Giro 2011

Got a tenner on Cav today. Fingers crossy wossed

go david millar

Easy £13 profit!

well done cav.. millar crumbled at the final km

Guess who dropped Cavendish in favour of Pettachi for today's stage.

/knob

Millar was just after some TV time. He had no chance and knew it.

Good day for British riders today, well done Cav. A very strong sprint.

And for SB cash win at the bookies

nice

well done SB with your winnings..

Loving Cav's manxtalian interviews on the finish line.

Cav and Petacchi had a little chat in the final few km's of the stage yesterday, an the Italian seemed to give Cav a friendly pat on the back.

At about 1km to go, Cav's lead out seemed to melt and he took Petacchi's wheel instead.
Petacchi seemed to go a little earlier than usual, admittedly it was an uphill sprint, but could it be that Petacchi had offered to give Cav a little lead out to apologise for the stage 2 line infringement?

Just a thought...

(there was no line infringement ;-))

hard to tell, just know that many a race in cycling history wasn't won because the winner was the strongest... maybe we'll never know... it would be nice to have the TV interviews 'the flandriens' subtitled for English speaking people, Belgian tv-cycling commentator/specialist Michel Wuyts gets some quite frank quotes from former winners like Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Godefroot and others, also speaking of arrangements between riders in the final of a race, found that quite interesting

Cav and Petacchi had a little chat in the final few km's of the stage yesterday, an the Italian seemed to give Cav a friendly pat on the back.

At about 1km to go, Cav's lead out seemed to melt and he took Petacchi's wheel instead.
Petacchi seemed to go a little earlier than usual, admittedly it was an uphill sprint, but could it be that Petacchi had offered to give Cav a little lead out to apologise for the stage 2 line infringement?

Just a thought...

I lke to think Patacchi would consult his fantasy team owners, before trying a stunt like that

(there was no line infringement ;-))

hard to tell, just know that many a race in cycling history wasn't won because the winner was the strongest... maybe we'll never know... it would be nice to have the TV interviews 'the flandriens' subtitled for English speaking people, Belgian tv-cycling commentator/specialist Michel Wuyts gets some quite frank quotes from former winners like Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Godefroot and others, also speaking of arrangements between riders in the final of a race, found that quite interesting

I'd love to be able to understand the Sporza commentaries.

Oy, oy, oy, oy Cavendish !

I'd love to be able to understand the Sporza commentaries.

Oy, oy, oy, oy Cavendish !

Oi, oi, oi, oi Cavendish !

no?

From Cav's interview after hs win yesterday, he seemed to suggest that Petacchi had told him that he had cheated the day before on Etna by using a car door handle to assist him beating the cut-off. Cav was not amused.

Has anyone got a link to the UCI "Secret List" setting out the likelihood of a rider from last year's TdeF doping?

**Les indices de suspicion **

11 / 10
Hippy (an excess of pies), Smallfurry (excessive blood alcohol)

10 / 10
Carlos Barredo, Yaroslav Popovych

9 /10
Denis Menchov

8 / 10
David de La Fuente, Jose Ivan Gutierrez, Danilo Hondo, Matthew Lloyd, Iban Mayoz, David Muravyev, Rinaldo Nocentini, Daniel Oss, Kevin Seeldrayers, Konstantin Siutsou, Jurgen Van den Broeck

7 / 10
Jeremy Hunt, Andreas Kloden, Tony Martin, Christophe Moreau, Michael Rogers, Wesley Sulzberger

**6 / 10 **
Linus Gerdemann, Christian Knees, Egoi Martinez, Francesco Reda, Alessandro Petacchi, Mauro Santambrogio, Geraint Thomas

5 / 10
Alessandro Ballan, Matti Breschel, Alberto Contador, Cyril Gautier, Iniaki Isasi, Serguei Ivanov, Vladimir Karpets, Alexandr Kolobnev, Kartsen Kroon, Steve Morabito, Benjamin Noval, Jose Joaquin Rojas, Niki Sorensen, Alexandre Vinokourov, Bradley Wiggins

