Giro Stage 21 *spoiler*

Mad_Malx
Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
edited June 2013 in Pro race
Everyone lost interest -or out on your bikes?
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    95kms to go.

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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    Everyone lost interest -or out on your bikes?
    Applies perhaps to the riders - 33.5 km/hr for the first hour, 35.1 km/hr for the second.
    Gazelli was able to give an interview while riding along to a RAI reporter on a motorbike!

    It's picked up a bit now, maybe as the first sprint is on the horizon, but still under 40 km/hr.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited May 2013
    Garzelli being interviewed. Maybe this is his last race, or at least Grand Tour stage?

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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited May 2013
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    Brasilian rider Andriato talking shop with Cavendish.

    Time to sit in the garden. Back in 70kms.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    So will Cav chase the intermediates? That would mean he can afford to finish a few places lower, but Cav will surely contest the stage and take a top 5 and the jersey, or be no-where.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Major drama yet for the PTP GC leotard: TWH soloing off the front with an audacious, panachetastic Viviani pick.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Slow news day....

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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    So will Cav chase the intermediates? That would mean he can afford to finish a few places lower, but Cav will surely contest the stage and take a top 5 and the jersey, or be no-where.

    If he can get 12 pts from them the stage finish won't matter. I would still expect him to contest it though.

    Edit - 15:26. 137 km. Intermediate sprint of Sirmione won by M. CAVENDISH (151). 8 down 4 to go. Final intermediate is within the laps around Brescia with just 25km to go.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Currently watching a fairly decent fight back from Lleyton Hewitt, don't even like tennis......

    Do you get the impression that Cav is getting the intermediates uncontested - in that the others think he deserves it so letting him take the points? Seems like Nibali isn't too fussed and rightly so.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Slow news day....

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    Slow news? The Home Secretary riding as a ringer in the BBC Squad qualifies as a bombshell. [Also, there's a pleasing coincidence in the site hosting that image.]
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    95kms to go.

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    They're not moving that fast :lol:
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I've found a stream with Kirby and Lloyd doing the commentary - brilliant - like 2 kids on the last day at school :lol:
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    So Paul Smith "designed" the jerseys... I can really see the value he added :lol::lol::lol:
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Who is leading the red jersey competition atm?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    "Tuna fish and banana? Anyone?"

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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Who is leading the red jersey competition atm?

    Nibali, the man says.

    So if Cav don't overtake him, who gets the red jersey?
  • B3rnieMac
    B3rnieMac Posts: 384
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    Who is leading the red jersey competition atm?

    Nibali, the man says.

    So if Cav don't overtake him, who gets the red jersey?

    Nibs will get both, then.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Gotta love Eurosport. Arrive an hour behind schedule, then 2 ad breaks within 10 minutes.

    Cav will secure the red jersey at the next intermediate sprint.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    What's the mechanic squeezing here, risking his promising concert pianist career.

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    Macaloon wrote:
    What's the mechanic squeezing here, risking his promising concert pianist career.

    I'm not sure, but I am confident that even leaning out of the window of a car and only using one hand on a moving bike he will have achieved more than I did trying to fix my bike this afternoon.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Transponder

    So, ok, when did someone last win two jerseys on a GT?
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Cavendish up the front
  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Cav bagging more points
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    Contador won both in 2011, but then after his retrospective ban was applied Scarponi won both. It's quite common in the Giro and Vuelta to win both.
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    6 laps to go
    24.6km
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    IanLD wrote:
    Cav bagging more points

    No, next circuit
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    That wasnt the sprint lap apparently - its the next one
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    ES guys completely lost. Lets have some ads :D
  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Bit of speedway there...
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Some bloke out front trying to wreck Cav's glory?

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