Giro 2019 SPOILERS ! (provided by rich p)

[Adam4868]

I'm so glad I didn't go this year,shoot weather ! Might as well be at home putting the bins out,doing the garden in the sun !

 

[T4tomo]

10 o'clock yes,every night for a hour.Dont look on this thread if you don't want spoilers !

10 pm last night, 7pm for every other night going forwards.....

 

[Crackle]

I dunno where things are up too but I think things will come back together for this stage, too early for a breakaway to be allowed to go (they're probably 30 minutes down the road aren't they).

 

[rich p]

Ackerman takes the sprint

 

[roadrash]

in his first grand tour aswell, Viviani didn't look too pleased.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well that was entertaining..
Some riders have shyte luck..

 

[brommers]

Caleb Ewan had a brilliant lead out, but he may have hit the front too early.

 

[roadrash]

Ewan, Gaviria and Viviani spent too long watching each other

 

[ColinJ]

The Quest highlights programmes seem fine for stages like these and I like watching in HD on my TV rather than near-HD on my laptop, though I will probably watch longer coverage of more exciting stages on Eurosport Player.

Wiggins certainly looks a bit less trim than in his racing days ...

The opening time trial was a bit brutal! The sprint today was quite exciting but I'm really not a great fan of routine sprint stages.

 

[mjr]

The Quest highlights programmes seem fine for stages like these and I like watching in HD on my TV rather than near-HD on my laptop, […]

S4C seem to have live HD and 30min highlights, if you have freesat or can get Welsh freeview. I'm not sure why.

 

[ColinJ]

S4C seem to have live HD and 30min highlights, if you have freesat or can get Welsh freeview. I'm not sure why.

How curious... I can't see it on my Freesat setup but I probably deleted it from the channel listings, on the grounds that I don't speak Welsh!

I just noticed that iPlayer does S4C ... Yes, there it is - the Giro in Welsh! I watched a couple of minutes just now but it wasn't HD.

 

[roadrash]

just been looking at todays stage , another sprint day, the only thing to liven it up may be crosswinds in the exposed sections.

 

[Milzy]

Interesting. It's odd that he could lose that much time on the flat section though.

Not really when you’ve destroyed yourself on the KOM. He’s not had any time for recovery.

 

[roadrash]

but it was flat with the climb at the end

 

[Milzy]

but it was flat with the climb at the end

Same principle in the opposite way around. To smash the KOM you’d have to ride out under your FTP to make sure you can sustain over your FTP for the climb. That’s how people are approaching the Giro prologue on Zwift.