Quotes from the Giro

donrhummy

Really cool feature in google. You can find quotes from specific people.

Simoni Quotes:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=w ... 5JTRCXxq4J

Contador:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=w ... rp2AQVPMkJ

Di Luca:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=w ... F57wSG3AMJ

donrhummy

Part of what's interesting about it is the dating of the quotes. So...

On May 9th, Di Luca said:

I feel good and I feel like I did at the start last year, let's hope the result is the same...

On May 20th, Di Luca said:

I don't have the same strength as last year, but we are still right there.

Really brings home how impossible it is to tell how a guy will do in the Giro from his "shape" at the beginning. A GT is so crazy, tough, long that you're a completely different rider 2 weeks in from when it started.

donrhummy

More from SImoni (Daily Peloton):

"I was aiming for stage victory today, also because I'm at ease on unpaved roads. I heard Riccò and Contador talk about their wheel problems and well, I think they should do some MTB in the winter; they would get more accustomed to such roads.

I said that us in the peloton were a bunch of sheeps (in the Pampeago stage), but now I think that such attitude helped us save some energy in such a tough race. Prior to these stages, many teams had two or more presumed leaders, and this was keeping some riders from attacking. But now that the hierarchy is clearer the race could become more hectic.

With the Mortirolo and other climbs still ahead, the Giro is far from finished, even if those riders are tough guys (he was possibly referring to Alberto Contador and his squad). The final ITT could change something too, even if it not shake-up the GC profoundly. But it's gonna be difficult for us Italians to forge an alliance against Contador, you know. Sure I don't give up. I never did, and I'm not going to now".