Are we interested? Fewer big names than the Giro but some interesting ones, and my new favourite rider, donkey farmer and Venetian homeboy Marzio Bruseghin is competing, hurray!
I don't know much at all about this race, but I have just watched a video of Bernard Hinault falling 15 feet off a vertical cliff and still go on and win the stage. So please educate and share your knowledge and enthusiasm!
― Mark C, Thursday, 5 June 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago)
ok i just watched the last kilo of stage 1- i dont know that ive ever seen a mass sprint that featured so many gc contenders- leipheimer and evans?
in result not a very fun "sprint" to watch.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 9 June 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago)
ok so it was much more uphill than it appeared to me on the little screen, so it all makes sense.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 9 June 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago)
evans solid; leipheimer, in his chance at stage race glory, cracks like a china doll
watching leipheimer pull a following group in to the line is sorta amusing tho, due to his stature and compact position.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 13 June 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago)
LL: I don’t understand what Cadel was doing. People who win the Tour de France don’t race like that. He was just doing Alejandro’s job for him. Now he has second instead of third. You have to race to win and he wasn’t obviously doing that. Valverde is looking very strong. It looks like Evans is just racing for second. He figures he can’t beat him.
erm, i think everyone understands that evans was dropping you as far into 3rd as he could. he has another crack at valverde tomorrow-- and you're pretty much toast.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 14 June 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago)