Archive for the '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 lists of the race was not hard yet again. When you look at the [...]

It is again that time of the year in which my two favorite sports with important events overlap. While it is played in Slovakia for the title of world champion in ice hockey, going to Italy the riders at the start to win in the first major tour of the year, make out with each other. While the two sports [...]

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 [...]

(. 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

I read that Danilo Hondo arrived in second place - - the current stage of the Giro again, of course I missed it but I stumbled across an unusual race. It's called Red Bull Desafio No Morro (loosely translated well "challenge in the streets" - Where boundary walls are the Portuguese, who compile the aptly times?) [...]

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, [...]

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?

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 [...]