vetooo @ammattipyoraily 10m
#FlecheWallonne, Mur de Huy (1 km)
- Valverde fastest time ever
- Martin 2nd fastest time ever
- Kwiatkowski & Mollema 4th fastest time ever
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vetooo @ammattipyoraily 10m
#FlecheWallonne, Mur de Huy (1 km)
- Valverde fastest time ever
- Martin 2nd fastest time ever
- Kwiatkowski & Mollema 4th fastest time ever
Mur de Huy (last 1 km)
1993 | Maurizio Fondriest - ITA | 3:41
1994 | Moreno Argentin ---- ITA | 3:14
1995 | Laurent Jalabert --- FRA | ?:??
1996 | Lance Armstrong ---- USA | 3:05
1997 | Laurent Jalabert --- FRA | 3:12
1998 | Bo Hamburger ------- DEN | 3:11
1999 | Michele Bartoli ---- ITA | 3:38
2000 | Francesco Casagrande ITA | ?:??
2001 | Rik Verbrugghe ----- BEL | 3:14
2002 | Mario Aerts -------- BEL | 3:12
2003 | Igor Astarloa ------ ESP | 3:21
2004 | Davide Rebellin ---- ITA | 2:47
2005 | Danilo Di Luca ----- ITA | 3:01
2006 | Alejandro Valverde - ESP | 2:52
2007 | Davide Rebellin ---- ITA | 2:45
2008 | Kim Kirchen -------- LUX | 3:02
2009 | Davide Rebellin ---- ITA | 2:46
2010 | Cadel Evans -------- AUS | 2:46
2011 | Philippe Gilbert --- BEL | 2:44
2012 | Joaquim Rodriguez -- ESP | 2:59
2013 | Daniel Moreno ------ ESP | 2:49
2014 | Alejandro Valverde - ESP | 2:41 (record time)
Jesse Anthony @jessedanthony
Clean dude leading the Giro, freaking awesome.
Greg Henderson @Greghenderson1
@jessedanthony @dwuori Really feel that tweet is necessary? This day and age? Not that cool.
the sceptic said:The new clean generation is now so clean, that even mentioning that they are clean is an insult.
I wish someone would ask Henderson what it was like having the greatest cyclist of all time as a domestique..
Dear Wiggo said:Henderson read it as sarcasm.
Twitter is sh!t.
the sceptic said:The new clean generation is now so clean, that even mentioning that they are clean is an insult.
I wish someone would ask Henderson what it was like having the greatest cyclist of all time as a domestique..
42x16ss said:I'd say that they are expedited through customs and met by sniffer dogs on the tarmac. This isn't the ATOC
42x16ss said:You're right, but the photos don't show everything that happened on the tarmac while the riders were there and the luggage would have been screened before boarding at Dublin.
The riders could have had vials on their person no? Unless they were patted down or searched customs officers wouldn't pick them up anyway. You could read into the fact that customs may not have been there (it looks like it's possible) or you can accept that a smart rider could get gear through anyway.
....here we are in 2014, and WADA is just finding out about MGF: nine years after it was first identified as a candidate for illicit sports doping, and eight years after it became available on the black market. Either WADA is very, very stupid, or they’re pretending to be surprised, because otherwise everyone would know that athletes have been beating their tests with this drug for almost a decade.
Benotti69 said:the difference between 1998 Giro climbing the Montecampione and 2014.
Giro d'Italia 1998
Marco Pantani ----- ITA | 49:26
Pavel Tonkov ------ RUS | 50:23
Giuseppe Guerini -- ITA | 52:42
Francesco Secchiari ITA | 53:30
Daniel Clavero ---- ESP | 53:30
Daniele De Paoli -- ITA | 53:42
Oscar Camenzind --- SUI | 55:09
Nicola Miceli ----- ITA | 55:10
Chepe Gonzalez ---- COL | 55:12
Paolo Bettini ----- ITA | 55:14
Gianni Faresin ---- ITA | 55:42
Herman Buenahora -- COL | 56:51
Paolo Savoldelli -- ITA | 57:15
Roberto Sgambelluri ITA | 57:24
Massimo Podenzana - ITA | 57:24
Giro d'Italia 2014
Fabio Aru --------- ITA | 53:03
Fabio Duarte ------ COL | 53:24
Nairo Quintana ---- COL | 53:25
Pierre Rolland ---- FRA | 53:25
Rigoberto Uran ---- COL | 53:45
Rafal Majka ------- POL | 54:00
Franco Pellizotti - ITA | 54:11
Daniel Moreno ----- ESP | 54:11
Ryder Hesjedal ---- CAN | 54:16
Cadel Evans ------- AUS | 54:16
Wilco Kelderman --- NED | 54:16
Domenico Pozzovivo- ITA | 54:16
Robert Kiserlovski- CRO | 54:16
Philip Deignan ---- IRL | 54:16
Ivan Basso -------- ITA | 54:16
So many now climbing at similar ability.
pmcg76 said:Right
In 1998, the Montecampione stage was the last mountain stage in the race and the third mountain stage in a row after two killer stages. There were also two cols on the route in 98 before the final climb, today there were none. Throw that all into the mix and it reflects more how ridiculous the EPO era was. Pantani almost 4 mins faster than todays winner
pmcg76 said:Right
pmcg76 said:In 1998, the Montecampione stage was the last mountain stage in the race and the third mountain stage in a row after two killer stages. There were also two cols on the route in 98 before the final climb, today there were none. Throw that all into the mix and it reflects more how ridiculous the EPO era was. Pantani almost 4 mins faster than todays winner
The Hitch said:To me that shows the peloton at this Giro is way cleaner now than it was in the late 1990's.
Both Oropa and Montecampione significantly slower.
The Hitch said:To me that shows the peloton at this Giro is way cleaner now than it was in the late 1990's.
Both Oropa and Montecampione significantly slower.
SeriousSam said:Perhaps I'm missing the context as I don't know what the stage in 98 looked like and how it was ridden, but those numbers say the (top15 of the) 2014 peloton is quicker (mean 24s, median 43s)). Pantani, Tonkov and to a lesser extent Guerini are much quicker but the rest isn't.