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Pro Cycling Thread
Haven't had much cycling news for a while.
I've just been watching an incredible stage up and down hills and along mud-tracks in cold driving rain. Great entertainment. Evans won the stage and since winning the world championships, he seems to have changed into a more attacking rider. |
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Has been very interesting, been impressed with lots of the riders since the start of the season. Millar doing us proud again
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----- originally wrote a post about Millar and Vino and had a bit of a rant. But that said doping doesn't give you the balls required (maybe even the opposite ) to get through a stage like that.Fair play to anyone who got through that yesterday. And I will give credit to Vino for slowing up the break after Nibali crashed.
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I agree although he didn't actually try to stop the others from accelerating. I'm not really a fan of his after his denials of doping, and there is still a lot of suspicion around him after coming back and doing well after two years out. Stage 7 results: 1 C.EVANS (BMC) 5h13'37" 2 D.CUNEGO (LAM) à 2" 3 A.VINOKOUROV (AST) m.t. 4 M.PINOTTI (THR) à 6" 5 D.ARROYO (GCE) à 12" 6 S.GARZELLI (ASA) à 27" 7 J.GADRET (ALM) à 29" 8 M.SCARPONI (AND) à 1'01" 9 J.SARMIENTO TUNNAROSA (ASA) à 1'07" 10 J.BAKELANDTS (OLO) à 1'10" 11 D.MILLAR (GRM) à 1'11" 12 T.ROHREGGER (MRM) à 1'13" 13 L.GERDEMANN (MRM) m.t. 14 V.KARPETS (KAT) à 1'18" 15 G.LARSSON (SAX) à 1'42" 16 R.PORTE (SAX) m.t. 17 V.NIBALI (LIQ) à 2'00" 18 I.BASSO (LIQ) à 2'05" 19 M.EIBEGGER (FOT) à 2'24" 20 L.DIDIER (SAX) à 2'53" 21 J.JUFRE POU (AST) à 2'55" 22 J.TSCHOPP (BTL) m.t. 23 V.MIHOLJEVIC (ASA) à 2'58" 24 D.CIONI (SKY) à 2'59" 25 H.DUPONT (ALM) à 3'06" 26 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) à 3'08" 27 A.EFIMKIN (ALM) m.t. 28 F.DE GREEF (OLO) à 3'41" 29 V.AGNOLI (LIQ) à 3'45" 30 P.WEENING (RAB) à 3'50" General classification after yesterday's stage: 1 Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ) Asatana 024:09:42 2 Cadel Evans (AUS) BMC + 01:12 3 David Millar (GBR) Garmin-Transitions + 01:29 4 Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Katusha + 01:30 5 Vicenzo Nibali (ITA) Liquigas + 01:33 6 Marco Pinotti (ALL) HTC Columbia + 01:40 7 Linus Gerdemann (ALL) Milram + 01:48 8 Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas + 01:51 9 Thomas Rohregger (AUT) Milram + 01:54 10 Richie Porte (AUS) Team Saxo Bank + 02:00 11 Stefano Garzelli (ITA) Acque e Sapone + 02:47 12 Damiano Cunego (FRA) Lampre + 03:08 13 Michele Scarponi (ITA) Androni + 03:09 14 David Arroyo (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne + 03:28 15 Valerio Agnoli (ITA) Liquigas + 03:38 16 Laurent Didier (LUX) Team Saxo Bank + 03:39 17 Robert Kiserlovski (ITA) Liquigas + 04:04 18 Josep Juffre (ESP) Astana + 04:23 19 Pieter Weening (NED) Rabobank + 04:38 20 Bauke Mollema (NED) Rabobank + 06:05 |
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Yesterday's stage 8 results after what was a rather disappointing stage:
1 C.SORENSEN (SAX) 4h50'48" 2 S.STORTONI (CSF) à 30" 3 X.TONDO VOLPINI (CTT) à 36" 4 E.PETROV (KAT) à 49" 5 J.GADRET (ALM) à 55" 6 D.CUNEGO (LAM) à 56" 7 S.GARZELLI (ASA) m.t. 8 A.VINOKOUROV (AST) m.t. 9 C.EVANS (BMC) m.t. 10 I.BASSO (LIQ) m.t. 11 V.NIBALI (LIQ) m.t. 12 M.SCARPONI (AND) m.t. 13 B.MOLLEMA (RAB) m.t. 14 D.POZZOVIVO (CSF) à 1'12" 15 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) à 1'16" 16 B.WIGGINS (SKY) à 1'22" 17 R.PORTE (SAX) m.t. 18 H.DUPONT (ALM) à 1'27" 19 M.PINOTTI (THR) à 1'33" 20 D.ARROYO (GCE) à 1'50" 21 M.POSSONI (SKY) à 1'52" 22 J.BAKELANDTS (OLO) à 1'59" 23 A.EFIMKIN (ALM) à 2'00" 24 M.WYSS (CTT) m.t. 25 V.MIHOLJEVIC (ASA) m.t. 26 V.AGNOLI (LIQ) m.t. 27 C.SASTRE m.t. 28 V.KARPETS (KAT) m.t. 29 P.WEENING (RAB) m.t. 30 C.WEGELIUS (OLO) m.t. |
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In spite of his good form David Millar couldn't stick with the pace yesterday and he has dropped down the rankings.
