Pro-cycling thread

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/giro-ditalia-the-art-of-war/

Not often I link to cyclingnews.com, but this analysis by Ed Pickering is worth a read. I think Ineos’ use of Ganna is pretty innovative from a tactical perspective. He’s shaped the race twice now, in a way that very few other pro cyclists can.

Do not want to be climbing mountains and descending them in that rain...

And Campanaerts’ unzipped jacket is pissing me off.

won't somebody think of the watts

Perhaps he had a message on his chest but it's now sadly washed off and he doesn't realise. No hot date for VC tonight.

Read that this morning, great article.

Are Ineos taking Ganna to the tour or is he concentrating on the Olympics?

If not I guess they will try and use Dennis in a similar role

Ganna is so alpha today

Ganna is part of the Italian team pursuit squad for the Olympics.

Bit of a neutralised day today. Everyone seems to be pretty happy to have a rest (as much rest you can get on a rainy 4000m+ day)

Shame as it's a beautiful stage

Ganna still at the front....

This is what I found the other day,
Geraint Thomas
Richie Porte
Tao Geoghegan-Hart
Richard Carapaz
Michal Kwiatkowski
Luke Rowe
Laurens De Plus
Jonathan Castroviejo

Shark attack!

Not bad.

Can anyone explain Hamilton’s elbows?

He'll be doing 4km turns on the front in Tokyo on this form.

Aeroz will make it to Oz in 2028

Good effort from him still.

Brambilla's a knob.

The Nibbles chews off 8s on our Bernie there. Commentators wet themselves. Nibbles a gc contender again, apparently.

Stage 12 wardrobe update

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You know what…I think B&O have swapped shoes from Tuesday night. They’re trolling us.

Quite restrained from Blythey. Rest day for him.

still no socks
#sockwatch

I think this is pretty respectable #presenterwear. The last few days their outfits have really been putting the "euro" in eurosport but this is chill saturday afternoon gastropub stuff. Sean is behind the bar pulling pints of course.

Brad on the door

Sean is at the bar spilling pints of course.

ftfy

Blytho is behind the bar, he’s a ‘mixologist’ down at Revolution.