Giro Stage 10 *Spoiler*

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    DaveyL wrote:
    Seriously, did you see what caused the crash?

    Who me? No, that's why I said I didn't see this one....

    Looks like I jinxed Henderson, thought he'd be good at the end of a long stage.
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    Phew... another one out of the way. I have about as much enthusiasm as Greipel does for these stages.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Can see it breaking up a bit tomorrow. It's a very long stage, and the run-in looks fairly lumpy.

    Either that or a big breakaway could win by 20 minutes and the GC riders have the day off.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Pross wrote:
    DaveyL wrote:
    Seriously, did you see what caused the crash?

    Who me? No, that's why I said I didn't see this one....

    Looks like I jinxed Henderson, thought he'd be good at the end of a long stage.

    No, I was asking Pokerface. The cameras didn't catch what caused it, but he obviously did, since he decided the Sky rider's poor bike handling skills had caused him to go down...
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    afx237vi wrote:
    Can see it breaking up a bit tomorrow. It's a very long stage, and the run-in looks fairly lumpy.

    Either that or a big breakaway could win by 20 minutes and the GC riders have the day off.

    pelizotti could make a surprise move
    "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
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    afx237vi wrote:
    Can see it breaking up a bit tomorrow. It's a very long stage, and the run-in looks fairly lumpy.

    Either that or a big breakaway could win by 20 minutes and the GC riders have the day off.

    pelizotti could make a surprise move

    What, admit to doping?
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Wiggins was kinda mean about Hondo's effort a couple of days ago:

    http://twitter.com/bradwiggins/status/13983648368
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Timoid. wrote:
    Wiggins was kinda mean about Hondo's effort a couple of days ago:

    http://twitter.com/bradwiggins/status/13983648368

    Yeah, the Lampre boys have been waiting to tweet that Sky made it through a stage without falling off.

    Hopefully tomorrow.
    :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Timoid. wrote:
    Wiggins was kinda mean about Hondo's effort a couple of days ago:

    http://twitter.com/bradwiggins/status/13983648368

    Yeah, that carphedon must really mess with your mind.... :D
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Don't let the Aussies see this;
    “Jesus, this race is very hard!” the 20 year old from Goolwa in South Australia said in Avellino at the start of stage 10. “It’s a lot different than other ProTour races. It’s very different from the Tour Down Under!”

    One assumes he'll have his passport rescinded when he returns Down Under next.

    :wink:
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Old Willunga Hill is a bit like the Zoncolan... isn't it?
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    andyp wrote:
    One assumes he'll have his passport rescinded when he returns Down Under next.

    :wink:
    Chopper Reid will be waiting at the airport for him with some useful advice no doubt
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    "This is Jack Bobby. He thinks the Tour Down Under is a proper bike race. HTFU Jack Bobby..."
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    afx237vi wrote:
    Old Willunga Hill is a bit like the Zoncolan... isn't it?

    He hasn't got to the Zoncolan yet, bless him.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited May 2010
    Anyone seen Voigt's SRM stats?

    514 Watts, at 153bpm...

    Edit: Err, totally wrong thread...
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    andyp wrote:
    Don't let the Aussies see this;
    “Jesus, this race is very hard!” the 20 year old from Goolwa in South Australia said in Avellino at the start of stage 10. “It’s a lot different than other ProTour races. It’s very different from the Tour Down Under!”

    One assumes he'll have his passport rescinded when he returns Down Under next.

    :wink:

    Crikey, didn't realise he was just 20. Isn't he kind of young to be doing a GT? Especially one as hard as this.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    He'll be pulled out in the next couple of days apparently.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It’s very different from the Tour Down Under!”
    Is this total naivety or is he deploying some crafty Anglo-Saxon understatement?

    Wait until he does the Tour, every rider says this is even harder. Moreno Argentin said going to the Tour de France was like going to university after being in nursery school (vivaio) during the rest of the year.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Kléber wrote:
    Wait until he does the Tour, every rider says this is even harder. Moreno Argentin said going to the Tour de France was like going to university after being in nursery school (vivaio) during the rest of the year.
    Do you think this still holds true? The Giro always used to be fairly laid back racing with the bunch taking it easy until the racing started with 2 hours to go.

    But over the last 10 years, it seems to have been going increasingly from the gun............for instance stage 7 (Strada biance) had an average speed of 44kph before they hit the mud roads.

    Maybe not quite as frantic as the Tour still, but it can't be far off and the route of this Giro seems especially difficult.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    That's true but those days of piano, piano ended in the late 80s, when FICP points were introduced. I think it was Chavanel who said the Tour was different in that you had to concentrate on every bend, even taking the wrong line round a corner meant an extra effort to close the gap in front, there was not recovery.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    That's true but those days of piano, piano ended in the late 80s, when FICP points were introduced. I think it was Chavanel who said the Tour was different in that you had to concentrate on every bend, even taking the wrong line round a corner meant an extra effort to close the gap in front, there was not recovery.

    seen plenty of piano stages in the Giro in recent years (last decade or so) that were very Piano... my fav... that stage Mckenzie won with a solo break because the peloton stopped for cake from Bettini's mum then couldn't chase (full of cake)
    "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
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I can see today's stage being piano, especially if it's warm. A break of around 15, maybe and Astana can't be arsed to chase so hand the jersey over for a few days
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I can see today's stage being piano, especially if it's warm. A break of around 15, maybe and Astana can't be arsed to chase so hand the jersey over for a few days

    nah too many looking for the win plus i think vino wants(thinks?) to use stages like this to gain time before the big stuff
    "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