At 167 kilometres, the route of stage 13 in the Giro d'Italia travels from Reggio Emilia to Tortona. The route is as flat as can be. So we can expect a smiling sprinter being kissed by podium girls in the afternoon.
You could argue the route of the 13th stage is the prelude to a ‘summit finish’. After all, the finish line in Tortona is the highest point of the parcours, located at an ‘elevation’ of 115 metres above sea level.
By the way, departure place Reggio Emilia lies lowest – at 5 metres.
Just like the 14th stage, stage 13 in the Giro d’Italia pays hommage to Fausto Coppi. In 1960 Il Campionissimo passed away in today’s arrival place, while he was born in 1919 in tomorrow’s departure place Castellania. He died young after he had caught malaria in Burkina Faso.
The first three riders on the line take time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds, while the last intermediate sprint (at kilometre 126.6) comes with 3, 2 and 1 seconds.
The 13th stage of the Giro d’Italia 2017 starts at 13:20 and the finish is expected around 17:15, both local times.
>Did not start in stage 13 179. Geraint Thomas (gbr – Team Sky)
Xavier Williams
Sad news about Thomas. Time to start getting ready for TdF rape i guess.
Jace Gutierrez
Wait, what happened? Broadcast just started here, did he quit?
Robert Morales
“I’ve been suffering since my crash on Sunday,” Thomas said. “I’ve had an issue with my shoulder which is manageable, but my knee has also been getting worse each day.
“Obviously it’s never nice to leave a race early, especially when it’s your main goal of the season, but I have to look at the bigger picture. I’d love to continue, but it would be a case of trying to survive each day rather than racing.
“I’ll turn my attention to the Tour de France now, and I want to arrive there with the same good form I started the Giro with.”
Juan Rogers
Fair enough. I'm more surprised he managed to do as well as he did, especially in the TT, after that crash.
Nicholas Wilson
>Dat constant loss of signal all of a sudden
I foresee a nasty storm coming up.
Also 2 M I N U T E S M I N U T E S
Alexander Allen
>World's biggest labyrinth
Really? I mean it looks nice, but doesn't look that big.
Colton Jenkins
Missed yesterday's stage. What were the highlights?
Mason Garcia
Any stream links for those of us in the states to watch?
>That fucking faggot sticking his phone that close to the riders
At least he wasn't taking fucking selfies, but still, he was this close to hitting one of them for fuck's sake.
Tyler Robinson
>No veneer in "ere"
Colton Evans
Who's the Dutch color commentator on Eurosport? Top lad
Leo Bennett
That is one cheeky tweet from Cav.
Connor Martin
Alright, see, that's fine. Even if you enjoy selfie faggotry, at least behave and take them from a safe distance on the side of the road. At least not all spectators are mentally challenged.
Asher Cook
What happened?
Jason Lopez
Nothing much, but the chopper camera did insist on her. One of the spectators was sitting on the grass, about half a meter from the road taking her selfies. Perfectly fine distance, got the shots she wanted, and wasn't an ass about the whole thing. Now if only everyone was like that.
Jeremiah Turner
probably Bobbie Traksel, or might be Boogerd
belgian commentator sucks imo, too uptight about everything and his high pitched voice annoys me
Juan White
Oh. For a moment you got me thinking that some dumb broad ventured right under a bicycle and caused a crash or something.
William Diaz
No, no, I was actually impressed if anything.
Noah Martinez
It seems to be Karsten Kroon. He's been talking about divorces, calling the commentator out on bullshit and has just been brutally honest the whole time. 10/10 commentating
Daniel Adams
So he is a typical Eurosport commentator?
Aiden Morales
>Now talking about how he was betting against himself and it failed because he was supposed to finish behind a guy and that dude got a puncture before the finnish.
Karsten is literally /ourguy/
Jeremiah James
They vary, Boogert has been there too for instance and Karsten doesn't really have a distinctive voice. This is 100 times better though
Nolan King
Kek this
Joshua Bennett
Love it when you can hear that announcer bitch in the background all the fucking time in the eurosport stream
Michael Adams
Seriously who approved CCC's outfit?
My eyes are bleeding every time their riders pop op.
Aiden Moore
Not too different than Euskaltel
Luke Jenkins
Do you guys only have one commentator? We always get two over here. Same guys do all the grand tours, and some classics. Others, like the Tour of California, only get one of them.
Christopher Brooks
They didn't go full retard everything orange though.
Tyler Rivera
They were actually lucky with that color recently. Heard the commentators talk about it at the start of the Giro, some of their bikes got stolen, but the colors were so blatant the thieves couldn't sell them anywhere and they just abandoned them after a couple of days or something.
Ryder Barnes
THANKS ANTON
Nathaniel Lewis
>Dat sharp left turn
I fear for the worst honestly.