Overall classification after stage 8: 1 A.VINOKOUROV (AST) 29h01'26" 2 C.EVANS (BMC) à 1'12" 3 V.NIBALI (LIQ) à 1'33" 4 I.BASSO (LIQ) à 1'51"" 5 M.PINOTTI (THR) à 2'17" 6 R.PORTE (SAX) à 2'26" 7 V.KARPETS (KAT) à 2'34" 8 S.GARZELLI (ASA) à 2'47" 9 D.CUNEGO (LAM) à 3'08" 10 M.SCARPONI (AND) à 3'09" 11 D.ARROYO (GCE) à 4'22" 12 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) à 4'25" 13 V.AGNOLI (LIQ) à 4'42" 14 P.WEENING (RAB) à 5'42" 15 B.MOLLEMA (RAB) à 6'05" 16 X.TONDO VOLPINI (CTT) à 6'34" 17 M.EIBEGGER (FOT) à 7'46" 18 A.EFIMKIN (ALM) à 7'56" 19 L.DIDIER (SAX) à 8'01" 20 L.GERDEMANN (MRM) à 8'08" 21 C.SASTRE (CTT) à 8'10" 22 T.ROHREGGER (MRM) à 8'14" 23 B.WIGGINS (SKY) à 9'05" 24 D.CIONI (SKY) à 9'08" 25 J.JUFRE POU (AST) à 10'43" 26 V.MIHOLJEVIC (ASA) à 10'45" 27 J.BAKELANDTS (OLO) à 11'15" 28 J.GADRET (ALM) à 11'59" 29 F.DE GREEF (OLO) à 14'37" 30 D.CATALDO à 16'22" 33 D.MILLAR (GRM) à 18'28" 37 H.DUPONT (ALM) à 19'39" 51 L.TURPIN (ALM) à 32'52" 55 W.BONNET (BTL) à 34'36" 57 T.VOECKLER (BTL) à 35'51" PS Good news for Cavendish with a stage victory in the Tour of California, and for Ben Swift who won the Tour de Picardie in the north of France. |
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Speaking of whom, I see lady luck has shat on Christian Vande Velde again. ![]() |
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Excellent day from Bradley Wiggins in the saddle yesterday – another equally good day in the mountains could even see him pushing for a podium place, although I suspect the gap may be too much for him. Particularly pleased to see it was at the expense of Vino
And on a separate note Landis finally admits to being a drug cheat http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/othe...ng/8694452.stm - Floyd you never fooled me on the Col de la Colombiere & the Col de Joux-Plane in 2006. |
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Yes it'll be interesting to see Bradley's form over the weekend - I see it's mountains on Sat & Sun followed by individual time trial on Agree about Landis. Last edited by FORZA SELHURST : 21-05-2010 at 03:31 PM. |
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There's a bit of catching up to do.
