Polemica: Giro course too dangerous?

I’m officially embarrassed to have this youngster, who has little understanding of Giro history and has no idea if this course is too dangerous or not, on my VDS team. Poor baby has a boo boo on his finger. Awww. Shall we kiss it and make it better, Ricardo?

That’s the problem. I’ve heard many times that Sicily is like a different world if you compare it with Milano.

I’m glad to see someone talking about dangerous stages, but I don’t think it really applies here. Yeah, some ugly stuff yesterday and today, but I don’t think that can really be attributed to the course.

What I wish I could recall were some of the races last year where you look at some it and go “wtf are they thinking?” Racing is inherently dangerous, to be sure, but there are some one days and stages that are ridiculously irresponsible in design.

with carnage but… I thought that the Giro was liked more as it was a “bit” more relaxed than like let’s say le Tour. I hate crashes but it does come with the sport. That many bodies, that close together, there’s bound be a mishap.

I can say my HTFU bracelet isn’t coming off and I hope these guys can heal up. I just hate crashes where guys get taken out of the race. Complete Bummer.

So the ‘tantrum thrower’ is now complaining about the course…

Stage 4, stage 10, huge pileups on roads that had a little rain on them. Who can forget Pinerolo? Seems like they’re better off when it pours. Anyway, Ricco should shut his yap, it’s not like the people of Milazzo were out to get him. As far as he knows.

he just needs to shut up and ride his bike. The former will be impossible, hopefully (for my team) that latter won’t. He’s starting to appear as a real primma donna and I’m not liking that much.

He’s starting to look like a prima donna? LOL, dude was born a prima donna. No wonder he’s not especially well loved in the bunch.

I do think that the dudes should protest the obviously dangerous and silly finishes. But really, these roads looked pretty normal – fairly wide, no obviously shitty pavement, and not too silly twisty. So, while I’m usually sympa to these concerns, this time, not so much.

he’s just gone over the top this year (bike tosses, playing up his successes, almost crying over a broken finger, etc). His quote about not caring if he’s got friends in the bunch as long as he’s got friends as teammates won’t garner him much appreciation within the peleton. Words like that come back to haunt wayyyyyyyy to often.

Road conditions sometimes can’t be helped, course layout can. If you’re laying out a sprint finish with a 90 degree turn 100 meters from the line, that can be helped. Country roads out in the middle of nowhere are a little more of the can’t be helped variety.

If this is the kind of stuff that bothers him, I imagine we’ll never see him at Amstel Gold. The road furniture might give him the vapors.

Given his success last year he is the one who is going to get the microphone shoved in his face and given his age he is acting like you might expect, not a model but not really off the chart either. If others are griping they might not make the gossipy columns. There was a lot of whining about Atlanta’s roads at the TdG and they “looked” fine from my computer screen.

As far as the bike tossing thing goes (pun if you want it to be), he again was a kid showing his frustration. He was in perfect position to win the race when an out of control Gerdeman ripped up the spokes on his rear wheel, yea that bike racing but so too that is that a kid tossing his bike. Give him a few years, more than a few months anyways and see how it plays out. He gets more style points than Bjarne does for bike tossing in my book and he’s young, he just might have a future at the Olympic bike toss event as a coach.