Giro del Trentino... Live! Please?
by ursula on Apr 23, 2009 6:00 AM EDT
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I don't know if this will be live. Cycling Fans yesterday had a live link to stage one, so there's hope. Check there to see if there is a link or possible someone here will find one and post it in the comments. Pray to make this happen. But why so we want to see this? 1) This is the #1 Prep race for the Giro (sorry Romandie). 2) This is a mountaintop finish. 3) This is a mountaintop finish and Bert's not riding. 4) this is a mountaintop finish and the likes of DiLuca, Basso, Pellizotti, Kloden, Brajkovic, Brusechin, Garzelli, Simoni, Grivko, Visconti, Simeoni, Thomas, and Pozzovivo are riding. 4) And this is a serious mountaintop finish. Remember stage 14 of last year's Giro? Well this stage ends with THAT mountaintop: 
So you see this could be good, right? Pray that we see this.
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No, it's not that really nasty TT
I doubt if the snow’s cleared yet from there.
YES!
I’ll be putting up a blog post on my site tomorrow to show where you can watch it for free – live
doesn't help us today does it?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
It's that mountain...
Alpe di Pampeago – Giro’99…Marco Pantani
Di Luca missed his start time yesterday
When he came to start the clock had already started. Don’t know by how much, he’s not an TT ace to begin with and was 1.23 behind Klöden.
(And since this is an Italian pre-Giro race, Thor Hushovd have decided not to race the Giro.)
Oh my, I've just fallen in love with Roger De Vlaeminck's sideburns.
There's escape...
7 riders (Garofalo, Grabovskyi, Fioretti, Ortega, Fumagalli, Signego). Advantage at 72km – 2’10"
Meantime...
Meantime, some snow on Pampeago finish line
2'40" at 105km
The gap between escapees and the bunch is 2’40" after 105 km
Liquigas is leading the bunch...
At 18km before finish – 1’50’’ advantage.
58 Ortega (Acqua & sapone), 73 Grabovskyy (Isd), 86 Fumagalli (Flaminia), 107 Garofalo (Amica Chips), 126 Signego (Adria Mobil), 196 Fioretti (Centri della Calzatura) are in the escape.
At 15 km to go...
1’40". LPR and Liquiigas are leading the bunch. There’s only five in escape.
Thanks for all the info!
Where are you getting it from?
The group is led by Miholjevic
Marzio Bruseghin loses contact from the head of the race
that just links to this thread
you MUST put urls down here
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Giovanni Visconti loses contact.
Giovanni Visconti loses contact. Stretch of Ivan Basso
A two kilometers from the Ivan Basso is always a step in the scan head in the race.
"Never swing a small stick. " Andy Hampsten
Αυτό είναι όλα τα ελληνικά μου
Oh my, I've just fallen in love with Roger De Vlaeminck's sideburns.
by TheFigurehead on Apr 23, 2009 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Greek
Is all that it is to me
Oh my, I've just fallen in love with Roger De Vlaeminck's sideburns.
by TheFigurehead on Apr 23, 2009 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions
At finisch - First - Niemiec (Miche) - poland
2. Basso – 15"
3. Caruso, 4. Simoni - 45"
5. Brajkovic – 1’01"
Results...
1. Niemiec (Miche). He’s from Poland
2. Basso – 22"
3. Caruso (Flaminia) – 45"
4. Simoni – 45"
5. Brajkovic – 1’01"
Basso
I was going to comment yesterday about how Basso lost almost a minute on a very flat TT course. But I guess that isn’t really a problem if he can still climb like he showed today. Granted the TT was less than 20k so not nearly as long as the Giro TT but I thought it was still a little troubling to lose that much time.
He also lost time in the TT in Tirenno
If you remember, pre doping scandal, Basso was a below average TT. Then, beginning in 2004-05, he “miraculously” improved in that discipline to that point that he was among to the top 2 or 3 in the world. His climbing ability, however, never seemed to be in doubt, ever since his early days at Fassa Bartolo he proved that he was one of the world’s best. So perhaps what we’re seeing now from Basso is his true unaltered ability as a cyclist. Furthermore, perhaps that long Giro TT won’t be as favorable to him as some originally speculated.
Bring on the Giro
I am excited to see him match up against Cunego and others. Luckily for Basso the giro TT has some climbing in it so top speed is not as necessary as a flat TT. This should be interesting with so many former Giro winners in the field, all of whom seem to be going pretty well right now.
