2012 Pro-cycling season thread

Garmin's TTT coach was just interviewed on Eurosport and he wouldn't been drawn on whether they'd planned for Rasmussen to be dropped or not. He was clear that the stage win was the goal today and all nine riders contributed to that (I think they had 7 together at the end).

BMC third fastest, amazing ride given that they had to wait for Phinney twice.

Amazing ride from BMC. may well have walloped Garmin

2 days ago Johnny Weltz said he counted on Alex to take the pink jersey today, so it would seem a bit weird if he was dropped on purpose...

surprising that Sky werent quicker...

Unlikely that they would take the stage win or the pink, and they don't have a real GC contender, so maybe they were preserving legs to target a few more sprint wins?

Or they are just not that strong.

with Thomas sitting in 2nd they had a decent chance of taking pink today, id think a bad day at the office unless they are gonna boss things in the next two stages

Are there Giro highlights on-line anywhere? I can find live streams but I don't get to watch till this time usually.

www.steephill.tv or www.cyclingfans.com are the best places to look.

Thanks andyp.

But Greenedge were looking !supah fahzt! on more than one occasion

Pity Tuft punctured with so far to go. That cost 'em.

Garmin's TTT coach was just interviewed on Eurosport and he wouldn't been drawn on whether they'd planned for Rasmussen to be dropped or not.

I saw that interview and his answer sounded, to me at least, that it wasn't tactical he was just dropped.

Surely you never plan for one of your riders to be dropped. It slows the team down and tires your rider out playing catch-up. Chris Horner said it was one of the reasons he picked up on big Fab being a true champion.

He could tell Chris was lagging on a TTT so he tools 2 turns on the front - 1 for him and 1 for Chris. He didn't ask him to do so - He just knew to do it.

Alex said he just went out way to fast, after thinking all night about the pink jersey. Hit the hills at max hr, and generally rode like an idiot. Doesn't seem like the brightest guy after this and the whereabouts case...

Are there Giro highlights on-line anywhere? I can find live streams but I don't get to watch till this time usually.

Eurosport has the highlights on 3 or 4 times normall 7ish 10/11 ish ad then 3pm the following day if you've sky.

Surely you never plan for one of your riders to be dropped.

Not true at all.

You can afford to lose a few riders (4) so some teams will have them do harder work earlier until they pop, saving the rest.

That's what I do at the track for Jaygee and hoops

I thought it was Jaygee who drops himself, perhaps a little early? :)

Swifty stacked it so they've only got that Belgian Wiggo to cheer for.

He's half Australian, too.

This comment made me laugh:

Tour de Romandie 2012 Stg 1: Morges-La Chaux-de-Fonds - YouTube

"I've seen things you people wouldnt believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. WIGGO WINNING SPRINTS IN SWITZERLAND. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain... Time to die."

I think it's from some obscure film--something with robots on performance-enhancing drugs doing impossible feats of athleticism? Does anyone remember what it's called?

That is brilliant.

lol tweet from nyvelocity

There's an aerial shot of an amusement park at the Giro, Frank's really glad he doesn't have to talk Andy out of stopping today.

Giro was looking pretty dull so far but now a few riders have decided to spice it up by falling off for no real reason..

Phinney falls... Again.. Then RadioShack Nissan team car tries to knock him off.

Cav is out climbing Thor??

What's going on with Bobridge? He's having a tough day.

Da fuck?