Giro d'Italia **Spoilers**

[Crackle]

Crazy finish, everyone skating everywhere. Bouhanni deserved that after the chase back and getting back on to the front after the crashes and then a long sprint to the finish. Mad road surfaces though, you could finally understand why they weren't racing.

 

[raindog]

that might as well have been on ice

 

[smutchin]

Haven't seen any of today's stage yet... What happened to Ben Swift? Did he just not bother contesting it or was he in one of the crashes?

 

[Rob3rt]

Haven't seen any of today's stage yet... What happened to Ben Swift? Did he just not bother contesting it or was he in one of the crashes?

Fell off couple of k out.

 

[philk56]

Sean Kelly summing it up nicely


View: http://youtu.be/S6_KAwV8DL8

 

[smutchin]

He sounds so much more fluent when he doesn't try to contain it.

 

[Crackle]

Interesting finish today. All the contenders there or thereabouts with the finish suiting Evans best of them.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Nice win for Ulissi - that's the second debut Giro win in a row after Bouhanni yesterday. And after all the pundits saying that the finish today wasn't steep enough to bring out the GC riders and that it would suit people like Swift more, the GC boys all went for it. As for Swift, he had clearly decided from the start that he wasn't going for it (whatever he had said before) or he wouldn't have got in the break. He obviously thinks he's got a chance at the points jersey especially with Kittel gone and getting the intermediate sprint was his best tactical bet today...

 

[The Couch]

The longest stage of the Giro (even made a bit longer due to road works) started in a delightful way today for OPQS:
At 6.50 in the morning they got woken up for a doping check... checks are necessary, but this could have happened with a bit more respect for the riders imo

then again, it could be worse... Lotto Belisol had a fire alarm in their hotel at 6 in the morning

 

[MikeG]

.....At 6.50 in the morning they got woken up for a doping check... checks are necessary, but this could have happened with a bit more respect for the riders imo.........

You think ten to seven in the morning is disrespectful? Really?

 

[The Couch]

You think ten to seven in the morning is disrespectful? Really?

With the prospect of spending 257km on the bike today (during a multiple stage race), I think the riders probably like to sleep the amount of hours they need/prefer

(I know for a simple working man, this isn't so early, but I wouldn't compare that to what these guys do)

 

[The Couch]

Damn....
The images from all these riders that have crashed are amazing

Flens doesn't have much jersey left
Tuft doesn't have much of his thighes left
Rodriguez is probably out of the Giro (GC ?)

Caruso hopefully has nothing serious

 

[Crackle]

Evans gaining 50secs or so on the other favourites but did he take advantage of that crash?

 

[raindog]

Evans wins the 2014 Giro?

 

[dragon72]

A stinker of a day for the Columbian GC hopefuls