Di Luca almost creamed a spectator in the first turn.

hope Menchov doesn't crash

DiLuca fastest at first split, can he keep up the pace?

Di Luca faked the press out. At the first checkpoint he's beating everyone! After this morning he said he was conceding basically.

LL had a bad ride.

DiLuca ahead of Menchov 5" at first checckpoint

Menchov 5 seconds down after the first checkpoint! Di Luca is putting the hammer down.

I wonder if Di Luca wanted to go out hard and force Menchov to make a mistake from forcing the speed.

to paraphrase jose de cauwer:

di luca chose for a bike that can handle the technical aspect of the course, attacking the turns, then jumping.

menchov chose to treat the TT like a TT, shooting for a high average speed

seeing as the rain has now just come back, and how di luca is currently doing, it looks like he made the right choice.

incorrect ;)

Menchov is sliding around a lot on his saddle

Menchov down!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!

Menchov goes down! Think he is close enough to still take it all though...

oh ****.

Omg

omfg

Lol

He still won it. Wow. That got interesting.

Who writes these scripts? Hollywood should hire them.

Damn, that would have been fascinating if he would have lost the race due to that fall in the last kilometer? What would Di Luca do? What would you do?

uh huh.

epic. awesome giro.

menchov could have used these.

:innocent:

I would take the pink jersey and advise Menchov to go and learn how to ride his bike properly.