Giro 2022.....SPOILERS.

[Dogtrousers]

(probably still #NotOk to get off your bike and punch a spectator ... 🤷‍♂️ )

That Lopez family. They're a bad lot.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Nice bit of silliness in the early ride today with Lopez and Dumoulin both larking about at the back of the bunch, with Dumoulin threatening to throw a bottle at Lopez to get revenge for Oomen on Sunday.

View: https://twitter.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1526529828257767425


For those for whom Twitter links wont show: This is a video clip of Dumoulin messing around as described above

 

[Grant Fondo]

Been tough for the three breakaways, a few more may have helped ... under a minute to peleton now, some action on its way?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Woo hoo!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Girmay has had to go to hospital. Champagne cork in eye.

View: https://twitter.com/AdamBlythe89/status/1526592396993212417

 

[Peter Salt]

What a lovely story today! So happy I was able to see it live

 

[Grant Fondo]

Girmay has had to go to hospital. Champagne cork in eye.

View: https://twitter.com/AdamBlythe89/status/1526592396993212417

Good lord ... didn't someone else get 'corked' on an earlier stage?

 

[Peter Salt]

Good lord ... didn't someone else get 'corked' on an earlier stage?

Yup, MVDP Looks like the sprinters ain't drinking too much

 

[Adam4868]

Chuffed he won...well deserved !

View: https://twitter.com/Cyclingnewsfeed/status/1526615900828450817?t=MjMRDbgQ_aDwQuKpzLm_cw&s=19

I think they de cork the bottles in motor racing...maybe the way forward ?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bad news. Girmay unlikely to start stage 11

View: https://twitter.com/wielerman/status/1526634722302074882

 

[Shadow]

Champagne cork in eye.

*pedant alert*
The cork was not from a bottle of champagne, it was italian sparkling wine. There is a difference!
*pedantry over*

There is a reason there is a wire cage over the cork of bottles of fizzy wine. Always hold your thumb over the cork to stop incidents like this. It will be tragic if Girmay cannot continue the Giro tomorrow.

A fantastic finish to todays stage and was impressed with MVDP's class indicating he was beaten by the faster guy.

More bottle trivia: the fizzy wine now used at F1 races is made by ..... Ferrari. And Ferrari the fizzy wine maker has been making fizzy wine 37 years since before Ferrari the car manufacturer was founded.

 

[Shadow]

P.s. Forgot to add to previous post - I am more than willing to offer my services to the Giro, le Tour, folk on CC on how to open a bottle of fizzy wine with real, true class...with a sabre! Known in the trade as Le Sabrage.
Have lots of experience and never fails to astonish!

 

[Adam4868]

Bad news. Girmay unlikely to start stage 11

View: https://twitter.com/wielerman/status/1526634722302074882

Might not start due to hangover 🙄

View: https://twitter.com/IntermarcheWG/status/1526661747096051712?t=j8Ce8MHkY1u5oqMGxpHDkw&s=19

 

[cougie uk]

Best keep those sunglasses on for all podium presentations in future people !

 

[matticus]

Well ... Crikey.

However Prosecco-Gate turns out, I think this stage will be one of those stories that lives on for a loooong time. It may well have no effect on any of the big results - overall win, stuff like that - but if you watched it, you'll remember!