Giro del Trentino 2011 **SPOILERS**

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited April 2011 in Pro race
2.HC, 4 day stage race in Italy.

Today's stage was a flat TT of 13.5km. Kloden, continues his string of superb form to take the win.

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1 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack 0:15:24
2 Adriano Malori (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:00:01
3 Tiago Machado (Por) Team Radioshack 0:00:08
4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:10
5 Luca Ascani (Ita) D'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo 0:00:11
6 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 0:00:16
7 Scott Zwizanski (USA) Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling 0:00:21
8 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Miche - Guerciotti 0:00:23
9 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:00:25
10 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Team Radioshack
11 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:26
12 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:00:27
13 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
14 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Pro Team Astana 0:00:28
15 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Katusha Team 0:00:29

Sella was a minute back and Garzelli 45secs.

Tomorrow is up and down and the next two days after are mountainous - two back to back 7% climbs (summit finish) one day and a 5% summit finish the other day.


Ballan, Scarponi, Kloden, Kreuziger, Nibali are all riding.
Contador is the Greatest

Comments

  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!
    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:
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!

    What about #1 - Go chequebook justice!
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Watched it last night. Big flop again from Roman Kreuziger, beaten by Diddy Dom Pozzovivo 'n all.
    Talking of titches. Jose Rujano over a minute down, so that Giro hot form is coming along nicely. :oops:
    Have to say it, Kloden looks the business on a TT bike.
    I see that the CN write up managed to drop in: "his rich vein of form" line.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Timoid. wrote:
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!

    15? What's the story there?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!

    15? What's the story there?

    This gives you a fair idea
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Timoid. wrote:
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!

    Number 5 has also had a two year holiday in the past.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 2 doesn't dissapoint.

    Voeckler attacks on the final climb, 7km from the line. Scarponi bridges. The two work together and Voeckler takes the win (6th this year!)

    “30km from the finish, I went up to Voeckler and said ‘you’ll win today.’ He thought I was joking, but I was convinced,” Scarponi said. “So, knowing that he would win, I looked to respond to his attack. I knew that the final 5km were flat, so a small advantage on the climb was going to be enough to hold on to the finish.”
    The 2nd group was about 26 secs back and Kloden wasn't in it.

    Scarponi and Voeckler making racing exciting to watch this year.

    Some great photos here:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-d ... e-2/photos
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 1:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... gmKYWaxp6U
    Contador is the Greatest
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Timoid. wrote:
    Check out numbers 8,9,10 and probably 12 and 15.

    Go clean cycling!

    15? What's the story there?

    This gives you a fair idea

    Oh, OK. All a bit "meh" then?
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    You've got to love Voeckler, real panache.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    That "rolling" stage finished with a 10 km climb. Although the average gradient wasn't steep, the centre section was pretty testing.
    For once, Kloden was an early peloton casualty. First up the road was Charlie Wegelius, who caught the last man from the break of the day.
    Then off went Tommy V, resplendent in the white jersey as leader of the PC circuit. He was looking formidable, until Michele Fer..........sorry, Scarponi powered across the gap with absolute easy. The rest fumbled the ball.
    For the remainder of the climb, Tommy V hung on for grim death, before taking a few pulls so as to take the stage uncontested.

    Nice interview. First win in Italy this year, lovely Giro, had a look at the stage parcours and decided to go for it, etc.
    For his troubles, they dressed him up as a red and green boy scout on the podium.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    inkyfingers wrote:
    You've got to love Voeckler, real panache.

    You could even call him a True Champion TM
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nibs, a supposed True GT contender appears not to be in the Top ten anymore...

    Nice ride by Tiago.

    1 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col) Geox-TMC 4:41:05
    2 Tiago Machado (Por) Team RadioShack
    3 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:00:03
    4 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team
    5 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Pro Team Astana
    6 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
    7 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Androni Giocattoli 0:00:08
    8 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:15
    9 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Katusha Team
    10 Luca Ascani (Ita) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo 0:00:17

    GC
    1 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 9:44:40
    2 Tiago Machado (Por) Team RadioShack 0:00:07
    3 Luca Ascani (Ita) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo 0:00:33
    4 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:34
    5 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox 0:00:35
    6 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Pro Team Astana 0:00:42
    7 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Acqua & Sapone 0:00:58
    8 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 0:01:12
    9 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:01:14
    10 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Androni Giocattoli 0:01:18
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nibs 1.26 down on the day.

    The Colombian winnder won the U23 in Varese.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Pross wrote:
    inkyfingers wrote:
    You've got to love Voeckler, real panache.

    You could even call him a True Champion TM

    You could, but I didn't want to sound like a sycophant!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Nibali was hanging on the back and got dropped half way up the final climb. However, he looked as if he wasn't going anywhere near full gas.
    Unlike Rujano, who took off at 8kms to go, got caught at 3.5kms to go and spent the rest of the time grimacing on the rear of the top group. Lots of attacks from Scarponi, Machado and Pozzovivo which left him the rear end of a piece of elastic. Each time, he clawed his way back.

    However, it was the previously "naive" Fabio Duarte who rode the smartest race. His only attack came at the 300 metre mark and it was too hot for the rest.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    These little italian races seem to produce some exciting racing, shame we don't get to see more of them.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Nibs, a supposed True GT contender appears not to be in the Top ten anymore...

    And what pray tell makes a True Champion? I really hope you are trying to be funny.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Stage 4 was won by Kreuziger!

    1 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Pro Team Astana
    2 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
    3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Team RadioShack 0:00:08
    4 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 0:00:24
    5 Tiago Machado (Por) Team RadioShack
    6 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
    7 Luca Ascani (Ita) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo
    8 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Androni Giocattoli
    9 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col) Geox-TMC
    10 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox

    Final general classification
    1 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
    2 Tiago Machado (Por) Team RadioShack 0:00:07
    3 Luca Ascani (Ita) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo 0:00:33


    This year's race concludes with a mountaintop finish on Madonna di Campiglio which Marco Pantani won at the 1999 Giro d’Italia to give him a commanding overall lead of more than five minutes heading into the final day. But, in a dramatic turn of events, he was disqualified before starting stage 21 for a hematocrit level exceeding 50 per cent and he was never the same rider or person again.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Official photostream:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/girodeltrentino

    Stage 2:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... RrDGx8Chos

    Scarponi looking strong. Hope he does well in the Giro as had good form and put on a great show in many races this year.

    It looks like they did km 6 - 5 at a whopping 40km/h! The 6km until finish was a 47km/h average.

    Stage 3:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-aeYZQ- ... r_embedded
    Contador is the Greatest
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Cheers for the YouTube linkage FF! Appreciated - I'm too lazy to find it myself.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Scarponi looking strong. Hope he does well in the Giro as had good form and put on a great show in many races this year.

    I think that's why he won't do well this year. He's overraced and his performance in MSR was too strong.

    Just for a quick point of interest, the Top 3 of this race last year was Vino, Ricco and Pozzovivo...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Scarponi looking strong. Hope he does well in the Giro as had good form and put on a great show in many races this year.

    I think that's why he won't do well this year. He's overraced and his performance in MSR was too strong.

    Just for a quick point of interest, the Top 3 of this race last year was Vino, Ricco and Pozzovivo...

    Its always the same - the guys who aren't the best of the best ride slow all year and only go all out at one race....unless you are Contador. Scarponi did great in 2010 Giro and think he will do so again this year.

    Interesting list for top 3. There was some good racing tho : )
    Contador is the Greatest

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