Giro d'Italia Stage 21: Verona - Verona (ITT) 15km

[labratty]

Well that was an awesome GT, for me the Giro has topped the TdF for spectical for a few years now but this was the best yet.
Congrats to Basso, also to Nibbles and Liquigas they deserve the 1-3 best reminder that this is a team sport I have seen in a while. How many of the team finished?

 

[superconfex]

Great GT..The best since TDF 87 imo..roll on to the D/LIB on the 6th.....shame it's going to Carlton Kirby...so any French Tv links make sure you put them up....cheers all...it's been great

 

[Zoncolan]

Well that was an awesome GT, for me the Giro has topped the TdF for spectical for a few years now but this was the best yet.
Congrats to Basso, also to Nibbles and Liquigas they deserve the 1-3 best reminder that this is a team sport I have seen in a while. How many of the team finished?

All of them

 

[Spare Tyre]

Well congratulations Larsson and Basso. And thanks to every single rider in the Giro for making this race the best in a very, very long time. And thanks to Moondance for creating these great threads

Ditto to all of that.

And thanks to all of you. It's much more fun to have people to share it with.

Allora, forget rider fatigue ... I'm knackered after all these late nights and look forward to resuming usual sleep patterns.

Night all.

 

[El Imbatido]

europort have already gone back to the tennis

 

[El Imbatido]

Big thanks to Moondance

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Well that was an awesome GT, for me the Giro has topped the TdF for spectical for a few years now but this was the best yet.
Congrats to Basso, also to Nibbles and Liquigas they deserve the 1-3 best reminder that this is a team sport I have seen in a while. How many of the team finished?

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

I gotta be honest, prior to the giro I did not like scarponi (and despite the whole doping thing), but I really enjoyed watching him race.

 

[sublimit]

Apart from the shambolic dutch stages this Giro had some tremendous routes and got it just about right. I fear the TDF will have too many downhill finishes again- will they ever learn?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Big thanks to Moondance

Yup cheers moondance.

you do realize we now have an expectation from you, come july though

 

[Moondance]

Is it really all over....

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Apart from the shambolic dutch stages this Giro had some tremendous routes and got it just about right. I fear the TDF will have too many downhill finishes again- will they ever learn?

say what you want, but the dutch stages were very entertaining imo.
Don't wanna get into another debate about the causes of the crashes though.

 

[Moondance]

you do realize we now have an expectation from you, come july though

Fuck no.... No way I put any effort into that overrated three week media orgy that is le Tour

 

[HL2037]

Giro orgainisers used the song 'Jump' for Nibali when he went down the ramp

And "Come come my lady" for Kieserlowski. In some parts of the world that would be considered an insult

 

[Moondance]

Much obliged to all those thanking me... A big thank you right back

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Is it really all over....

haha. depressed? I was feeling a little down on yesterday's stage it dawned on me, that the best GT in a long time, was almost over

Fuck no.... No way I put any effort into that overrated three week media orgy that is le Tour

can't blame you.

 

[sublimit]

Yes well, they were entertaining - i give you that..

 

[Cervelo77]

definitely THE best live stream.

and it is stable with (in my experience) highest resolution/broadcast band - good enough for a full computer screen. i also liked the graphics showing current gaps, weather, course profile and the simultaneous text updates.

+1 this. Also they did an excellent job of showing the group compositions in the video feed when the camera focused on one.

In general I usually go to steephill.tv to find a video feed. There is usually at least one that is decent, often multiple for the larger races.

 

[El Imbatido]

And "Come come my lady" for Kieserlowski. In some parts of the world that would be considered an insult

And they had 'Woman on a Mission' by Gabrielle Cilmi playing when Sastre came over the finish line........i thought it was hilarious

 

[Cervelo77]

I like that a specialist won this ITT. Things are as they should be.

 

[sportzchick]

It was a great Giro and despite not being happy with the result, I have seen some incredible racing in trying conditions at times.

Congrats to Basso and Liqidgas - best rider and best team won on the day

 

[HL2037]

Ciao a tutti

 

[Elverde]

http://www.steephill.tv/ has links to various live feeds for the bigger races (for the Giro: http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/#live). During the Giro http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2010/it/ is live and free every day.

Thank you goggalor and python, I watched todays stage on gazzetta. Even though I don't understand Italian it was better than listening to Harmon and Kelly.

 

[Cervelo77]

Big congrats to Arroyo - he fought hard to stay on that podium and totally deserves to be there.

Congratulazioni Basso - and welcome back. This is the result he needed. Liquigas were clearly the strongest team. Watching them plow up the big climbs in the two previous days it became very obvious nobody outside that team was going to win this thing.

Also, big thank you to the Giro organizers for choosing a course that was interesting throughout. Even the days that should have been boring were not. The rain conspired to make that strade bianche stage one I'm not going to forget anytime soon. I think I need to get this year's dvd b.c. I missed enough live coverage due to work/time zone.

Thanks to moondance for these threads.

 

[Rob_Roy]

Well congratulations Larsson and Basso. And thanks to every single rider in the Giro for making this race the best in a very, very long time. And thanks to Moondance for creating these great threads

Agree to 100% ,It has been stunning and as a swede I cant really complain about the last stage either.It just made a super Giro even better.

The best race in a long long time,I will need the weeks until dauphine to recover ..

 

[dgodave]

a river dirt sheet
olive war
our feet are the same