Stage 5: San Martino di Castrozza - Alpe di Siusi

[ingsve]

Bunch packed!!! :d

Well, when RAI goes english it doesn't mean it's good english.

 

[Cobblestones]

Cheula for Barloworld.

 

[Leopejo]

Sastre is at the back. Did he have a mechanical?

He has been at the back all the time. Yesterday too.

 

[53x11 in DC]

LA out of the saddle and fading back in the group again, like yesterday...

 

[Anonymous]

im gonna sstick me neck out and say di luca again..

but then im still 10 minutes behind.. catching up slowly...

 

[Zoncolan]

Here we go. Final selection in the next 2-3k. After that Szmyd and the same 20 as yesterday

 

[Zoncolan]

He has been at the back all the time. Yesterday too.

But the pace is going up. He's gonna get dropped

 

[mr. tibbs]

I'm pulling for Gibo, for old time's sake

 

[Jamsque]

I like Soler today.

 

[Anonymous]

LA out of the saddle and fading back in the group again, like yesterday...

four years out, and recovering from a broken collarbone... i really cannot fathom why anyone is a) surprised about him dropping back b) cares c) was expecting him to go out and win the giro or something...

 

[53x11 in DC]

wow - 8 Astanas. But Liqui looks good

 

[kjetilraknerud]

Armstrong will get dropped, while Hagen is smiling on Simoni's wheel

 

[53x11 in DC]

four years out, and recovering from a broken collarbone... i really cannot fathom why anyone is a) surprised about him dropping back b) cares c) was expecting him to go out and win the giro or something...

dim - chill out. I was making an observation. I am not surprised, was not expecting him to win, but I actually do care

 

[Bala Verde]

ah how beautiful..

les coureurs au borde de la rupture...

sastre and menchov seem to sit a little in the back...

 

[ingsve]

Armstrong will get dropped, while Hagen is smiling on Simoni's wheel

Boasson Hagen is looking really good. Doing great work.

 

[Zoncolan]

Menchov sitting pretty far back as well

 

[Leopejo]

Ok, now it's steep - until the last km.

 

[53x11 in DC]

Armstrong will get dropped, while Hagen is smiling on Simoni's wheel

And there he goes!! Lok looks great

 

[Jamsque]

four years out, and recovering from a broken collarbone... i really cannot fathom why anyone is a) surprised about him dropping back b) cares c) was expecting him to go out and win the giro or something...

I think it's because of what Astana did at the Giro last year. They kept saying 'oh, we're not prepared, Conti has been on the beach, we don't have any expectations, blah blah blah', and then they drugged him up to his eyeballs and he destroyed the field. A lot of people seem to be expecting the same thing this year with Lance.

 

[53x11 in DC]

JB's gotta cut his boys loose to go help Levi! Leave chechu with LA

 

[jaylew]

pellizotti looks good

 

[Zoncolan]

Told you Garzelli couldn't cut it
Cunego as well

 

[Bala Verde]

ok someone has got to unleash the fury soon, otherwise they'll arrive in a peloton of gc contenders!

Astana loses 4....

 

[kjetilraknerud]

Stupid Astana tactics, looks like three riders will try to pull Armstrong up the last kilometers.

 

[Cobblestones]

LA has teammates around him. ??