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El Diablo Rojo 05-13-09 05:06 AM

Wow not a lot of mention here about Liguigas. They, along with LPR, took the race by throat and really controlled it. With two very real GC contenders in Basso and Pizzotti they are the team to beat.

substructure 05-13-09 07:39 AM

Screw came out of LA's stem? Was he putting another one back in?

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:09 AM

Voeckler has a great suffer face.

ZeCanon 05-13-09 08:13 AM


Originally Posted by substructure (Post 8909328)
Screw came out of LA's stem? Was he putting another one back in?

Don't they run SRM's up there? Looked more like something came loose on that.

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:35 AM

Lance fading on the climb again...

mike9903 05-13-09 08:36 AM

Good thing Armstrong has 4 other Astana riders with him while LL has two, makes a lot of sense.

substructure 05-13-09 08:37 AM


Originally Posted by ZeCanon (Post 8909508)
Don't they run SRM's up there? Looked more like something came loose on that.

Could have been

substructure 05-13-09 08:38 AM


Originally Posted by mike9903 (Post 8909617)
Good thing Armstrong has 4 other Astana riders with him while LL has two, makes a lot of sense.

Doesn't want to lose more than 2'. I think it may be a little more than that. He looks punished.

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:40 AM

Why doesn't he want to lose more than 2'?

Second Mouse 05-13-09 08:43 AM


Originally Posted by bdcheung (Post 8909641)
Why doesn't he want to lose more than 2'?

Per his twitter.

Flak 05-13-09 08:44 AM

Looks shelled. Cunago looks bad too.

Levi or Basso FTW?

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:44 AM

horner is still there

mike9903 05-13-09 08:46 AM


Originally Posted by substructure (Post 8909629)
Doesn't want to lose more than 2'. I think it may be a little more than that. He looks punished.

So protect the guy who does not want to lose more than 2 minutes or the guy is up front and should be your main GC man.

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:47 AM

i'm not sure the others have the gas to stay up front.

plus if there are 5 Astana up front, the other teams will expect them to work.

aham23 05-13-09 08:47 AM


Originally Posted by bdcheung (Post 8909666)
horner is still there

who is with Levi? Horner and Popo?

later.

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:48 AM

It's just Levi and Horner in the lead group

ZeCanon 05-13-09 08:48 AM

basso looks crazy strong. and it looks like everyone in that group knows it

substructure 05-13-09 08:49 AM

Basso looks great. But watch out for LL.

euphoria 05-13-09 08:49 AM

Basso - "Drafting for wussy"

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:49 AM

di luca and levi have such great poker faces

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:50 AM

they seriously need to lay off the lance shots.

substructure 05-13-09 08:51 AM

That last 1Km looks nasty.

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:52 AM

time gap

euphoria 05-13-09 08:53 AM

RAI Sport is where it's at, you get the atmosphere noise without the commentary and it's only ever focused on the lead group

bdcheung 05-13-09 08:55 AM

Lance lost more than 2'00"


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