Giro 2014 - Stage 9: Lugo -Sestola MTF **Spoilers**

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Pozzovivo hands on the drops a la Pantani.... love him! :D
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Real shame the rest of the climb is not very steep.

    However, really hope Pozzo blows them away on Zoncolan and the MTT.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    It's all gone tempo again as the road is less steep here. Only 1500m to go for the leading two.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Easily 30 in Evans group. What a joke.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Go Pozzo Go. Looking very strong and fluid. Really hope he gets a good gap at the end.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    Some motor pacing for Pozi there.

    DD.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    The 200th Edition of the OGE Backstage Pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAT7QbDex0
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    ridiculous cat and mouse
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Great work by these two - break all day, then attacking at the base and getting a great gap.

    Cat and mouse in the last 700m they had so much time.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    No surprise in the win. Good effort.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Ulrika! Can't stop weening.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Dolan Driver wrote:
    Some motor pacing for Pozi there.

    DD.

    And rightly so. Reward for not being boring.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Cataldo attacks, then losses 4 places in the last 5 metres...
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  • Give me more
    Give me more Posts: 487
    Pozzovivo and AG2R reaping the rewards for setting something up and actually going for it.

    quality ride from Weening and Malacarne for 1 & 2 respectively.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Pozzo gains just under 30 secs. That is a very good amount tbh. Do that again and again and you are sorted.

    Respect to Pozzovivo - the rest are total lightweights.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    inseine wrote:
    No surprise in the win. Good effort.

    Kelly says Malacarne would be the fastest normally and all the DS would likely say the same.

    Personally I had no idea who would win.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited May 2014
    26" plus 4" bonification for Pozzovivo then. Gap held almost intact after the steep section.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Kelly saying Pozzo is not a main rival. Well, lots of mountains coming up, lots of very steep stuff, a MTT and he can do a good TT.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Much as I love him, Sean Kelly is so so bad at determining which rider is going to be strongest in the sprint. He gets it wrong every time!
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    frenchfighter wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    No surprise in the win. Good effort.

    Kelly says Malacarne would be the fastest normally and all the DS would likely say the same.

    Personally I had no idea who would win.
    `
    Don't know Malacane but Weening is a better rider and looked better (to me).
    Wenning just said 'sorry, you did well'.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Weening doing his walking-sideways-while-interviewed thing.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Did Weening just shake Malacarne's hand (off camera) and then apologise for beating him?
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    LOL at that Interview. "It was steep *burp*, but not steep enough *burp*, and I saw everyone go on the wrong side of the roundabout, so I went on the right side *burp* - Hey mate, sorry, you did a good job there *burp*" :)
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Weening has a definite Aussie twang now !
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    It took a little while, but yesterday's hard driving from AG2R paid off!

    DD.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    are they doing the interviews on a revolving stool?
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    hammerite wrote:
    Did Weening just shake Malacarne's hand (off camera) and then apologise for beating him?

    Yes.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Another good stage, nice to see the break succeed and good aggression from Pozzo to pinch 30 seconds on a fairly innocuous climb. Weening with a good hybrid Australian / Dutch accent.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Pross wrote:
    Another good stage, nice to see the break succeed and good aggression from Pozzo to pinch 30 seconds on a fairly innocuous climb. Weening with a good hybrid Australian / Dutch accent.

    Sorry, but surely that can't be genuine?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I think the apology was for getting the back wheel position in the last few hundred metres - doubt he meant it :wink:

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