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Giro d'Italia 2010
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| lup_andrei |
Posted on 30-05-2010 21:40
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arthon wrote:
I just noticed that, except the pink jersey, all the other ones were won by aussies. That's unexpected. On another positive note, Caisse was really close to ending their sponsorship in style, with all the 3 GTs in the bag.
Yeah.. aussie rulz you know  Give me an odd for Cadel to finish in top 20 at the Tour after cooking himself here 
Edited by lup_andrei on 30-05-2010 21:42
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| Crommy |
Posted on 30-05-2010 22:09
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Edited by Crommy on 30-05-2010 22:10
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| Crommy |
Posted on 30-05-2010 22:10
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And here's Evans excuse - he was ill from stage 11
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| ruben |
Posted on 30-05-2010 22:15
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To Evans (not to crommy obviously):
/care
Edited by CrueTrue on 31-05-2010 08:10
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| Roman |
Posted on 30-05-2010 23:37
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That was the best GT I ever seen. I can say there were practically no boring stages, so I can only hope, that this year's TdF will have at least tenth of this excitement 
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| issoisso |
Posted on 30-05-2010 23:37
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Sometime in 2009, Boonen's propensity for making up excuses seems to have jumped over to Evans.
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| Maximka |
Posted on 31-05-2010 10:44
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Roman wrote:
That was the best GT I ever seen. I can say there were practically no boring stages, so I can only hope, that this year's TdF will have at least tenth of this excitement
Tour never could be as interesting as Giro! Never!
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| pesci |
Posted on 31-05-2010 11:04
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Well I also think (exept for Pereiro Tour) in TdF there usually several strong teams, not like this year in Giro where only Liquigas and Astana a little were good enough. With a normal Astana, also helping or Sky more in the race, and also Radiosack this year or the great Saxo... the 12 minutes scape from L'Aquila will never had worked.
And without that stage Liquigas will had block the race like Astana last year with the best team and 2 riders in the podium.
Because there were no other riders who could try to blow the group up.
Evans was not so good at the end and also no team!, and he will never attacked before 3 km to go, Vino run out of EPO at the middle of the race, Sastre was very under expectations, Wiggins, is he the same rider as last year TdF???
Anyway great fun at the Giro!!
Congratulations Ivan, and i am very happy for the great Arroyo, one of the best workers of the group having the chance of the fame for ones!!!
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| Maximka |
Posted on 31-05-2010 11:20
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pesci wrote:...
Evans was not so good at the end and also no team!, and he will never attacked before 3 km to go, Vino run out of EPO at the middle of the race...
It was Evans, who run out of EPO  THAT was his illness
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 31-05-2010 11:41
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Anyway, I think i'll conclude with my Giro awards!
Best stage: Montalcino - Mud is cool. Or L'Aquila the great break stage.
Best moment: Arroyo's descent on Friday was great, but also Evans attack on Saturdays stage to Passo del Tonale.
Worst moment: All the crashes in Holland, luckily the race was so good that these didn't matter
Worst stage: That boring one.. umm Stage 18 Bresica.
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 31-05-2010 13:32
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Maximka wrote:
pesci wrote:...
Evans was not so good at the end and also no team!, and he will never attacked before 3 km to go, Vino run out of EPO at the middle of the race...
It was Evans, who run out of EPO THAT was his illness
Again (  ). Basso won the Giro. Why we even talk too much about Vinokourov and his doping problems? |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 31-05-2010 13:44
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Lets me have a go at the awards also:
Best Stage: Zoncalon - some guys may complain about the gradient of this one. Rubbish, this is a great climb it really sorted the riders out. Basso breaks Evans (and repays his teams efforts) and everyone else! Great rides from some of the young riders.
Worst stage: The TTT's always suck for someone in this Scarponi for me deserving of a podium loses out. Interestingly, Caisse also lost two minutes and half minutes here. Terminillo was disappointing no-one wanted the jersey at that stage of the race, but I will go for the TTT, better to have a short opening one like last year if at all. The distribution of the TT's were wierd in the whole race. There really should have been a longish Individual one. In effect we had a prologue, an 'epilogue', a nasty mountain one and a TTT.
