Tirreno-Adriatico stage 7 *spoilers*

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited March 2010 in Pro race
Haha, Garzelli takes 3rd place in two bonus sprints and becomes virtual leader on the same time as Scarponi.

Mick Rogers is going to be getting some evil eyes in the peloton today.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Wow! Who would have thunk it?
    Scarponi gets his titled nicked at the seaside!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    What's Mick done?
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Just as I ptp-planned it 8)

    Also had a little wager with Betfair this AM at 4.5 to 1 8) 8)

    Bonifications go down to 5th here do they?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    DaveyL wrote:
    What's Mick done?

    Scarponi reckons he went into yesterday's final corner too fast and let a gap open to Garzelli.

    "Rogers let the gap open," Scarponi continued. "He went into the last corner with too much speed, braked and nearly took me out. Hah, maybe Garzelli paid off Rogers!"

    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... e-win.html
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    maybe the whining turd ought to have stuck to garzelli like glue and not blame others
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Cav crashed
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Is that Iglinskiy down too? Looked like the Kazakh jersey rather than an Astana one.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    EBH wins. Goofiest celebration EVER.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,477
    Lots of finger pointing and gesticulating going on.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Hilarious.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Good old Biggles-Holden

    Percival will be pleased.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Awaits PaoloButts. :P
    EBH looked the strongest in a "dirty" bunch sprint.
    That poor Astana rider taken out like a NFLer.
    Looked in agony.
    Saw Cav's wheel bouncing along the road, like a Barnes Wallace special.
    Must have been s folking problem. :oops:
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,477
    Biggles-Holden might get disqualified after seeing the overhead shot, he veered quite sharply to his left, baulking Petacchi and Farrar.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    afx237vi wrote:
    Is that Iglinskiy down too? Looked like the Kazakh jersey rather than an Astana one.
    Whoever it was, looked to be in great pain.
    If Hagen Daz gets demoted, it will be down to an Italian conspiracy against we Brits. :?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Farrar is the angriest Buddhist in the world right now.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Weren't they masquerading as the Italian Sky this week and not the British Sky?

    So PauloBets is probably not supporting them this week.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Is that Iglinskiy down too? Looked like the Kazakh jersey rather than an Astana one.
    Whoever it was, looked to be in great pain.
    If Hagen Daz gets demoted, it will be down to an Italian conspiracy against we Brits. :?

    If he gets demoted, its a Betfair conspiracy against me winning another £30 from them today :evil:
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good to know that a lot of the riders on my sig line are earlier season winners.

    EBH great stuff, I think your celebrations are way too goofy and childish though - make them as hard as the power you can rip into your rivals with.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    And he beats proper sprinters into the bargain. Quality.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Good to know that a lot of the riders on my sig line are earlier season winners.

    EBH great stuff, I think your celebrations are way too goofy and childish though - make them as hard as the power you can rip into your rivals with.

    Um.. I doubt he's reading this. He ain't Lance.

    Although if he was he might feel a tad nauseous.
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  • thamacdaddy
    thamacdaddy Posts: 590
    Farrar was going mental but it seemed to me the whole bunch moved not just EBH and it was a good 500m out. Seems a bit harsh if he gets DQ'd for it.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Last km. EBH was well out of his line. May have to scratch that win from my sig...

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,477
    Surprisingly, given this was an Italian race and an Italian was second, he seems to have gotten away with it.
  • percival
    percival Posts: 137
    iainf72 wrote:
    Good old Biggles-Holden

    Percival will be pleased.

    Happy as a tiny birkebeiner particle in an Olympic sized vat of very expensive ice cream, old bean.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,869
    that was not a good sprint

    DQ or should be... perhaps unintentional but both Farrar and pettachi had started their sprint
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Guess who came last overall?

    153 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox 1:48:02
    154 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 1:50:41
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,869
    iainf72 wrote:
    Guess who came last overall?

    153 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox 1:48:02
    154 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 1:50:41

    on an aside do we know if it was an exploding wheel?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,477
    He's bluffing for MSR. :wink:
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    andyp wrote:
    He's bluffing for MSR. :wink:

    He's discarding his "Fat B@stard" prosthetic make-up as we speak.......
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • nferrar
    nferrar Posts: 2,511
    Sprint wasn't too bad IMO, EBH moved but not violently and Farrar never really got going (not because he was blocked), just needed someone to blame but himself.

    Cav's crash was interesting, was hard to see on the slow-mo but looked like he went straight over the bars without getting his hands out in time, seemed to recover quickly enough though. The wheel had no hub so would agree with Magnus that the wheel collapsed spontaneously.

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