Giro d'Italia 2008

yes i am exciteds

I exciteds too, there is an ILE thread on this too. I am most excited about stage 16, I think it is, the all climbing time trial with the 24% gradients.

vandevelde in pink?

yup

god the slipstream team is going to keep winning, i know it

I know I'm a cheapskate, but does anyone know of any free streams for the Giro?

ohshit Zabriskie out :(

THe Rai stream is apparently worldwide and free:

http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/

Alternatively:

http://www.giroditalia.rai.it/

although the stream is not working for me but that may just be because of our awful net connection here at work.

tears for z--he is my favorite :(

Slight anticlimax at the end there but at least the Italian won :) Several race-ending crashes today, by the sound of it - Bradley McGee has been taken to hospital and Ricco may have to pull out with a hand injury.

Did the stream work for you?

Yup, pretty much perfectly.

Thanks very much, sorry for not thanking you before.

No worries, I justed wanted to know as it was a complete bust in my office.

couldnt get rai to work yestiday

too bad for millar. i didnt realize that the 3km rule applied to broken chains, i thot it was just crashes.

yknow the joke about how ppl tend to say that things were best when they were 27 y/o? thats the way i feel about cycling drivetrains. 10 spds seem fragile and they wear out fast. 9 fuckin speeds bitches!

After looking at the chainthat Mr. Millar broke today, the mechanics are plain dumbfounded. It didn’t break on the pin, but right in the middle of the link.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xqTKaDmUr1w

FUCKIN EPIC.

wau

<3 Millar

bummed about o'grady and mcgee too.

Wonder what the odds are of an Italian winning the whole Giro?

100%

put yr money down folks, its itt #1.

is savoldelli secretly super fit and winning shit this year? hes at 5-1 to win.

i think the favorite is my favorite too, Kloeden.

Yeah I like Kloden.

And, even though I don't like him particularly, I hope McEwen gets a stage.

Here's a picture of stage 10 winner Marzio Bruseghin with a donkey.

http://www.marziobruseghin.it/img/Foto%20campagna/a.jpg

Excellent. Can you post one of Mark Cavendish with a monkey next?

does cavendish raise monkeys?

Fuck me, Cavendish can sprint.

OMG he got an enormous bag full of parmesan for winning, lucky sod.

I really, really enjoyed watching the teams jockeying for position over the last 10km of today's stage. Surprised Liquigas and High Road were once again allowed to dominate at the front. Great work from the domestiques.

Blimey. A British (?) rider winning TWO STAGES in a major tour. This never happens. Get that monkey picture now.

betting you see a lot more of that for years to come

Wonder what the odds are of an Italian winning the whole Giro?

-- Mark C, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:09 (1 week ago)

100%

-- cutty, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:53 (1 week ago)

That fucker Contador is going to win it. All the others are jousting and he's pulling away, a few seconds at a time. Assuming he won the Tour clean, he's got to be a huge favourite now.

Assuming he won the Tour clean

Do we assume that?

winning the giro on short notice... easy

Assuming he won the Tour clean

Do we assume that?

I don't really know. I'm never sure what to assume. It's certainly more satisfying if you assume a level playing field for everyone, and he has never tested positive, and it's only hearsay (and the "incriminating" initials "AC" in a Puerta document) that he might not be. The alternatives are to assume he wasn't clean in the tour but is now, which means he might not have the stamina to win, or assume he was doping before and is still doping, in which case he's presumably bulletproof, but now we have far too many variables which indicate he either will or won't win the tour. Which is no help :)

Greipel and Cavendish. Absolute fucking genius. Smiling like a loon.

shit aint over. i seem to be seeing stuff like its contador's barring catastrophe...

1. Contador
2. Ricco' at 4"
3. Di Luca at 21"

Exciting!!

wish i could see this stage, live reports sounded amazing

“What I’d like to ask Sella and (Domenico) Pozzovivo if they’d thought they would win the Giro? Contador always finds someone like that who helps him. No one ever helps me,” said Riccò, who unleashed an angry Italian curse at the summit. “They should have stayed on Contador’s wheel and let him pull. People have been saying that Contador is stronger than me on the climbs, but as far as I can remember, I’ve dropped him on ever summit finish."

what a show. boy he really comes across as a jerk tho.