Giro stage 17 - Blockhaus (spoiler)

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    DDL is nuts. You won't ride Menchov off the wheel. He needs to slow up, change the pace and attack.
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    di luca grimmaces for the camera, looks like hes raging
    Menchov looks like hes thinking of Girls and Vodka
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    leipheimer 1.12 down
    looks like hes a domeestique for the tour
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Armstrong sticking with Sastre. I guess he figures Sastre last won the Tour - so if he sticks with him he can beat him this year! :o
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    pelozotti looking less fresh
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    pelozotti looking like its heavier work, Simoni doing the pacing now
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    sportbilly1976 wrote:
    "Sastre currently dopped. "


    lol - nice typo!!

    lol - definitely a typo!
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Bloody picture break up
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    afx237vi wrote:
    DDL is nuts. You won't ride Menchov off the wheel. He needs to slow up, change the pace and attack.

    Agreed, apparently Menchov cannot deal with the changes of pace very well...

    Which is why Contador will tear him to pieces.
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  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    pelozotti doing wonders for Cannondale

    Menchov DiLuca Garzelli, Basso 22s


    Sastre Armstrong Simoni 1.18
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    Sastre cracking after a massive turn
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    Di Luca no longer grimmacing just breathing gently and accelerating ! Awsome

    Pelozotti hurting
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    edited May 2009
    DDL going HARD. Menchov sticking with him. Still. Doesn't even look like Menchov is trying!
  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    Menchov followig Di Luca up the mountain easily, Di Luca hurting himself now
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Menchov is just sitting on Di Luca's wheel, he looks like he could pass and drop Di Luca with ease.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Ok this is a bit nuts. Di Luca looks like he is trying to kill himself yet Menchiv looks like his on the flat on a training ride - no breathing, no grimacing and no out the saddle riding.

    Garzelli keeps coming back.

    Shame for Sastre.
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  • markwalker
    markwalker Posts: 953
    Pelozotti superb ride wins
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    And the Giro goes to.....


    Menchov.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    YES Menchov cracks on the line. Maybe he is human. 3-4 secs or so for Di Luca.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    frenchfighter wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    DDL is nuts. You won't ride Menchov off the wheel. He needs to slow up, change the pace and attack.

    Agreed, apparently Menchov cannot deal with the changes of pace very well...

    Which is why Contador will tear him to pieces.

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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    frenchfighter wrote:
    YES Menchov cracks on the line. Maybe he is human. 3-4 secs or so for Di Luca.

    Just because a rider isn't chewing his bar tape and dribbling doesn't mean his legs aren't hurting like hell.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pellozotti didn't look like he was suffering at the end. Maybe he should have gone harder. Either way, good ride by him, Garzelli and Di Luca.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Only they don't have bonus seconds in the Tour any more.

    As the others say, Menchov is a big diesel and can't cope with accelerations. But everyone is wise to Contador's accelerations, the Spaniard can jump everyone to the point where few will follow him, they will prefer to let him get 100m and then work to peg him back, as we've seen a few times his accelerations are good but he sometimes struggles to pull out the lead he needs.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited May 2009
    26 secs for Di Luca on Menchov. Pellizotti 3rd. Sastre lost his podium.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,914
    Was that a slight crack, finally from Menchov? Pity about those lost 5.5kms. Seems the could have made all,the difference. :roll: :wink:

    Bet he gives Garzelli a nice big kiss for that. Especially if he loses the GC for 3 seconds!
    Still the DDL haters will be please. :lol:
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Was that a slight crack, finally from Menchov? Pity about those lost 5.5kms. Seems the could have made all,the difference. :roll: :wink:

    Bet he gives Garzelli a nice big kiss for that. Especially if he loses the GC for 3 seconds!
    Still the DDL haters will be please. :lol:

    I'm not sure Menchov winning it is much better. Although there is something about DDL which comes over as particularly objectionable somehow; perhaps because he's so patently been getting away with it for so long (e.g. 3 months for oil for drugs... in the Winter! , Baby wee OK because of sample handling contraventions etc.). Whereas I reckon Menchov is on borrowed time McD-wise.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cunego just crossed now about 12mins or so back!!
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  • micron
    micron Posts: 1,843
    You can dress it up all you like as 'good tactics' or 'clever riding' but Menchov is proving to be the biggest wheelsucker of them all - he has never once gone to the front of the race whilst in the leader's jersey. He makes Leipheimer and Evans look like the most super combative riders in the peloton :roll:
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited May 2009
    Bow by Di Luca on the podium!

    Sounds like the crowd were not happy that Garzelli pipped Di Luca...
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    micron wrote:
    You can dress it up all you like as 'good tactics' or 'clever riding' but Menchov is proving to be the biggest wheelsucker of them all - he has never once gone to the front of the race whilst in the leader's jersey. He makes Leipheimer and Evans look like the most super combative riders in the peloton :roll:

    Which is why hardly any Tifosi like him! I agree though, although it is not required of him to do it, a true champion attacks even he has the leader's jersey.
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