1. Giovanni Visconti (ITA) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
2. Jure Kocjan (SLO) Team Type 1
3. Rinaldo Nocentini (ITA) Ag2r - La Mondiale
4. Leonardo Duque (COL) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne
5. Simone Ponzi (ITA) Liquigas - Cannondale
6. Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) Colnago - CSF Inox
7. Samuel Dumoulin (FRA) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne
8. Maxime Bouet (FRA) Ag2r - La Mondiale
9. Mauro Finetto (ITA) Liquigas - Cannondale
10. Daniele Ratto (ITA) Geox - TMC
Edited by Wilier on 26-02-2011 17:19
Giro di Sardegna fun with a dirt road finish. Make me think of last years Giro. I have to watch that tomorrow. But a question I have about the Great Britain National Team. Why was half of the team Team Sky?
knasen wrote:
Giro di Sardegna fun with a dirt road finish. Make me think of last years Giro. I have to watch that tomorrow. But a question I have about the Great Britain National Team. Why was half of the team Team Sky?
It was the British track endurance team, in effect.
Aquarius wrote:
I couldn't really see the race, but it seems we don't have to regret ear speakers, do we ?
Of course it seems Leopard will have to learn to race without those again (if they ever knew how to).
I do recall some races over the past many years with radios that were quite interesting
Anyway, great finale of the race. Had expected Flecha to win, but both of them were absolutely drained of energy. Well done by Langeveld.
Edited by CrueTrue on 27-02-2011 12:34
Guido Mukk wrote:
huh that was close and nice non sprinters fair battle
Langeveld has actually won small group sprints before a couple of times. Would not call him a total non-sprinter.
They were both dead, that is something else.
Same goes for Flecha, he has some speed when he needs it.
The second point is the far more important one. When two evenly matched (in terms of finishing power) guys are completely dead (not to mention that horrible weather conditions making things even worse), winning is 1/3rd planning, 1/3rd luck, and 1/3rd determination. Little to no skill involved.
It was Edwig Cammaerts, Ramunas Navardauskas, Arnaud Coyot en Arnoud van Groen, which had an advance of about 7min.
Although it`s not that usual that you have a red light during a stage you know that you have to look at it since you are a child. So absolutely correct this decision. Too dangerous to cross a red light.
The riders know that this will happen as also seen in Paris Roubaix a few years ago, where it was a much more popular group.
We have a bit of a scandal here. There were four leaders: Edwig Cammaerts (Landbouwkrediet), Arnaud Coyot (Saur-Sojasun), Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Cervelo) and Arnoud van Groen (Veranda's Willems-Accent) who had built up a lead over seven minutes. But they wer naught boys and ignored the red lights at a crossing – we assume, a train crossing – and were taken out of the race!
Although I really should be able to watch it in TV. But for whatever reason, they are still showing badminton (cycling was supposed to have started 30 minutes ago).