4 / 10
Pierrick Fedrigo, Janez Brajkovic, Bernard Eisel, Cadel Evans, Lance Armstrong, Juan Manuel Garate, Andrei Grivko, Jesus Hernandez, Ignatas Konovalovas, Sebastian Lang, Levi Leipheimer, David Millar, Daniel Moreno, Serge Pauwels, Manuel Quinziato, Luke Roberts, Samuel Sanchez, Christian Vandevelde, Nicolas Vogondy

**3 / 10 **
Ivan Basso, Grega Bole, Bret Bookwalter, Dimitri Champion, Gerald Ciolek, Rui Costa, Damiano Cunego, Maura da Dalto, Francis de Greef, Kevin de Weert, Markus Eibegger, Imanol Erviti, Tyler Farrar, Fabio Felline, Juan Antonio Flecha, Maxim Iglinskiy, Vasili Kiryienka, Roman Kreuziger, Mathieu Ladagnous, Robbie McEwen, Maxime Monfort, Sergio Paulinho, Joaquin Rodriguez, Andy Schleck, Chris Anker Sorensen, Sylvester Szmyd, Paolo Tiralongo, Amets Txurruka, Johan Van Summeren, Gorka Verdugo, Charles Wegelius

**2 / 10 **
Eros Capecchi, Mark Cavendish, Steve Cummings, Rémy Di Gregorio, Duran, Mathias Frank, Oscar Freire, John Gadret, Francesco Gavazzi, Vladimir Gustov, Thor Hushovd, Christophe Kern, Thomas Lovkvist, Sebastien Minard, Daniel Navarro, Grischka Niermann, Stuart O'Grady, Ruben Perez, Christophe Riblon, Thomas Rohregger, Luis Leon Sanchez, Carlos Sastre, Frank Schleck, Simon Spilak, Bram Tankink, Stijn Vandenbergh, Benoit Vaugrenard, Jens Voigt, Eduard Vorganov

1 / 10
Marcus Burghard, Sandy Casar, Anthony Charteau, Sylvain Chavanel, Julian Dean, Michael Delage, Martin Elmiger, Johannes Frohlinger, Jakob Fuglsang, Robert Gesink, Xavier Florencio, Adam Hansen, Ryder Hesjedal, George Hincapie, Andreas Klier, Robert Kulge, Alexandr Kuchinsky, Daniel Lloyd, Mirco Lorenzetto, Martijn Maaskant, Aitor Perez, Alan Perez, Jérôme Pineau, Ruben Plaza, Alexander Pliushin, Marten Tjallingii, Rafael Valls, Marten Wynants

0 / 10
Mario Aerts, Yukiya Arashiro, Stéphane Augé, Michael Barry, Francesco Bellotti, Alberto Benitez, Edvald Boasson-Hagen, Lars Boom, Maxime Bouet, Pavel Brutt, Fabian Cancellara, Manuel Cardoso, Dries Devenyns, Samuel Dumoulin, Julien El Fares, Simon Gerrans, Anthony Geslin, Bert Grabsch, Chris Horner, Robert Hunter, Kristjan Koren, Brett Lancaster, David Le Lay, Christophe Le Mevel, Andreas Malori, Koos Moerenhout, Amael Moinard, Lloyd Mondory, Damien Monier, Juan Jose Oroz, Rémi Pauriol, Mathieu Perget, Gregory Rast, Mark Renshaw, Nicolas Roche, Jurgen Roelandts, Pierre Rolland, Anthony Roux, Jérémy Roy, Mathieu Sprick, Rein Taaramae, Sebastien Turgot, Niki Terpstra, Brian Vanborg, Jurgen VandeWalle, Ivan Velasco, Thomas Voeckler, Fabian Wegmann, David Zabriskie

Geraint Thomas at number 6?

I wonder what the riders think of this.

I cant see it being popular.

Geraint Thomas at number 6?

That's what annoys me.

He probably has shown some odd blood values, but that is before the fact that he's had his spleen removed has been take into account.
There are any number of factors why blood values might appear dodgy, but until those factors have been presented alongside the incidents of fluctuation, then that list is almost meaningless.

Whoever leaked it wants a jolly good sacking, with a large dose of prosecution.

And a slap.

Fucking right.

I think it should refularly published in the name of openness

......but with some accuracy and explanation as to why a certain rating has been given.