2012 Giro d'Italia; May 19th; Stage 14: Cherasco - Cervinia(205km)

[hatcher]

Uran new best young rider.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Is it time to play guess the excuse with Ryo yet?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Kreuziger, couldn't even follow on this type of mountain.... Tiralongo is now the new captain of Astana i guess

 

[spalco]

Schleck was there somewhere after all apparently.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Great, great final 5 kms.
Heroes and villains.
Riders off and on their rivets.

RK save of the day.
Frankie boy, silent, but deadly.
Ryder regains the lead, but tomorrow is another day.

I wonder what Ryojano's excuse will be?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Is it time to play guess the excuse with Ryo yet?

Rujano just wanted to make it more exiting for the Stelivo stage

 

[SafeBet]

Scarponi: Hesjedal is a very good rider. Don't underrate him.
Still I think he'll be in trouble come the steep stuff.


So much with the Rujano is pedalling like a mutant thing uh?

 

[classicomano]

Ryo must be in tears right now.

 

[TheRossSeaParty]

Hesjedal FTW! He has a good run of top 10 finishes in big mountain stages at the Tour. 4th behind Contador and Shleck at Tourmalet. 8th at Alpe d'Huez last year. I think he is gonna take the Giro. Only two guys within a minute of him.

 

[Moviefan1203]

Schleck was there somewhere after all apparently.

I didn't see him the whole time, he hides well.

 

[Category 6]

Ryder yes!!!!!!!!!

 

[the asian]

Disappointing by Kreuziger. Tiralongo looks stronger.

 

[Caruut]

Awesome win by Amador, and well done by De Marchi and Barta. I'll spare Hesjedal, because at least he got the pink jersey, and Rujano, because he tried even though he wasn't that good.

The rest can all rot.

Pozzovivo gave it a crack a few times. I think the slightly neutralised finish really hurt the stage.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Schleck was there somewhere after all apparently.

He was clearly shown riding back to the peloton comfortably within 90 seconds of getting 'dropped' - amazed the commentators just ignored it and then discussed last whether he would have made it back.

 

[maltiv]

Ryo must be in tears right now.

The colombians at Sky must have saved his day. Uran and Henao are now 1-2 in the young rider's classification.

 

[meat puppet]

Clever from Ryder. This hill was his terrain. He'll probably get in trouble in the mountains, though.

Yeah, like on the Tourmalet 2010.

Sure, the climb was not a steep one, but the guys were suffering nonetheless. We'll see, but, I'm officially starting to believe he can pull it off, podium at least.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Pozzovivo gave it a crack a few times. I think the slightly neutralised finish really hurt the stage.

I think riding the Col de Joux instead of Tze Core really hurt the stage.

Personally, I'd have done Tze Core and Saint Pantaleon, then had a descent into the finish in Châtillon, but that's just me.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Rujano just wanted to make it more exiting for the Stelivo stage

Playing the new parlour game, called 'being the best climber in the world but riding like the 47th best'?

 

[Kwibus]

Barta hyperventilating?

Barta hero of the wheel. Showed some proper suffering and determination.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

but that's just me.

Oh, you !

 

[Zam_Olyas]

What a dissapointing stage? embarrasing.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Playing the new parlour game, called 'being the best climber in the world but riding like the 47th best'?

aye

............

 

[roundabout]

Even though the gaps were minimal apart from Hesjedal who seemed very strong, I found the stage quite ok.

But maybe I didn't expect that much to begin with.

 

[dlwssonic]

lollolololol rujano fail!!
rujano to win this stage by at least a minute eh??

 

[hatcher]

Even though the gaps were minimal apart from Hesjedal who seemed very strong, I found the stage quite ok.

But maybe I didn't expect that much to begin with.

The last 5k were great.