Giro Stage 10 *Spoiler*

Quite Frankly
Quite Frankly Posts: 386
edited May 2009 in Pro race
Don't have a clue as to what's happened so far but I thought I'd start the thread anyway.

Any updates? Who's in the breakaway?
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Who knows but they've got a whole 8 seconds

    http://www.gazzetta.it/temporeale/flash ... reale.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    See Ben Swift is in the break. Doing really well for his first major tour.
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    Ben Swift is in the break with 11 other riders. 34 second lead at the 108km mark.

    Efimkin and Visconti also up there.
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    How long does it take before the boys at Raisport actually start showing the race?
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    iainf72 wrote:
    Who knows but they've got a whole 8 seconds

    http://www.gazzetta.it/temporeale/flash ... reale.html

    Nice graphics -- looks like the minipops stuff at flipflopflyin.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    Watching snooker now. Only on JustinTV could this happen :lol:
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    Swift can't climb. Got dropped by the breakaway group on the first climb and is now back in the bunch.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    If this epic stage ends in a sprint of the favourites in km 262 I am going to be bitterly, bitterly disappointed. I want an epic win for an epic stage - it must be worthy.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    Armstrong is leading the bunch with Soler and Garzelli 10 seconds up the road.
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    edited May 2009
    Top 5 over the Moncenisio:

    Garzelli
    Soler
    Armstrong
    Di Luca
    Horner

    Armstrong going for KOM?

    Garzelli has a 1 minute lead over the bunch with Soler a further 30 seconds back.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Domestique work for Leipheimer
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Riders already frazzled from dangerous finales will have reason to complain again today. With 4km to go, the course turns left and hits a small hill with 2.9km to go, with ramps at 12 percent. A chicane and three sharp turns at descending speeds will be challenging, but the pack will be busted up by the time they arrive here. It's flat and straight with 1km to go.
    -Velonews

    Apparently, Basso and Pellizotti recced the last 100km and Pellizotti will try and get a gap over the last climb and hold it to the finish as he is an excellent bike handler.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Spare a thought:
    Bad news for cycling's tight-knit family: A motorbike driver escorting media at the Giro died after being involved in a traffic accident Tuesday morning, race organizers announced. Fabio Saccani, 69, was driving to the start of the race's 10th stage at Cuneo in the Italian Alps when the accident occurred near the town of Bra in the north-west of Italy. The peloton will hold a minute's silence for the veteran driver, who was participating in his 33rd Giro d'Italia, before the start of Wednesday's 11th stage in Torino.
    -Velonews
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    Kléber wrote:
    Domestique work for Leipheimer

    Yup, more than likely but I was just a bit surprised that Astana were on the front.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Heh, I knew Garzelli would have another go.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Raisport should be on about now.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Are we on our way to yet another former doper winning a stage!?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Garzelli has 5mins.

    Basso has ridden the course 10 times.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Well lets hope he's bored of it then.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Well lets hope he's bored of it then.

    I know I would. A drag in both senses of the word.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Garzelli has 5mins.

    Basso has ridden the course 10 times.


    Before or after Armstrong, ahem, Zomegnan had it changed?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Good to see Garzelli trying something different. Although I'm sure Ferrari is on the phone to Bruyneel saying "let him hang" right now.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Some very sad news, shown on Rai. Roberto Bettini's motor cyclist was killed today, 6kms into the stage.
    Bad translation sorry:-
    The Turn d' Italy is in mourning. Fabio Saccani, one of the moticislisti that follow the every day rose race, is dead in a road accident this morning. On board of its Bmw Saccani was reaching the Piedmont, after to have spent the day of rest with the family, to follow the tenth fraction, from Wedge to Pinerolo.
    http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Girodit ... 6704.shtml
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Garzelli lost a minute in the last 5 km, and the steepest part of the climb to Sestriere is this last 15 km. Not looking so good for him at the moment.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Some very sad news, shown on Rai. Roberto Bettini's motor cyclist was killed today, 6kms into the stage.
    Bad translation sorry:-
    The Turn d' Italy is in mourning. Fabio Saccani, one of the moticislisti that follow the every day rose race, is dead in a road accident this morning. On board of its Bmw Saccani was reaching the Piedmont, after to have spent the day of rest with the family, to follow the tenth fraction, from Wedge to Pinerolo.
    http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Girodit ... 6704.shtml

    See my post about exactly this earlier in this thread.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Bit of a yawn-fest so far today. Looks like everyone is too well rested after 2 days off!

    Is it all going to happen on the final big climb or the final mini-climb?
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    The girlies tennis is going to overrun on Eurosport. :roll:
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Is this the slowest tennis match ever played? I swear I had a look at the score before the 1 o'clock news and it was 5-3 in the second set, it's now 2-1 in the third?!
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    i wonder if as many people are watching it on ES as are in the crowd :?
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    camerone wrote:
    i wonder if as many people are watching it on ES as are in the crowd :?

    :lol:

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