Giro d'Italia: Shows of strength, signs of trouble

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4.4 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The first real GC day, a glorious Thomas De Gendt breakaway, and Mathieu van der Poel's tactical nous (or lack thereof) highlighted a week of racing at the Giro d'Italia. Caley, Ronan, Amy, and Shoddy are back to discuss it all and look ahead to the sprint days to come. Plus, Shoddy reports in from Itzulia Women and Amy explains why Demi Vollering has been simply unbeatable.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Segmentist podcast everybody. I'm Kayle Fretz. It is Monday, May 16th, the second
0:17.1	rest day of the Gyrid Italia. It was a phenomenal weekend of bike racing all over the place everywhere from Italy to
0:26.5	Bas country. We're going to talk all about it. Yesterday was the first big G.C. stage
0:32.2	we've got a, well, a triple winner over in its
0:37.4	Uyghabas country. Welcome back. Ronan, how are you today? I'm good, yeah.
0:44.0	Good weekend of bike racing, so I can't complain.
0:48.0	Choddy Dave, you were on the ground over the weekend.
0:51.0	Yeah, it's not hard to be on the ground when the
0:53.8	race is only like 50 minute and that we're an hour's drive away from me. The
0:57.5	hard bits getting up at six o'clock in the morning to get over to Spain because they start these women's races at
1:05.2	stupid o'clock don't they it's it's just not right 9 a.m. rollout the Spanish why exactly plus the Spanish are probably only The Spanish. Why?
1:13.0	Plus the Spanish are probably only just going to bed.
1:16.0	They've just had their dinner.
1:18.0	Restaurants are just shutting the doors.
1:20.0	They haven't laid the Spanish.
1:22.0	That's wild. And Amy Jones, welcome back. We haven't heard from
1:26.2	you since the classics. Good to have you back on the show. I almost like to think of this as my debut
1:31.6	because I'm here as myself not Debbie so
1:36.4	we're saving Debbie for the Tour de France FEM
1:39.5	Special occasion is probably the next time Debbie will be back. Yeah, the post-dinner recordings.
1:47.0	Let's get into today's episode, but before we do, shoddy Dave, what's going on in Whoop Land?
1:54.8	Woop Whoop, Whoop, Whoop, indeedi.
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