Jace Scott
I'm listening to the english stream right now. Finnish Eurosport channel has the based father-son pairing of Peter and Christian Selin
Jack Murphy
kek >This kills the peloton.
Nathaniel Green
Everything will be fine.
Nathan Carter
>ABSOLUTE KINO
Jayden Myers
It's a glorified rest day episode
John Rodriguez
>dutchman >complaing on orange
Carson Stewart
Well alright then. You mentioned bitching in the background and figured he had no one to argue with. The two here are also really good. Great chemistry between them. From time to time one of our cyclists also joins to comment as well. He's still racing though so he can't join for every stage.
Jason Nguyen
LOL, I was talking about the woman you can hear in the background!
Zachary Ward
pls watch out tour
Luis King
G A V I R I A A V I R I A
Kayden Gutierrez
Rooting for the Gorilla again. It's his last day so might as well do something with it.
Thomas Gonzalez
Pippo Attacko.
Jacob Cooper
>Clean air train time.
Jaxson Morales
Some stages, like today, we only have daddy Selin, however on any important stages they're usually both present.
Nicholas Hughes
Nah
Justin Nguyen
Come on Gorilla!
Charles Stewart
A sprinter will win. Screencap this
Julian Cruz
Is Kristoff destroying everyone again, so he can choke in Le Tour?
William Myers
Gaviria wins lol
Thomas Sanchez
NO WAY! Holy shit, literally Sagan 2.0.
Eli Reed
>EWAN KEKED AGAIN
Tyler Adams
Call It
Nathaniel Gutierrez
T-this is not funny anymore guys
Blake Bell
>that manouevre
wow. impressive win from gaviria
Caleb Evans
>The city of Down Under.
Xavier Price
This cunt is too fast. Like godmode Kittel
Asher Richardson
Did Greipel even sprint? Didn't see him
Jace Baker
Indeed. He came back from way behind everyone like a fucking rocket. Ricezze on the other hand might've been a nigger bumping into Ewan. He might not have been, and just tried to make room for Gaviria but it's not really clear from the reruns.
He tried a bit, but then shook his head slightly and completely gave up. He was out of juice.
Charles Hall
Probably forgot to leave his Alpecin in for two minutes.
Zachary Peterson
>gaviriaganalol
Thomas Butler
>t. Kittel
Joshua Sullivan
Based Gaviria. Still mad he choked in Rio.
David Baker
For me, its Fernando "missile" Gaviria Bow down motherfuckers, we're not worthy
Henry Harris
>I don’t really want to make excuses. Every time I try to make an explanation, everyone says, oh, he’s just making more excuses. It’s a lose-lose situation; if I try to give an explanation, then it’s an excuse, and if I don’t, then people don’t accept that, either. Right now, my body is just kind of failing. I don’t know why
Guess who?
Ian Peterson
America's greatest GC contender since lord Us Postal.
TJ "NO MORE EXCUSES" van Garderen.
Alexander Bell
>It’s really confusing, frustrating. I know what people are probably saying about me — I don’t even look at cycling websites anymore, and I deleted my social media accounts — I know what people are saying. Every time I want to prove them wrong … I don’t know why it’s not working.
#pray4tejay
Gavin Carter
Man, I legit feel sorry for the guy.
Christopher Lopez
I love to ridicule TJ but this hit me right in the feels.
Hunter Wright
He should just reassess already, and no longer start as the team leader in a Grand Tour. Ever
Blake Nelson
He should follow Gesinks lead, becoming a stage hunter. All these guys whos sole purpose seems to be trying to get a top 5 GC in grand tours can easily win stages if they pick their days. I dont get how any cyclist of that caliber can be content with a 5th place, even in the Tour.
Andrew Diaz
who's been the cuckold of the Tour lads , TJ or Sam Bennett?
Logan Evans
Cabal
Hudson Bell
nah he actually won a stage, thats not bad for him.
I can see him winning some 1 week stage races and contest stages/superdom in grand tours. It's clear that he can't into GC in grand tours so he should stop trying. He's still top tier talent and can definitely be successful as long as he finds his place.
Jordan Lewis
> tgw no qt jewess gf jdimsa
Andrew Garcia
Sagan clipping out of his pedal. For what purpose?
Brandon Smith
this is one of the worst TT routes I've ever seen
Christopher Morris
>3agan
Gabriel Brown
There have been so many guys coming off their pedals accidentally in the last few weeks.
Iktf bro
Jaxson Gomez
>non-TT bikes on a completely flat ITT stage
why the FUCK would you do this
Landon Hernandez
Didn't look accidental though. He twisted his foot. So weird.
Daniel Cruz
It happens. At least it wasn't anything more dramatic. Worse case scenario he could've fallen.
