Giro Stage 13 - Spoilers

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Joelsim wrote:
    Dolan Driver wrote:
    Mechanism wrote:
    The haircut has happened

    oTnmiwT.jpg

    He dropped a bit of a clanger today. He reckons Contador has won two Giri and is on his way to a third. I suppose he is Spanish but it is a poor error. Come on, Juan-Antonio, you are better than that. :lol:

    DD.

    He was briefed by ff

    Well the riders know who won that race and the 2010 Tour. Even 2nd place Scarponi and 2nd place Andy. It is just most of the people on here and all the new-age English speaking fans and riders who don't.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    TheBigBean wrote:
    The breakaway seems to have got stuck at a level crossing and not been given the same lead after the train had gone through.

    I reckon they more or less did, now that we've reverted to the usual flexible and approximate Italian approach to rules (my Dad was Italian, so it's ok for me to say this).
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    Dolan Driver wrote:
    Mechanism wrote:
    The haircut has happened

    oTnmiwT.jpg

    He dropped a bit of a clanger today. He reckons Contador has won two Giri and is on his way to a third. I suppose he is Spanish but it is a poor error. Come on, Juan-Antonio, you are better than that. :lol:

    DD.

    He was briefed by ff

    Well the riders know who won that race and the 2010 Tour. Even 2nd place Scarponi and 2nd place Andy. It is just most of the people on here and all the new-age English speaking fans and riders who don't.

    The Filth shouldn't have been riding either of those races. He knows that and so do you.
    The record books show he didn't win.
    Rules are rules after all.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Pokerface wrote:
    On paper looks like a candidate for the Most Boring Stage of a GT Ever.

    Here's hoping for some surprises. Anything really.
    No reason it's any more boring than your average flat Tour de France stage though, is it? Completely pan flat like this or flat with one or two minor bumps doesn't really make a difference for pros
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    FJS wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    On paper looks like a candidate for the Most Boring Stage of a GT Ever.

    Here's hoping for some surprises. Anything really.
    No reason it's any more boring than your average flat Tour de France stage though, is it? Completely pan flat like this or flat with one or two minor bumps doesn't really make a difference for pros

    The weather's usually better for those though and there's sunflowers.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Above The Cows wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    On paper looks like a candidate for the Most Boring Stage of a GT Ever.

    Here's hoping for some surprises. Anything really.
    No reason it's any more boring than your average flat Tour de France stage though, is it? Completely pan flat like this or flat with one or two minor bumps doesn't really make a difference for pros

    The weather's usually better for those though and there's sunflowers.

    It's also standard forum etiquette to moan about them for days on end, so I suppose in the interests of GT equality a flat stage in the Giro should be subject to the same level of protest.

    Separately, I'm complaining about the stage length, but that's a different matter.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Joelsim wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    There's considerable confidence in the sprint finish, but does Lotto-Soudal have the strength to control the race? I can't see any other team helping and given the success of recent breakaways it might get some strong riders.

    Surely Trek, Lampre and Giant will want to help too

    From Cycling News
    There are a number of teams working on the front. Lotto-Soudal are right at the front with help from Giant-Alpecin and Lampre-Merida. Tinkoff-Saxo are sitting just behind the sprinters' teams.

    Don't listen to me.
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Who did win in 2011? Maybe Nibali won with ease from John Gadret. Doesn't sound like the Giro I watched.

    I know who didn't win that Giro and that's El Pistolero! :lol:

    DD.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    On paper looks like a candidate for the Most Boring Stage of a GT Ever.

    Here's hoping for some surprises. Anything really.
    No reason it's any more boring than your average flat Tour de France stage though, is it? Completely pan flat like this or flat with one or two minor bumps doesn't really make a difference for pros

    The weather's usually better for those though and there's sunflowers.

    It's also standard forum etiquette to moan about them for days on end, so I suppose in the interests of GT equality a flat stage in the Giro should be subject to the same level of protest.

    Separately, I'm complaining about the stage length, but that's a different matter.

    Aye that is true. Let's have a collective Friday afternoon moan.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Mechanism wrote:
    The haircut has happened

    oTnmiwT.jpg

    It's like Samson, apart from it's is personality that's been removed.

    Amazing how many style critics there are on here who probably look like complete boring berks themselves.
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Well the riders know who won that race and the 2010 Tour. Even 2nd place Scarponi and 2nd place Andy. It is just most of the people on here and all the new-age English speaking fans and riders who don't.

    The problem is, the official results for the 2011 Giro state that Scarponi won the race. Contador doesn't feature anywhere on the results sheet. It's the same as saying Floyd Landis won the 2006 Tour.

    DD.

    P.S. I've been speaking English all my life and following cycling since 1985 so I know I'm not one of these johnny-come-lately's you speak of!!!!! :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    BMC + IAM + AN Other with 55s at 27.7k to go. Working well. Ave speed 47.7 or so
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    The other teams are setting it up nicely for Greipel.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Suddenly gap plummeting
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    All together now, still 17km to go.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    4km to go Trek on the front (too soon?).
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Oh dear, crash at 3.2km
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Never a dull day at the Giro. Contador down.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Porte and Contador on the deck outside the 3km
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Aru riding to pink?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Modolo wins. Aru must be in pink.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Contador loses 39s. Probably less to Aru. Gains some on Porte possibly.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Porte loses 2 mins 7
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    3km-gate about to start no doubt.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    WOW

    Boring stage?

    What a joke these time losses are

    At least we know that Porte would never have beaten Contador

    The time gain by Aru is annoying but spices it up ahead of the TT and in fact Contador may not mind too much given they know have the lead the race
    Contador is the Greatest
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    edited May 2015
    Surely the commissaires can exercise some discretion. :twisted:
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Vino pays a rider to go down?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    TheBigBean wrote:
    3km-gate about to start no doubt.

    Probably. Otherwise Porte looked resigned about the GC while Contador and his team was all out to cut his losses.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    JUMBO RIDER! What a waste of space that team is
    Contador is the Greatest
  • durhamwasp
    durhamwasp Posts: 1,247
    frenchfighter wrote:

    At least we know that Porte would never have beaten Contador

    :lol:
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