2010 Giro d'Italia in Amsterdam: Details Emerging
by Susie Hartigan on Sep 23, 2009 6:28 PM EDT
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PrintCycling fans in Amsterdam will have easy access to the first three stages of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, as the city will host the starts of all three stages.
According to a press release issued today by RCS, stage one will be an individual time trial, starting and finishing at Museumplein, one of Amsterdam's main squares. Stage two will also start at Museumplein, and will finish in Utrecht. Stage three will start in the Zuidas district of Amsterdam, and finish in Middelburg.
No word yet as to what happens after that. A transfer to Italy after just three days of racing would make for a very early rest day, leading to speculation that stage four may also take place outside Italy, perhaps in Belgium. This would follow the pattern of this year's Vuelta, as well as the 2006 Giro, which had four stages in Belgium before a transfer/rest day on day five.
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If I am reading google translate fairly right, what I get from Italian cycling forums
it appears there may be a chance of a finish on top of Gavia(the mountain of course!), also Zoncolan and Terminillo should be included and Mortirolo in the stage to the Gavia. So ridiculously awesome is what I’m saying.
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
Not as many firm rumors as last year this time
even though I believe the presentation is earlier this year, likely in November. But those mountains should be included…lets hope!
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
I've seen the forum talk
of a Gavia stage finish, but that may just be wishful thinking on the part of forumites.
As I understand it, the reason there has never been a Gavia summit finish is that the pass lacks the infrastructure necessary for a stage finish. It’s common to locate stage finishes in places where there’s no room for the team buses, and it’s not unheard of to have the stage headquarters (press room, race jury, etc.) located a few kilometers from the top of a remote climb, but they still need somewhere to put the stages and other finish line apparatus, as well as all the trucks carrying that gear and the RAI set-up.
The return of the fearsome Zoncolan sounds like a more solid rumor, and according to someone at the cicloweb forum, a recent print edition of Tuttosport listed a summit finish on the Terminillo as a sure thing.
by Susie Hartigan on Sep 23, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, the Mortirolo-Gavia finish stage is probably more wishful thinking
and hell it would be an absolute beauty, but it’s probably more likely that there will be a descent off the Gavia with Mortirolo still coming first, but how about Mortirolo, Zoncolan, Gavia, Terminillo in the same Giro, oh and a new climb has been rumored, the Sega di Ala I believe, but I could be misunderstanding if that’s for this year or not.
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
yep, sounds like it could be a real sufferfest
after a 2009 course that was a bit shy on the 10+% grades that are so dear to Zomegnan’s heart. If the rumors are true, this could be a course very much to Basso’s liking (especially if the tt kilometers are kept to a minimum).
by Susie Hartigan on Sep 23, 2009 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Those grades are what make the Giro unique
this year’s route was orginial, something new…OK enough of that, bring back the killers! But not the killer.
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
Rockies Magic Number: 7
Yep, not much up there
I think there’s a small ski-restaurant type spot and that’s it. No real space for Giro accessories.
Did I dream it, or was there a Mortirolo finish in the past? I think I dreamed it. They did to Gavia-Mortirolo-Sesterière in 2006 – that was a good stage. Simoni called Basso an extraterrestrial. And said he descended like a sack of potatoes. Damn, those were some good times there.
I believe you dreamed it
but the first rider to pass the top of it now gets the Cima Pantani, in honor of you know whom.
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
Rockies Magic Number: 7
Ah, 2006...
not much suspense in the race results, but the polemica was first-rate :-)
Damn, I would so love to see Simoni find a bit of his old fire and win a third Zoncolan stage! Not likely at this point, but a girl can dream.
by Susie Hartigan on Sep 23, 2009 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL, indeed
I did enjoy that part. The polemica this year lacked a certain humor value. Better luck next year, anyway.
The Giro in Amsterdam
would be like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and four-twenty all in one day. Someone start working on press credentials for Ted and Frinkster…
Thatn would be serious be so cool.. Dunno waht I can with them but if i can question the riders it would be superb..
Only thin is i have an appointment with my Old grandpa to go here. So can i combine that? Hmmm.. Questions, questions, questions
Breaking!
Tour of California to start in Holland from now on…
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 23, 2009 6:56 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Ok
Milano-sanremo to start in Holland.
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 23, 2009 8:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Tour of Flanders to be raced entirely within Holland next year
how you like that one Chris?
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
Rockies Magic Number: 7
That's not funny
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 23, 2009 10:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
What’s the 2010 WADA list got to say about recreational use? Has there been a change lobbied for by the good burgers of Hamsterjam?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
I'm not sure it matters
because the UCI are half giving up on the bio-passport by the looks of things. A press release they sent out today had the strange line in it:
The Management Committee also decided to abandon the classification of UCI Professional Continental Teams participating in the biological passport programme as it had not stimulated the anticipated interest.
and I don’t have the slightest idea what that means. Some very strange things happened with the way the BP was applied to Pro-Conti teams last year, but I’m sure most of them signed up in the end, even if they had to pay a pretty substantial premium for odd, random, reasons. Does it mean that Pro-Conti won’t have the option next year to sign up as a team but have to pay the per rider rate, or is the whole thing being scrapped below ProTour level. Who speaks UCI-ese here?
Giving up?!? Divil the bet. Fat Pat’s declared perpetual war for perpetual peace so he has. So that’d make the Pro-Conti thing a strategic withdrawal. Sort of like Dunkirk.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Meh
don’t know yet if I’ll go. I mean, it’s more than 20 minutes by train and I’ll probably have a better view on TV.
HTFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
YOU SPOILED BASTARDS SICKEN ME!
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
No....no it doesn't
and it’s just two GT’s next year, the most beautiful and the most important. I am personally hunting you down if you don’t go to both!
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
I meant one year..
But I have no idea if I’m going to make it to the Tour.. Never see the Tour due steering huts etc.
Steering huts? What?!
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
We need
A Frinking-to-English translator
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 23, 2009 10:24 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The steering hut popped up in a Frinking-to-English translation
Earlier this year. Mayhem ensued.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Sep 24, 2009 3:29 AM EDT up reply actions
We'll all pitch in and buy you a wireless access point
Dan will fly over and hook it up. Gavia will tell you what to write. All you have to do is… ah, fuck it…
Ha!
Slacker. I’ll be right there. With Extension cables.
I’ll do the writing. You supply the beer. And keep supplying the beer.
ZOMG GiRO!!!
And none of that watery crap
Gav demands Oranjeboom
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 23, 2009 8:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Oranjeboom? Isn't that like, undrinkable?
tedvdw, surely you can supply Gav with better than Oranjeboom?
But isn't that half the fun?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Glad we're of some use
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Dude!
I think it’s frinking frigging friggin fantastic. Three stages starting in my hometown. At two of them I can see them disapear, walk back in ten minutes to my home and watch it live on tv!
Suddenly, I think I love politics and money
enjoy the feeling
it never lasts.
ABRUZZIAM...uh oh
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 24, 2009 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Just read an article posted on the Italian cycling forum
presentation is on October 24th in Milano, and it seemed Zoncloan, Terminillo, and Mortirolo are all but confirmed.
Dammit Elk! I don't care if it's your mating season, you are disturbing my peaceful sleep! Just STFU!
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