The most spectacular crackings in recent years

[gregrowlerson]

Vino losing over 5 minutes on Courcheval, stage 10, 2005 TDF. Very surprising as he had looked so strong in the medium mountains on stage 8 and was coming off a strong Dauphne, where he won on Venteoux.

Kloden losing over 5 minutes in the Dolomites on stage 15 of the 2008 Giro, though he had lost some time the previous day so this wasn't as big a surprise.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned his last couple of kms up the Columbierre in '09....

 

[auscyclefan94]

i found here 2;30 hours of cadel and frigo's big time cracking

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9ITJICER
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C0JH2B2K

thanks a lot! Always been looking around for some coverage of the Passo Coe stage in 2002. Going to take ages to Download!

 

[Arnout]

Iban Mayo being pushed by teammates on the first mountain of the 2004 Tour. It broke my heart

Not many people know that he had a pneumonia at the time.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Sorry, can't do that now.
You can donwload it here though: http://cyclingtorrents.nl/details.php?id=5925

I'll keep seeding it until you're done.

Beuh I can't donw it because I have to wait for one month

 

[roundabout]

Whats Leipheimer doing in that race !?

He attacked on the Croix-de-Fer. I remember being surprised as well. And then amused when he was going nowhere vs Rasmussen on the final climb.

However one can say that his Tour was over after he finished in 90-something place in the first TT so he couldn't rely on his normal tactic anymore.

 

[will10]

Cunego in Giro 2005, was up there in the early hilly stages and then lost 6 minutes or so on the first mountain stage. Can remember the commentators talking all day about who was going to be the Lampre leader - Cunego or Simoni - and then complete and utter surprise at him getting dropped on the penultimate climb.

 

[mortand]

Laurent Jalabert, Vuelta a Espana 1997, stage 7 to Sierra Nevada.

JaJa was very impressive the day before, beating Dufaux, Escartin and Zülle in a four-man sprint in Granada. Noone expected him to be troubled on the big stage to Sierra Nevada. But he cracked spectacularly and could only watch his two rivals and teammate Zülle ride away up the mountain. Jalabert lost more than eight minutes in the last six kilometres, and I remember watching the man in the leader's jersey all by himself almost crawl towards the finish line. That was brutal.

1. LEDANOIS, Yvon 6.15.06
2. DUFAUX, Laurent 0.42
3. ZÜLLE, Alex 0.42
4. JIMENEZ,José María 0.42
5. ESCARTIN, Fernando 0.42
...
44.JALABERT, Laurent 8.21

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/archives/sep97/stage7.html

 

[jens_attacks]

Vino losing over 5 minutes on Courcheval, stage 10, 2005 TDF. Very surprising as he had looked so strong in the medium mountains on stage 8 and was coming off a strong Dauphne, where he won on Venteoux.

Kloden losing over 5 minutes in the Dolomites on stage 15 of the 2008 Giro, though he had lost some time the previous day so this wasn't as big a surprise.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned his last couple of kms up the Columbierre in '09....

hardly spectacular or surprising.vino is a nutter and with klodi you never know.i still have my opinion that even if alberto didn't drop him there,he would have lost anyway the podium spot on ventoux where he looked terrible.

about xorret del cati,taraame is not the only one having a catastrophic asteroid killing dinos kind of of crack.fabio roscioli i think in 2000 started the climb with a 6 minutes advantage!!he absolutely cracked,he was doing zig-zags until the top.useless to say he didn't win the stage,i think he died multiple times on the climb

 

[roundabout]

Yeah, but Roscioli can be excused as he he had to ride into a hurricane (figuratively speaking, I think at one point TVE showed that they were going about 25km/h because of the headwind) so it was easier for him to run out of gas on the climb.

Edit: and he also fell before the last climb.

 

[jens_attacks]

Yeah, but Roscioli can be excused as he he had to ride into a hurricane (figuratively speaking, I think at one point TVE showed that they were going about 25km/h because of the headwind) so it was easier for him to run out of gas on the climb.

Edit: and he also fell before the last climb.

still 6 minutes for a 4 km climb should be enough even in those conditions.

 

[mortand]

about xorret del cati,taraame is not the only one having a catastrophic asteroid killing dinos kind of of crack.fabio roscioli i think in 2000 started the climb with a 6 minutes advantage!!he absolutely cracked,he was doing zig-zags until the top.useless to say he didn't win the stage,i think he died multiple times on the climb

I remember that! I hated Roscioli (no offense Fabio, you're probably a nice fella, but that attack-for-no-reason-tactic of yours always annoyed me), and I chuckled for a while seeing him struggle. Not very nice of me, I know, but what can you do?

