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

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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Which sprinters are in the front group?
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Isn't it against etiquette to take advantage of another rider's fall?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    Timoid. wrote:
    Isn't it against etiquette to take advantage of another rider's fall?

    The Vuelta and today appear to suggest that Evans doesn't count.

    Can't believe he's doing so much work in the group behind...
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Wouter Weyland! Brown 2nd - Greipel simply outsprinted....
  • wicked
    wicked Posts: 844
    Greipel really making Cav eat his words again :roll:
    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
    Vino in pink.........wait for it!
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I can't either... surely he could have bought in some help from that bunch?
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    I bet Cavendish is loving this race. :wink:
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Phew, wIth Graeme Brown in there it looked certain there would be another crash.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Adam Blythe up there - 5th
  • wicked
    wicked Posts: 844
    FJS wrote:
    Adam Blythe up there - 5th

    Fantastic chapeau to him!
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Luckao wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Isn't it against etiquette to take advantage of another rider's fall?

    The Vuelta and today appear to suggest that Evans doesn't count.

    Can't believe he's doing so much work in the group behind...

    Forget about doping. Vino and Basso are complete cheats on the road.

    Why didn't Sastre shift his lazy arse?
    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: 22,725
    The Sky train arrives at the station, 4 minutes late.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Millar 1 second down in the standings with a TTT coming up - nice!
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Any word on Farrar?
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    'ere, I thought Basso couldn't ride in dangerous conditions? :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Vino is the man. Not called nails for no reason.

    Evans crossed the line some 45 seconds down, with Wiggins and the Sky group only now coming in at four minutes.

    - This is unacceptable for a GC contender. I guess there is quite a lot of practicing to do before the Tour. And this stage just goes to show what people say about it being lucky and all that and you could lose your whole GC in 1 stage like this. Exciting for the viewers but there is a time and a place for those conditions and they aren't Grand Tours.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited May 2010
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Vino in pink.........wait for it!

    "Nuova maglia rosa è A. VINOKOUROV"

    :lol:

    From sinner to winner, eh?
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    it wont be many years before most teams send their 'A' rosters to California to avoid this race. its nonsense to suggest they cannot handle their bikes, the corner where Sky crashed was a stupidly narrow corner with brick things sticking out - this isnt fecking mad max or wacky races, 200 riders into that gap aint going to fit even if they were all Steve Peat
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Timoid. wrote:
    Luckao wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Isn't it against etiquette to take advantage of another rider's fall?

    The Vuelta and today appear to suggest that Evans doesn't count.

    Can't believe he's doing so much work in the group behind...

    Forget about doping. Vino and Basso are complete cheats on the road.

    Why didn't Sastre shift his lazy ars*?

    How so?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Bruiser loses 8 minutes on the dutch climbs.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Luckao wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Isn't it against etiquette to take advantage of another rider's fall?

    The Vuelta and today appear to suggest that Evans doesn't count.

    Can't believe he's doing so much work in the group behind...

    Forget about doping. Vino and Basso are complete cheats on the road.

    Why didn't Sastre shift his lazy ars*?

    How so?


    Trying to put time in to him when he's getting back on after a crash. It was Liquigas and Vino at the head of affairs in the front group.

    Basso did the same with the goofed up Spaniards in the Vuelta when Evans punctured.

    Stages like today make a mockery of the sport.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    Not quite the leisurely stroll through the Netherlands that I had anticipated.

    Evans needs to go and give somebody a slap.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Vino is the man. Not called nails for no reason.

    Evans crossed the line some 45 seconds down, with Wiggins and the Sky group only now coming in at four minutes.

    - This is unacceptable for a GC contender. I guess there is quite a lot of practicing to do before the Tour. And this stage just goes to show what people say about it being lucky and all that and you could lose your whole GC in 1 stage like this. Exciting for the viewers but there is a time and a place for those conditions and they aren't Grand Tours.

    That's why they keep making stages like this. Exciting for viewers, keeps em coming back, viwers keep advertisers interested, advertisers keep TV interested, TV money keeps the race going. Way of the world. And would you rather that or 6 echelons rolling through a desert a la the Vuelta?
    "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
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Timoid. wrote:
    Basso did the same with the goofed up Spaniards in the Vuelta when Evans punctured.

    I think you're being a bit sensitive fella.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    Gentlemen this tour just got exciting...
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Timoid. wrote:

    Stages like today make a mockery of the sport.

    we are all willing Evans on but its not looking good... his team are sh1t again

    nibali...

    not convinced Vino is going to make the distance

    Millar is making a habit of making the splits when they occur... shame about VDV for TTT
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  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    What is it they say: "You can't win a tour in the first few bays, but...."
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    iainf72 wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Basso did the same with the goofed up Spaniards in the Vuelta when Evans punctured.

    I think you're being a bit sensitive fella.


    Not really. I like to see these things settled fairly on the road. You could argue this one, but the incident in the Vuelta stank, as did the winner.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Timoid. wrote:
    Trying to put time in to him when he's getting back on after a crash. It was Liquigas and Vino at the head of affairs in the front group.

    Basso did the same with the goofed up Spaniards in the Vuelta when Evans punctured.

    Stages like today make a mockery of the sport.
    A bit of an overreaction - it happened in the last 10km, with already the whole field broken up into several frantically chasing echelons - not exactly the conditions to sit up and wait.

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