2015 Giro Stage 5 **Spoilers**
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Bit of a re-hash but an impressive fact from Alexandre Mignot all the same.
Whenever Contador has taken the Leaders jersey in GC no-one has ever taken it from him. Wonder if he'll manage that in 2015?0 -
smithy21 wrote:9 to 5 work should be banned during the Giro.
FTFY and me and everyone else unable to watch it live :evil:It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
Salsiccia1 wrote:smithy21 wrote:9 to 5 work should be banned during the Giro.
FTFY and me and everyone else unable to watch it live :evil:
Four day weekend starts tonight! May is great in France (holiday wise).0 -
smithy21 wrote:4pm meetings should be banned during the Giro.
This.inseine wrote:Salsiccia1 wrote:smithy21 wrote:9 to 5 work should be banned during the Giro.
FTFY and me and everyone else unable to watch it live :evil:
Four day weekend starts tonight! May is great in France (holiday wise).
Four day weekend here too!
And yes, those shoes of Berts are dreadful.Correlation is not causation.0 -
so Contador didn't want to take the Maglia Rosa too early...?0
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Quality race on our hands here.
That moment when Porte and Aru pulled Contador back could be massive in the scheme of things. Aru has the best team, Contador is probably the best climber and Porte probably has the best TT. Game on.0 -
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Lee, at one point the Uran group was about 50 secs down, they pegged it back to 22 seconds. Yes Uran lost time overall, but it could have been a lot worse.0 -
Ex-sprinter Mario Cipollini made waves Wednesday when he suggested during the post-stage RAI TV broadcast that riders shouldn’t change their bikes mid-stage ahead of key mountaintop finales.
Why? Cipollini suggested that it’s “bad for the image of cycling, because people think there’s a motor in it.”
Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) just laughed off that line, especially since he was the target of Cipollini’s barb. With about 35km to go, Contador eased off the roadway for a planned bike change ahead of the Giro’s first major mountaintop finish.
“There are a lot of reasons to change a bike. Like tubulars, which [may] not be able to be raced for 200km, but they can last for 30km or 40km,” said Contador, before joking. “My bikes don’t have one motor. They have five. And this talk of motors? That’s a joke, that’s something from science fiction.”
Contador also took offense to Cipollini’s suggestion, insisting that changing bikes should be viewed as a positive reflection of the sport’s ever-growing specialization and technical advances.
“I think it’s wrong to say that bike changes are not good for the sport,” Contador said. “It’s the contrary, it should be viewed as a good thing, that we use different materials and bikes for different situations.”Contador is the Greatest0 -
Good to see Berti 'at the front' of technological advances as usual.'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP0
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Just caught up on the tail end of that having missed it yesterday afternoon.
Livened up at the end although all of the big 3 looked pretty comfortable.0 -
What's all this about Richie Porte sleeping in a motorhome?0
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curium wrote:What's all this about Richie Porte sleeping in a motorhome?
It's to keep him away from the Toblerone.Correlation is not causation.0 -
What a great start to a GT. Surely even the grumps on here wouldn't begrudge this one a decent 7.5/10 so far?Giant Trance X 2010
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Oleg is not amusedAbove The Cows wrote:curium wrote:What's all this about Richie Porte sleeping in a motorhome?
It's to keep him away from the Toblerone.
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curium wrote:What's all this about Richie Porte sleeping in a motorhome?
It's acclimatization for the isloation he'll experience at the end of serious stages. Looks like Kerrison has engineered a 2013-vintage GC squad. Astana are wiping the floor with Team Ideal Homes Show....a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.0 -
Teams will be needed in the third week, not the first. At the moment the contenders are content not to lose time until the time trial.Macaloon wrote:curium wrote:What's all this about Richie Porte sleeping in a motorhome?
It's acclimatization for the isloation he'll experience at the end of serious stages. Looks like Kerrison has engineered a 2013-vintage GC squad. Astana are wiping the floor with Team Ideal Homes Show.Twitter: @RichN950 -
The testers should be all over Astana like a rash right now. They're demolishing the Sky and Saxo teams like they're a bunch of 2nd Cats in an Elite race. With Astana's recent record I for one am highly sceptical and need convincing this isn't additionally fuelled. :shock:
Bertie's bike changes, and the other bike changes we've seen in hilly TTs recent feel to me they go against the spirit of things - pick a bike and aim to ride it for the whole stage feels right to me.0 -
He'll stop changing bikes when his competitor's teams use it as an excuse to go hard at the front. Hopefully it will happen soon as i kind of agree it seems a bit off, especially when he does it for a climb that's not that hard. Fair enough for the Zoncolon or Numburnholme Hill"Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
