Giro D'Italia thread

Chips Lovell

NickDrake wrote: »

What a ride by Dan Martin. That was unreal. He was crossing the line and not a word from Sean Kelly. what is it about this guy. Is he jealous or something?? He never mentions the Irish riders.Shame on him.

Eh? Sean Kelly is paid to provide race commentary, not to be a cheerleader for Irish riders. Both he and Harmon remarked during the stage on what a good ride he was having. Add that to the fact that Kelly is a fairly quietly spoken guy most of the time. Have you ever seen him jumping up and down in the commentary box about anything?

NickDrake wrote: »

On a side note. Do people really believe Liquigas are a nice innocent team. Come on look at Pellozotti ?? Banned before the Giro. The whole team riding well?? and esp two riders??

Basso looked like the Basso of old and we all know thats a problem.

I've no idea whether Basso is still at it or not, but one thing's for certain, he isn't the Basso of old. That guy won the Giro by almost nine and a half minutes. Despite riding really well, both of them are still minutes off the lead.

5.5 watts/kg, they are saying here. If that's accurate, it's good but not out of this world.

Chips Lovell

aidan.offbeat wrote: »

He's usually beaten to it by Harmon, but I find they have plenty of time for Irish riders.

Yes, for a British channel, they certainly give plenty of time to Irish riders.

Captain Havoc

aidan.offbeat wrote: »

He's usually beaten to it by Harmon, but I find they have plenty of time for Irish riders.

David Harmon certainly said it was an excellent ride by the Irishman or words to that effect.

Diarmuid

colm ó maonaigh wrote: »

Diarmuid, do you mind if I ask you if you are still living in France (wanted to pick your brain)?

Living in La Sud du Dublin at the moment. PM me if you have any questions though...

elduggo

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/91st-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-16/results

thats the report from the last time they did this TT in the giro (2008). Will be interesting to compare average speed and finishing times (the former might be more relevant than the latter as its 0.05km shorter this year), considering 3 of the top 5 have been done for doping-related offences in the meantime.

Chips Lovell

elduggo wrote: »

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/91st-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-16/results

thats the report from the last time they did this TT in the giro (2008)....

LOL, look at the team names they have listed alongside the riders. Database problems at CN?

Lumen

elduggo wrote: »

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/91st-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-16/results

thats the report from the last time they did this TT in the giro (2008). Will be interesting to compare average speed and finishing times (the former might be more relevant than the latter as its 0.05km shorter this year), considering 3 of the top 5 have been done for doping-related offences in the meantime.

Not Contador though. He has the physique of a natural TTer, and doesn't need to resort to cheating.

Talking of which, why is Contador messing around in wind tunnels rather than racing the Giro?

ednwireland

sastre riding a 34x28 today:eek:

NickDrake

Rest day yesterday so it will be interesting to see who got a blood top up. This will go to a specialisit climber or whoever got the best top up.

One would have to fancy Sastre. Cant see Evans doing much and it is too short for Basso. Maybe Cunego?? It will be interesting to see how Dan Martin goes.

Maybe Vino will get a top up like he did when he blew everyone out of it the the TT in the Tour in 2008???

bcmf

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-giro-d-italia.html3

Dan Martin on course now!!

thebouldwhacker

Now that is hard core cycling.... Go Martain

montac

Dan doing well - currently second at the first timecheck.

Do we need spoilers today?

Lumen

montac wrote: »

Do we need spoilers today?

Yes

thebouldwhacker

Opps, sorry

thebouldwhacker

WOW:eek:

So unlucky but some performance, well done Danny Boy!!!

ednwireland

dan goes 2nd nice ride dont think it will last though !

bcmf

awesome ride.Looks like 12k of pure hell

montac

Think I saw an Irish flag waved at Dan within the last km. Even looked like it spurred him on - he was on the pedals just afterwards.
Although, in fairness - on that course you could do a whole 12km out of the saddle!:rolleyes:

thebouldwhacker

Why is Scarponi shoe covers on a stage like today? What advantage would he pick up from using them?

ednwireland

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Why is Scarponi shoe covers on a stage like today? What advantage would he pick up from using them?

think evans had them on as well and vino

vino's had a good rest day, ahem ! and evans !

Beasty

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Why is Scarponi shoe covers on a stage like today? What advantage would he pick up from using them?

Up to 30s in a 40k TT

ednwireland

Beasty wrote: »

Up to 30s in a 40k TT

wouldnt be be much on an uphill tt ?

19km/h

sy

Great coverage of Dan Martin today and another graet ride. Hope his family had the recorder on.

