Giro d'Italia - stage 3 - Middelburg - *SPOILER*

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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Great racing! breaks everywhere - Evans and Garzelli fighting for their lives to hold wheels in front
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Shouldn't one of Bruseghin's domestiques be stopping to offer his bib shorts?

    Is that a Garzelli & Cuddles attack?
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Please say that VDV did NOT break his collarbone! That would be awful and two years in a row.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited May 2010
    Vino is awesome in these conditions. Lucky Bertie.
    No replay of VDV's crash available.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Looks indeed like Vino is helping cause havoc up front.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Petacchi in a group way back
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    donrhummy wrote:
    Please say that VDV did NOT break his collarbone! That would be awful and two years in a row.

    It's either that or the strap of his shorts has snapped.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Remember the last time Vino caused havoc in the cross winds....

    Ahhhh, 2007, I remember thee as if it was yesterday
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    All these echelons... it's like the Vuelta with grass.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Narrow roads, corners, lot's of islands... tricky stuff for the groups chasing.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    All these echelons... it's like the Vuelta with grass.
    and water



    Anyway, VDV is definitely out of the race - collarbone
  • wicked
    wicked Posts: 844
    CvV now reitred. Must have collarbones of glass that bloke.
    It’s the most beautiful sport in the world but it’s governed by ***ts who have turned it into a crock of ****.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sky smashed out! Wiggins gone, Evans out the back.......
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • wicked
    wicked Posts: 844
    FFS. This is just silly, it's not a race it's a bloody lottery.
    It’s the most beautiful sport in the world but it’s governed by ***ts who have turned it into a crock of ****.
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    Uh-oh.. Yates is going to have a fit.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Wiggins down in a crash - Evans chasing too... Evans to lose time? On his one :shock: :shock: :shock:
  • what on earth is going on, I am so lost!
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    The first 50-70% of stage 1 of the tour goes over a similar area to today.

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/93rd-g ... gt/stage-3

    http://www.letour.fr/fr/homepage_horscourseTDF.html
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Cuddles is dropped?
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Quality support from sky there... nobody on the scene from the cars at all!
    "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
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    Evans in the second group on the road?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    A group with Vino and abut 25 others leading on a group with Farrar and Evans
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    A group with Vino and abut 25 others leading on a group with Farrar and Evans
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    To summarise Harmon's rant...

    "Wah wah wah! Snot fair to expect pro riders to be able to handle their bikes!"

    Suck it up. If its always like this, they should be used to it.
    "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
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Evans managed to chase back on as the lead group slowed to get around the corners of a dockside.

    Crazy course.
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    It'd be a pretty pink weight off of Evans's shoulders.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Evans panics.........
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • I agree, You would think that people who are paid and spend most of thier time on a bike would be able to handle one.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Have Astana dropped Evans again? !
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Where the fk are the rest of the BMC team?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.