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2014 Giro d'Italia - Week 2 (17th May - 24th May)
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 22-05-2014 19:44
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Okay... WTF happened here...
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 22-05-2014 19:46
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baseballlover312 wrote:
Okay... WTF happened here...
the Giro just unofficially ended 
Nibali took the lead after the first ITT as well
Edited by SSJ2Luigi on 22-05-2014 19:47
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| Shonak |
Posted on 22-05-2014 20:26
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Hesjedal would be right in the GC contention if it wasn't for Martin's crash. Rather surprised to be honest.
Hopefully friday comes and goes quickly, I want to see some good mountains, but I guess the real important ones will be after the last rest day. While it's sorta a nice feeling of anticipation and the race certainly had its moment of excitement and drama so far, one serious mountain stage at this point would have been nice. Still, all that racing beats the previous Tour de France races, where most stuff has been decided after the first mountain stage. So maybe that's just the right formula for the Giro: To have a huge backload of crazy mountain stages, so that guys like Quintana, Pozzo and some others will attack every day and the leaders may eventually crack. Guess we'll find out, still would think that Quintana - if he comes in absolute top-shape like in the last week of Tour 2013 - has the best cards to win this.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Smoku |
Posted on 22-05-2014 20:55
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
the Giro just unofficially ended
It's only 37 seconds, as much as nothing....
Oh, wait, the crybaby on 2nd place... |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 22-05-2014 21:05
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alexkr00 wrote:
A former Sky rider actually doing well after leaving the team 
Doing better not just well. Also Rogers taking his first GT stage the day before too...it all points to Rigo reversing the effect - Sky have turned to shite while he's got even better 
Froome will end up targeting the polka dot jersey come July... |
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:32
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ianrussell wrote: Froome will end up targeting the polka dot jersey come July...
Froome will target the polka dot jersey when Gesink stops crashing |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:41
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Shonak wrote:
Hesjedal would be right in the GC contention if it wasn't for Martin's crash. Rather surprised to be honest.
Why? We've not really had any major selection on climbs yet and he's a decent TT rider and pretty good climber so was never going to lose major time today. Im guessing he will lose time on the major climbs later on, but to this point I wouldn't have expected him to lose much time. He won the race 2 years ago and last year was pretty much ruined, by injuries and sickness. Even if he was healthy, his form was pretty much ruined.
Edited by valverde321 on 22-05-2014 22:44
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| MartijnVDD |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:48
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I'm surprised there's no "OPQS doping/hate thread" yet... =p |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:50
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There's only a thread for Sky because they deny it or so I heard from people there
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:51
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MarijnVD wrote: DI'm surprised there's no "OPQS doping/hate thread" yet...
It's coming. 
EDIT: Alakagom is right, of course.
Edited by Martial1 on 22-05-2014 22:52
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 22-05-2014 22:51
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MartijnVDD wrote:
I'm surprised there's no "OPQS doping/hate thread" yet... =p
just wait until they go train-ing like sky at the tour
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 22-05-2014 23:05
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If you look at the week 1 thread on page 2 i believe.
This was my top3 prediction:
1. Uran
2. Quintana
3. Evans
This is quite likely
Also put Kelderman in 8th and Pozzovivo 9th.
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| fosforgasXIII |
Posted on 23-05-2014 00:17
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Quintana won't win the Giro. |
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 23-05-2014 00:19
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fosforgasXIII wrote: Quintana won't win the Giro.
Unless he goes full retard mode in the third week.
*Loading quintana.exe* |
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| Metriz- |
Posted on 23-05-2014 01:43
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fosforgasXIII wrote:
Quintana won't win the Giro.
Before the Giro I expected him to win by atleast 5 minutes in the last week, but the way he has been riding I'm not to sure. He is not out yet, even though Uran looks super strong.
Edited by Metriz- on 23-05-2014 01:45
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 23-05-2014 01:43
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Uran to win now
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 23-05-2014 06:38
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Aquarius wrote:
Wilier wrote:
Ibarguren is doing a great job this year. OPQS riders are flying wherever they race.
I believe this is a good summary of my opinion of OPQS season so far.
Incredible really, this result got me worried much about Uran and OPQS, what a slaughterhouse.
Also too much good Colombians recently, i found the picture of their supplier.
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 23-05-2014 06:39
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| dienblad |
Posted on 23-05-2014 06:55
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Quintana his current problem is that he is on antibiotics:
https://www.cyclin...th-my-legs
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 23-05-2014 08:11
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Normal TT ..but Uran was wow. What a fuck was that?
Keldermann fine, Evans fine, Majka fine, Pozzovivo fine.
Quintana is in trouble now..health will fuck up he's giro.
Biggest loosers was Basso and Kiserlowski today.. |
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 23-05-2014 08:33
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Evans is still the big card imo and hopefully were gonna see his insane strength when they hit more mountains
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