So Monday's stage 9 results: 1 Matthew Goss (AUS) Columbia HTC 4:08:17 2 Filippo Pozzato (ITA) Katusha +0:00 3 Tyler Farrar (E-U) Garmin +0:00 4 Robert Forster (ALL) Milram +0:00 5 Federico Canuti (ITA) Colnago +0:00 6 Sebastien Hinault (FRA) Ag2r La Mondiale +0:00 7 Wouter Weylandt (BEL) Quick Step +0:00 8 Gregory Henderson (NZL) Sky +0:00 9 Jos Van Emden (P-B) Rabobank +0:00 10 Markus Eibegger (AUT) Fotoon-Servetto +0:00 11 Leonardo Duque (COL) Cofidis +0:00 12 Cadel Evans (AUS) BMC +0:00 13 Bauke Mollema (P-B) Rabobank +0:00 14 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Liquigas +0:00 15 Manuel Belleti (ITA) Colnago +0:00 16 Richie Porte (AUS) Saxo Bank +0:00 17 Lucas Haedo (ARG) Saxo Bank +0:00 18 Laurent Didier (LUX) Saxo Bank +0:00 19 Andre Greipel (ALL) Columbia HTC +0:00 20 Jan Bakelandts (BEL) Omega Pharma Lotto +0:00 |
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Tuesday, Stage 10:
1 T.FARRAR (GRM) 5h49'14" 2 F.SABATINI (LIQ) m.t. 3 J.DEAN (GRM) m.t. 4 R.McEWEN (KAT) m.t. 5 R.FORSTER (MRM) m.t. 6 S.HINAULT (ALM) m.t. 7 A.GREIPEL (THR) m.t. 8 D.HONDO (LAM) m.t. 9 L.DUQUE (COF) m.t. 10 M.HAYMAN (SKY) à 3" 11 A.LODDO (AND) m.t. 12 W.BONNET (BTL) m.t. 13 S.LANG (OLO) m.t. 14 G.HENDERSON (SKY) m.t. 15 G.BROWN (RAB) m.t. 16 A.BLYTH (OLO) m.t. 17 M.BELLETTI (CSF) m.t. 18 F.POZZATO (KAT) m.t. 19 M.ELIJZEN (OLO) m.t. 20 M.VELO (QST) m.t. 21 L.HAEDO (SAX) m.t. 22 D.WYSS (BMC) m.t. 23 V.NIBALI (LIQ) m.t. 24 A.VANOTTI (LIQ) m.t. 25 T.DALL'ANTONIA (LIQ) m.t. 26 G.BLOT (COF) m.t. 27 F.DE GREEF (OLO) m.t. 28 M.SANTAMBROGIO (BMC) m.t. 29 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) m.t. 30 P.VOSS (MRM) m.t. |
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As some of you have already said, yesterday's stage was crazy. I watched the Eurosport coverage all afternoon (I don't work on Wednesday afternoons this year). About 60 odd riders headed off in a breakaway including Sastre and Wiggins. Vino and Evans's teams have already been weakened and they were incapable of reeling them back in a long, cold, wet and hilly stage in spite of the fact that other teams ordered riders who were in the breakaway to stop and wait for the second (leader's) group to haul in the first group, but it was all to no avail. Sastre is back in it and I would say is probably the favourite now, Brad is also well placed, but I don't think he'll go for it since he is preparing for Le Tour de France. This has been one hell of a Giro so far, the best Tour for a long time, and there's still a lot more to come with one or two brutal mountainous stages to come. Further details then.
