Giro d'Italia Wildcards
by TheFigurehead on Mar 7, 2011 12:11 PM EST
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Announced today, article at the Gazzetta. Five wildcards plus the other 18 teams means that there will be 23 teams and 207 riders in the Giro.
- Acqua & Sapone (Ita)
- Androni Giocattoli (Ita)
- Colnago-CSF (Ita)
- Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli (GB)
- Geox-TMC (Spa).
Is it May yet? Actually, I hope not since it means I missed the Spring Classics season. But really, hurry up anyway. Did you know that I need ten more words to make it 75?
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Vacansoleil is listed
I would assume permission from the UCI was needed to invite 23 teams and that brinkmanship was Vacansoleil’s invite was involved.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
UCI gave them an exemption on the 200 rider limit
“RCS Sport-La Gazzetta dello Sport, nel ringraziare l’Uci per la deroga concessa a superare il limite dei 200 corridori…”
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Mar 7, 2011 8:33 AM EST up reply actions
RCS invited 23 teams to Lombardia as well
When they had to retro-invite RSH
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Don't think the rules say anything about how many teams that are allowed
But there’s a 200 rider limit. Some races have 25 teams, like Paris-Roubaix last year.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Mar 7, 2011 8:44 AM EST up reply actions
If they're going to invite that many teams
I don’t know why they didn’t let PdC put together a team and join in the fun!
Hm
I like the idea. But the course is a little climby for me. Maybe Gavia or Sminer can be our GC threat and I’ll just go stage hunting. In southern towns… where the day prizes are more interesting.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 7, 2011 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
can i DS?
or does littlebear have that position already?
allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez allez
see, i’ve been practicing.
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
Without radios everyone can be a DS
"I love bike races warm up, warm down, cobbles mountains or flats."
perezbike
.
I heard, Mexican beef is especially tender!
"I love bike races warm up, warm down, cobbles mountains or flats."
perezbike
.
Or, failing that,
Chinese!
"There is nobody doing it for the money. Everybody is doing it because they want to ride bikes." Lizzie Armitstead
wrong language
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
I believe that was a Marc Madiot reference
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Mar 8, 2011 2:18 AM EST up reply actions
So that would be
Menchov vs Contador vs Nibali vs Scarponi vs Kreuziger/Kiserlovski vs Rodriquez/Di Luca vs Anton?
I love it when…
You forgot Pozzovivo.
A bike should have a voice... it should speak to you, and you should hear it, and what it should say is: "Attack!" - sminer
Could be.
But the Vuelta roster is going to be awesome too.. Rodri, Menchov, Anton, Gesink, VandenBroeck, Samsan, Nibali Maybe Scarponi
And the Tour roster
Schleck, Schleck, Van den Broeck, Gesink, Samsan, Basso
I bet I missed some
Oh and I have J-rod and Mencov and Scarponi and Anton and Kreuziger and Gesink. for the Vuelta!!!
Sooooo hoping that Scarponi does the double too!
'When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning' - Dr. Reiner Knizia
by bought with blood on Mar 8, 2011 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
Yay and I have Menchov, and J-rod, and Scarponi, and Kreuziger, and Anton.
Loving This so much Go Geox Way to get invited to the big show!!!
'When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning' - Dr. Reiner Knizia
by bought with blood on Mar 8, 2011 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
Great newsfor me
This means a lot of my VDS guys will get to ride the Giro, I have 6 guys on these teams
gotta love the man
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
HUZZAH!!!
Geox!! My Menchov VDS strategy works!!
Um, also I think he’ll make the race better.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 7, 2011 12:42 PM EST reply actions
Menchov's my outsider
Anton’s my favourite.
Either wins, i’ll be SO happy!
(Anton preferably, for VDS reasons too xD )
GIRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
once more the impossible has happened, I am even more excited for it now.
It's Timofey MOZGOD time
Ujiri for MVE
GALLO!!!
One and a half hilly weeks. Two classics fortnights. And a Swiss week away
(calendar not exact)
It's Timofey MOZGOD time
Ujiri for MVE
GALLO!!!
That's so long
Can’t we, like, time travel? I need some more Italy now that my hit of Eroica is over. I’m twitching already.
My fruit bowl is full of sex wax--gavia
by Douglas Ansel on Mar 7, 2011 8:17 PM EST up reply actions
could be interesting...
