Giro Stage 11 *spoiler*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    FJS wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Liquigas is to blame!

    Says the man who's responsibility it was to chase.

    Vino blaming Liquigas is a bit rich, but there is a point in that Liquigas gambled a bit too much - in a situation as dramatic as yesterday it becomes the joint responsibilty of all GC favourite teams to chase. Liquigas pointing to Agnoli and Kiserlovski in the break is tactical, but it has kind of mis-fired. Liquigas has shifted from a very strong position of having 2 candidates for the overall win with 2 competitors, to having 4 candidates for the overall, with about 7 competitors.

    +1

    the problem was LIQ and AND played the tactical marking card forcing others to chase but Astana was in the process of falling to bits and couldn't come up with the goods..and BMC were rubbish


    LIQ needed to come forward when it went yup to 17mins and helped control the pace to something sub 10
    "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
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    is there any truth that they never got told how big the break was until it was over 10 mins ? If so that shows how much the riders rely on the radio and don't think the race through for themselves
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    \tiralongo in a crash in stage 6, three of his teammates abandoned during this epic stage to L'Aquila: his young Kazakhstani compatriots Valentin Iglinsky and Alexandr Dyachenko as well as Italy's Enrico Gasparotto

    All the favourites made a mistake in letting that many get away - but once they had gone Liquigas must have been having a laugh if they though Astana were going to do all the chasing when their team were falling apart - and by all accounts BMC had illness in the camp.

    Liquigas had to contribute early or else get one of their GC men in the break - they did neither. OK so they had a plan to put Astana under pressure and maybe do something in that difficult final 50ks but you've got to think on your feet and once that many were up the road the plan had to change.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    sherer wrote:
    is there any truth that they never got told how big the break was until it was over 10 mins ? If so that shows how much the riders rely on the radio and don't think the race through for themselves

    they and we knew in the first 100k it was riding away they didn't ride until close to 50 to go
    "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
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    I wonder if starting the chase with 50 to go has become so ingrained that it is almost reflex to only start to work hard wind it in about then. Working hard with 50 to go must be mentally and physically easier than starting with 100k to go.
    Dan
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    i'm taking the comments from Vino and Evans with a pinch of salt. They can hardly turn round and say my team with rubbish so I was stuck on my own. They are trying to deflect from the fact their teams had a bad day, or Giro if you are Evans :D , and put the blame on Liquigas
  • moolarb
    moolarb Posts: 83
    get rid of the radios and we'll have more days like this

    excitement and unpredictability - great stuff - just like the old days

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