Teacher's question:"Who was the third person to circumnavigate the globe?".Moment of silence.The girl who was being tested: "Cavendish!" And then I should manage not to think about cycling when I'm at school,eh? Anyway.Yesterday's Giro stage was won by Cavendish (not the one who circumnavigate the globe,another one) and second arrived Petacchi.The Italian rider complained (again) about Farrar and said "He said something to me after the finish-line,I don't know what he wanted from me,I just told him 'Fuck You'". Bonjour Finesse! But why did they have this little argument? Well,Petacchi was behind Cavendish when the sprint started,then he (Petacchi) acelerated and created problems to Farrar (not intentionally,I think).Farrar complained about that and Petacchi sent him...in that land (that's an Italian way of saying 'Fuck You'.It's slightly more polite...).
Some days before Petacchi complained again about Farrar because the Garmin rider elbowed a bit with him.Nobody saw anything,except Petacchi.It looks as if the two guys just can't stand each other.
Talking about Cavendish:yesterday he was "super,super happy" for his victory because he lives near to Florence.Then in the evening he decided not to continue the Giro.I don't like this choosing of him,but there are also other riders (McEwen for example) who usually do this in nearly all the Grand Tours they race.I hope this won't become a habit for Cavendish.
Oh,and talking about retires: also HGS had to retire.He fell in the stage before of the TT,but I think he got retired because his HGP-Hair Gel Power-wasn't as powerful as usual in this Giro and so he probably decided to save it for the next races.
Today's stage: the last 2 kms were just awful.Here's where Frank Schleck won the Giro d'Emilia 2007.
Today's stage: the last 2 kms were just awful.Here's where Frank Schleck won the Giro d'Emilia 2007.Today Di Luca really wanted to win,but his team left too much advantadge time to the breakaway riders.They were Simon Gerrans and Guillame Bonnafond (AG2r), Giampaolo Cheula (Barloworld), Christopher Froome (Barloworld), Vasili Kiryienka (Caisse d'Epargne), Philip Deignan (Cervelo), Giovanni Visconti (ISD), Andriy Grivko (ISD), Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre), Francesco Reda (Quick Step), Rubens Bertaglioti (Diquigiovanni), Evgeny Petrov (Katusha), Martin Müller (Milram) and Eduard Vorganov (Xacobeo).In the last 10 kms there were "just" 9 riders at the head of the race (Mueller,Vorganov,Cheula,Bonnaford and Visconti had aleady been dropped) and Grivko tried attacking before of the last climb.Behind,just Lpr tried catching the breakaway but couldn't manage to.
One of the firsts to attack on the last climb was Chris Froome,who then had serious problems with getting to the finish line.The final winner was Simon Gerrans,the one who won in Prato Nevoso last year.And then people say (used to say?) that he's a sprinter...
The GC guys who lost time today were Basso,Leipheimer (they both lost 3 seconds),Rogers (6 seconds),Lovkvist (he lost 33 seconds and arrived together with Seeldrayers) and Simoni (who lost about 40 seconds).De Greef arrived 41st.There was a polemic between Lpr's team and the other teams (Liquigas in particular) because,as Bordonali said, "We (Lpr) had to do all the work alone".Basso and his ds replied that "Bologna stage wasn't very suitable to Liquigas' riders,so we prefered to let the breakaway go rather than seeing Di Luca winning and gaining 20 seconds".This was the same thing that Menchov said.The best reply to Lpr,in my opinion,was Popovych's one "The one who was interested in this stage was Di Luca.Nobody forced his team to pull,it was their decision and so it was also their problem".In English it doesn't sound special,but the way Popovych said it to an Italian journalist,in Italian,with his cool accent,made me laugh a lot (in italiano veramente ha detto "sono cavoli loro" e poi è scoppiato a ridere nonostante le occhiatacce di Sgarbozza...).That's the Giro and these are Italian people:unfortunately we like creating polemics,it's inside our genes and we can't help it...
The GC guys who lost time today were Basso,Leipheimer (they both lost 3 seconds),Rogers (6 seconds),Lovkvist (he lost 33 seconds and arrived together with Seeldrayers) and Simoni (who lost about 40 seconds).De Greef arrived 41st.There was a polemic between Lpr's team and the other teams (Liquigas in particular) because,as Bordonali said, "We (Lpr) had to do all the work alone".Basso and his ds replied that "Bologna stage wasn't very suitable to Liquigas' riders,so we prefered to let the breakaway go rather than seeing Di Luca winning and gaining 20 seconds".This was the same thing that Menchov said.The best reply to Lpr,in my opinion,was Popovych's one "The one who was interested in this stage was Di Luca.Nobody forced his team to pull,it was their decision and so it was also their problem".In English it doesn't sound special,but the way Popovych said it to an Italian journalist,in Italian,with his cool accent,made me laugh a lot (in italiano veramente ha detto "sono cavoli loro" e poi è scoppiato a ridere nonostante le occhiatacce di Sgarbozza...).That's the Giro and these are Italian people:unfortunately we like creating polemics,it's inside our genes and we can't help it...
I like to say that HGS quit because Cancellara quit.
RispondiEliminaThat could be a reason.Or maybe he decided to retire because he wanted to please his roommate Swift.He had already got some good results,perhaps now he'll be able to get a victory.
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