Afrank said:Wonder what Rogers thinks of the fan that may have given him the win?
Im actually quite sure he thinks that the fan is an idiot for interfering with the race.
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Afrank said:Wonder what Rogers thinks of the fan that may have given him the win?
jens_attacks said:indurain,valverde, unzue..see?see?
plus since 2006 basso, no one dared to go all-in day after day. he showed he is the strongest and that's it...
roll on the dauphine
DirtyWorks said:Bongiorno wasn't going to stay with Rogers.
What did you want Quintana to do? What were the other guys on GC going to do except defy gravity as fast as possible?
UlleGigo said:No no don't think I did. Carry on having a laugh though. Don't let being completely wrong stop you. lol.
Libertine Seguros said:it's just that, like the 2011 Giro and the 2012 Vuelta, the final GC-relevant stage was a mountain stage and the best climber already had the jersey
Escarabajo said:+111111111111
It is always the same no matter what. I think is the video games what is screwing up the races for the fans so much.
These riders are humans. They are not robots.
Maybe a medium mountain stage would have been more suited for fireworks. But this stage, it was criminal. Everybody was on survival mode.
movingtarget said:What a race for Rogers. Banned, reinstated then two stage wins and a top 20 on GC I think. Giro organisers will hopefully learn something from this race re organisation and stages. The top heavy final week did not work. One thing they got right was the TTs but I think the final TT is better on the last day or second last day. Zoncolan and Angliru type stages are starting to look like novelties, either have them earlier in the race or don't have two climbs before them on the same stage. It was obvious today that the GC riders were just too tired.
ILovecycling said:One of the bad Zoncolan stages this was,but riders were empty except of Rigo and Nairo imo.In the second group they were so equal that attacking didnt have a point.So Im not so disappointed.
Great battle for stage victory tho,Rogers is a beast!
Only one day without crashes and we can celebrate colombian double
Libertine Seguros said:TT on the last day. Final day sprint parades are too commonplace. I particularly detest having them in races that aren't three weeks long, but for some reason lots of races think that having one makes them like the Tour de France. Apart from Le Tour and maybe arguably La Vuelta, no race should have them that doesn't have to due to geography.
Escarabajo said:LOL Rigo!!!!
They lied to me in this forum. They told me that Uran is an average climber and cannot climb with the best. I don't understand then why the results!!
Arredondo said:I doubt Contador was the best climber that year. He got dropped easily on Bola del Mundo, and partly profited from a strange stage and (rumoured) sickness from Purito
LaFlorecita said:Contador was sick during the last stage
Half the team was ill. They all got it from Noval.
Arredondo said:I doubt Contador was the best climber that year. He got dropped easily on Bola del Mundo, and partly profited from a strange stage and (rumoured) sickness from Purito
Libertine Seguros said:TT on the last day. Final day sprint parades are too commonplace. I particularly detest having them in races that aren't three weeks long, but for some reason lots of races think that having one makes them like the Tour de France. Apart from Le Tour and maybe arguably La Vuelta, no race should have them that doesn't have to due to geography.
Arredondo said:This Giro was surely better than 2012, and far more than 2013, which was just horrible in every sense (expect the first week).
We had a great stage (Val Martello), some good stages (Panarotta, Oropa, Montecampione, Barolo, Grappa), we had some stages where the action was perhaps more than we expected (Sestola, Vittorio Veneto), some disappointed stages (Savona, they could have done more with that, Zoncolan, Montecassino of the outcome) and some medium stages without great surprises.
Lupi33 said:he snuck away in a break on a flat phase
weird stage
i felt so disappointed for purito that year
Arredondo said:This Giro was surely better than 2012, and far more than 2013, which was just horrible in every sense (expect the first week).
We had a great stage (Val Martello), some good stages (Panarotta, Oropa, Montecampione, Barolo, Grappa), we had some stages where the action was perhaps more than we expected (Sestola, Vittorio Veneto), some disappointed stages (Savona, they could have done more with that, Zoncolan, Montecassino of the outcome) and some medium stages without great surprises.
Maybe Vuelta should go the anti-Tour route, and have a traditional START in Madrid, then finish in different places each year, various major cities around Spain.Arnout said:Vuelta should have a MTF on the last day in my opinion. Preferably one with a flat run-in.