#CouchPeloton Tonight's #TrollTips absolute deadline is 2300 AEST (3pm local) and the start of Filippo Fiorelli. If your rider starts before him (like Ganna does) then you need to submit before they start.
Tratnik lost his brave fight against the hungry Frenchmen behind and #Giro2024 stage 16 lost Stelvio to the risk of avalanches. Sometimes you need to take 3rd / Umbrailpass.
Today, a climbing challenge awaits sprinters and their teams. I think a strong breakaway can be avoided, the stage is long and many will save the legs for tomorrow, but the "bumps" (up to 8.4 km, 5.4%), boosted by breeze (side/tail), could definitely cause the likes of Ewan to lose contact on a bad day.
Gravel took just two top 20 spots with Nicola Conci losing a bit and Caruso giving up on GC. Meanwhile, Pelayo Sánchez found out he is faster than Alaphilippe.
Today, GC will undergo much heavier changes after 34 flat kilometers and 6.6 kilometers of more or less intense climbing of #Giro2024's first individual time trial. Its route is heading northwest with pretty fair, constant side wind expected.
On the paper, it's all about Ganna setting ambitious time and praying. #CouchPeloton
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Apart from Pogačar, Geraint Thomas will be interested in stealing the show as well, and then there's Martínez and "first but not least" Sheffield. As always, there's the special KOM challenge awaiting Camlejane & Co., even if 6.6-km battle against Pogačar seems utopian and unrewarding on a 4th-cat. hill.
On the other hand, where else should you enfree your imagination than on the road from Foligno to Perugia, land of painters like Pietro Perugino and Raphael?