Giro d'Italia Stage 1: Amsterdam ITT (8.4km)

[BroDeal]

What a funny Lance Armstrong comment again.......

Lance was not the only rider furious with the organizers, as there where many poor security decisions made last year.

He was the ringleader. After getting paid to attend the race, he p!ssed in the organizers' faces.

 

[BroDeal]

orly

Guess I missed that one. Who knew that Wigans would raid his blood storage for the Giro.

 

[Eyjafjallajokull]

Guess I missed that one. Who knew that Wigans would raid his blood storage for the Giro.

You guys dislike Wiggins because he IS clean. It takes the fun out of it.

 

[Anonymous]

weve gone pink for the day

 

[Moondance]

weve gone pink for the day

:waits patiently for a snide comment/joke by BroDeal:

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

We cycling fans know that the Giro is a more beautiful and tough race than Le Tour...

I generally agree. It has more variety, is usually more scenic, and the course is often just as hard. However, the competition is a tiny bit lower in the Giro than the Tour, most years. Still, it pretty much is the true cycling fans favorite.

Now, if they would move the Vuelta back to April/May.

 

[peloton]

Solid ride by Wigans, think Henderson will be in pink after today's stage.

 

[craig1985]

Has Brent Brookwalter always been a decent TT'er? I was not expecting that from him. Good on him and Richie Porte for their rides, they are both making a real go of it.

 

[Eyjafjallajokull]

Has Brent Brookwalter always been a decent TT'er? I was not expecting that from him. Good on him and Richie Porte for their rides, they are both making a real go of it.

It's not always easy to see just how much effort some riders put into a TT until they finish. But Brookwalter was clearly on the ragged edge.

 

[BroDeal]

:waits patiently for a snide comment/joke by BroDeal:

Sky blew off the April classics to save themselves for a prologue. Brilliant.

 

[Polish]

Has Brent Brookwalter always been a decent TT'er? I was not expecting that from him. Good on him and Richie Porte for their rides, they are both making a real go of it.

I do not know about Brookwalter's TTing ability either.

But one would think Cadel will need all the strength his team can muster,
and "firing bullets" or "burning matches" unnecessarily by the mates might not be wise.

Scary if Brookwalter was holding back or saving himself for later....
What would have happened if he got the Pink Jersey?

 

[karlboss]

2nd and 3rd...great showing and no responsibility...perfect. I suppose could have got the win and then not taken responsibility. If wiggins is serious about only doing the giro for training, then Sky might well try to hold the jersey to the first mountains.

 

[auscyclefan94]

2nd and 3rd...great showing and no responsibility...perfect. I suppose could have got the win and then not taken responsibility. If wiggins is serious about only doing the giro for training, then Sky might well try to hold the jersey to the first mountains.

Evans said he was "conservative" around corners.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Grrrr, we just missed out on the teams classement.

On the team's classement
1 Sky Professional Cycling Team 31:12:00
2 BMC Racing Team 0:00:06
3 Team Saxo Bank 0:00:09
4 Astana 0:00:16
5 Rabobank 0:00:19
6 Team HTC - Columbia 0:00:21
7 Garmin - Transitions 0:00:29
8 Cervelo TestTeam 0:00:35
9 Liquigas - Doimo 0:00:38

Interesting... Bit dissapointed in Garmin.

 

[BroDeal]

Grrrr, we just missed out on the teams classement.

On the team's classement
1 Sky Professional Cycling Team 31:12:00
2 BMC Racing Team 0:00:06
3 Team Saxo Bank 0:00:09
4 Astana 0:00:16
5 Rabobank 0:00:19
6 Team HTC - Columbia 0:00:21
7 Garmin - Transitions 0:00:29
8 Cervelo TestTeam 0:00:35
9 Liquigas - Doimo 0:00:38

Interesting... Bit dissapointed in Garmin.

Being high up in the team classification will be good for the TTT. BMC could have really used Hincapie for that.

Greipel and Farrar will cause HTC and Garmin will move up in the team standings over the next two stages.

Garmin is saving their best riders for the ToC.

 

[BroDeal]

Evans said he was "conservative" around corners.

A more significant Evans quote is this: "My form was pretty good in the Ardennes classics but I hope to get even better towards the end of the race. We'll see. This is the first test."

If he has timed his peak right then Sastre may not be any stronger than him in the mountains.

 

[craig1985]

Being high up in the team classification will be good for the TTT. BMC could have really used Hincapie for that.

Greipel and Farrar will cause HTC and Garmin will move up in the team standings over the next two stages.

Garmin is saving their best riders for the ToC.

Then in that case wouldn't they leave CVV back in the States instead of racing the Giro?

 

[BroDeal]

Then in that case wouldn't they leave CVV back in the States instead of racing the Giro?

I think CVV is along for the ride. He has not shown anything this year. Tommy D. and the Z-Man seem to be in good form, but they both have hopes of winning ToC.

 

[Ferminal]

orly



orly

If you weren't a cherrypicker you'd see the other comments. Where were you beforehand?

Cya next time a great white hope wins a race (I'll be waiting).

 

[karlboss]

I think CVV is along for the ride. He has not shown anything this year. Tommy D. and the Z-Man seem to be in good form, but they both have hopes of winning ToC.

Millar is a solid rider and is at the Giro. Seems they divided kind of evenly to me, neither could really be described as a B team. With current form I doubt Zabriskie could do better than CVV in the giro, and I doubt CVV could do better than zabriskie in Cali.

 

[auscyclefan94]

For aussies, the guy who is commentating for our giro highlights is terrible! His name is douglas dean. Just heard him and his grammar and diction makes no sense at all.

 

[BroDeal]

For aussies, the guy who is commentating for our giro highlights is terrible! His name is douglas dean. Just heard him and his grammar and diction makes no sense at all.

No problem, mate. We'll ship Bob Roll down there.

 

[craig1985]

Eurosport FTW.

 

[El Imbatido]

It seems Evans rode conservative in the tt which was the complete opposite to Wiggins who said he took all sorts of risks.

http://www.cadelevans.com.au/cadelsdiary.aspx

Maybe this means his form is not on the downward spiral that many of the people here think it is?

 

[craig1985]

I think CVV is along for the ride. He has not shown anything this year. Tommy D. and the Z-Man seem to be in good form, but they both have hopes of winning ToC.

I really doubt Danielson would do anything at the TOC. If he wasn't American, nobody would give a **** about him.