Is that your work?
I may need to incorporate it someplace.
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 23, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
I was trying to find that a couple of days ago
(doubloons are no substitute).
Thanks. Overall...
1. Brajkovic
2. Basso – 4"
3. Niemiec – 22"
Niemiec is my compatriot :-)…
Regardless of the final outcome
I just hope it’s not extrememly one sided, like in 2006. That year everyone one was anticipating this huge battle between Basso, Cunego, Savoldelli, Di Luca, Simoni, etc. but in the end it was so anti climatic. After the first long TT you already knew that barring accident or illness that Basso had clinched the race. Keeping my fingers crossed that the race plays out differently this time around.
But 7 years Lance in the Tour was nice!?!?!
Ok you didn’t say that
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Lance in the Giro
Lance is really a wildcard this year. I am really interested to see what happens with him as the projected team leader.
He's leader on the road not for the win
in my book its Levi for the win and Lance as road captain.
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
There is no reason why Levi shouldn't be captain heading into the race
and I hope el Lance works for him if he realizes he can’t win it. This is Levi’s best and maybe last chance to win a GT and I must say I find myself rooting for him to do so.
In Chauncey we trust!
+10.. Always rooting for Ullrich.. Stupid me
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
13. Garzelli - 1'49"
14. Di Luca – 1’50"
28. Kloeden – 2’38"
43. Bruseghin – 3’24"
93. Popowych – 7’18"
Jesh...if Basso put that much time into Garzelli and Di Luca then I don't think they will be around too much in the Giro
Bruseghin is way off as well….
I think Basso will be going quite well in a fortnight + 2 days….But Lance can do anything!!!=)
by Vlaanderen90 on Apr 23, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Repeat to yourself:
This is practice only. Not the real event.
As in, remember how much Valverde beat Sastre in last year’s Dauphine Libere? Then of course, Valverde went on to win the Tour…
Hold on…
From the Gazzetta article that someone linked to in another thread
and that I’m too lazy too look up, it seemed like Di Luca have been sick for a while.
Oh my, I've just fallen in love with Roger De Vlaeminck's sideburns.
by TheFigurehead on Apr 23, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Basso didn't even look to be pushing that hard
he led the main group from about half-way up the mountain and looked very smooth too. Niemic and Caruso were the last ones with him as they hit the 1k flag and they were struggling to keep up. Niemiec took off then on a flyer because this was probably his high spot of the season and it was worth killing himself for. Basso just kept going at a comfortable pace and finally got rid of Caruso.
The other rider who looked good was Simoni who was dropped early on but slowly made his way back through all the riders that Basso had shelled. He crossed the line with Caruso, but Caruso was totally worn out and stopped a couple of centimetres past to get his breath back, while Gibo seemed to give another kick to get quickly past the photographers.
Di Luca was dropped quite early on.
And it was snowing at the finish. Just like Christmas. And Brajkovic is better at opening champagne bottles than Kloden.
You have seen a stream?!
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Rai sport show highlights
in the evenings. Half an hour or so. Just after the duathlon (no, I don’t know which bit they leave out) and before the Italian Baseball.
Ok Thanks..
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
"Gibo seemed to give another kick to get quickly past the photographers"
WTF? Avoid the cameras? This guy can’t be italian. They need to cross-check his DNA, he might be polish or hungarian or something.
Moreover, it is my opinion that Alejandro Valverde is an asshole who should not be allowed to compete in bikeraces right now.
It looked a bit like alpha male posturing sort of stuff
the two riders from the minor teams crossed the line wheezing their guts out, while the two real contenders try to show that they were just riding at that speed for some ulterior training-type motive. He probably shot back to the team bus and fell on the floor in tears.
Or Swedish
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
My eyes, they burn!
Folks, The Chicken was roaming around Trentino.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Him, Vino, Kash... Is Kessler too old?
Sinkewitz is racing in this race. He’s currently in 84th place, right ahead of Popo.
Rumour has it Kessler has been trying to sneak back into racing
using the alias “Cosmo Kramer”
Moreover, it is my opinion that Alejandro Valverde is an asshole who should not be allowed to compete in bikeraces right now.
I know, I know, I know
that once they’ve done their time we should welcome (or at least accept) them back—and in the past I’ve even argued that stance. But now I just want them all to go away and never come back.
You need to do this race two or three times before you can win, despite what Cunego showed us last year: winning in his first try--Frank Schleck, on Amstel Gold
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