Do Discovery also do highights? If they do will buy the year subscription but I only see reference to the live. I like live stages but also have to work and would value highlights.
I'll look at whether I can get DMAX without freeview via internet
> Crazily early to suggest such a thing, but not this year.
Why not? All your main rivals are injured, and there is a shorter than usual gap between the giro and the tour (i.e. less time to hold a performance peak), then a longer than usual gap to the Vuelta, enough for some R+R (assuming he's not going to the Olympics). I'd argue the opposite, this is the year it's most possible to go for a treble.
> Do Discovery also do highights? If they do will buy the year subscription but I only see reference to the live. I like live stages but also have to work and would value highlights.
> I'll look at whether I can get DMAX without freeview via internet
Both highlights and rewatch of live broadcast on Eurosport
You can’t argue that is good for Pog that there is a small gap between the giro and tour and good for Pog that there is a long gap between the tour and vuelta! Either could be true, but not both!
By the way, thanks for starting this thread. Despite what everyone assumes about the predictability of the winner, I’m daftly excited about the Giro, usually the best Grand Tour. Come on Gerrrraint!
Relative to the usual gaps. Normally the gap between G and T is too long, and T and V to short (especially if you’ve done the first two) - but not so this year with the date shifts
The opening stages of this year's Giro have been nothing short of spectacular and G going with Pog today seems to sum up the idea that 'easy stages' no longer exist in modern grand tours.
Here's a pic I took of G riding through a local (to me) village on the Volta Catalunya in March this year. Even on this relatively insignificant warmer up (on which Pog won 4 stages and the overall) they were going absolutely flat out pretty much every day.
Incidentally, pink and "granata" really don't go well together, do they (pink looks bad next to so many colours: brown, red, orange, yellow etc)? But that's hardly DQ grounds. On that basis AG2R would have been perma-banned.
> Incidentally, pink and "granata" really don't go well together, do they (pink looks bad next to so many colours: brown, red, orange, yellow etc)? But that's hardly DQ grounds. On that basis AG2R would have been perma-banned.
Sounds like a UCI fashion police
This evening I think a few sprint team Directors Spotives will be giving the hairdryer treatment.
Given the lack of competition in the GC this could have been one of the dullest grand tours for a while but so far it has been thoroughly entertaining.
Exciting to see the will they/wont they breakaway yesterday.
My favourite part of the coverage was the Giro train alongside the riders - it’s a regular feature, but would take some dedicated scheduling to coordinate!
