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it’s probably one of the worst organized races I think and I’m just being honest this would never happen I think in 99% of other situations and yeah it’s just a bit of a shame that it’s 2024 and you still have dinosaurs who really don’t see the human side of things I’d like to see him in our position get outside on the bike and and do the start of this stage and see what his answer is after after those couple hours
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Sorry Ben but it the weather causing chaos
And that’s why you’ll never win a grand tour
But what happened?
So you never had to cancel a pic nic because of rain? Get real man.
What happened?
Wimps
Back to. Australia 😂
For those who are wondering: Basically the race organizers seem to be totally disorganized in dealing with freezing cold and snowy conditions. The rider union raised weather concerns last week but the organizers dismissed them. Now it’s the day of the race, and the conditions are as terrible as everyone thought. The organizers are scrambling for a solution, but the team busses have already left and are hours away at the planned finish line, so they cannot easily move the riders.
The weather may be causing chaos, but I think the point stands that a quick decision to cut the stage short before teams and riders went to sleep at the end of the rest day would have minimized the chaos.
He is right 💯. It’s putting all riders on unnecessary risk. !
Tell the organisers to do one!!
Always remember that famous picture of a rider quite some years back at the top of the Stelvio? In snow. Dunno. Unions aren't healthy IMHO.
Rule number 9 no?
Come on — they did cut quite a bit of the stage — what else do you want ?
Indoor-cycling ?
Have fun with Zwift -Style competitions then !
Organized as bad as the British Olympic events
Dinosaur's were impressive beasts. 88 Giro, Andy Hampsten.
What a whinger. You get paid hundreds of thousands to millions a year to pedal a bike for a couple hours a day, sometimes the weather doesn't cooperate and its not even what tons of people bike in for months during the winter. Waaaaaaaaaaah.
If il Giro is the worst race in the world, what are you doing here? go away, no one will miss you. Rude person and very childish. The weather conditions in mountain change fast and constantly and there are a lot of interests that have to be coordinate.
Is this a modern professional cyclist?
Stay out of the Kitchen in You cannot take the heat.
Love O'Connor but he is totally wrong here. I tune in to cycling grand tours to watch riders die. If he is too scared to bike through snow drifts on 23mm tires going downhill, he should retire and take up a safer sport, like BASE jumping or cave diving. #coward
Where's the UCI in all of this? Isn't it up to the UCI commissaires to enforce the Extreme Weather Protocol?
In old enough to remember when professionals didn’t even wear helmets during these races. Good times make weak men.
STFU and ride your bike… simple
This is the difference between the great champions of the past (dinosaurs) and you Ben. People used to be tougher and didn't complain as much
Back in the day weather is not a hindrance. The race must go on duh.
Well said Ben
But we've seen the worst 😅 remember Vuelta TT?
From the Giro official website
"Gaul, shy and reserved off his bike but wild and reckless on it, went on the attack right from the first climbs, while the weather worsened kilometre after kilometre and the riders dropped out one after the other, including the Maglia Rosa Pasquale Fornara, who was forced off his bike by his sports director for fear that he might seriously hurt himself, despite his 16-minute lead over Gaul. A snowstorm broke out on the Bondone, Gaul staggered but continued through the fog and walls of snow and arrived at the finish line as the winner. Partially frostbitten, he had to be pulled off his bike, he fainted, they cut his jersey with a knife and took him to the hotel, where he was soaked in a hot tub for an hour. After a few minutes he came to his senses, and they told him what he had just done: he was the new Maglia Rosa and one step away from winning his first Giro d’Italia. That day, in second place, with a delay of almost eight minutes, came Alessandro Fantini, third at 12 minutes was Fiorenzo Magni who, having a fractured shoulder, was holding the handlebars with a tubular clenched between his teeth. Half the group retired. “Man driven to his limits”, headlined the newspapers the next day.
For everyone, however, Bondone is the mountain that towers above the city of Trento, and when one thinks of Trento, in cycling, one thinks of Francesco Moser. The Sheriff had already tackled this climb in the 1973 and 1976 editions, but it was not until 1978 that he found himself facing it as a stage finish, with Moser, among other things, second in the GC and in the midst of the fight for the Maglia Rosa. The Bondone was bedlam, two wings of crowds cheering the home champion, who had 45 seconds to recover from the overall leader, Belgian Johan De Muynck. Moser, however, collapsed right on the home climb: Wladimiro Panizza won the stage, De Muynck gained 1’30” and Gianbattista Baronchelli overtook him in the general classification, moving up to second place as the best Italian, while all of Moser’s fans along the climb got in his way and insulted him."
Why are the organizers to blame.. For not arranging better weather….? Just ride your bike you idiot, or someone else will.
Change job
Change sport… You will be a sudoku master for sure
Stai a casa locco
Go home
Fuck the dinosaurs! 🦖
Cycling is for man! If you don't like the water go and play chess
there are many other races mate. One of the nice thing of Giro is how hard can be. If you don't like it, please just keep riding in Australia.
Frustrating never being enough?
Don't hate the dinosaurs
If you in the gc you will say it well done organise it's good
Maybe try a real job for 40 years if you want to know what a challenging job is.
If he would pedal more and speak less he won't be so far in GC
He’s not wrong. The Giro d’italia is known for it’s lack of incompetence.
what's he complaining about?
Get a sex change and become a house wife
just ride on zwift with aircon