Coppi e Bartali *spoilers*

Starts tomorrow
Has flat and climby stages, a TTT and an ITT. Something for everyone there
Last year's winner was Ulissi
Lampre, Cannondale and Sky the only WT teams doing it. MTN Qubeka and Team Colombia also riding, as well as the usual Italian etc suspects
Stage profiles here
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Set ... s_Overview
Has flat and climby stages, a TTT and an ITT. Something for everyone there
Last year's winner was Ulissi
Lampre, Cannondale and Sky the only WT teams doing it. MTN Qubeka and Team Colombia also riding, as well as the usual Italian etc suspects
Stage profiles here
http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Set ... s_Overview
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You must be standing in an echo chamber SGS. this is another race growing in popularity. It's the first outing this season for Christina Watches so I'm curious as to how they do.
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Another of my personal favourites.
Rai Sport 2 will have a 60 minutes a day show.
FTFY
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Thanks for clearing that up, now can you do the same with Steephill.tv
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I have never seen a C+B like it.
The flattest edition ever.
Two of the seriously hilly stages replace in favour of a sprint stage and an ITT.
No balance at all, not to mention very dull.
Yesterday, the split stage broke up on the climb and Sky forced a break in the peloton.
Held on by 18 seconds which will probably be bigger than the winning gap on the
"Queen" stage.
Mind you only 3 pro tour teams. It always makes me look twice when I see Schumachers name.
#passtheGCparcel
Also I suspect Sky are riding this race for the first time so they can get their win count up. It's not great this year. Shouldnt be too hard racing against lower level teams.
Good to see Kennaugh get his first pro win.
I'll answer this seriously. Its actually nothing to do with win rate. They registered to do this race several months ago - Kennaugh was mentioning this race in his programme in interviews 3 months ago.
Sky decided to do more Italian races this year for several reasons:
1. Sky Italia - own a sizeable stake in the team - more Italian races makes them happy
2. to do more 1-dayers (eg Strade Bianchi, Roma Maxima, GP Camaiore)
3. to give the likes of Kennaugh a chance at a stage race riding for themselves instead of for the big guns
Cant believe wonder-kid Kennaugh has not won before. Not that this one is really a hard one to get but you have to start somewhere.
edit. PK is 24. Alberto had won the TDF at that age.
But was Contador a world and Olympic champion at that age?
These track guys are always older than you think.
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In the next four years he also won another six Grand Tours.
We could have discussed this yesterday if you had come over from your leaving drinks
He didn't ride MSR (he's never ridden it) but you thought it would have been fantastic if he'd been there to work with Nibali. He's not riding this race, but we have to hear how PK isn't living up to Contador's standard for his age.
I'm not interest in the Spanish cheat, we knowyou love him, we've got the picture, now can you just pack this tedious censored in?
Thanks.
@DrHeadgear
The Vikings are coming!
You can't judge someone on someone else's wins, I've never seen him referred to as a wonder kid other than in FF post.
Nibali didn't win a GT until he was 26, and great champion Valverde until 29.
Stop being a wee baby and get on with life, every post has to be a dig at Sky, and thankfully more and more people are pulling you up. I'm starting to get embarrassed for you.
http://www.steephill.tv/2014/coppi-e-ba ... /stage-02/
Beautiful scenery. From last year's stage 2:
Later in the week:
It really is a shame what they have done to the parcours this year.
Next time
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