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Giro d'Italia 2012 - Week 2
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Posted on 25-11-2024 03:52
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 19-05-2012 16:53
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kumazan wrote:
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sam1196 wrote:
Well deserved for Andrey!
@cactus, well I think they did that to avoid atacks so that Basso would have to close any gaps today.
But if you want to avoid attacks you don't exhaust your whole team when there's still 5km to go. Sure, the last 2km were mostly flat, but the attacks would still come with 3km or less to go.
You will never see a major GC-contender attack with 15km of climbing to go.
Except for Contador (twice), Nibbles and Schleck, all from the last 12 months. 
Yeah, but that's one (almost) doper and one sobbing moron. And Nibbles, but he's just awesome.
Anyway, you could tell that none of these guys would attack. It's to early and the "attitude" just wasn't there. You can't win the Giro with 8 days to go, but Liquigas sure as hell might lose it because when we hit the actual mountains they will have no one left who can actuall work for Basso.
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| sam1196 |
Posted on 19-05-2012 17:00
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They indeed went to early, but at one moment they were with 4, Basso, Caruso, Szmyd and another guy. That other guy didn't do the pace but had to let go. That's why Basso had to do the pace for about one km.
The tactic itself was cool, the timing wasn't.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 19-05-2012 17:04
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They went too early? o_O
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 19-05-2012 17:09
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Rujano...
What on earth is he thinking?!
He definately has enough climbing skills to end in the GC top 10, top 5 even maybe, but he just wastes it...
Sure, he did some great climbing today, but the gap to the Maglia Rosa is only getting bigger and bigger like this 
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| sam1196 |
Posted on 19-05-2012 17:15
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kumazan wrote:
They went too early? o_O
They went to late for stage victory, but to early to avoid attacks till the end.
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Posted on 19-05-2012 17:20
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They only went hard with 6/7km to go. That's not too early.
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Posted on 19-05-2012 17:22
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Is Paolo Tiralongo the Astana captain...? Or maybe he and Kreuziger shares it. |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 19-05-2012 17:27
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Liquigas spent their helpers way to early. When the attacks finally came Basso was alone.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| kumazan |
Posted on 19-05-2012 18:09
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Yes, definitely too early, as shown by the fact that only 25! riders came within 1:20 from Hesjedal.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 19-05-2012 18:55
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Mark Cavendish is still riding the Giro. He just crossed the line of stage 14 in good time. Earlier reports of withdrawal were untrue |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 19-05-2012 19:21
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Had a look at the final kilometers again.
Worth noting is that the big group of favourites that finished together could've been much smaller. Rodriguez' attempt to reconnect with Hesjedal tailed off a lot of riders in that group, but they made it back later, when the pace dropped.
These riders were the only ones who never got dropped:
Scarponi
Basso
Rodriguez
Uran
Henao
Tiralongo
Pozzovivo
The likes of Schleck and Gadret were lucky that the group slowed down, otherwise they'd have lost time on their rivals.
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 19-05-2012 20:32
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Hesjedal in pink again, nice 
Just finished watching the stage (woke up too late today). Boring until 3 km to go, but then some good action. Didn't expect Hesjedal to manage to get almost half a min on the others. And Liquigas surely messed up their timing a bit. But they seemed to lack some strength, after all they paced easy for several kms, then hard for 2-3 kms and then Basso is alone.
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| dev4ever |
Posted on 19-05-2012 21:02
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hmm liquigas strong but i wish they would have attacked with someone instead of using up their every stage and then basso is sitting their alone, wish they also could have spared Caruso because he seems really strong but loses his jersey after holding the pace the almost whole climb!
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| jsh312mufc |
Posted on 19-05-2012 21:11
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liquigas tactics are stupid, as they're wasting energy and getting absolutely nothing out of it |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 19-05-2012 21:35
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The only thing Liquigas is doing is helping everyone else protecting their jerseys and making sure none of the other teams have to use up their helpers.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| jsh312mufc |
Posted on 19-05-2012 21:37
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cactus-jack wrote:
The only thing Liquigas is doing is helping everyone else protecting their jerseys and making sure none of the other teams have to use up their helpers.
What jerseys? |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 19-05-2012 21:43
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Thanks to Liquigas Hesjedal won't have to risk losing his jersey to a breakaway or anything like that. Same thing as it was when Purito held it.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| jsh312mufc |
Posted on 19-05-2012 22:00
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Yeah. I was impressed by Henao and Uran today. Sky's Columbian kids giving the best something to think about |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 20-05-2012 10:23
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Barta i love you, epic fight from him  Congrats to Amador, he was fresher, Barta looked like he will die in a minute.
Not the best day for Kreuziger, but not big time loss, today will tell more.
Still i think he will be stronger than Tiralongo in the third week. In the end it is nice to have two strong riders in top 10 to help each other a bit.
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 20-05-2012 11:18
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Barta i love you, epic fight from him Congrats to Amador, he was fresher, Barta looked like he will die in a minute.
Not the best day for Kreuziger, but not big time loss, today will tell more.
Still i think he will be stronger than Tiralongo in the third week. In the end it is nice to have two strong riders in top 10 to help each other a bit.
Barta was incredible, he never gave up. At the 1km to go benner it looked like he was about to vomit. Amazing effort by him, but a good victory for Amador after training incident a few years ago.
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