Giro Stage 3 *spoiler*

frenchfighter
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edited May 2012 in Pro race
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Is he actually wearing that shoe? It's *almost* cool!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So the mayor of the finishing place died of a heart attack.

    Bad news.

    The curse of stage 3.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited May 2012
    Gah, that's no good.

    The Giro also paid tribute to the mayor of Horsens, Jan Trøjborg, who died suddenly at the weekend. “The news of his death took us by surprise and we even considered cancelling the stage,” Giro director Michele Acquarone told Tuttobici. “Yesterday, we had a meeting which his widow, mother and family attended, and it was they who asked us to go on. They wanted us to bring the happiness of the Giro here so as to realise the dream that their loved one had worked on so tenaciously for a year and a half.”

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  • LeePaton
    LeePaton Posts: 353
    How quick a turnaround are on the pink bits Phinney has? Surely he has to have thought he'd be in Pink at some point to have a pink powermeter.

    Impressive.
    It's not so much about winning, I just hate losing.
  • fish156
    fish156 Posts: 496
    LeePaton wrote:
    ... Surely he has to have thought he'd be in Pink at some point to have a pink powermeter.
    I doubt he'd have to get his own. There is probably an SRM rep following the race hoping that the leader is an SRM user. Presumably the same rep has a box of yellow head units in July. Great publicity.
  • LeePaton
    LeePaton Posts: 353
    fish156 wrote:
    LeePaton wrote:
    ... Surely he has to have thought he'd be in Pink at some point to have a pink powermeter.
    I doubt he'd have to get his own. There is probably an SRM rep following the race hoping that the leader is an SRM user. Presumably the same rep has a box of yellow head units in July. Great publicity.

    After typing that i did think of that and have no doubt thats what happens.

    Would still prefer it if he was just that confident.
    It's not so much about winning, I just hate losing.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    When is the KOM* point (Molehill). Has that been and gone yet?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,578
    I do dislike the wearing of national champions' jerseys outside of the country in which they were won. The Lithuanian champ gets to look like the world champ.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Good ol' Frank one of the only riders wearing full leg warmers not just 3/4 length)... Sorry for giving Mr Schleck a hard time time... but even these minor things about him grate at me now...

    Perhaps he is too nervous to take his hands off the bars to remove them ...
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,550
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I do dislike the wearing of national champions' jerseys outside of the country in which they were won. The Lithuanian champ gets to look like the world champ.

    I'm all for it, just that particular jersey is very annoying.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,550
    Poor Mads Christiansen didn't get much time to ride round his hometown there!
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  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Benefits of working nights = wake up, watch last 10km of sprint stage with a coffee before getting on turbo.

    Exactly my plan today.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rujano and Pozzivivo hanging off the rear - got teammates tho. Hang in there you champion climbers. Dont let the flat power monsters ride you out of GC.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good roads. A good run in. Wide, smooth but with a good few turns.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Having Geraint as your leadout man must be great.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FAIL by SKY.

    Cav left solo from 900m. Well back. Looking lost. Falling back. Then crashes.

    Takes out Phinney. Outrageous.
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Big crash that. Cav didn't look like he'd get there.
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    Fark.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited May 2012
    ANDRONI MOTHERFUCKER. (Edit: Ferrari)

    DQ HIM FROM THE RACE

    Cav did great job to find a whole like a sprinting pro and this amateur swings right in front of him taking him out.
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    That was completely Ferrari's fault. Poor Cav.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Wow... ferrari should be Dq'd for that ... dirty
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,550
    What a f******* idiot.
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  • andyjr
    andyjr Posts: 635
    Poor riding from Ferrari
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    That looked painful. At least two bikes rode over Cav
  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    edited May 2012
    No kidding. What a c*** - and he's taken out both the pink and red jerseys.

    (Referring to Ferrari.)
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,550
    Top marks to whoever bunnyhopped Cav clean.
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Really - that sprinting move by Ferrari was a disgrace.
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  • Simmotino
    Simmotino Posts: 295
    Someone's going to get their ar*e DQ'd tonight!
  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    Phinney out?
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    That was a monumental switch by Roberto Ferrar! Took Cav's wheel from right under him!
    Taylor Phinney's broken his ankle?
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