The 16th stage of the Giro d’Italia I’m cursed. First the step is changed Stelvio, the Cima Coppi (the highest mountain pass on the route) of this edition, with a height of 2,757 meters, due to the snow and the dangers caused by possible avalanches that may occur. When this climb was cancelled, Cima Coppi became Giogo di Santa Mariaalso known as umbrella pass, which was crowned at 2,498 meters, but this Tuesday’s runners will not face it either.
The snow, the cold, the rain and the danger of the descent forced the organization to cut the scissors on this 16th day, so that from the first 202 kilometers it reached 118 kilometers, keeping the tough finish in two mountain passes. Passo Pinei (1st) and the finish in Santa Cristina, Val Gardena.
Whenever a cycling race faces a situation like this, it never rains as everyone would like. Some criticize the riders for their alleged lack of courage, others criticize the organization for the way it makes decisions and many fans who only recognize cycling with epics and sacrifices praise the cycling of the past at the expense of the present.
The truth is that the outlook is not very encouraging for the platoon to move forward Giogo di Santa Mariait’s raining outside the Livignobut the RCS organizing company I’m not for work. In the end, it was the cyclists who asserted their rights, avoiding facing this climb and giving the start neutralized at 2:30 pm, starting from Laas.
“We will do the stage if they do it in a convertible,” protested the runners in the peloton, as reported by the AFP agency. “It’s ridiculous and a circus,” protested others. On Monday night, as the threat intensified, the RCS released a new protocol that included three options depending on conditions. The second, long favored, provided that the runners can change clothes at the top of Giogo di Santa Maria, the change of the Stelvio, located 2,498 meters above sea level, where the race is neutralized for three minutes. Some riders and teams described this proposal as “clownsy.”
The tension increased today when the CPA brokers union published a letter, signed by all the runners”, according to its president Adam Hansen, to the race director Mauro Vegnithreatening a strike if the promotion to Giogo di Santa Maria. But the direction of the race remained inflexible and insisted on leaving Light.
The French climber Valentin Paret-Peintre He protested at the situation: “It’s ridiculous. Either they (the organizers) never ride a bicycle or they haven’t thought about it. We will do the stage if they do it in a convertible.” More diplomatic, the leader of the race, Tadej Pogacar. “If you want, I can race, but I hope there won’t be an accident that we will regret in the end. We must respect the safety of cyclists. It’s dangerous. Let’s see what they decide.”
In another example of silliness, the RCS has announced that Giro d’Italia survivors will be out of the picture to actually go out. Prato dello Stelvio, but at the mentioned time, 11:50 am, no one showed up. The pulse continued to rise, ending up falling on the side of the runners, which ended at 2:30 pm Taste, to the great anger of some runners for everything that happened. “I want to see them in our place. Here we are in 2024 and we still have dinosaurs who can’t take people into account. The Giro d’Italia is one of the worst organized races in the world,” said Australian Ben O’ Connor, absolutely furious at the Corsa Rosa, and this year he is competing in his fourth Giro d’Italia.
Source: La Verdad
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