Best moment: A 56 man breakaway! The breakaway stage made this race even more exciting. Plenty of What if's - What if this didn't happen? Basso would have won pink on Zoncalon and stage 19 would have gone more like stage 20. This stage will be remembered for a long time as a warning.
Worst moment: From my blinkered team sky fanboy perspective it was Wiggins losing the pink jersey on stage 2. Then it was going to be a case of whether Henderson could fluke a sprint and watching Cioni try and battle past riders who couldn't give a damn for a 17th on GC.
Most surprising rider: Arroyo and Porte owe a lot to breakaway but did so well after that. Kiserlovski can come under that category too. Nibali continued to evolve here after a good Tour de France last year. Scarponi has never ridden mountains as well as this. But for me its podium finisher Nibali showed that he is the new Salvoldelli - descending is an important and much underrated skill. He can TT and climb to nearly the highest standard. He looks he has a good acceleration in him too.
Most disappointing rider: Well plenty crashed out or went due to illness Pettachi, McEwen, Pozzovivo etc. I will pick from those completing the race I would have to go for Carlos Sastre - he made a brave effort on second to last stage. But I was always waiting for something from him and it never happened despite being gifted so much time on breakaway stage.
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| issoisso |
Posted on 31-05-2010 14:11
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Smowz wrote:
I will pick from those completing the race I would have to go for Carlos Sastre - he made a brave effort on second to last stage. But I was always waiting for something from him and it never happened despite being gifted so much time on breakaway stage.
Carlos Sastre (Cervelo TestTeam) finished a disappointing eighth overall in the Giro d'Italia, 9:39 behind Ivan Basso, despite gaining time on most of his rivals by being in the breakaway to L'Aquila on stage 11.
The Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper gave the Spanish climber just four out of ten on its report card for the Giro because he started the race as one of the big favourites. He was criticised for only racing for eight days before the Giro and Gazzetta went as far as suggesting he was a rider close to retirement.
However Sastre has revealed that he rode most of the Giro with a back injury sustained in crashes in the opening stages in Holland and then worsened by a crash on the stage to Montalcino on the dirt roads.
Despite his poorer than expected Giro results, Sastre perhaps deserves praise for making to the finish in Verona and finishing in the top ten, rather than criticism.
"I don’t like to make excuses. I crashed and I crashed pretty bad but that's part of the game, it's one of the risks of cycling," Sastre told Cyclingnews.
"It wasn’t something I talked about because I didn’t want it to become an excuse. Everyone in the team knew about it but we didn’t talk about it to the press or the public because they can't help me when I'm on the bike. I just needed the help of my teammates, my soigneur and my osteopath."
"It was a tough experience but I did my best and I'm happy with what I achieved. I'm just happy that I was able to finish the Giro d'Italia. If I'd crashed harder, I might not have even made it to the end."
Tour de France or Vuelta Espana
Sastre has already hinted that he may not ride the Tour de France and opt for the Vuelta Espana instead.
Cervelo TestTeam will target the green points jersey with Thor Hushovd and so many of the riders selected for the Tour team will be there to help the Norwegian sprinter rather than help Sastre go for the yellow jersey.
Sastre said he will only ride the Tour if he can recover in time and be competitive in the overall classification.
"First I've got to recover. But if I feel okay, can be strong and think I can finish in the top seven in the Tour de France, I'll ride," he said.
"People say that I should automatically ride the Tour de France because I'm a former winner. But they also say that I should ride the Vuelta Espana. But there's only one Carlos Sastre. I can't ride everything."
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| lup_andrei |
Posted on 31-05-2010 16:28
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Maximka wrote:
pesci wrote:...
Evans was not so good at the end and also no team!, and he will never attacked before 3 km to go, Vino run out of EPO at the middle of the race...
It was Evans, who run out of EPO THAT was his illness
What a clumsy and stupid post. You can't run out of EPO in a Giro like that, couldn't you? I want to say something for the russian people, but I better control myself. |
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| a7081543 |
Posted on 31-05-2010 18:02
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New blog up reviewing the Giro in particular Cadel's Flaws that will mean that he will struggle to ever win a grand tour
https://chrisalfre...-the-giro/
https://chrisalfred.wordpress.com/
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