This is how they finished yesterday, Stage 11: 1 E.PETROV (KAT) 6h28'29" 2 D.CATALDO (QST) à 5" 3 C.SASTRE (CTT) m.t. 4 B.WIGGINS (SKY) à 7" 5 A.EFIMKIN (ALM) m.t. 6 L.GERDEMANN (MRM) m.t. 7 J.PINEAU (QST) m.t. 8 D.ARROYO (GCE) m.t. 9 X.TONDO VOLPINI (CTT) m.t. 10 J.BAKELANDTS (OLO) à 12" 11 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) à 18" 12 J.SERPA PEREZ (AND) m.t. 13 R.PORTE (SAX) à 21" 14 I.MAYOZ (FOT) à 23" 15 T.VOECKLER (BTL) m.t. 16 M.ARDILA CANO (RAB) à 26" 17 D.MONCOUTIE (COF) à 31" 18 F.DE GREEF (OLO) m.t. 19 H.DUPONT (ALM) à 41" 20 M.CODOL (ASA) m.t. 21 S.KRUIJSWIJK (RAB) à 53" 22 V.KIRYIENKA (GCE) à 1'10" 23 Y.TROFIMOV (BTL) à 1'22" 24 M.RUSS (MRM) à 1'37" 25 L.DIDIER (SAX) à 2'10" 26 V.AGNOLI (LIQ) m.t. 27 G.CHEULA (FOT) m.t. 28 J.HORRACH RIPOLL (KAT) m.t. 29 M.BONO (LAM) m.t. 30 D.POZZOVIVO (CSF) m.t. 45 M.SCARPONI (AND) à 12'42" 46 D.CUNEGO (LAM) m.t. 48 S.GARZELLI (ASA) m.t. 49 V.NIBALI (LIQ) m.t. 52 C.EVANS (BMC) à 12'45" 53 A.VINOKOUROV (AST) m.t. 54 I.BASSO (LIQ) m.t. 55 V.KARPETS (KAT) m.t. |
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And today, Stage 12:
1 Filippo Pozzato (ITA) Katusha 5:15:50 2 Thomas Voeckler (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom +0:00 3 Jerome Pineau (FRA) Quick Step +0:00 4 Stefano Garzelli (ITA) Acqua e Sappone +0:00 5 Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ) Astana +0:00 6 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Liquigas +0:00 7 Marco Pinotto (ITA) HTC +0:00 8 Michele Scarponi (ITA) Androni +0:00 9 damiano Cunego (ITA) Lampre +0:00 10 Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas +0:00 11 Robert McEwen (AUS) Katusha +0:10 12 Manuel Belletti (ITA) Colnago +0:10 13 Andre Greipel (ALL) Columbia HTC +0:10 14 Leonardo Duque (COL) Cofidis +0:10 15 William Bonnet (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom +0:10 16 Gregory Henderson (NZL) Sky +0:10 17 Sebastien Hinault (FRA) Ag2r La Mondiale +0:10 18 Michel Elijzen (P-B) Omega Pharma Lotto +0:10 19 Tyler Farrar (E-U) Garmin +0:10 20 Danilo Hondo (ALL) Lampre +0:10 |
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Here is the overall classification:
1 R.PORTE (SAX) 50h46'16" 2 D.ARROYO (GCE) à 1'42" 3 R.KISERLOVSKI (LIQ) à 1'56" 4 X.TONDO VOLPINI (CTT) à 3'54" 5 V.AGNOLI (LIQ) à 4'41" 6 A.EFIMKIN (ALM) à 5'16" 7 L.GERDEMANN (MRM) à 5'34" 8 C.SASTRE (CTT) à 7'09" 9 L.DIDIER (SAX) à 7'24" 10 B.WIGGINS (SKY) à 8'14" 11 J.BAKELANDTS (OLO) à 8'35" 12 A.VINOKOUROV (AST) à 9'48" 13 C.EVANS (BMC) à 11'10" 14 V.NIBALI (LIQ) à 11'18" 15 I.BASSO (LIQ) à 11'49" 16 M.PINOTTI (THR) à 12'05" 17 F.DE GREEF (OLO) à 12'21" 18 S.GARZELLI (ASA) à 12'32" 19 V.KARPETS (KAT) m.t. 20 M.SCARPONI (AND) à 12'54" 21 D.CUNEGO (LAM) à 13'03" 22 D.CATALDO (QST) à 13'22" 23 E.PETROV (KAT) à 15'34" 24 B.MOLLEMA (RAB) à 16'03" 25 I.MAYOZ (FOT) à 16'14" 26 P.WEENING (RAB) à 17'38" 27 A.ARDILA CANO à 19'01" 28 D.MILLAR (GRM) à 19'14" 29 J.SERPA PEREZ (AND) à 20'59" 30 D.CIONI (SKY) à 21'22" |
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Belletti didn't stop crying after his win today!
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Tomorrow's stage -
http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giro...rie/alt_14.pdf Guess I'll start watching as they approach Monte Grappa. Perhaps I'll get a bottle of grappa in to enhance the experience! |
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Photo of Bradley on Tuesday's stage -
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If you hit the grappa tomorrow, God knows what you'll be needing on Sunday. They climb the Zoncolan (sp?) on Sunday, one of the hardest climbs in Europe which the big Tours can use. I'll post a profile of that climb later or tomorrow. It' s brutal. More fireworks, methinks. |
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