Chicchi go BOOM!!
by Jens on Feb 12, 2010 3:36 PM EST
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For those who missed it today here is a chance to see the most amazing effort of the season so far. Fast forward to about 8:30 minutes into the video to see the helishots of Francesco Chicchi of Liquigas making the jump to lightspeed to win todays stage of the Tour of Qatar. Un-be-frickin-lievable!
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Wow, that was a mugging!!
If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have time to do it again?
lol
great call, that.
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 12, 2010 6:57 PM EST up reply actions
Damn....
I wonder if he can keep this up…He had that near 8-10 bike length win in San Luis and now this.
yeah exactly. Damn.
"Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will- it’s only action that can make a man" Faust, Goethe
this is a great sprint!!
No team could assume the command, and the sprinters waiting to spend his fuel late as possible, I’d love to be part of a sprint like this, someday :P
Chici is this kind of a sprinter, no who wants a leadout…i think.
Heckler
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Now Benna isn't even the top sprinter on his team
I can hear Albertina crying in London all the way over here.
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
or Chicchi is on form now but Benna is the guy for the Tour so he is supporting Chicchi now.
Hmmm?
"Awesome! is more about what gets fans excited than what’s harder to do." - Chris...
ha
you beat me to it
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
He's only 2 Pts!!!
What a bargain
"Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs."
Damn, already threw my team in.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
99% of the races he would never be able to pull that off
It was an amazing burst of speed, but his terrible positioning would have had him finishing in 18th place at almost every race. I can’t imagine another race with a more wider run in that would allow someone to swing so far left from so far back and have no one box him in or run him into the barriers.
Still amazing speed, and makes me wonder what he could do with a train and the nose to follow the right wheels.
+1 My take in the live thread too
but it still think it was pretty spectacular. It’s not b-list sprinters he goes past either.
O/T.. I'm looking for the pic of the fanclub in Suisse..
The Die-hard fanclub of Di Gregoirio.. Anybody who can recall the pic with such a vague description?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
You're a great man Jens. You truly are!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
why the camera in the live live
is always the frontal!! Mostly we can’t see nothing, and we just waiting for someone throw the hands up!! If in the live, the camera was from the heli, would not be much more exciting?!
I always wonder that
You see everything from overhead, and every race always switches to the fixed cam at the line right when it would be most useful to see the heli shot. Very annoying, that.
"Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs."
Just realized today that Chicchi was the U23 road champion back in '02.
Never knew that.
"Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will- it’s only action that can make a man" Faust, Goethe
Farrar
Textbook sprint by the Wenatchee Wonder. He positively muscled his way onto Boonen’s wheel, putting off Boasson Hagen with prejudice. Then he slipped into an opening to come around for the… second place. Nothing he could do (legally) to stop Chicchi.
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 12, 2010 6:59 PM EST reply actions
Yeah Farrar did as good a sprint as he could.
I guess the only other thing he could do to stop Chicchi was to sprint faster. :)
"Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will- it’s only action that can make a man" Faust, Goethe
I just want to point out that for a group of people who think sprint stages are boring...
…we’ve gotten awfully sophisticated in our detailed analysis of sprints.
just you wait
till the vuelta
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
The 'tell' will be when we can do it from 10k out
by R Mc on Feb 13, 2010 7:58 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
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That takes a lot of stamina. It’s too early in the season for that kind of effort.
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 13, 2010 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
I loved the messy uncertainty of the last stage of Qatar. I wish they were all that unpredictable.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
With Cav or Greipel out of the picture, you can manage to get unpredictable. ha
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
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