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
Add "Vacansoleil"
as the “V” entry in the alphabetical catalog of why the UCI is the worst organization ever. So they made some useless mutterings about reconsidering their status, which amounted to nothing besides destabilizing a team and some sponsors, if only briefly. I guess you could also file that one under “P” for “pointless political posturing.”
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 7, 2011 2:17 PM EST reply actions
mmm
that was different, no? As in, file under “A” for ASO vs UCI, or “M” for “Mopping the floor with the UCI, by ASO.”
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 7, 2011 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
i love alphabet soup
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
Have you ever had homemade alphabet soup?
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Do you have to make your own alphabet?
"It was getting colder and colder as we went up. About halfway up, I started to go a little backwards and as I passed Thor he looked at me and said, "If you lose my wheel I will smash you." I took his wheel and found an extra gear." João Correia
nope
but i’d love to try
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
you mean
my vds team?
http://podiumcafevds.com/teams.php?y=2011&uid=326
by zr1 on Mar 8, 2011 6:22 AM EST up reply actions
The fact the UCI have allowed Zom to invite 25
Means we get all the teams we wanted, including De-rosa, who i thought were going to miss out.
The line up of Riders, the Parcours…
Last years Giro was epic beyond belief.
This years is something to tell the kids when they come along.
IT IS GOING TO BE AMAZING.
But inviting more teams is more control in the peloton.
Could be a not open race is less spectacle.. I’m curious to see how it is going to work out
TT1 exclusion
They were afraid of Jure Kocjan embarrassing the high profile sprinters.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
good point.
TT1 not quite a member of the old boys club.
Not sufficiently Italian, more like.
After all, if ASO are also playing the nationalistic game…
"There is nobody doing it for the money. Everybody is doing it because they want to ride bikes." Lizzie Armitstead
Is he a comedian?
I don’t see him as a sprinter, but a rider for the more challenging stages. I would have been really surprised if TT1 got a spot. Not that RCS hasn’t surprised us before, that NGC Medical-whatever team was selected, at first, in 2008.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Mar 7, 2011 5:14 PM EST up reply actions
Was meant more as a joke
I don’t know who or wtf kind of rider Kocjan is, but a quick glance around the webbie shows that he and the rest of the cycling world see him as a sprinter.
Kocjan, who finished a strong second last Saturday in the GP Regio Insubrica in Varese and 4th the following day at the GP Citta di Lugano in Switzerland, finished 10th at the Giro del Friuli in 2010, and said the long, flat finish would likely mean a bunch sprint on Thursday.
"The course changes every year, and the finish on Thursday is in a completely different town from 2010. The five finishing circuits are hard, and the other teams will be going full gas on the last pass up the climb. I think if I can show the same form I had last weekend in Varese and Lugano I can get to the finish in the first group," said Kocjan
Do I really think he can take out the likes of Cav and Bennati, idk, but no.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
That quote doesn't say he's a sprinter
Perhaps he was a few years ago, but nowadays he gets result when there are a few hills here and there. Like in Varese and Lugano, none of them were bunch sprints (though it would’ve been funny to see Basso win a bunch gallop).
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Mar 8, 2011 2:32 AM EST up reply actions
Well there were several pages that specifically referred to him as a sprinter
but he does seem more as you describe him.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
VDS regrets already
I assumed Geox had been given the bum steer this year. Apparently not. Good for them, bad for me.
yep
Considered & rejected Menchov. Felline will just have to not fall off his bike & get multiple stage wins.
"There is nobody doing it for the money. Everybody is doing it because they want to ride bikes." Lizzie Armitstead
hehe I have Menchov and Felline
And Duarte, Monsalve, Serpa and Rujano.
Brilliant choice of wildcards IMO
I didn't risk picking Menchov
but I was hoping that Geox would get the big invites so that riders like Ratto and Pelucchi would get a chance to ride for themselves in smaller races.
Kump too
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 8, 2011 6:45 PM EST up reply actions
Got him too
It’s funny that although people were saying how Geox was just Sastre, Menchov, and the seven dwarves, they’ve got some of the best up and coming riders around. And some great VDS bargains.
This just super cool
The Giro just keeps getting better and better.
There were a lot of fresh cowboys in the peloton and it was a nervous fuss. Tommeke
the world's greatest training race
i kid. i just can’t let people challenge the superiority of the TdF without throwing in my two centimes.
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
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