Anyway, more Vuelta carnage: Joseba Beloki, stage 11 2001, to Andorra.

Beloki looked in control of the race, leading Oscar Sevilla and Angel Casero. But on the endless climb to Port d'Envalira he started to crack. He kept on losing time and at the finish line - escorted by most of his O.N.C.E.-team - he was a whopping 19.55 minutes down on stage winner José María Jimenez! It turned out Beloki was hit by a respiratory infection and quit the Vuelta three days later.
http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/2001/vuelta01/results/results_stage_11.shtml

 

[Eshnar]

i found here 2;30 hours of cadel and frigo's big time cracking

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9ITJICER
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C0JH2B2K

Thanks a lot for the links, just downloaded

 

[Eshnar]

Cunego in Giro 2005, was up there in the early hilly stages and then lost 6 minutes or so on the first mountain stage. Can remember the commentators talking all day about who was going to be the Lampre leader - Cunego or Simoni - and then complete and utter surprise at him getting dropped on the penultimate climb.

True, it was the stage to Zoldo Alto
Great stage that one...

 

[will10]

True, it was the stage to Zoldo Alto
Great stage that one...

Ah yes, couldn't place which stage it was. That was a cracker, kicking off on the Duran and then Savoldelli soaring on the descent to give himself a bit of a headstart on Basso for the final climb. Giro 2005 remains one of my all-time favourite races.

 

[jamiephillips]

Vino, Plateau de Bielle 2007 lost about 30 mins?? Inexplicable really as this was sandwiched between two stage wins, Albi and Loudenville.

 

[jens_attacks]

Vino, Plateau de Bielle 2007 lost about 30 mins?? Inexplicable really as this was sandwiched between two stage wins, Albi and Loudenville.

maybe because he had both knees shattered

 

[will10]

maybe because he had both knees shattered

Didn't seem to slow him too much the day before, or the day after for that matter....

 

[jens_attacks]

Didn't seem to slow him too much the day before, or the day after for that matter....

because he put all his power in those two stages including medical resources.the others needed the strength for the whole three weeks,vino didn't

 

[mewmewmew13]

Iban Mayo being pushed by teammates on the first mountain of the 2004 Tour. It broke my heart

Not many people know that he had a pneumonia at the time.

I remember that--sad. The extremes in emotion of this sport.

I assume that many of the great crackings may be due to illness or injury that we never hear about. Stoicism and heart..

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

Discovering that clip on youtube of Ullrich cracking vs Pantani at les Deux Alpes was what made me fall in love with the Pirate. Still one of my favourite cycling videos.

And of course the Landis bonk in 2006...

 

[jens_attacks]

anyone knows now what happened to landis?i remember he said it wasn't a hungerknock or a hydration problem.was it all medical after all,just like some people said he couldn't get his heart rate at more than 160 bpm from the corticoides,took too much?
anyway toussuire+morzine=a page for ever in the history of sports,never would that be forgotten

 

[will10]

anyone knows now what happened to landis?i remember he said it wasn't a hungerknock or a hydration problem.was it all medical after all,just like some people said he couldn't get his heart rate at more than 160 bpm from the corticoides,took too much?
anyway toussuire+morzine=a page for ever in the history of sports,never would that be forgotten

Hunger knock I thought?

 

[jens_attacks]

Hunger knock I thought?

"I had a bad day on the wrong day," a disappointed Landis said in a press conference, several hours after Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne – Illes Balears) took back the jersey he relinquished yesterday. "The team did a good job in the beginning; I suffered from the beginning but I tried to hide it... In the end, I couldn't go. I don't think it was a problem with not eating enough; like I said, I wasn't good from the beginning."

i doubt it was a hunger knock,we'll never find out i guess especially because all the medical assistance related problems are still considered tabu in pro cycling...

 

[Señor_Contador]

I was about to post that damn.
42 minutes, just checked...

If memory serves me right... I kinda remember Ivan not cracking, but suffering from a particularly nasty stomach virus that killed him for two or three stages, not just one.

 

[gregrowlerson]

If memory serves me right... I kinda remember Ivan not cracking, but suffering from a particularly nasty stomach virus that killed him for two or three stages, not just one.

That is correct about Basso in the '05 Giro. He was very unlucky; probably would have 3 Giro's now if it weren't for that bug. I think he lost major time on a couple of stages, but came back a few days later to win another stage (maybe even 2).