Miguel Angel Lopez does it again. The guy's a disaster area!
Highlights are on Quest.
Miguel Angel Lopez does it again. The guy's a disaster area!
What the hell happened there? It looked very odd.
Highlights are on Quest.
Highlights are on Quest.
It's not the same without *** & Super D :'(
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Aren't we getting a lolspeak thread for the Giro?
A bit of a bump in the road and the bidons go flying. There looked to be quite a few skittling around.
I wonder if any stage wins are likely for Geraint.
I wonder if any stage wins are likely for Geraint.
Nope: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/geraint-thomas-out-of-giro-ditalia/
Is it just me, or is Sicily a dump? I assume the Cosa Nostra have nice houses.
Is it just me, or is Sicily a dump? I assume the Cosa Nostra have nice houses.
There's almost certainly going to be snow in the mountains. Let's hope Kruiswiyk makes it through it unscathed (I forget which Giro it was he crashed into a snow bank while in pink).
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
He certainly has an interesting way of pronouncing the riders names.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
He thinks he can speak the lingo with a proper accent innit? I just take the piss out of him.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
He thinks he can speak the lingo with a proper accent innit? I just take the piss out of him.
His pronunciation of “Steven Kruijswijk” leaves something to be desired too, notably consistency. “Starvin' Karsvaark” seems to be the current front-runner.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
If the English colemantator on Quest's highlights show doesn’t stop referring to today’s stage winner as “Ga Na” I may have to get annoyed.
The (rather annoying/bit twit-ish?) Italian speaking English commentator in question explained yesterday that whereas Filippo Zana's surname is pronounced as one might expect, Filippo Ganna, by way of his 2x 'n's is Gan-Na with the emphasis on the second n.
This might explain Simon Yates's performance so far: Giro d'Italia: Simon Yates out of race with Covid-19 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54490539)
Must be a bit worrying for the rest of the team and the race as a whole.
This might explain Simon Yates's performance so far: Giro d'Italia: Simon Yates out of race with Covid-19 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54490539)Rest of the team: Bookwater already out, Yates out, Affini out after a crash yesterday, Howson injured yesterday and "will start today" (and see how it goes). That leaves 4 fit and healthy with 2 weeks to go.
Must be a bit worrying for the rest of the team and the race as a whole.
Trivia of the day. Today's breakaway contains two former world hour record holders.
This might explain Simon Yates's performance so far: Giro d'Italia: Simon Yates out of race with Covid-19 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54490539)Rest of the team: Bookwater already out, Yates out, Affini out after a crash yesterday, Howson injured yesterday and "will start today" (and see how it goes). That leaves 4 fit and healthy with 2 weeks to go.
Must be a bit worrying for the rest of the team and the race as a whole.
^^ I experienced a moment of genuine relief when the presenter finished with " ... for C19".;D Mr fimm's friend, who told Mr fimm about it, too.
Everyone in the bubble gets a PCR test tomorrow...And the results are... oh bum.
EEk, that could be career ending for some of them. The loss of lung function alone could be enough for them to not be able to keep up in the pro peleton.
Get well soon all!
J
A digression. When S4C's Sgorio started covering European - primary Italian - football from the mid 80s it garnered a sizeable (by S4C standards) non-Welsh-speaking audience.
On the following Monday morning at work we would repeat with glee our new-found lexicon of footy terms, such as
- Cic Smotyn (Penalty)
- Dros y drawst (over the bar)
- Camsefyll (offside)
- Mae'r card Equity un y post
FFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.
Maybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Maybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
A digression. When S4C's Sgorio started covering European - primary Italian - football from the mid 80s it garnered a sizeable (by S4C standards) non-Welsh-speaking audience.
On the following Monday morning at work we would repeat with glee our new-found lexicon of footy terms, such as
- Cic Smotyn (Penalty)
- Dros y drawst (over the bar)
- Camsefyll (offside)
- Mae'r card Equity un y post
It was Tuesday morning - Sgorio was broadcast on Monday evening. Also:
- Cic cornel (corner)
- Taro y postin (?sp)
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead.
Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
FFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.
A pox on snooker, say I!
(Does the Len Ganley Stance)
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead.
Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
Anyone else notice that if Tao hadn't showboated the last 50m celebrating his upcoming victory, he might have gained the 2 seconds he needed to be in a podium place in GC? It may seem a bit curmudgeonly, but I was shouting at the screen telling him to keep racing! As Alaphilippe learned very recently, celebrating before the line isn't a clever thing to do.
What he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.When I was flicking through the channels Rohan Dennis was leading. Did he crash out?
FFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.
A pox on snooker, say I!
(Does the Len Ganley Stance)
And again, Sunday’s highlights were buggered up by it too >:( :( >:(
What he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.When I was flicking through the channels Rohan Dennis was leading. Did he crash out?
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead.
Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
Anyone else notice that if Tao hadn't showboated the last 50m celebrating his upcoming victory, he might have gained the 2 seconds he needed to be in a podium place in GC? It may seem a bit curmudgeonly, but I was shouting at the screen telling him to keep racing! As Alaphilippe learned very recently, celebrating before the line isn't a clever thing to do.
Except that he couldn't have known he was a second away from being 3rd on GC with a week still to go (not the same as a podium position)
What he did know, on the other hand, was that he was about to have the biggest win of his career.
FFS the highlights prog on Quest isn't on until 2300H tonight and 2200H tomorrow.
A pox on snooker, say I!
(Does the Len Ganley Stance)
And again, Sunday’s highlights were buggered up by it too >:( :( >:(
We've just watched Stage 15 highlights at https://www.dplay.co.uk/show/giro-ditalia-highlights . I could only get it to play on Firefox thobut.
I may very well have done the same in his position. Doesn't stop me wishing he hadn't done it!
Good finish today, although I hate circuits.
Sean Kelly on the sofa...Tim Moore rips the piss out of his legendary (lack of) personality throughout his 1914 Giro recreation "Gironimo!" "Uh, he was, uh, majorly suffering there".
What kind of Hackney hipsters call their son Tao?
What kind of Hackney hipsters call their son Tao?
What kind of Hackney hipsters call their son Tao?
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead.
Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
Thank godIn the interview he gave on Channel 4's first Vuelta highlights he said I'll paraphrase:"The numbers were good and I'm getting the same sensations". I got the impression he was saying he felt asskyinfo’s have froome to fall back on.
Great to see clean riders blow away the record for climbing the Stelvio.Which record though?
QuoteMaybe Ineos will get their grand tour win after all.
Press the 'get real' button first. He gained 47s (impressive) to still be 2 mins 57 behind (ahh). So yes, if he can win 4 more stages by the same margin. And if you pretend not to notice the other rider who gained 41 seconds on GC today and is now only 15 seconds off the lead.
Podium contender - yes. Top step contender - Need the GC 1 and 2 to have really bad days whilst he repeats todays.
:facepalm: Wow. Watching live - okay, I might be wrong. Maybe it could all change in a day! I take back what I said.
Great to see clean riders blow away the record for climbing the Stelvio.
Great to see clean riders blow away the record for climbing the Stelvio.
I've got a vague memory that TGH was suspended for something a few years ago but I can't find anything on the net. Maybe I've got a vague memory! I'd be very happy to be wrong and not to cast aspersions on a terrific performer.
Would TGH have been irritated by Hindley getting a 'tow' up to the finish?He appeared to mouth something as he crossed the line.
Great to see clean riders blow away the record for climbing the Stelvio.
I've got a vague memory that TGH was suspended for something a few years ago but I can't find anything on the net. Maybe I've got a vague memory! I'd be very happy to be wrong and not to cast aspersions on a terrific performer.
Think you might be confusing TGH with JTL
Would TGH have been irritated by Hindley getting a 'tow' up to the finish?
We don't want to ride cos it's raining, meh.
We don't want to ride cos it's raining, meh.
