Presidential Tour of Turkey (2.HC) April 22-29

[Ryo Hazuki]

my post from the other forum
He is total nutcase and very stubborn. Got into a fight with his team leader in the third stage in Tour of Bulgaria 1998, the following stage had the yellow jersey but left the tour after a mass crash he subsequently blamed on his teammates. Kicked off the TDF team in 2001 after falling out with his team leader. Last year in ToB attacked his teammate who had the yellow jersey in the last stage and won the overall. Every team he's been in there were problems - not following team orders etc. Still when out of the sport he could drop every other pro here.

in belgium the guy told me he killed every race he rode. like a cannibal and when done he would go back to bulgaria to win everything there. when teams wanted him back in belgium and paid him good money he didn't care. he only did what he pleased. thanks for your info too

 

[DominicDecoco]

So he is basically Balotelli on wheels?

 

[El Pistolero]

in belgium the guy told me he killed every race he rode. like a cannibal and when done he would go back to bulgaria to win everything there. when teams wanted him back in belgium and paid him good money he didn't care. he only did what he pleased. thanks for your info too

Isn't a cannibal supposed to win a race?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Isn't a cannibal supposed to win a race?

that's what I said. he killed every race as in winning

 

[El Pistolero]

I checked his palmares on CQranking and didn't see any win on Belgian soil. If you know a better database, please feel free to share.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Gabrovski is an urban myth.

Only 6 year olds believe he really exists.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Gabrovski is an urban myth.

Only 6 year olds believe he really exists.

Hence Ryo's and El P's interest.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I checked his palmares on CQranking and didn't see any win on Belgian soil. If you know a better database, please feel free to share.

http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=439

this is the only good database I ever found, although not even that one is complete and it's ironic as I posted a number of his belgian results here and you said it was pathetic to post them as they meant nothing. so how could you forget?

tour de liege
Podium
1 Ivaïlo Gabrovski BUL in 17h 42m 02s
2 Ramunas Navardauskas LTU op 01m 12s
3 Thomas De Gendt BEL op 01m 50s

romsee
Podium
1 Ivaïlo Gabrovski BUL in
2 Francis De Greef BEL op 04m 59s
3 Sébastien Delfosse BEL op 05m 07s

he has even beaten jens voigt in tour poitou charentes
Podium
1 Ivaïlo Gabrovski BUL in
2 Jens Voigt GER op
3 Jurgen Guns BEL op

 

[jens_attacks]

imagine this guy in next vuelta a espana riding for caja rural.the only man capable of attacking alberto contador,ivailo gabrovski.

 

[will10]

imagine this guy in next vuelta a espana riding for caja rural.the only man capable of attacking alberto contador,ivailo gabrovski.

We can dream....

 

[Fetisoff]

Nasty fall with 68k to go, Adam Hansen. Seems to be injured

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Race is on. Two breaks are out Belkov, Golas and Deignan have left a 17 man group and have 1 minute on them. JJ Haedo is in the second group.
Adam Hansen just crashed, looks like he has to abandon.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nasty fall with 68k to go, Adam Hansen. Seems to be injured

Poor guy - could be a broken collar bone - Greipel wheeled back for him
but it was too tough to go on.

 

[GazelleFormula]

Yeah nasty indeed, he was pointing at his head a couple of times.

 

[aarnold517]

does anyone know who the commentator in this link is?

http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-2.php

was listening to this stream the other day and he instantaneously identified every single rider correctly...it was weird after having listened to P&P and david harmon misidentify riders over and over

 

[Fetisoff]

Poor guy - could be a broken collar bone - Greipel wheeled back for him
but it was too tough to go on.

You know, stuff like this makes me respect Greipel more and more.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

vinosssssss attack

 

[GazelleFormula]

And Greipel attack!

 

[DominicDecoco]

You know, stuff like this makes me respect Greipel more and more.

That was expected tbh. The thing he does now makes me respect Greipel - attacking.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nice second break for WT teams now.

 

[Machu Picchu]

Pity as Hansen and Greipel have a good thing going on with each other, more disruption is not what Lotto needs.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Astana - lose there nerve?

 

[JibberJim]

Astana start a little attack, give up before really achieve anything, and then watch 5 guys go down the road and are now forced to work with the torku guys to pull them back...

 

[DominicDecoco]

If only that was crosswinds..

 

[TourOfSardinia]

It's possible that astana are spoiling - going on ahead then slowing up?