Giro: Stage 20 "Spoiler"

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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    And you only have to go back to a few pages to find this gem from Mr Saddles:

    "No need for a stage 2 spoiler.
    TV coverage cancelled due to a bit of rain.
    4 Grand Tour? 1 Grand Farce more like."

    I guess it happens to GTs as well as to American chippers.... :D
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,867
    the lads at front making a push on the gavia
    "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
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Vinokourov (AST), Tschopp (BTL), Sastre (CTT), Lloyd (OLO), Moncoutie (COF), Simoni (LAM), Pinotti (THR) are now the only riders left in the first chase group. The rest of the riders have all been dropped.
    Basso @ 2.22
    Contador is the Greatest
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,867
    vino pushing it on split the group up front
    "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
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Apparently the plane reflecting the signal cannot fly....hopefully up soon. Looks bright at the finish line now.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Bring on the Tennis!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    Tennis Players = bunch of drug cheats
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,867
    moncoutie attacks with simoni
    "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
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    The TV sprint halfway the Gavia climb has been won by Simoni before Moncoutié and Pinotti. Group with pink jersey at 1,30. #giro
  • Quite Frankly
    Quite Frankly Posts: 386
    DAMN YOU Eurosport

    BASTARDS
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    here's a feed that is still working (although not live pictures):


    http://www.fromsport.com/v-0/0/0/v-16.html
  • StefanP
    StefanP Posts: 429
    They go to live pictures and then they switch to the tennis - typical. I guess I am watching in Italian then!
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    while we wait, I have a question about the gavia. climbbybike says lots of it is unpaved. is that still true?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    For all those shouting at Eurosport, there's nothing to see really - apart from packs of snow on the Gavia
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    WTF is this sh1t on Eurosport now? I'd rather watch repeated footage than the sh1t that is on now.

    The Giro is supposed to be on Eurosport 2 til 1630 and it's gone off an hour early.

    WTF
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  • pomtarr
    pomtarr Posts: 318
    Strangest tennis I've ever seen....
    "Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult"
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    and while I write that, live images are back :)
  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    I can't believe they actually went to the French Open :roll:
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Moncoutié and Simoni are 11km from the top. The hard part of the climb is now starting. Pirazzi, Vino and Sastre caught by group Basso....
    2 minutes ago via HootSuite
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Luckao wrote:
    I can't believe they actually went to the French Open :roll:

    Looked like Super bikes to me.

    Anyway Eurosport still has a "live" feed but there is no commentary.
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  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Situation: Moncoutié/Simoni >> Tschopp/Vino/Sastre/Lloyd/Pinotti at 12s >> group Basso/Nibali/Evans/Scarponi/Arroyo et al at 1,24 #giro
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,822
    If you're relying on Eurosport for the Giro today and tomorrow on International then don't : Handball tomorrow too. Switch across to RAI if you can if you need TV pictures.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    There are still no live pictures, so there's no point complaining.

    If you like watching the finish line:

    http://videochat.gazzetta.it/index_giro.shtml
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,867
    Tschopp + vino bridge to simoni and moncoutie
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    RAI start to get picks back just as ES run away.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    To be fair on this occasion it's not Eurosports fault, so frustrating though!!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Vinokourov jumps from the lead group of 8 riders. #giro
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pics back on gazetta site.

    Says Sastre is 9' ahead of Maglia Rosa :shock:
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,867
    vino tschopp simoni coming back to saste et al
    "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
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Eurosport player still has a giro feed. Showing live images now of the riders.
    I like bikes...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Aaah, they've corrected it now.

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