2014 Giro D'Italia, stage 2: Belfast › Belfast 219 km

[Fight.The.Power]

Errm does anyone have a street view of the final km? Hope Netserk reads this as he is excellent at such things.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Ale-Jet, he looks to be in great form.

 

[Afrank]

Kittel to screw up, Viviani to pounce, Viviani FTW. Cause he's on my CQ team.

 

[hughmoore]

I thought Belfast put on a good show today given the weather. How did it look from abroad?

Looked good to me, except that corner with lamp post

 

[Ferminal]

Wind doesn't seem strong enough, hopefully it ****es down.

Nice to see a traditional right angle at 300m.

Stage 3 even better at 400m.

4 turns at 400m.

7 turns at 250m.

10 a more gentle bend at 350m.

13 right angle at 250m.

17 is straight for final 500m!

All in all, great to see the tactical sprint back in the Giro.

 

[VeloHuman]

Kittel to screw up, Viviani to pounce, Viviani FTW. Cause he's on my CQ team.

"Kittel to screw up" actually happens with alarming frequency.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Kittel easily.
Peloton will piano this even with rain and crosswinds imo.
Bunch sprint guaranteed.

 

[rainman]

Light to moderate winds, south west and variable, certainly some rain. Nothing to unduly bother the peloton except the unfortunately inevitable crashes. Kittels for the taking.

 

[miketrout27]

I hope that Swifty can put up a fight, but he would not stand a chance against Kittel

 

[Butterhead]

Kittel ftw, Petacchi to take pink, maybe at least it´s possible for him.

Let´s pray we won´t see too many crashes, but I´m afraid we will see a lot.

 

[jens_attacks]

kittel is obviously the strongest by far. i just hope that somehow petacchi can take pink and even win ! vai vai!!

 

[markene2]

kittel is obviously the strongest by far.i just hope that somehow petacchi can take pink and even win ! vai vai!!

Go ale-jet!!!

 

[miketrout27]

According to the poll, the big favourites are Kittel, Viviani and Swift

 

[Arredondo]

Kittel, Viviani or Bouhanni.

How much i like Swift, he has no chance against these man in a flat bunch sprint.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

lol WTF! Why does Swift have 35% of the votes? This has to be the most rediculous poll ever has ianstannard voted for Swift with all 29 of his profiles?

 

[rainman]

lol WTF! Why does Swift have 35% of the votes? This has to be the most rediculous poll ever has ianstannard voted for Swift with all 29 of his profiles?

Something strange happened around 8am, Swift votes jumped from 7 to 29 in the space of a minute.

 

[melkemugg]

Hoping for Bouhanni.

 

[saneguy]

Kittel written all over it. Voted for him. But hoping that someone else can also show some fight.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Break established after a few kms:

2 Maarten Tjallingii (Belkin) +1:01
87 Andrea Fedi (Neri Sottoli) +1:01
181 Sander Armee (Lotto Belisol) +4:18
186 Jeffry Romero (Colombia) +4:37'

 

[Carstenbf]

Petacchi to take pink

This!!

(10 chars)

 

[wirral]

Did today's stage start later than the scheduled time (like 2 hours later) or did I read it wrong?

 

[ILovecycling]

Did today's stage start later than the scheduled time (like 2 hours later) or did I read it wrong?

Yeah,its very confusing.My betting site closed bets 2 hours before start and so I didnt chatch it.Very pis.ed off.

 

[Butterhead]

lol WTF! Why does Swift have 35% of the votes? This has to be the most rediculous poll ever has ianstannard voted for Swift with all 29 of his profiles?

The Sky bots been at it again.

 

[wirral]

Yeah,its very confusing.My betting site closed bets 2 hours before start and so I didnt chatch it.Very pis.ed off.

The official website said 9:05 start = 10:05 CET. But I suspected that was wrong as it didn't tally with the tv schedule. Confused.

 

[Anderis]

Did Haas and Cardoso start for today's stage? Does anyone know?