As can be short cycling times of the eye - okay, it might have been the World Cup 2010, when I watched the last time a race, Paris-Nice, I have, for lack of attractive mountains, seen only in results - already recognize the Start lists of the race was not hard yet again. When you look at the [...]
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Giro 2010: Ivan Basso wins second overall victory
With the celebrated arrival of Ivan Basso at the Arena of Verona - THAT is an arena! - Ended the 93rd Giro d'Italia. An amazing comeback, but the performance of the team Liquigas-Doimo is even more amazing, all nine riders reached the finish line! Perhaps competition for the big favorites for the Tour de France this [...]
Vs. tour. Giro - The winners
(. Time to update this list times) If you look at the last 25 26 years, one can understand why in France there are possibly more than anti-globalization activists in Italy: Year Giro d'Italia, Tour de France 1983 Giuseppe Saronni (Italy) Laurent Fignon (France) 1984 Francesco Moser (Italy) Laurent Fignon (France) 1985 Bernard Hinault (France), Bernard Hinault [...]
The Black Jersey
Not just because the sun is unpleasant: In the 1940s, there also was a black jersey, for the cyclist who was last in the general classification. (Via Wikipedia)
Giro 2010 - 20 Stage: Johann Tschopp wins the queen stage
Today's leg was broken while the ugly hand ball, but the finale could compensate for the cycling fan I think. At the Passo di Gavia it started, Johann Tschopp managed to win the sprint to Gilberto Simoni and secure the coveted Cima Coppi. In the descent through the ice and snow, he could continue between [...]
Giro 2010 - 16 Stage: mountain time trial to Plan de Corones
For the third time, the organizers wanted fans and drivers splurge and have a set arrival on the Plan de Corones. But the competition of the favorites won at the end of Stefano Garzelli, while Evans was able to make today only half a minute on Basso, since one would have expected more. But the Giro is interesting to Favorites Basso, Evans, Sastre, [...]
Giro 2010 - 12 Stage
What was there for today? Only the bashing Cadel Evans and (as I have since learned) Daniele Righi, then go away and Vincenzo Nibali Wino, but to look at all the time? Has ever won as a stage?
Rally Amsterdam - Verona
As I turn the first time today at the Giro in 2010 in and see what I see? A mud fight - in the truest sense of the word. What the Italians have chosen for there again? Was that intentional or was the asphalt had been gambled away somehow? Alexander Vinokourov came to this assessment: "Come una Roubaix Dura" - the hell [...]
The Giro ...
This year, suffers from the start of the Tour of Italy clearly under the ice hockey world championship and my cold. Last year the two had only two days sporting events overlapped, but this year there are more than two weeks! Cadel and Wino could have the Maglia Rosa to strip and I did not pursue a race kilometers far! Fortunately lie [...]
Giro d'Italia 2010
Nearly two weeks after the presentation of the route of the Tour de France yesterday, the route of the Giro was announced. Also, the Italy tour rolls on in the Netherlands and that the same three stages starting in Amsterdam. Actually, just a shame that there are so few mountains. Selective likely the time trial to Plan de Corones not really [...]