It's not so much simply because it's raining, the argument from the riders is that it's more that with immune systems already battered from nearly 3 weeks of racing, riding 250km in the wet after yesterday's queen stage would be making them even more vulnerable to catching the dread lurgi.
TBH, that's not unreasonable, but they should have sorted it out last night, not drop it in the race organiser's lap after signing-on for the stage. Or, as I've seen argued on Bike Radar, raised the issue months ago after the race was rescheduled for mid-autumn. It's as if the riders had been banking on the Stevio being impassable - a truncated stage yesterday would have left them a little fresher for today.
Though I note that Ineos and Bora apparently wanted to ride the full distance - Kelderman looked spent yesterday
Competing in heavy rain can cause riders, whose immune systems may already be compromised by excessive exertion, to become unwell as dirt and bacteria from the road is sprayed through the peloton. Many riders were concerned it would increase the risk of contracting coronavirus.BBC
But there was no surprise - they'd known about each stage for weeks. It was because of the rain.You don't know about the transfers until much closer to the race, because you don't know which hotels you are being assigned. But clearly the rain was a factor, and so is the way that the riders felt that the Covid precautions weren't implemented properly.
Oh my god.
No Grand Tour has been this close going into the final day...
Wonder if TGH is now kicking himself for the over-long celebration on the other stage he won. could easily have got another few seconds there and been in pink today. It didn't seem important at the time because he was 3 minutes down, but now...
:o wow
Did he ever do the Dunwich Dynamo? Be rude not to, if you're a bikie from Hackney. At least he was never in D*lw*ch P*r*g*n!
i think this is really good advice
i have done the last two duniwch dynamos
and would say that the weather point is really important
check it carefulyy because in 07 it rained all night
That would mean he rode it aged 10
Did he ever do the Dunwich Dynamo? Be rude not to, if you're a bikie from Hackney. At least he was never in D*lw*ch P*r*g*n!
Definitely based on this post over at LFGSS: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6458548/incontext/Quote from: taogeogheganharti think this is really good advice
i have done the last two duniwch dynamos
and would say that the weather point is really important
check it carefulyy because in 07 it rained all night
That would mean he rode it aged 10
Did he ever do the Dunwich Dynamo? Be rude not to, if you're a bikie from Hackney. At least he was never in D*lw*ch P*r*g*n!
Definitely based on this post over at LFGSS: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6458548/incontext/Quote from: taogeogheganharti think this is really good advice
i have done the last two duniwch dynamos
and would say that the weather point is really important
check it carefulyy because in 07 it rained all night
That would mean he rode it aged 10
Did he ever do the Dunwich Dynamo? Be rude not to, if you're a bikie from Hackney. At least he was never in D*lw*ch P*r*g*n!
Definitely based on this post over at LFGSS: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6458548/incontext/Quote from: taogeogheganharti think this is really good advice
i have done the last two duniwch dynamos
and would say that the weather point is really important
check it carefulyy because in 07 it rained all night
13 I think. That post is from12 years ago and he's 25 now.
Aha !! Good point. :-)That would mean he rode it aged 10
Did he ever do the Dunwich Dynamo? Be rude not to, if you're a bikie from Hackney. At least he was never in D*lw*ch P*r*g*n!
Definitely based on this post over at LFGSS: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/6458548/incontext/Quote from: taogeogheganharti think this is really good advice
i have done the last two duniwch dynamos
and would say that the weather point is really important
check it carefulyy because in 07 it rained all night
13 I think. That post is from12 years ago and he's 25 now.
Yes, but he said he had ridden it for the previous 3 years.
So 10.
To be fair, pro riders used to peak around 25-28 years old and rely on cunning to compensate for declining powers as they aged. They’d retire around 32-34 years old.Keirin riders can go on until their 50s. There's not much wilier than an old keirin racer.
To be fair, pro riders used to peak around 25-28 years old and rely on cunning to compensate for declining powers as they aged. They’d retire around 32-34 years old.