Giro,Giro,Giro:2nd,3rd and 4th stage

Some not very nice things have happened in the last few days in cycling.For example, Boonen has been found AGAIN positive to cocaine and Valverde has been disqualified for 2 years on the Italian territory (even if it seems that Spanish people are ready to fight with CONI about this fact). Anyway I'm fed up about those problems and so in this post I'm going to talk just about the Giro.
So: after the TT,two stages were won by Petacchi.Yes,Petacchi and not Cavendish.And the Italian sprinter also got the pink jersey after yesterday’s victory. A lot of things happened yesterday in the last kms: Voigt and some other brave riders tried forming a breakaway,Leipheimer joined them and at the same time there was a fall in the last part of the peloton.Soler fell (he falls even more often than Frank!) and Cavendish and Menchov lost time.Cavendish also lost the pink jersey,a thing for which he was very angry.Menchov tried recuperating,but didn’t manage to.He had already lost 13 seconds because of a fall,so probably yesterday he was even less-smiley than usual (can you imagine it?).Another guy who wasn’t happy at all was Vandevelde,who had to ritire with a broken rib.Wish him a good recover.
Anyway,going back to yesterday’s last kms,also Bruseghin tried attacking after that the small breakaway was caught.The tifosi screamed a lot since he lives near to the place where yesterday’s stage ended.Unfortunately he was caught as well by the main group.The last rider who tried the winning action was Visconti,with that horrible ISD kit (Am I the only one who thinks that with that kit ISD riders look a bit like...Insects?).Unfortunately for him,he was caught as well and so the victory was decided by a sprint,which was won by Ale-Jet Petacchi.Second came Tyler Farrar,a young good rider of Garmin.
And let’s talk about today.Before of the San Martino di Castrozza’s climb Jens Voigt,De Bonis,Bellotti,Viganò,Stannard and Martinez went on a breakaway.Jens was the last to get caught,with just 3 kms to go (Damn!).At that point Soler attacked and managed to gain a little advantadge.Anyway 3 kms were too much for him and so Di Luca passed him in the last 500 meters and won the stage.Second came Garzelli,third Pellizotti.All the big names were in the first group,except Michael Rogers (who crossed the finish line 6 seconds after Di Luca) and sir Lancelot,who arrived after 15 seconds.Oh,and a funny thing about sir Lancelot was that,at a certain point during the breakaway,Italian tv showed the names of the riders who were in front.And that writing said:Voigt,Bellotti,De Bonis and ARMSTRONG.The Astana rider was actually in the group with the other riders,but this can tell you something about the attention that Italian medias pay to him.

Anyway,don’t worry: I haven’t forgotten who took the jersey today (especially because the joyful screams of someone are still ringing in my head).Thomas Lovkvist is a rider I really do like and he also seems to be a nice guy.And today he's taken the Giro’s pink jersey.Happiness.I laughed a lot (I know I'm a bit bad) when he went on the podium and had problems with opening his bottle of wine.It was pretty hilarious and it reminded me of when Andy Schleck (at the Giro as well) broke the zip of his white jersey during the premiation.He kept on looking at it and seemed to think “let’s hope nobody notices the broken zip!” Good old days back in Giro 2007.
So,tomorrow will be a tough stage (tougher than today's one,at least that's what people here in Italy say).I hope Lovkvist can keep his jersey at least until Saturday.Good luck Thomas!