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I dunno - the break was on, but the peloton let them stay away and didn't look like they were bothered until the Telegraph really. I guess no-one was in the mood to attack.
To be honest, I'm finding it all a bit boring. I hope someone actually attacks Nibles.
This. The first week had some tension, now I'm getting deja vu back to the Tour with Nibali looking the equal of anyone who attacks and his Astana cohorts doing a pretty good impression of the Sky train day after day. I was hoping for some sparring on the Galibier but the GC contenders seemed to have half an eye on the rest day and a drop of Barolo. It's gotten a bit processional, hoping for someone to put the frighteners on Nibali next week.
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As I said I think the weather is really spoiling the race, and it seems Rovert Millar agrees:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar/giro-ditalia-its-become-survival-training
I guess you can't fault Nibali's cajones. He is a tough little Italian
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Europrocession.
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/parra-calls-for-colombian-alliance-to-defeat-nibali
This ace, a Colombian alliance against Nibali? Might work if it wasn't for all the Italians racing in their home race.
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Twitter people.
Follow @UKcyclingexpert for some great comedy Giro tweets. I guess they will be pretty quiet today but its worth a look.
There's a fair amount of shit, but occasional gems crop up
Trivia! Mark Cavendish MBE is a talented handyman and once spent a hilly stage trying to fix the team car's door handle while still cycling!
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/parra-calls-for-colombian-alliance-to-defeat-nibali
This ace, a Colombian alliance against Nibali? Might work if it wasn't for all the Italians racing in their home race.
I'd love this. I've been indiscriminately supporting all Columbians since Wiggles started losing time and Betancur started celebrating 2nd place finishes.
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The go slow was to make sure the gruppetto made the time cut and got to the rest day; lots of people still ill and suffering from effects of Saturday. The winner was about 30 mins slower than the slowest prediction from the road book.
The sprinters and errrrrr Cobo lost 28 mins on the leaders even with racing only on Galibier
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Ta for clearing that up. Show the ineptitude of Eurosport: despite watching it live they managed to avoid giving that information for the entire live stage.
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what the hell was that little snow-hamster they showed on eurosport with 15 to go??
it looked like a George Lucas invention.
hahahahahaha, great comment :-)
they're not hamster size though, big as cats/small dogs and they sometimes run along for a while when you're climbing mountains on yer bike in the Alps
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Didn't Cobo win the Vuelta the other year? What's happened to him.....
I hope there is some top, top banter "sur l'autobus" when he's in there.
Something like Stewie in Family Guy asking Brian when he's going to win his next GT
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Apparently's Cobo's Vuelta win was because he was happy for those 3 weeks
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hahahahahaha, great comment :-)
they're not hamster size though, big as cats/small dogs and they sometimes run along for a while when you're climbing mountains on yer bike in the Alps
A friend of mine, who I've ridden through many parts of the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Dolomites with, has never seen a marmot and refuses to believe that they exist. I think the marmots are in on the joke, as quite often I've seen them and heard them whistling but when Ken looks they hide behind rocks.
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He's not got the top end to his engine to get the gap - he could probably go with someone like Uran if he went...