kamna really ended up winning today’s stage. He beat Juan Pedro Lopez in a two man sprint that propelled the latter to the pink jersey. It will be interesting to see Trek Segafredo’s approach from now on with Lopez in the race lead. It only…
General classification Etna. Seemingly the organizers’ favorite climb, it has been featured four times in the last six years (including 2022). All stages have been won by the breakaway during this period: in 2017 and 2020 Jan Polanc and Jonathan Caicedo claim the win. In 2018, a rider from the breakaway (Johan Esteban Chavez) also…
The Giro is alternating predictable and surprising endings. After a winner nobody expected on yesterday’s stage, we’re back to unsurprising conclusions, with Mark Cavendish taking the 16th stage of his career at the Giro. Samuele Rivi (Eolo Kometa) and Mattia Bais (Drone Hopper – Androni Giocattoli) composed the daily breakaway and were caught with 28km…
Stage 2 Results Wow! After a predictable finish on stage 1 we got an incredible surprise today. I will even concede that Yates, at times, has shown to be able to defend himself reasonably well in TTs (TTs). Better than most people (me included) usually consider. But this is the same rider that lost 3m23s…