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

[JRanton]

Taylor Phinney ‏@taylorphinney 3h

Just drove the TTT course. Everybody was a bit speechless by the time we got through w/it! Gonna be a spectacle, but incredibly difficult!!!

Pretty crazy that the teams weren't able to recon this extremely technical course before today. I guess that's part of the charm of the Giro!

 

[Gloin22]

Hmmm, might be harder than people think i.e. the gaps here might be quite big.

Looking forward to it.

 

[peterkrog]

Who do you think will be the 5 last for BMC?

No.

...

 

[the sceptic]

sounds like some team is going to have an accident and lose big time here.

 

[JRanton]

Hmmm, might be harder than people think i.e. the gaps here might be quite big.

Looking forward to it.

So Greenedge probably wasn't the best pick for the win, especially as Howard has said after the recon that they aren't expecting a top result.

 

[JRanton]

sounds like some team is going to have an accident and lose big time here.

Yes, and for this reason I expect Sky for instance to play it safe which could result in a reasonably big time loss.

 

[The Hitch]

3. Brad putting a bit of time into his GC rivals.
4. Half of the CN forum wetting themselves, again, at the complete injustice of it all, when Brad does the aforementioned.

Strange logic. Wiggins would have gotten more time in a prologue than he will in a ttt. Thus to try and sell those anti ttt as being motivated by a fear that Wiggins will win time, is stupid.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Strange logic. Wiggins would have gotten more time in a prologue than he will in a ttt. Thus to try and sell those anti ttt as being motivated by a fear that Wiggins will win time, is stupid.

All is fair in love and war !!??

 

[spalco]

Pretty crazy that the teams weren't able to recon this extremely technical course before today. I guess that's part of the charm of the Giro!

They did, AFAIK, just not with the barriers put up and everything.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Strange logic. Wiggins would have gotten more time in a prologue than he will in a ttt. Thus to try and sell those anti ttt as being motivated by a fear that Wiggins will win time, is stupid.

You're the one obsessed with TTT. He is not talking about comparing TTT and prologue in the slightest.

 

[the sceptic]

did they just start now? guess this is going to take a while

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Colombia looking to finish not last.

 

[JRanton]

They did, AFAIK, just not with the barriers put up and everything.

Sports Directors went to have a look at it but the riders haven't before today.

 

[the sceptic]

Colombia looking to finish not last.

Wiggins could probably beat that team on his own

 

[whittashau]

Wiggins could probably beat that team on his own

That would be interesting to see

 

[Eshnar]

Colombian dropped

 

[The Hitch]

You're the one obsessed with TTT. He is not talking about comparing TTT and prologue in the slightest.

he quite clearly is talking about the ttt. He's saying that the people complaining about ttts are motivated by a hatred of Wiggins. A quite common tactic from the ttt side for years to try and reduce the arguments of those who oppose the event, to a question of riders they like losing time.

He may not have mentioned a prologue but what do gts tend to have on an opening weekend aside from a sprint stage if not a ttt?

I'd say it's a very relevant observation that since without a ttt there would be a prologue, and that favors Wiggins, his assumption is incorrect.

 

[FellOff]

As its so short, OPQS could actually storm this. Maybe.

 

[Bavarianrider]

44 km/h average speed.
Is that an all time low for any team in TTT history?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

lol, argos at the start and I hear one of the rocky theme's haha

 

[whittashau]

Do hot girls normally hold the riders on the starting ramp?

 

[Ferminal]

Pozzovivo you monster, pulled them ahead of the big Colombian engines.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

BlancoBus best time at intermediate point
-9s

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Live timing dog **** already.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Blanco only 11 seconds faster as Colombia