PTP - Giro d'Italia

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited June 2009 in Pro race
Woohoo! Il Grande Giro! I'm stupidly excited by this year's race.

If you're a bit behind on this year's PTP, don't worry, grand tours offer more points than regular season races. Check the first page of the sticky thread for full details, but you get 85 points for picking the overall winner, and 10 points per day for stage winners. Stage points also go down to 8th, rather than 6th.

Official site:

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Girodit ... ndex.shtml

Previews, race details etc:

http://cyclingnews.com/road/2009/giro09/

http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/

http://startlist.cyclingfever.com/start ... t&id=19119

Stage info and profiles:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/gi ... o09_stages

The race begins on Saturday with a TTT. Live on Eurosport each day.

Overall picks must be posted before the race starts.

Good luck, have fun, and let's hope it's a good race.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Mind if I do it in sections between the rest days? Don't like doing it on a day to day basis, more fun just do look at the stage profiles and spray and pray :lol:

    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Garmin-Slipstream
    Stage 2: Cav
    Stage 3: Cav
    Stage 4: Soler
    Stage 5: Basso
    Stage 6: Gilbert
    Stage 7: Leipheimer
    Stage 8: Voigt
    Stage 9: Cav
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • Cheshire_Cat
    Cheshire_Cat Posts: 464
    HI,

    GC - Ivan Basso

    Stage 1 (TTT): Garmin-Slipstream

    Stage 2: Tyler Farrar

    Stage 3: Alessandro Pettachi

    Stage 4: Stefano Garzelli

    Thanks! :D
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Even though he's a mortal lock I can't bring myself to back Basso...

    GC: Gibo Simoni

    TTT: Garmin.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • avalon
    avalon Posts: 345
    GC. Levi Leipheimer

    Stage 1 TTT Garmin
    Stage 2 Cavendish
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    GC. Levi Leipheimer
    Stage 1 Garmin
    Stage 2 Cavendish
    I like bikes...

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  • HenryS
    HenryS Posts: 104
    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Columbia
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Stage 3: Cavendish
    Stage 4: Gerrans
    Stage 5: Basso
    Stage 6: Cunego
    Stage 7: Pozzato
    Stage 8: Gilbert
    Stage 9: Cancellara

    Thanks.
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    GC: Leipheimer, Levi
    Stage 1: Garmin
    stage 2: Cav
    stage 3: Cav
  • alanmcn1
    alanmcn1 Posts: 531
    GC: Leipheimmer

    Stage 1: Garmin
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Robert Millar for knighthood
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    oh im excited!!!

    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Garmin
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Stage 3: Cavendish
    Stage 4: Garzelli
    Stage 5: Basso
    Stage 6: Cunego
    Stage 7: Cavendish
    Stage 8: Di Luca
    Stage 9: Cavendish

    cheers
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    I forgot Victor's picks:

    GC: Carlos Sastre
    TTT: Liquigas
    2: Cavendish
    3: Cavendish
  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    I'm off to Venice for the first few stages tomorrow 8) Will be poking a stick through the spokes of everybody elses GC picks during the TTT on Saturday :wink:

    So...

    GC: Basso
    St1: Garmin
    St2: Cavendish
    St3: Di Luca
    St4: Pellizotti
    St5: Basso
  • Obelix
    Obelix Posts: 18
    GC - Basso

    Stage 1 - Columbia
    Stage 2 - Cavendish
    Stage 3 - Cavendish
    Stage 4 - Leipheimer
    Stage 5 - Basso
    Stage 6 - Cunego
    Stage 7 - Pozzato
    Stage 8 - Garzelli
    Stage 9 - Cavendish
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    GC: Basso
    My hour on the plinth
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    My favourite race - good scenery and lots of messages for Il Pirata

    Got the abacus at the ready, afx?
    GC Menchov
    St 1 Columbia

    Will do more when got round to reading preview in mags.

    Mille graizie e ciao! :D
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • Wheelz
    Wheelz Posts: 25
    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Garmin-Slipstream
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Stage 3: Cavendish
    Stage 4: Garzelli
    Stage 5: Simoni
    Stage 6: Cunego
    Stage 7: Pozzato
    Stage 8: Gilbert
    Stage 9: Cancellara
  • ACMadone
    ACMadone Posts: 300
    GC. Levi Leipheimer
    Stage 1 Liquigas
    Stage 2 Cavendish
  • tomilinski1
    tomilinski1 Posts: 96
    First time lucky

    Cant see the GC working out but I can't pick Basso!

    overall - cunego
    1- Columbia
    2 - bennati
    3 - cav
    4 - di luca
    5 - simoni
    6 - cunego
    7 - Gerrans
    8 - garzelli
    9 -cav

    Thanks
    Bring back the original C4 Tour theme tune !

    The wife's breastfeeding tops website
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    GC, Levi Leipheimer
    Stage 1, Garmin
    Stage 2, Cavendish
  • JC.152
    JC.152 Posts: 645
    GC: Juan Mauricio Soler
    Stage 1 TTT:Katusha
    stage 2:mark cavendish
    stge 3: Pozzato

    Cheers
  • joedh
    joedh Posts: 16
    Overall - Levi Leipheimer

    Stage 1 - Garmin (controversial :wink: )
    Stage 2 - Petacchi
    Stage 3 - Cavendish
    Stage 4 - Garzelli
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    joedh wrote:
    Overall - Levi Leipheimer

    Stage 1 - Garmin (controversial :wink: )
    Stage 2 - Petacchi
    Stage 3 - Cavendish
    Stage 4 - Garzelli

    why? thats their speciality and they have been training for ttt's all winter...
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Ms Tree wrote:
    Got the abacus at the ready, afx?

    I think I'm gonna need one. New scoring system, points down to 8th place each day... I'm bound to get someone's scores messed up :shock:

    If I do, just shout out!

    Also, tomilinski1, if you read this, Bennati is a non-starter!
  • Noodley
    Noodley Posts: 1,725
    GC: Menchov
    TTT: Columbia
    Stage 1: Cav
    Stage 2: Cav
  • richard wants a baum
    richard wants a baum Posts: 744
    edited May 2009
    GC: Basso
    Stage 1: Garmin
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Stage 3: Cavendish
    Stage 4: Gerrans.
    Stage 5: Lovkvist
    Stage 6: Voigt
    Stage 7: Davis
    Stage 8: Gilbert
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    GC: Ivan Basso

    Stage 1: Columbia
  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    GC, Levi Leipheimer
    Stage 1, Garmin
    Stage 2, Cavendish

    please
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  • tomilinski1
    tomilinski1 Posts: 96
    Thanks for that...

    Ok - substitute Bennati for Petacchi

    Cav has got to let someone else win one of the stages!
    Bring back the original C4 Tour theme tune !

    The wife's breastfeeding tops website
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    GC Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne :shock:

    Stage 1 - Columbia
    Stage 2 - Petacchi
    Stage 3 - Cav[/code]
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    Strava is not Zen.
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    GC - Basso

    Stage 1 - Garmin
    Stage 2 - Cav
    Stage 3 - Petacchi

    Thanks!
  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    Here goes!

    GC: Levi Leipheimer
    Stage 1: Garmin
    Stage 2: Cavendish
    Stage 3: Cavendish
    Stage 4: Quinzato
    Stage 5: Leipheimer


    Thanks

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