- Feb 18, 2015
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Gonna tell my kids this is Pozzovivo sprinting at PR.
2nd in a 3 man sprint today in CoppaBartali
- May 17, 2013
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Vai Domenico Pozzovivo! He's an amazing rider, I hope that the first two ITTs won't cost him too much. I will cheer for him, he's not afraid to attack, he has the heart of a lion. Vai Domenico Pozzovivo!
Hoping he can pull off his once-per-decade superb TT in one of these 
. Although honestly I’m just hoping he’ll stay healthy and crash-free so we can see him out in his best on some of the mtn stages.
. Although honestly I’m just hoping he’ll stay healthy and crash-free so we can see him out in his best on some of the mtn stages.
- Feb 16, 2010
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- Apr 8, 2023
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Not bad all things considered - I predict a ninja style rise up the GC when the lumpy stuff appears.
Gaps were pretty huge yesterday... for a relatively flat 19km ITT.
He lost about 6-7 seconds per km.
I think 3-4, maybe 5, seconds per km would have maybe been more "normal" but whats "normal" these days. Not to be discussed here.
Ignoring the winner of the stage, he lost about a minute or a minute and thirty seconds on many of the other GC-guys who can time trial quite well. That feels more "normal" or as expected.
Pozzovivo is always gonna lose time in the ITTs but he rarely has a bad day and will probably climb in the GC to a top 10 in the end.
- Sep 26, 2020
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I just hope he gives up the GC ambitions and goes stage hunting instead.
- Jul 27, 2009
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He always has a ton of bad days in the last week and falls out of contention.
He had his chance to go for the mountains jersey and stage wins last year. The competition was low and his shape fine enough. Could've won at least 2 stages instead of Bowman & Ciccone. Instead went for GC and tumbled once again.
He always makes the same mistake again. I'm not sorry anymore. He has a wasted career.
He finished 8th... maybe you dont care about that, but I am sure he does. Finishing top 10 in his home grand tour is probably something he values very highly. To be able to do still ride with some of the best at his age and after a very long career... there is nothing but respect to the guy.
Saying he has a "wasted career" is extremely harsh. Pozzo has always been a good rider and a class act. However, not being very explosive and being a pure climber was never gonna yield in many wins for him. Still he has 13 wins and on many occasions been very close to winning some big races.
Pozzo is a smart guy and could have pursued a different career a long time ago, but continued to ride and doing what he loves. I dont think his career is wasted... I think it is quite beautiful.
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- Jul 27, 2009
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Yes he does and that's the problem.
He could've archived at least 3-5 mountain jerseys, multiple stage wins and still had finished at the same bottom end of the general classification eventually.
Instead he kept going for that podium spot he never archived and ends up with a bunch of rather useless top 10 placements.
That's a wasted career.
- Nov 16, 2013
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- Jul 27, 2009
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Maybe he surprises us and himself this time around.
With his delayed preparation he might peak in the 3rd week and already be 5-7 minutes behind by Sunday.
He's got Riccitello to join him as partner in crime in breakaways as well.
- Apr 13, 2021
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He has said multiple times that top 10 on GC is more meaningful to him than a stage win, unless it is a big stage. Maybe that's unusual but it's his perspective.
Especially last year Giro, he specifically said that he wanted to prove he could do a top 10 at 39 and after a couple of extremely bad crashes in the last 4 years. And he did it. That 8th place was quite an important achievement for him (and he could have got 6th or 7th without that mortirolo crash) . So maybe in 2023 he goes for stages. But honestly against guys like Bouwman, ciccone, rota, bargain, covi he is not explosive enough to win stages
A podium was 100 % achievable in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 had things gone differently. Are you really saying that he wasted his carieer because he was ambitious?
- Jul 27, 2009
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Yes.
Once it didn't materialize in 2018,the writing was on the wall.
That said, he could've won the 2012 Giro d'Italia if he had peaked later. But in his defense it was not predictable that Basso & Co all messed up their preparation and there was still Rujano who wasn't supposed to caught mononucleosis either.
- Jun 30, 2022
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I don‘t think Basso really messed up his preparation, although people didn‘t know at the time that he was washed up. The field was just weak that year with Hesjedal and Purito fighting it out for the win in the end.
In 2015 he was talked up for the podium and one of the prime contenders behind Contador. That crash that took him out on that innocuous descent (front wheel blew up?) cost him that podium I reckon.
- Apr 8, 2023
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- Nov 16, 2013
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- Apr 8, 2023
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- 6,949
- 16,180
Losing 2 minutes was about what could be expected given his lack of racing and TT performances.
- Jul 27, 2009
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“With the condition I had in the first two weeks, I could even have fought to win the Giro, but in the end, I suffered a bit,” said Pozzovivo. “But it’s still a beautiful memory.”
Sounds like Pozzovivo himself has the same sentiments regarding the 2012 Giro d'Italia!
- Feb 16, 2010
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- Apr 13, 2021
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I didn't realise but he crashed today
View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1656365905679646720?t=omAHLNvGlw-habK9OPZueg&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1656365905679646720?t=omAHLNvGlw-habK9OPZueg&s=19
- Sep 26, 2020
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It would have been a surprise if he had avoided going down. Let's hope the crash has corrected the damage done by his millions of previous crashes, so that he'll be able to win the Giro.
- Sep 2, 2011
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- 14,041
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Apart from riding the Giro he's also investigating Riccitello's italian roots. Apparently the original family name was Riccitiello and his grand grand parents were from Campania. He's still doing some researches though
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