It was a savage TT and that last kilometre was just a ball buster. Notice it was over a minute slower than Pelozotti's winning time in 2008. Possibly all clean but then Garzzelli is no spring chicken so.....

Chips Lovell

Shame on Eurosport for giving so much coverage to Dan Martin yesterday. It was a bloody disgrace.

ednwireland

tommorow


sat


and a time trial on sun

is the giro harder than the tour ?

the tour made such a meal of the ventoux stage and all that happened was everyone marked each other out

but that is a hell of a last 3 days the mortirolo and the gavia jeez (thats how you put on stage sto sort out the GC )

anyone think greipel will get a congratulatory text from cavendish .....

karltimber

why the reduced eurosport coverage this week ?

is there a on-line version that shows better coverage ??

thx

k

ednwireland

karltimber wrote: »

why the reduced eurosport coverage this week ?

is there a on-line version that shows better coverage ??

thx

k

one word tennis

sy

ednwireland wrote: »

is the giro harder than the tour ?

Most definitely, however the field in the Tour is always stronger. This years Giro has been particularily difficult.
The 2 stages Friday and Saturday have almost 11000 metres vertical climbing and that is after 3 weeks racing.:eek:

Wonder will Kelly pronounce the Mortirolo (savage climb) correctly this year? He definitely called it the Motirola last time they were there!

His reading of the stages each day has been excellent, really knows his stuff

paddyduc

It was a savage TT and that last kilometre was just a ball buster. Notice it was over a minute slower than Pelozotti's winning time in 2008. Possibly all clean but then Garzzelli is no spring chicken so.....

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No need for drugs when you're on a bike like that.:D

Funkyzeit

ednwireland wrote: »

tommorow

This year definitely. I also think it's going to prove to be way more entertaining and open than Le Tour

bcmf

HA Sean Kelly calling it the Motorola

petethedrummer

Another great stage. For anyone who is not watching live, definitely watch the highlights later.

kennyb3

petethedrummer wrote: »

Another great stage.

+1

bcmf

petethedrummer wrote: »

Another great stage. For anyone who is not watching live, definitely watch the highlights later.

+2

RobFowl

petethedrummer wrote: »

Another great stage. For anyone who is not watching live, definitely watch the highlights later.

Mmmmmmm

Puerto 1&2

not my idea of a great stage :rolleyes:

c0rk3r

Ivan Basso back to 2006 form. Why do i even bother watching this shít

sy

It was a great stage to watch if you could just ignore the first group.

Find it hard to believe Basso, Nibali and Scarponi could drop Evans and the rest so easily. Basso has that suspicious stare again and Nibali was just too good. Scarponi looked like death.

drogdub

sy wrote: »

It was a great stage to watch if you could just ignore the first group.

Find it hard to believe Basso, Nibali and Scarponi could drop Evans and the rest so easily. Basso has that suspicious stare again and Nibali was just too good. Scarponi looked like death.

Whether Basso was or wasn't on anything its certainly wasn't for descending.

bcmf

c0rk3r wrote: »

Ivan Basso back to 2006 form. Why do i even bother watching this shít

certainly the commentator made that point in a very thinly veiled accusation.

I really thought the group of 5 were gonna make contact but then when the road went up for the last time Basso etc just flew away.

RobFowl

Basso

back to his old habits form all right

ROK ON

RobFowl wrote: »

Basso

back to his old habits form all right

Got a big congrats from LA in twitterland. He doesn't chapeau just anybody you know.

papac

How the feck do I remove spoilers.
Great stage to watch but the profile almost guaranteed that I suppose.

bcmf

put yer mouse on the blacked out part.hold down left click and scroll across and it magically works

just like Basso going up the Motorola *sic today

ednwireland

fecking eurosport just cut the highlights b*****S

petethedrummer

papac wrote: »

How the feck do I remove spoilers.
Great stage to watch but the profile almost guaranteed that I suppose.

CTRL + A

tawfeeredux

ednwireland wrote: »

fecking eurosport just cut the highlights b*****S

short highlight package here in Italian:

http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-303e3e31-fa9c-4d3f-802e-afee3b4b4d09-raisport.html

You'll have to skip past the first two minutes if you want to avoid spoilers.

drogdub

ednwireland wrote: »

fecking eurosport just cut the highlights b*****S

Its on now. and 11:15 on Eurosport 2

blobbie

Nice handy stage today from Bormio (1,182) to Ponte Di Legno Tonale (1,883) across 178km an average of 4m per km

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2010/pdf/altimetrie/alt_20.pdf

I guess we'll see the usual crack performers to the front.

drogdub

Dan Martin was in a break that went up to one minute. The chase was caught except for Martin who continued on his own

ednwireland

wow - the gavia looks amazing with all the snow