Giro 2022 - Stage 4: Avola – Etna 170 km ***Spoilers***

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,348
    This start is a bit more like it.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,398
    RichN95. said:

    The World: Italian cusine is the best in the world

    Sicilly: Here's a foot long scotch egg.

    The World gets it right then
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    Noto nother crash....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,348
    Van Der Poel on the attack. He doesn't like to be boring.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    Motorbike down.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,348
    blazing_saddles said:

    Motorbike down.

    Are you watching with a few minutes delay?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    kingstongraham said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Motorbike down.

    Are you watching with a few minutes delay?
    Yes, I was.
    Up to speed now.
    Calmejane just about to bridge to the now formed break.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 1,964
    blazing_saddles said:

    kingstongraham said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Motorbike down.

    Are you watching with a few minutes delay?
    Yes, I was.
    Up to speed now.
    Calmejane just about to bridge to the now formed break.
    Or not.....
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 1,964
    Looks like he's managed it..
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,903
    What's wrong with Yates?
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    Calmejane just can't close the last metres...........making it now.

    BODD: Oldani, Conti, Kamna, Vansevenant, Lopez, Taramaae, Rochas, Villella, Camargo, Fetter, Cataford, Moniquet and Leemreize.

    Yates has been on the floor and needs treatment for a knee.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,903
    edited May 2022
    Migel Angel Lopez is apparently off the bike and has abandoned.
    _
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,142
    Cmon Landa!!!
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,906
    edited May 2022
    rick_chasey said:

    Migel Angel Lopez is apparently off the bike and has abandoned.

    FFS. The one and only time I pick him.
    To think that I was going to switch to Kamna and stuck. Muppet.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    Who's in this break?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    kingstongraham said:

    Van Der Poel on the attack. He doesn't like to be boring.

    thats because he is divine and lush.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    Kamna stands out
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    Ineos bluffed into working
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041


    BODD: Oldani, Conti, Kamna, Vansevenant, Lopez, Taramaae, Rochas, Villella, Camargo, Fetter, Cataford, Moniquet and Leemreize.

    Ty
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Migel Angel Lopez is apparently off the bike and has abandoned.

    FFS. The one and only time I pick him.
    To think that I was going to switch to Kamna and stuck. Muppet.
    I don't pick him for anything, since his Vuelta strop.
    He lost his head completely there and hasn't got it back.
    First sign of trouble and it's :"where's the team car?"
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    His injury may be a real thing ...give him benefit of the doubt but I was unimpressed with his behaviour at the vuelta too . shockingly unprofessional
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,906
    blazing_saddles said:

    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Migel Angel Lopez is apparently off the bike and has abandoned.

    FFS. The one and only time I pick him.
    To think that I was going to switch to Kamna and stuck. Muppet.
    I don't pick him for anything, since his Vuelta strop.
    He lost his head completely there and hasn't got it back.
    First sign of trouble and it's :"where's the team car?"
    Fair point, well made.
    I had forgotten. 🤬
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,348
    It looks absolutely glorious.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    Fancy a olive
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,399
    Guillaume Martin with the best summary of the problem with French cycling there...

    Came to Sicily, ride up Etna 10 times in 12 days but NOT the route they re doing today

    Hatch and McEwan stunned into silence
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,891
    So Guillaume Martin spent 3 weeks climbing Etna 15 times but has never climbed the volcano from the side they are going up today.

    Bonkers
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,041
    Lost in translation
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,348
    edited May 2022
    Haha - updated. He only did today's climb 6 times.
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 1,964
    Turns out it was a glitch in the translation, he did ride up it 6-7 times
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,906
    Translation error.
    6 or 7 times up today's route out of 13.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.

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