Giro d'Italia 2011: Stage 13 Spilimbergo to Grossglockner

[Escarabajo]

Always same story with Garzelli. First two weeks sharp, then he blows up.

 

[patrick767]

he IS a serious contender...

Giving up 5 minutes like that? Unlikely. I'd have him on the podium, as would many others, if it weren't for that stage. I don't know what he was thinking there. Maybe he'll make up the time anyway, but damn, how different things could have been.

 

[hoolaparara]

So sounds like Contador took it easy for tomorrow and took 90 seconds anyway?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Always same story with Garzelli. First two weeks sharp, then he blows up.

Give Garzelli a break. He's almost 50.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

They are riding for 2nd (like bugno did in indurain's day) Tho maybe sum of the riders think they'll get chance to upgrade positions

 

[will10]

Giving up 5 minutes like that? Unlikely. I'd have him on the podium, as would many others, if it weren't for that stage. I don't know what he was thinking there. Maybe he'll make up the time anyway, but damn, how different things could have been.

It wasn't deliberate. He crashed/mechanical on the strade bianche

 

[Sophistic]

Seems like the most interesting part of this years Giro will take place in June

 

[No_Balls]

Don't know why Harmon is saying Contador is head and shoulders above everyone else. Didn't he see the other guy with him?

Granted he's way back on GC, but I can't see him not getting ont he podium now.

Has the "other" guy won the last five GT he has entered?

 

[GoAndyGo]

wtf were ag2r doing?

They were tired of seeing how worthless the chase group was and didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

 

[Jeriko]

He's like a little elf.

 

[thirteen]

oh my god!

that podium has to be one of the cutest!!!

how tall is he?

 

[No_Balls]

He's like a little elf.

More of a hobbit

 

[superconfex]

Dupont was 2 seconds behind Gadret.

Nice work, Johnny.

whats Dupont got to do with Team Gaddy

 

[veganrob]

Alberto is man on a mission. This is his race. Said yesterday, Rujano wins stage only if AC lets him.

 

[canyonball]

Regarding Machado, I made this post sometime ago.

Not bragging or anything. Some times you're right, sometimes you're wrong. But it always strikes me as odd, when I saw people hyping him for a top 10. He had never done three weeks of racing. He had never raced in this brutal climbs. What did you want? Right now he is on his way to a top 20/30, which was and is a realistic goal.

 

[Opalius]

Good racing! Do not think that Contador dominance make it boring in any way.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

wtf were ag2r doing?

I'm starting to like Gadret more and more, precisely because he seems to be a bit of a d.ick.

He attacked the tediously cautious favourites group and it's always funny to see the big guns get a shoeing from an unfancied rider, particularly when they are riding so boringly.

And then he refused to work with his team mate, even though his team mate finished only a few yards behind! More of this sort of prickly, unreasonable behaviour!

John Gadret wouldn't give ANYBODY a gift!

 

[Publicus]

Don't know why Harmon is saying Contador is head and shoulders above everyone else. Didn't he see the other guy with him?

Granted he's way back on GC, but I can't see him not getting ont he podium now.

It looked like AC could have dropped Rujano if he really wanted to do so.

 

[thrawn]

I'm starting to like Gadret more and more, precisely because he seems to be a bit of a d.ick.

He attacked the tediously cautious favourites group and it's always funny to see the big guns get a shoeing from an unfancied rider, particularly when they are riding so boringly.

And then he refused to work with his team mate, even though his team mate finished only a few yards behind! More of this sort of prickly, unreasonable behaviour!

John Gadret wouldn't give ANYBODY a gift!

Doesn't even give his own team leader a wheel.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

I thought that sprint was never going to end

 

[Anonymous]

What can other teams do to put contador under pressure and possibly beat him ...other than putting banned substance in his food/drink lolzzz

 

[Opalius]

It looked like AC could have dropped Rujano if he really wanted to do so.

In a second. Rujano struggled to keep his wheel.

 

[luckyboy]

Regarding Machado, I made this post sometime ago.

Not bragging or anything. Some times you're right, sometimes you're wrong. But it always strikes me as odd, when I saw people hyping him for a top 10. He had never done three weeks of racing. He had never raced in this brutal climbs. What did you want? Right now he is on his way to a top 20/30, which was and is a realistic goal.

Yeah I never saw the thing with Machado.

 

[benpounder]

Yawn...

Of course, I wasn't expecting much from todays stage.

Unless CAS interceeds, it looks like the boring (GT) days of Indurain and Armstrong are on us again.

 

[spalco]

Too bad the crucial part of Contador's attack doesn't seem to have been captured on camera, would've been interesting how Rujano did that when Scarponi failed.