Giro d'Italia

[Gizmoish]

Four sprint stages, four wins. Capello!

[BlackVanDyke]

That was one hell of a sprint from Cav. I'm pleased that I kept Majka on my fantasy cycling lineup, too.

[HurryUpAndWait]

JonnyFive said:

Extremely impressive to see the overhead sprint by Cavendish!

- he always seems to have just enough in the tank as well to hold them off on the line. The guy who was second was banging his handle bars. Cav was smirking It must be so frustrating to be a decent sprinter in the UCI world tour at present. How do you solve a problem like Cavendish?!

[hornetrider]

JonnyFive said:

Extremely impressive to see the overhead sprint by Cavendish!

Just caught the highlights - that was from a long way out, bravo!

[Gizmoish]

HurryUpAndWait said:

How do you solve a problem like Cavendish?!

I reckon the only way is to team time trial the last 20km and break OPQS, lose his train (good luck doing it when Boonen gets back though).

[SmoothCriminal]

Such a good move from Cav to leave team Sky realised he had no chance of building a team with them concentrating on gc and is now reaping the rewards.

[BlackVanDyke]

Gizmoish said:

HurryUpAndWait said:

How do you solve a problem like Cavendish?!

I reckon the only way is to team time trial the last 20km and break OPQS, lose his train (good luck doing it when Boonen gets back though).

That, or by picking the races he doesn't go to... probably still just about possible to end up with more world tour points if someone works their arse off.

[JonnyFive]

He did look absolutely knackered after the race today, post interview he was pretty much asleep already!

[mcelliott]

Ah! Frustrating. No feed from the helicopters today - same again tomorrow I fear.

[HurryUpAndWait]

It's quite exciting watching this - peering into the gloom - who's going to emerge?!!

[anonymous-user]

HurryUpAndWait said:

It's quite exciting watching this - peering into the gloom - who's going to emerge?!!

Here comes someone! Oh it's a car.

[anonymous-user]

. . . Look here's another motorbike.

[anonymous-user]

Wait the crowd are getting excited oh it's a car with some bikes on the roof. The anticipation is certainly mounting.

[HurryUpAndWait]

Nibali!

[mcelliott]

Santambrogio!! What a rider! Love to see him on the podium.

[anonymous-user]

copied from live.cyclingnews.com

There was talk about riders being unhappy with the conditions set for the descent of the col du mont cenis, with sub zero temperatures expected but the stage will go ahead as planned from yesterday's meeting.

It means that the stage will not finish at the summit of the Col du Galibier but 4.25km further down the climb at the Marco Pantani memorial.

After long negotiations with French authorities it has been agreed that the stage will finish at the Pantani monument, 10km further up the Galibier, at an altitude of 2,295m. The Pantani monument marks the spot where Italian rider attacked in the rain to secure victory in the 1998 Tour de France.

They confirmed that the stage will follow the start as planned in Cesana Torinese and climb the Col du Mont Cenis after 58km because there is no alternative route over the Alps into France. The stage will start at 1:00pm local time instead of 12:30 as scheduled.

[London424]

I do love how the Europeans immortalise massive drug cheats while trying their hardest to irradicate the cheating Americans.

[mcelliott]

Ha ha, the only neutralised descent in the whole race and Wiggins isn't even there.

[JonnyFive]

Horrible looking weather!

[Johnny]

JonnyFive said:

Horrible looking weather!

It's making me cold just looking at it!