Giro d'Italia 2010

As Tyler Farrar is just discovering for himself.

Retribution for those Transitions commercials perhaps?

The perils of racing where there is traffic calming, surely?

Or is there something about this facility that's particularly typical for the Netherlands?

Guillaume Blot seems to be in a lot of pain.

The perils of racing where there is traffic calming, surely?

Or is there something about this facility that's particularly typical for the Netherlands?

The Dutch are mad for traffic calming, way more than anywhere else in my experience. This is probably due to the (high) population density as much as anything.

Riders are dropping like flies at the moment!

it's a crashfest out there today. that traffic furniture is savage.

Fuck that was a massive pile up. Don't know what happened to BMC / Sky guys but they're bikes looked welded together.

The Dutch are mad for traffic calming, way more than anywhere else in my experience. This is probably due to the (high) population density as much as anything.

The Dutch pioneered something known as 'Urban Safety Management' (I don't know the Dutch word for it). This treats residential areas in particular. It has some of the longest history there. There's some good work that has been done, but a lot of it obviously doesn't lend itself to bike racing.

I didn't understand why they didn't have some kind of warning person or other facility there for the race, e.g. a gradual narrowing of the carriageway. It's fairly obvious that if a tightly-packed peloton comes across this sort of thing that it's going to be squeezed.

does the eurosport audio stream work for you lot? on mac with safari / firefox here and no joy

I always, on principle, listen to the Giro in Italian now. It's really easy to learn a language better if you know approximately what people are talking about and you learn by guessing. I love it.

I can never get the Eurosport audio stream to work in Firefox and have to use another browser, which shall remain nameless. :)

(I do miss Sean Kelly's commentary a little bit.)

Another massive crash. Looked as if a bomb had hit the bunch.

it's utter carnage now. People dropping like flies

And another crash. A small group, for no apparent reason.

Pictures or it didn't happen

farrahuuck.

Nice work by Farrar.

Chapeau Henderson. So close and all on his own.

Pictures or it didn't happen

OK, I admit it, it didn't happen. :)

these eurosport/giro graphics are completely effing illegible. White on light blue, tiny font - whose idea was that? great gag.

Actually who was the team sky rider sprinting at the end? GazettaTV were shouting Henderson. But was it Chris Sutton?

It was Sutton.

KKKrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrissstooofffeeeerrrrr Saaaahhhhtttoooohhhhnnn as per excited Italian commentators.

Loads of Crashes .. bad Luck for Wiggo and Evans is in the pink .... with Mr Transitions in second ... it was a bit mental.

muchos gracias. manana.

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4 Aussies in the top 10 and one in the pink jersey. Not bad.