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2022 season, Podcast

VeloVoices Podcast 192: Bring Back Katusha!

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Kathi, Midge, Luke and Euan convene at VeloVoices Towers to discuss the first week of the 2022 Giro d’Italia.

There’s a lot of love for Juan Pedro Lopez, Thomas De Gendt, Guillaume Martin, Biniam Girmay and many more.

We chat about how GCN have upped their game (lots of Robbie love), how Hungary embraced the race and, in a rare occurrence, we all agree on who we’d really like to win the Giro.

For the hipsters, Midge delivers a breakdown of Tro Bro Leon and find out about Luke’s search for the perfect extra thick milkshake.

Check out our Giro coverage here:

Tweets of the Giro Week

Stage 1 Report

Stage 2 Report

Stage 3 Report

Stage 4 Report

Stage 5 Report

Stage 6 Report

Stage 7 Report

Stage 8 Report

Stage 9 Report

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2022 season, Giro d'Italia, Grand Tours, Stage races

Giro d’Italia 2022 : Stage 8 – Bearded Belgian De Gendt Wins, Lopez Holds On For Another Day

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Welcome to VeloVoices’ Stage 8 recap, powered by Vanilla Coca Cola, COVID-19, and Fever Dreams of Extra Thick Milkshakes. In what can only be described as an ultimate showing of power, talent, and general beardedness, Lotto-Soudal’s Thomas De Gendt took his second-ever Giro d’Italia stage win out of a small breakaway group. After nearly single-handedly pulling his companions clear of an eager chase group that featured Alpecin-Fenix’s Mathieu Van der Poel and Bini Girmay (Wanty-Intermarche), De Gendt crossed the line ahead of Davide Gabburo (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè) and Jorge Arcas (Movistar). Harm Vanhoucke, De Gendt’s teammate, finished fourth, arms raised in celebration.

There was no change of the jerseys and very little change in the GC, other than Mr. Guillaume “Philosopher” Martin catapulting himself 24 places up to fourth overall after a day in the breakaway, cutting his deficit of 4.06 at the start of the stage by 3 full minutes. Trek’s Juan Pedro Lopez maintains the maglia rosa for at least one more day.

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2022 season

Tweets of the Week 2022 : Pin the medals to your soul

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The tweets have been so good these past couple weeks that I have brought the Tuesday that 2022 starts for this column forward by a month. Yes, we’re back and we’ve got fans and teams alike making the most of their twitter feed. We have Ineos, Jumbo, Wanty, Thomas De Gendt, Marianne Vos, Tadej Pogacar, Filippo Ganna (natch) and dogs in jerseys. Well, one dog in one jersey. And much much more!

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