2009 giro d'italia Stories - Podium Cafe
Two Year Bans for Pellizotti and Caucchioli in Biopassport Cases
The sports arbitration court (CAS-TAS) in Lausanne announced their decision today in the biopassport cases of Franco Pellizotti and Pietro Caucchioli. Both Pellizotti and Caucchioli will serve two year bans as a consequence of this decision. Maybe it was the hair? Caucchioli will serve two years...
Uncommon Weekend
This month we set yet another traffic milestone, that six months in a row. We almost broke the all-time Uncommon traffic record for one month. Thanks for boosting my epeen, Growing Readership. P'zownd, via nbcsportsmedia3.msnbc.com Another clash of the gorging titans ends with Kobayashi crowned...
Giro d'Italia, On the Scene at Stage 16
For the riders, it was a Monday in hell. For me, another fantastic day at the Giro. Story and more pictures on the flip... I enjoyed tghe ride up to Monte Petrano from Cagli, even with the ridiculous heat. The first half of the climb was quite hard, and I was glad I had looked at the profile...
Giro d'Italia, On the Scene at Stages 13 and 14
In Firenze, the race security let those of us with press passes remain closer to the finish line than usual, in the area usually reserved for holders of photographer passes. It was exciting, but because I was up there rather than back with the soigneurs, I didn't get the usual post-stage...
Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Post-Stage Thread
Dangerous but not decisive was the guess for this stage pre-race and dangerous but not decisive was the outcome. Some atacking by Basso, Garzelli and a little one by Di Luca came to naught. Top five on the day: 1/ Leonardo Bertagnolli Diqui 2. Serge Pauwells Cervello .54 3. Marco...
Giro d'Italia Stage 14... Live!!
Well this should be a rollicking good time. Which is a little annoying, as we head into week three: I want the main course from now on! But then, if Danilo DiLuca steals the stage on the final climb, as everyone expects, maybe we really are enjoying the main course. Alright then... five climbs on...
End Game Revisited
It never fails to interest me. We look at the GC standings after a mid-Grand Tour stage and think they'll stay that way till the end. Of course they never do. There are always multiple big stages at the end which shuffle then reshuffle the GC. But still, we think in week two that we've seen it all....
Closing The Deal- With Numbers!
We're halfway done with this Giro and the obviousstoryline is can Di Luca close the deal? So I thought it would be instructive to look back at a bunch of recent Grand Tours to see who was leading after stage 11, where they finished, and if there was a different winner, where were they post-stage...
Che Polemica! On the Scene at Stage Nine of the Giro
I didn't get a lot of pictures at the Milano show, but this is my favorite, Renshaw and Boasson Hagen celebrating just after crossing the line. The stage headquarters was far from the finish area, so I skipped the podium ceremony to be sure I made it to the press conference, and I'm glad I...
Giro d'Italia, On the Scene at Stage Eight
Today in Bergamo, I decided to watch the race out on the road, rather than stay in the finish area. In my morning scouting trip, I found a good spot near the top of the steep climb into Bergamo Alta, about 4 kilometers from the finish. I timed how long it would take me to walk from there to...
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