Giro d' Italia
Yesterday was to be the day in the mountains with an epic climb which was both long and steep (were talking 24% straight up), it was such a hard climb that many of the riders wanted nothing to due with it when the Giro course was announced last year. What would have made the climb […]
As I post this the riders are currently in the middle of stage 16 which features a mountain top finish that is both plenty long (18 kilometers) and very steep. Team CSC has been seen at the front of the peloton with both Julich and Voigt doing plenty of the work, Basso is looking cool […]
Well, were two thirds into this years Giro d’ Italia and Basso has truly dominated the race, as the Giro heads into the finial week you can bet their will be more of a shake up on the general classification however Basso looks to be a shoe in for the win (baring any crazy crash or […]
Today the peleton gets a day off from the bike as they get a transfer from east coast of Italy to the west coast traveling to Pontedera Italy. Tomorrow’s stage features the longest time trial of this years Giro, at 50 kilometers over a very flat course (the course does offer a few rolling hills […]
If yesterday’s Giro stage was the longest today is most certainly the first “real” mountain stage with a mountain top finish. The last climb of the day is 25 kilometers long and will separate the peleton in a big way, Tour Guy thinks riders like Jan Ullrich and Jens Voight will have difficulty and will not […]
The longest stage of the 2006 Giro d’ Italia also featured the first major mountain pass (Monte Catria) which brought out the favorites as they began to test their climbing legs. Clocking in at over 230 kilometers it was a long day in the saddle for the pro riders as they made their way through […]
Wow, what a day at the Giro d’ Italia team time trial today, as CSC crushed all who stood in their way. It was the first team time trial in quite a while at the Giro.
While CSC won the event miss fortune was in the T-Mobile camp as they lost the day by a mere […]
Yesterdays stage of the 2006 Giro looked more like an early “spring classic” than a grand tour, still in Belgium the riders had one tough day in the cold and rain. The stage started from Perwez and finished in Namur and was fairly long at 202 kilometers, with the crappy weather conditions and finish that […]
Yesterdays opening stage (Mons – Charlerioi-Marcinelle) of the Giro d’ Italia was text book for a big tour, long (197 kilometers) and flat with only one small “hill” half way through the day. Such stages allow the sprinters to flex their muscles and scrap it out between one another, the last 20 k’s were an […]
Coverage of this years Giro d’ Italia is underway from Seraing Belgium, the crew at cycling.tv has done a good job so far and had a nice little lead in with press coverage over the last few days. They interviewed Ivan Basso, Sean Yates and several other riders. Basso was slightly coy, saying that he feels […]
