2012 Tirreno -Adriatico, Stage 1: San Vincenzo - Donoratico, 21.7km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I don't know what's up with Rabobank but they are going horribly so far. I think only Boom and Matthews are in form at the moment (and Boom decided to end himself in Omloop). Maybe a bit LLS.

 

[roundabout]

GC

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/TirrenoAdriatico/download/2012/ClassificaGenerale.pdf

 

[El Pistolero]

I'm just catching up and was wondering the same thing.
What an epic fail from Columbia Coldeporkies.




That's a little bit harsh. I don't think he's just anti-Brit.
El Pistachio posts a huge amount and it's all nonsense.


Btw, Don't you think Phil Gilbert is going great this season?
BMC's stomach problems seem to be inter continental.
Nice photos:
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20120307_178
Phil out the back door faster than Andy Schleck's food.

You post bs all the time and you know it. Must be hard not being able to ignore your self, hang in their kiddo! You pretty much make fun of every single cyclist, one wonders why you're even a cycling fan. Don't worry, Phil will be back to shredding races apart soon enough, so you can complain about doping again

 

[Kvinto]

QST website says the late starting teams had to deal with headwind today...

 

[El Pistolero]

Then maybe they could direct posts at Andy99?

It's a little bit galling considering the amount of nonsense El Pistolero writes about Sky, and Britain, and British fans.

I said some British Sky fans, learn to read. Waterloo sunrise, Froome and Andy99 have ridiculed Greenedge a lot here All of them British.

 

[cineteq]

GC

http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/TirrenoAdriatico/download/2012/ClassificaGenerale.pdf

Millar ended being at 1:46

Virtual GC
GreenEDGE 18:41
Horner +17
Cancellara +17
Boasson Hagen +23
Lövkvist +23
Kreuzinger +30
Paulinho +38
Di Luca +39
Rodriguez +40
Vanendert +45
Scarponi +46
Poels +51
Velits +51
Nibali +55
Kruijswijk +57
Evans +58
Pozzovivo +1:09

 

[El Pistolero]

Pretty impressive to distance Radioshack by 17 seconds by the way. One wonders how big the gap would have been with the second place team if RS had 8 Cancellara's though.

 

[Christian]

Big congrats to GreenEDGE and specifically to Brian Nygaard who really stuck it to his old team. The way Becca sacked him was a complete disgrace and IMO he did good work. I didn't read much GreenEDGE-related hate here but maybe I wasn't around in those threads. I actually think out of Sky, LEOPARD TREK and GreenEDGE, the latter have been the least ridiculous in their launching. (Wow, just realized - all of those had Nygaard on board ) The only weird thing I remember was the theme song ... I actually haven't seen that anywhere, did it get released?

 

[Mellow Velo]

You post bs all the time and you know it. Must be hard not being able to ignore your self, hang in their kiddo! You pretty much make fun of every single cyclist, one wonders why you're even a cycling fan. Don't worry, Phil will be back to shredding races apart soon enough, so you can complain about doping again

Only the ones with fanboy baggage.
What I think of Phil is totally different to what I post for your entertainment.
Same stuff that you like to dish out, only I'm better at it.

 

[Kazistuta]

Millar ended being at 1:46

Virtual GC
GreenEDGE 18:41
Horner +17
Cancellara +17
Boasson Hagen +23
Lövkvist +23
Kreuzinger +30
Paulinho +38
Di Luca +39
Rodriguez +40
Vanendert +45
Scarponi +46
Poels +51
Velits +51
Nibali +55
Kruijswijk +57
Evans +58
Pozzovivo +1:09

Scratch Cancellara, Boasson Hagen & Paulinho from that list - you have seen stage 5, right?

 

[cineteq]

This explains why the last teams faired so badly:

@marcopinotti
Last 7 team to start are all in the 3rd part of final classification. Wind was a factor today, as legs of course. Congrats to @GreenEDGE

 

[Mambo95]

I said some British Sky fans, learn to read. Waterloo sunrise, Froome and Andy99 have ridiculed Greenedge a lot here All of them British.

It's just Anglo-Aussie sporting rivalry. This has been going on for 120 years. The banter may seem mean spirited to outsiders but it really isn't.

 

[Andy99]

Well the number one poster for having digs at GE which seems to be in almost every single one of his posts is definitely British. Andy99 I think. He claims it is for other reasons but I never see him slagging Euskaltel or Francaise des jeux who are just as weak.

Ha ha. Looks like I've gained an unwarranted reputation - though granted I have given them a fair bit if stick

I promise I will never say another word against them.

Well done greenedge for today's win.

Also, to be fair, if we were to remove pi$$ taking from the forum you'd probably lose what, 75% of posts..

 

[Alpechraxler]

Scratch Cancellara, Boasson Hagen & Paulinho from that list - you have seen stage 5, right?

Why 400 m up with 6.9 % is not that much. The climb starts at 1000 m...

 

[The Hitch]

Who's the commentator.

Seems to know his stuff on the one hand.

On the other said Castrovejo was ees only capable ttr. Maybe doesnt know that much after all.

 

[Andy99]

Who's the commentator.

Seems to know his stuff on the one hand.

On the other said Castrovejo was ees only capable ttr. Maybe doesnt know that much after all.

What channel?

Not seen today's coverage yet, but will catch it on Eurosport in 10mins..

EDIT: Apparently its Robert Hatch..
Personally, never heard of him

 

[minessa]

Astana did very good today. And they did finish with all 8 riders.

 

[Leadbelly]

Who's the commentator.

Rob Hatch was the name I think. First time I've heard him, maybe he's gonna be replacing Carlton permanently. Was fearing the worst after the slightly wooden scripted intro speech, but he seemed fine once he got chatting to Brian Smith.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Who's the commentator.

Seems to know his stuff on the one hand.

On the other said Castrovejo was ees only capable ttr. Maybe doesnt know that much after all.

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robert-hatch/37/b63/160

 

[will10]

Virtual GC
GreenEDGE 18:41
Horner +17
Cancellara +17
Millar +17
Boasson Hagen +23
Lövkvist +23
Kreuzinger +30
Di Luca +39
Rodriguez +40
Scarponi +46
Poels +51
Velits +51
Nibali +55
Kruijswijk +57
Evans +58
Pozzovivo +1:09

That's not the virtual GC....that's the GC.

 

[hfer07]

I just checked the results-

Good job by GreenEdge- wasn't in my list of favourites though...
The shock was BMC-I mean - WTF?
As far as Coldeportes goes- that was expected & there must be an emphasis on TT'ing from now on....

 

[The Hitch]

Glad, Greenedge won. That team gets so much hate here by some British Sky fans that it's not even funny anymore.

Greenedge:

2WT victories

Sky:

0 =D

lol talk about trolling.

Hopefully the TTT will be gone from Tirreno next year.

I find that to be a very moderate position.

I hope the ttt will be gone from cycling by next year.

 

[The Hitch]

acqua e saponeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

grande il killer has tirreno in the bag!
the giro invitation is printed right now.
i told you that all of them were peaking tremendously for tirreno-adriatico including di luca and garza.ahahaha suck this the rest of italian teams.they weren't even mentioned today in gazzeta.
oh it was good.

lets not jinx it. Lets hope di luca shoes something on the climbs rather than a 5th in a ttt or whatever.

 

[Andy99]

I hope the ttt will be gone from cycling by next year.

Agreed. Always incredibly dull.

 

[will10]

Agreed. Always incredibly dull.

Hmm. Ridden any?