2013 Giro D'Italia, Stage 2: Ischia - Forio, 17.4 km TTT

[The Hitch]

If you have five guys and one flats, you wait. It's not rocket science. The last km was embarrassing.

and for that the gc candidate deserves to get a time penalty?
since when is it up to the team leader to organize ttts? It's bad enough having to contribute a plurality of the effort, but it seems some also expect them.to play some sort of rider/ds role and constantly monitor where everyone else in the team is.
Meanwhile the riders on the stronger teams don't have to do squat besides ride their own race.

That's ridiculous will.its the ds not the rider at fault here. The rider is already punished enough by the fact that a weaker team is already losing time.

If the ds makes a similar mistake anywhere else in cycling the rider suffers but ultimately can fall back on his own abilities to defend. In the ttt, uniquely not just in cycling but in any individual classiment in any sport, others **** something up behind him, and he gets a time penalty.

 

[wwabbit]

calm down guys

Am I the only one looking at this and thinking "just a little bit higher...."

 

[jens_attacks]

Am I the only one looking at this and thinking "just a little bit higher...."

that is sexist and wrong

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

and for that the gc candidate deserves to get a time penalty?
since when is it up to the team leader to organize ttts? It's bad enough having to contribute a plurality of the effort, but it seems some also expect them.to play some sort of rider/ds role and constantly monitor where everyone else in the team is.
Meanwhile the riders on the stronger teams don't have to do squat besides ride their own race.

That's ridiculous will.its the ds not the rider at fault here. The rider is already punished enough by the fact that a weaker team is already losing time.

If the ds makes a similar mistake anywhere else in cycling the rider suffers but ultimately can fall back on his own abilities to defend. In the ttt, uniquely not just in cycling but in any individual classiment in any sport, others **** something up behind him, and he gets a time penalty.

Yep, DS's fault that the 4 riders all looked round, saw the 5th man stuffed, and then carried on.

Inexcusably dim. You might find TTT unfair, but they need to help themselves, because part of that time loss is just their own stupidity.

 

[theyoungest]

If you have five guys and one flats, you wait. It's not rocket science. The last km was embarrassing.

Somehow guys lose their brains in a TTT. Apparently it's that hard of a discipline.

 

[The Hitch]

Yep, DS's fault that the 4 riders all looked round, saw the 5th man stuffed, and then carried on.
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They carried on because it was the last km and he was about 20 seconds behind.

It was obviously better to just roll into the finish themselves rather than come to a complete halt, risk ****ing it up and losing more time, then accelerate all over again and go 100% for the last few m just to reduce the deficit by about 2 seconds.

 

[airstream]

Dont care that much for Samu since his *** comments on LA in the winter. Also his gc years are over anyway.

The sad thing is that trolls are going to dismiss any sane post me or LS make against ttts for the next year as a reaction to euskaltels failure in it.

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Contador said the same stuff. Who do you support now? Just cheer against Sky?

 

[Ewout124]

Sequence of riders in Sky team

Does anyone know in what sequence the riders of the Sky team crossed the finish line? I need this information for a cycling competition, in which points are awarded to the first five riders in each of the stages.

Ewout

 

[The Hitch]

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Contador said the same stuff. Who do you support now? Just cheer against Sky?

What did Contador say?

And what does sky have to do with anything

 

[the asian]

Does anyone know in what sequence the riders of the Sky team crossed the finish line? I need this information for a cycling competition, in which points are awarded to the first five riders in each of the stages.

Ewout

Cataldo crossed first. Dunno about the rest.

 

[whittashau]

Does anyone know in what sequence the riders of the Sky team crossed the finish line? I need this information for a cycling competition, in which points are awarded to the first five riders in each of the stages.

Ewout

1 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Sky Procycling
2 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Sky Procycling
3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Sky Procycling
5 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling

 

[Ninouka]

Does anyone know in what sequence the riders of the Sky team crossed the finish line? I need this information for a cycling competition, in which points are awarded to the first five riders in each of the stages.

Ewout

Cataldo
Henao
Wiggins
Puccio
Uran