Tour de France on TV

Category: Giro d’Italia

  • Domenico Pozzovivo loses a minute

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    Damn it, Domenico. As if you don’t have enough to contend with all your myriad flaws, you have to go and give everyone a whopping great head start as well. The Giro is not going well for my man. A crappy team time trial saw him and his AG2R-La Mondiale team-mates lose 48 seconds and…

  • Gerrans leads and Hansen continues in decidely Australian start to 2015 Giro d’Italia

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    It wasn’t an Australian start in the sense that it started in Australia. I know the Giro plays it fast and loose with its definition of ‘Italia’ but that really would be a bit much. No, it was just Australian in that an Australian rider now leads the race after his Australian team won the…

  • Team leaders for the 2015 Giro d’Italia

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    The Giro d’Italia starts on Saturday. It often passes without much comment in the UK because unlike the other two Grand Tours it isn’t shown on terrestrial TV. It’s a good race though. Worth following. Last year’s winner, Nairo Quintana, is busying himself with the Tour de France this year and so won’t be taking…

  • Dan martin and Garmin-Sharp survive the team time trial

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    Garmin have crashed in three out of the last four Grand Tour team time trials. Dan Martin, whose season was built around the Giro d’Italia, saw about five minutes of that three-week race after slipping on a manhole cover and breaking his collarbone on the very first day. Here at the Vuelta, he at least…

  • Nairo Quintana can cycle up a mountain

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    I suppose we knew that anyway, but the fact has been driven home in the last two days with Quintana proving himself the strongest Grand Tour rider in the race by some margin. Stage 19 There’s something very satisfying about a cronoscalata – an uphill time trial. It’s the bare bones of road cycling laid…

  • The slide of Cadel Evans

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    Sadly, I’m not talking about a cool plastic chute affixed to the side of his houseboat. Cadel’s on the wane. Slowly, but perceptibly, he’s on the way out – in this race and from cycling. But first, stage 17, which I didn’t report on yesterday. King of the nutcases takes a proper win I’ve written…

  • Nairo Quintana definitely did something

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    Prepare yourselves for enthusiastic-yet-vague coverage because I totally missed this stage and YET IT SOUNDS AMAZING. Nairo Quintana has definitely recovered. He appears to have smashed the Giro to smithereens, finishing 4m11s ahead of previous race leader, Rigoberto Uran. That time gap again – 4m11s. It was snowy. It was dangerous. There was a suggestion…

  • Domenico Pozzovivo has a cold

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    The idiot. As if he’s not handicapped enough by his near-endless list of shortcomings, he’s only gone and got himself ill as well. This wasn’t the plan. The plan was to strike out in the mountains as if being chased by ravenous hounds who have a taste for the blood of short-arsed southern Italian economists…

  • Get down off that float Rigoberto

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    Rigoberto Uran can clamber down off his pink float because this Giro ain’t going to be no procession. We got a strong taste of mountains today and some enjoyed that flavour rather more than the race leader. He didn’t exactly make a lemon face and spit, but nor did he look too keen to dive…

  • The day the sprint teams couldn’t really be arsed

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    I said that stage 13 was likely to be a sprint finish and it should have been. The problem was that the teams with sprinters in them all dicked about. There was a break – there’s always a break – but this time it wasn’t chased down. Each of the sprint teams tried to leave…