2014 Giro d'Italia, Stage 13: Fossano → Rivarolo Canavese (157 km)

[Dazed and Confused]

lol. if the break gets caught on a flat stage and there's the usual bunch sprint its 'boring', if the break doesnt get caught its a 'fix' and still 'boring'!!!

you guys are hard to please

wtf are you talking about?

 

[jens_attacks]

nacer better leave this shiity team. i wanna see extra video from their bus

 

[mattghg]

nacer better leave this shiity team. i wanna see extra video from their bus

That *would* be worth seeing

 

[del1962]

nacer better leave this shiity team. i wanna see extra video from their bus

QS with Cav would never have allowed a break to take a sprint stage

 

[VeloHuman]

Pretty embarrassing for the sprinters' teams. It's not like Phinney and Cancellara were up the road.

 

[trevim]

It reminded me of as stage won by Jerome Pineau a couple of years ago in the Giro as well. Really bad timing from the peloton.

 

[neineinei]

well yes but that wasnt really what i was getting at!

in fact i suppose the question could be widened to 'has a team ever had no rider complete any stage race', by which i mean riders dropping out individually thru injury, illness, fatigue, or whatever

Team Sky Vuelta Espana 2010

Illness in the team, riders as well as members of staff got ill early on. By the time the team abandoned the riders were all more or less ill, but they withdrew from the race to attend the funeral of soigneur Txema Gonzalez

Augustyn DNF stage 3
Swift DNF stage 3
Fletcha DNF Stage 7
Löfkvist DNS Stage 8
Carlström DNS Stage 8
Gerrans DNS Stage 8
Kennaugh DNS Stage 8
Nordhaug DNS Stage 8
Stannard DNS Stage 8

 

[Fight.The.Power]

QS with Cav would never have allowed a break to take a sprint stage

My intial feeling was to lay Bouhanni because it may be a difficult finish. Never. Ever would I have thought a break would have won today. And the bookies have cleaned me out today.

However, as you suggest, and hopefully I read you correctly vecause its not a reference to Cavendish but the TDF generally. That you make. There is not a cat in hells chance that this would have happened in the TDF.

Welcome all responses from veteren bloggers

 

[CycloAndy]

QS with Cav would never have allowed a break to take a sprint stage

Yeah it's been at least a week since that happened.

 

[wirral]

lol. if the break gets caught on a flat stage and there's the usual bunch sprint its 'boring', if the break doesnt get caught its a 'fix' and still 'boring'!!!

you guys are hard to please

You are absolutely right. I am glad somebody else can see the obvious collusion between the Italian teams, motorbikes, organisers and even the helicopter!

Great post.

 

[Lupi33]

are Orica still in this race or have they pulled out already with fatigue?
i thought it'd be in their interests to take up the chase

 

[SafeBet]

I watched the stage last night and I feel like Canola isn't getting enough love. He was on the attack early and never missed a turn, he was the one not giving up when the break looked doomed, he attacked again with 3km to go and had little help from then on. Nevertheless he sprinted from 250mt out and got the win. By far the most deserving winner for this stage.

If it was Voigt doing this (but even Belkov) we'd still be talking about how mythical his effort was. Instead all I have to read is this bullcrap about race fixing from those sneaky Italians. Gimme a break.

Also, I'm baffled that even a remote hint on doping is strictly forbidden here, but when it comes to race buying/fixing people can say whatever they want.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Canola was the strongest man in the break:

Sorry about slotting in another pic here (won't happen again):

What would the Commissaire have done if the peloton hit the hail full on?

More pictures here: http://www.steephill.tv/2014/giro-d-italia/photos/stage-13/

 

[Zam_Olyas]

 

[Walkman]

What's the deal here?

 

[Netserk]

What's the deal here?

That's from his first stage win, no?

 

[red_flanders]

What's the deal here?

Bad breath? Body odor?

A podium girl with some self respect?

 

[jens_attacks]

What's the deal here?

no, no grazie, me, i like arnaud demare. try to my collegue though.

 

[davebqvst]

That's from his first stage win, no?

According to cyclocosm there was a change in podium protocol: kisses only for photo, not for flowers etc.

 

[red_flanders]

According to cyclocosm there was a change in podium protocol: kisses only for photo, not for flowers etc.

That makes more sense.