Due to Popular Demand: 2013 Giro Thread

[blue gunslinger]

3rd in giro
oz considers it a fail
well done oz medias

 

[chargers 09]

3rd in giro
oz considers it a fail
well done oz medias

LOL surely not? Link?

I for one consider Evans Australia's greatest athlete outside of the pool. Has he podium-ed at all 3 GT?

 

[blue gunslinger]

yeah but how much +ve press did it get

 

[alfy!]

yeah but how much +ve press did it get

A fair bit, it was all over the news.

 

[Sasquatch]

Cadel has never been mentioned when people suggest someone is doping, he has never had that explosive untouchable look to him. Its no coincidence that the year after Contador got caught doping was the year Cadel Evans finally won the TDF, it was the slowest raced tour in years because everyone was too scared to get caught.

He may still dope like the rest of them but if anyone is clean its cadel, born with a broken nose that restricted his breathing from birth & put into a coma at age 8 the man is far from your average bloke.

If riders had balls, Cadel would be implicated.

A few riders have said in confidence that Cadel forced EPO on them and did the same himself. Those riders want a professional career and can't talk. If they talk, they will be bullied out of the peloton. But in ten years time when it's not relevant anymore, everything may come out like it did with Armstrong.

If riders talk, then 90% of the professional peloton would be ****ed .

Blackcat can confirm this.

 

[mcgarnacle]

Holy Shit!

SBS's coverage of the TDF has been ramped up another notch this year. Fitting that it's the 100th cycle around the hexagon I suppose.

More apparent though is the comparison of the event to the Giro. IMO, the Giro is the best grand tour of the year. It's the purists event. The climb's are harder, the sprints are held on tighter courses, it's old time racing watched on by the fans that truly appreciate cycling, not just the event.

ASO really got the marketing right for their event. They opened up the race up beyond France's borders with international broadcasts and selling France to the world way before the Italians did. It has really only been within the last decade that RCS have gone down the ASO route, but they'll forever be chasing the tail of that event across the border staged in July.

 

[twce13]

Evans benefitted the most from the giro's hardest stages being neutralised. He looked average going up.

Sasquatch from cn?

 

[Quigley]

Nice to see Bobridge and Wurf in the breakaway in stage six, two Aussies going it alone! Lovely talking point and advertising for Australian cycling.

I haven't seen anything of Jack really this year before this breakaway.

Anyone else think he was carrying a bit of pudge? Last year I thought he was too lean this year he is a bit fat. He is such a talented rider I really hope he gets it together and starts to dominate the way I was hoping he would.

 

[Belnakor]

A few riders have said in confidence that Cadel forced EPO on them and did the same himself. Those riders want a professional career and can't talk. If they talk, they will be bullied out of the peloton. But in ten years time when it's not relevant anymore, everything may come out like it did with Armstrong.

mate that is just BS. Cadel is hardly on bread and water but he isn't the type of guy who pushes EPO on people.