GIRO

[sogood]

Stage 4 was great!

I really thought Soler was going to wrap it up until Di Luca's sprint. Phenomenal! And I wondered what happened to Rogers.

Interesting that Astana's Popovich/Levi/LA are taking 4 to 6th positions on the GC.

One more goofy commentary from Paddy Agnew... "... into the final 800 kilometres!"

[RICHARDH]

Yeah im sure Soler was happy to hear that he was starting his sprint a little early Armstrong fell off a bit, i think his really there for a good couple of weeks of training, would be surprised if he does the full three weeks his looking at July. Di Luca looked very strong.

[sogood]

Yeah im sure Soler was happy to hear that he was starting his sprint a little early Armstrong fell off a bit, i think his really there for a good couple of weeks of training, would be surprised if he does the full three weeks his looking at July. Di Luca looked very strong.

Well, Soler is not a sprinter and anyone criticising him for "sprinting early" is an idiot. Di Luca does have that killer look about him.

[JV911]

only saw 5 mins of the highlights this morning but from what i saw it looked like agood stage. a few attacks (and cracks!) in the last 10km

look forward to catching up tonight

[Aushiker]

G'day

I at least thought this was a good read ...

Michael Barry's Diary - We will surely fight until the end

Regards
Andrew

[sogood]

Nicely written. Thanks for posting the link!

[RICHARDH]

I talking about the last 1km of the race which was an up hill finish and at 800m to go ol' Paddy comes out with "800kms to go" he never called him a sprinter those where my words so to you

[Addict]

is it just me or paddy agnew a joke? watching the 10mins vid on sbs central now.. and his comments are a joke..

[Strawburger]

is it just me or paddy agnew a joke? watching the 10mins vid on sbs central now.. and his comments are a joke..

There is a Paddy Agnew appreciation society thread here: Everyone Loves Paddy

Michael Barry's diary is a good read!

[Aushiker]

G'day

Live Giro in English ... thanks to ScottDavis for the link

Regards
Andrew

[shiv]

Stage 5 showed us a good look at Lances form, beaten on a mountain top finish by Bradley Wiggins!!!!

[sogood]

Paddy Agnew seemed to have this thing about 800m. He specifically mentioned it again in Stage 5. Anyone know anything racers are supposed to do at 800m? Does he know something we don't? Or does it take him 200m in terms of time to announce the final km?

[philip]

Stage 5 showed us a good look at Lances form, beaten on a mountain top finish by Bradley Wiggins!!!!

He knew he wasn't going to be near the front, his twitter from before the stage start:

Very tough summit finish today. Alpi di suisi. 25k (AT) 6%. Last 8km are 9%. Hope to stay within 2 mins of the leaders.

2 mins did turn into 3 minutes though.

[MichaelB]

They tried to write off Rogers, but he is still well placed - will be interesting to see.

Soler is still doing well which is good. Hopefully he has a good TdF this year.

[Kev365428]

Paddy Agnew seemed to have this thing about 800m. He specifically mentioned it again in Stage 5. Anyone know anything racers are supposed to do at 800m?

In my case it's hang on for dear life.

Di Luca seems to be having a good go again this year. Not sure about his TT ability though.
Stage 12 could be a good one for Rogers if he can minimise the damage before hand, and he is able to perform near his best.

Just wish I could watch it live.

Kev.

[sogood]

SBS screwed all the early risers this morning with lengthened coverage of Coppa Italia due to overtime and penalty shoot-out.

[philip]

SBS screwed all the early risers this morning with lengthened coverage of Coppa Italia due to overtime and penalty shoot-out.

Yeah that was really annoying! I delayed my commute to work because I wanted to watch it, then at 7:30 I gave up and left home, I was hoping that if I took the short route to work I could watch it when I got here, but ended up missed the whole thing. The highlights they have online are quite a bit shorter, it'd be good if they could put up the whole 15 minutes.

[sogood]

Yeah that was really annoying! I delayed my commute to work because I wanted to watch it, then at 7:30 I gave up and left home, I was hoping that if I took the short route to work I could watch it when I got here, but ended up missed the whole thing. The highlights they have online are quite a bit shorter, it'd be good if they could put up the whole 15 minutes.

Is it? I thought the online video is exactly the same as their morning summary. At least I haven't noticed any difference over the last few days. Their late night highlight goes a lot longer.

[philip]

Pretty sure it is? The stage 5 highlights online is only 4 1/2 minutes.

Another source for race info that I've found really good is the cyclingnews.com live updates (you can go back and read the previous stages as well). If you're up late and can't stream it live online it's a good way to follow what's going on.

[muggah]

I don't understand why the half hour update isn't earlier in the evening like the TdF highlights usually are? 11:30PM and 7:15AM aren't very convenient if your riding in the mornings

[sogood]

Stage 6.

Read this interesting report on CyclingNews.

Michele Scarponi swears that he didn't lose 4:46 in stage five to Alpe di Siusi on purpose in order to get some freedom to break away the day after. "I lost time yesterday because I didn't manage to go well in an important stage," Scarponi said. "But if there wasn't this gap [6:19 to race leader Danilo Di Luca] they wouldn't have let me go today.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... /may15news

That's an interesting strategy to be permitted an escape. Guess a stage win is more important for these guys than their GC result. Irrespective, he did well to be able to stay away for the duration.

[Aushiker]

G'day

lancearmstrong At one point today we reached 110kph. That's almost 70 mph. CRAZY!

Andrew

[Strawburger]

G'day

At one point today we reached 110kph. That's almost 70 mph. CRAZY!

Andrew

Did you read the rest of that article? It sounded like he was having a bit of a whinge. Did you read it that way?

[Aushiker]

G'day

At one point today we reached 110kph. That's almost 70 mph. CRAZY!

Andrew

Did you read the rest of that article? It sounded like he was having a bit of a whinge. Did you read it that way?

What article? That quote was from his tweet ... max 140 characters.

Andrew

[toolonglegs]

Heres the plan .
Monday fit compact cranks and 12-27 onto Cannondale.
Drive 250km to Briançon on Tuesday morning...driving past the base of Alpe D'Huez and over the Col Du Lautaret (while looking up at Galibier) then down into Briançon.Parking up somewhere close to Briançon.
Then passport in hand climbing up to French / Italian border and then descending into Italy and climbing up again to top of Sestriere for a look...then descending back a bit to find a comfy place to watch il giro pass by then riding back the same way and home.Looks good on paper...all depends on weather closer to the time.Will still be a fair bit of snow around I would think so need to lug warm cloths and back pack with me...and no Canon Full frame DSLR's...that would break my back!.