Giro d'Italia Stage 12: Città Sant'Angelo - Porto Recanti (206km)

[Mellow Velo]

Oh well, guess who decided nothing much would happen so went and did a chore?
Seen it now and all I can say is: there will not be a dull day in this Giro.

I thought the favourites would sit until tomorrow, at least, probably Monte Grappa.

Now, I'd bet the lot, it'll be the same tomorrow.

Evans? He needs to concentrate on 2 things:
1) The race
2) His left jab!

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... now the Italians are happy! And who more fitting the finally win a stage than the Italian champion?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

No, that was Stammie. Not that it matters, do you actually believe he can still do anything in GC?

who knows with this giro

 

[theyoungest]

Evans tweets:

Unsporting slow-down tricks being played in a tired and frustrated chase group. My fault for not being in front.

Interesting that he now he refers to himself as "chase group".

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

It was a poor showing by evans, I really can't will myself to like the guy.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Unsporting? I thought they called it team tactics.
Of course, that is something Evans would be unfamiliar with.

 

[Ashtabula]

It might be a national accent thing, but I'm used to all those words being pronounced the same way

This may be where the confusion is coming from. In my Midwestern No. American, cars, jars, bars have a heavily voiced sound, as if written ...arzz. Farce et al unvoiced, as if written ...arss. When Schlanger pronounced the rider's first name at the TT World's, it was voiced. At the CC World's a few months later, unvoiced: Larss.

Is he, are we, going in the wrong direction?

 

[theyoungest]

This may be where the confusion is coming from. In my Midwestern No. American, cars, jars, bars have a heavily voiced sound, as if written ...arzz. Farce et al unvoiced, as if written ...arss. When Schlanger pronounced the rider's first name at the TT World's, it was voiced. At the CC World's a few months later, unvoiced: Larss.

Is he, are we, going in the wrong direction?

It's unvoiced (although, technically, some of the voicing of the following "b" is transferred to the -s sound ).

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No, that was Stammie. Not that it matters, do you actually believe he can still do anything in GC?

How can you not believe in the GC of either Weening and Mollema, the way this Giro is going, anything can happen.
1 freak long-escape and they might as well be in pink

 

[Ashtabula]

It's unvoiced (although, technically, some of the voicing of the following "b" is transferred to the -s sound ).

That's what I'd thought I heard when I watched the Dutch CC championship on line. When I heard Schlanger say an anglicized equivalent at the World's CC Broadcast, I noted what I took to be progress.

Hadn't occurred to me there'd be much variation in how these sounds would be made in English.

 

[tgsgirl]

Evans got a fine of 2000 Swiss francs* for his antics. Oh my god, hitting the team with the 7th biggest budget right where it hurts!

*1220 British pounds, 1419 euoros, 1801 American dollars, 2015 Australian dollars

 

[killswitch]

Angry Evans hits out.

 

[trompe le monde]

Evans got a fine of 2000 Swiss francs* for his antics. Oh my god, hitting the team with the 7th biggest budget right where it hurts!

*1220 British pounds, 1419 euoros, 1801 American dollars, 2015 Australian dollars

Sure, I understand the need for some kind of punishment, but isn't Evans being a member of BMC punishment enough?

 

[theyoungest]

How can you not believe in the GC of either Weening and Mollema, the way this Giro is going, anything can happen.
1 freak long-escape and they might as well be in pink

It's Rabo, they don't do successful breaks. Only pointless ones, that get you a jersey for most useless kilometres grinded away in front of a bored peloton.

 

[mortand]

Evans got a fine of 2000 Swiss francs* for his antics. Oh my god, hitting the team with the 7th biggest budget right where it hurts!

*1220 British pounds, 1419 euoros, 1801 American dollars, 2015 Australian dollars

It's a serious blow, though, to BMC's hopes of winning the ranking that really matters - the fair play competition.

 

[theyoungest]

It's a serious blow, though, to BMC's hopes of winning the ranking that really matters - the fair play competition.

Even having one rider left in competition to collect penalties can lose you the fair play competition, if said rider is Cadel Evans.

 

[Sydney Sider]

Tweet just posted , i have not seen the incident so i got no opinion.

laurenstendam In my opinion the World Champion owns more respect than some riders gave him today. If he wants to chase you let him chase!

 

[tgsgirl]

Same fine for Righi by the way. No fine for the Katusha fellow.

 

[RedheadDane]

They (Evans and Righi) were just trying to repeat the old Sastre-Morreau(sp?) trick!

 

[hfer07]

just watched the vid on youtube- that fight just made my day-hillarious-
!!HTFU Evans!!! take no sh!t from nobody!!!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Elijzen invented a new name for BMC haha. "Boxen Met Cadel" (boxing with cadel)

http://omegapharma-lotto.be/site2010/NL_kijker.php

Funny blog in Dutch.

 

[jens_attacks]

the last 15 km were great.i'm sorry for nibali and vino,they deserved to win this stage.
i like the new evans,but i think that in the mountains he's phucked.no one will help him if he acts like this.shhiiit,actually all the italians will atack him,now put in the mix vino.it will be epic.

 

[tgsgirl]

Elijzen invented a new name for BMC haha. "Boxen Met Cadel" (boxing with cadel)

http://omegapharma-lotto.be/site2010/NL_kijker.php

Funny blog in Dutch.

Haha, that is excellent

 

[Francois the Postman]

http://omegapharma-lotto.be/site2010/NL_kijker.php Funny blog in Dutch.

Another Giro first: looks like a food fight will be on tomorrow's Giro menu!

 

[auscyclefan94]

What happened with evans?