Posts under 'Giro d'Italia'

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 list of races is not beyond all recognition. If you look at the [...]

With the arrival of Ivan Basso celebrated in 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! Perhaps competition for the big favorites for the Tour de France this [...]

(. Time to update this list once) 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 [...]

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)

Today's leg was broken while the ugly handball, but the finale could compensate for the cycling fan I think. Passo Gavia on Tues 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 [...]

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 in the end Stefano Garzelli, while Evans was able to make up for today only half a minute on Basso, since one would have expected more. But the Giro is interesting to Favorites Basso, Evans, Sastre, [...]

What was there for today? Only in kloppen Cadel Evans and (as I have since learned), Daniele Righi, then go away Wino and Vincenzo Nibali, but look at all the time? Was won as per a stage?

As I turn now for the first time in 2010 at the Giro 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 dura Roubaix" - the hell [...]

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 overlap, but this year there are more than two weeks! Cadel and Wino could have the Maglia Rosa to strip and I'm not pursuing a racing kilometers before! Fortunately lie [...]

Just two weeks after the presentation of the route of the Tour de France yesterday, the route of the Giro was announced. 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 should be the time trial to Plan de Corones, not really [...]