Carapaz loses almost 90”….Hindley wins the Giro barring a catastrophe in the TT.
Wow…did not see that coming. Had Carapaz with the advantage today due to him living at altitude.
And hats off to Bora…they correctly let Sagan go, retooled around potential GC riders and just bagged the Giro.
Chapeau Hindley.
Wow, what a final 5 km. Beautiful crescendo of a climb. Truly a shocker for me how badly Carapaz cracked - if you’d told me Landa was going to beat him today I’d have never believed you
How bad were Bahrain’s tactics today? 2nd place on the stage…what’s the point? Even without the benefit of hindsight it seemed like a split team goal was likely to miss on both.
This could become Bora-H’s first GT victory. What a journey for the team. I used to race with Ralph Denk in the 90s. A genuine nice guy. What he has built is great and he can be proud. Especially with the way how he built. O.k., having Bora’s founder/CEO as best buddy may have helped a little. The actually raced track together. So there is a lot of cycling passion behind the team. Only this “Band of brothers” is a little bit odd for a German team …
The only problem, almost no visibility in the home market. Cycling is still dead and ignored by the media. It would need a German in yellow to shake up things.
Great race from Jai and Bora! Stoked to see it.
He looked fantastic. Hopefully he is able to enjoy the TT tomorrow with a buffer like that
Agree. So long as he has been spending some time on his TT bike he should be ok. He has the best motor right now 
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Ive just watched the highlights Carapaz cracked big time! There was one suggestion that he could lose the jersey so he could wear his own skinsuit but that was by a bit too much 
Not much talk about Covi’s shoes. Strong choice 
Well, that coverage of the TT made my 3hr session fly by… mainly because I spent most of it trying to copy the starters countdown!! i’ve never seen 5 to 1 done like that before 
Commentators say that about every grand tour leader before, they might not of actually said it about Carapaz. Its just a joke don’t worry about it 
hahahaha. I did the SAME thing on the first time trial! It was so hypnotizing but It made my brain hurt!
~6.5 w/kg for close to 20 minutes… Jai deserves it
Maybe it’s just me, but I found this Giro boring to watch / not exciting overall, which is surprising given how close it was on time. Maybe it was because the GC riders were so close in ability, but the stages never felt exciting. Unlike past tours / giros / vueltas, I cannot think of one stage I would rewatch while doing a workout. Am I wrong? If so, which stage(s) would you rewatch?
100% agree. there were very few stages I could keep on for motivation during a TR workout. And even just watching, I abandoned watching the full length with judicious FF’ing for the extended highlights on GCN - which were excellent btw. Total snore other than stage 20 and a stage here or there. So many sprint stages, even the commentators talked about how even stage 20 was boring until the last KMs.
Close on time does not mean an exciting race, unfortunately. Remember the Tour when Froome beat Uran by less than a minute? One of the biggest snoozefests ever in July.
Really bummed this Giro was so boring…it could have been a great course for attacking riding, but everyone seemed so focused on everyone else that it largely led to a stalemate.
The breaks were usually super exciting though. Thanks MVdP!
Yes agree and very boring for me the last 10 days of giro.
No argument. It felt like Ineos believed the pre-race hype that this Giro was Carapaz’ to lose, and rode like their biggest worry was Carapaz having a ill-timed mechanical incident / crash. Not that another rider could drop Carapaz, and therefore they needed to figure out how to gain time on the other riders.
Outside of the 2020 Giro win with Tao, and Stage 18 of the 2018 Giro with Froome, it feels like Ineos rides like they are still in the era of peak Froome: ride a hard pace with the certainty that you have the strongest rider who can single handily take time out of the main contenders.
What about when Carapaz attacked solo on stage 14 with 29km still to go? Wasn’t even a summit finish day.
He didn’t have the legs to make it stick but he still took on the racing.
One attack on one stage out of 21 stages? And then nothing. Doesn’t change my opinion that Ineos believed the race was Carapaz’, and only a mis-time mechanical / crash could take it away from him. Look at the situation going into stage 20: Carapaz was up only 3 seconds, and Ineos seemed content.