Giro 2018 start... Jerusalem!

salsiccia1
salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
edited August 2017 in Pro race
I know it's early to be talking about next year's Giro but

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2018-giro-ditalia-to-start-with-time-trial-in-old-jerusalem/

How will Bahrain-Merida and UAE Team Emirates handle this?
It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    how set in stone is this?
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.

    Rightly or wrongly, everything involving Israel usually does.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Jerusalem? really?

    I couldn't be mossad.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    mididoctors wrote:
    how set in stone is this?

    Ha.



    Ha.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    mididoctors wrote:
    how set in stone is this?
    Certainly not a commandment.
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    mididoctors wrote:
    how set in stone is this?

    :lol:
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    How will Bahrain-Merida and UAE Team Emirates handle this?


    well considering its the home of the Al-Aqsa Mosque you would have thought they would be chuffed .... but I am sure someone will only see the negatives
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    It's all those ads with bikini girl isn't it ? Enough to sway anyone.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.
    Yep.

    Maybe some boycotts coming.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.
    Yep.

    Maybe some boycotts coming.

    Geoffrey's going to take up cycling?
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I'm looking forward to seeing what the Caravan throws out.
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  • markwb79
    markwb79 Posts: 937
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.
    Yep.

    Maybe some boycotts coming.

    I was there last year with my bike, amazing area to ride. Especially round the hills before Jerusalem.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    quick plane transfer to Athens for a stage then on to Rome and it should keep Ned and Dave busy with - that there's the errr 2 BC Citadel of the ...errr and thats Pantheus' err supposed ..... of the early civilisations of the errr that looks like an amphitheatre of some description.... meanwhile back to the break of four riders.....
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I can think of one ex-forumite who'll be going ballistic about this!
  • ExCyclist
    ExCyclist Posts: 336
    cougie wrote:
    It's all those ads with bikini girl isn't it ? Enough to sway anyone.

    I'd drink her bath water.
  • Robert72
    Robert72 Posts: 84
    when is the full route announced?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Robert72 wrote:
    when is the full route announced?
    Usually October. (On the 26th last year)
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  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    ExCyclist wrote:
    cougie wrote:
    It's all those ads with bikini girl isn't it ? Enough to sway anyone.

    I'd drink her bath water.

    Point of information.....Shir Elmaliach
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    SheffSimon wrote:
    ExCyclist wrote:
    cougie wrote:
    It's all those ads with bikini girl isn't it ? Enough to sway anyone.

    I'd drink her bath water.

    Point of information.....Shir Elmaliach

    Any relation to the Sir Gary Imlach of West Bridgford ?
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Saw this earlier. Bit of a strange decision. Could get very political.
    Yep.

    Maybe some boycotts coming.

    Geoffrey's going to take up cycling?

    He's as divisive as Israel
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    I heard a rumour there's a marathon near there too?
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