Giro d'Italia: Blockhaus Predications

Chips Lovell

Today is going to be a bit of a mental stage. Only 83km long and right up the Blockhaus. There'll be blood on the floor by the end of it. So who do you think is going to win?

And shame on Eurosport for foregoing live coverage on Eurosport 1 for the sake tennis.

zzzzzzzz

Ivan "Tilting at Windmills" Basso

el tonto wrote: »

Today is going to be a bit of a mental stage. Only 83km long and right up the Blockhaus. There'll be blood on the floor by the end of it. So who do you think is going to win?

And shame on Eurosport for foregoing live coverage on Eurosport 1 for the sake tennis.

is it on Rai or what?

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

aidan.offbeat wrote: »

is it on Rai or what?

Eurosport Player or highlights tonight. That's my options.

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

Damnit. Can't edit poll for typos.

E@gle.

Denis Menchov

el tonto wrote: »

Eurosport Player or highlights tonight. That's my options.

Its on Eurosport 2, if u have it

Billy Whizz

Levi "Who's Wheel Can I Suck To Win" Leipheimer

I'll go for Garzelli today. Will pop off up the road before the climb and try to hold on while all hell breaks loose behind him.

niceonetom

Denis Menchov

Lance.

Yes, I mean it.

By the way, I despise tennis wise the intensity of a billion suns burning for a billion years. Maybe even more than that. Curse you to HELL eurosport.

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

niceonetom wrote: »

Lance.

Yes, I mean it.

Why did you vote for Sastre then?

niceonetom

Denis Menchov

vote first - think later! that's how I roll, bitches.

Caroline_ie

Damiano "Clear Conscience" Cunego

el tonto wrote: »

Eurosport Player or highlights tonight. That's my options.

http://video.eurosport.co.uk/eurosport-player/tvschedule.shtml

I have the player, but can u pick up eursport 2 on it ...? I am all confused ...

Raam

Denis Menchov

ES1 are showing highlights at 1am. Yes, 1am. So basically, aint gonna get to see the stage until some time on Thursday as I ain't staying up that late.

beans

Roland Garros is to lion as the Giro is to gazelle :rolleyes:

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

Caroline_ie wrote: »

http://video.eurosport.co.uk/eurosport-player/tvschedule.shtml

I have the player, but can u pick up eursport 2 on it ...? I am all confused ...

Yes, you can. I watched a stage the other day that was on Eurosport 2 on the player. They also seem to be showing stages on demand now, i.e. you can watch after the event.

TinyExplosions

I'm not entirely sure... I think Lance could do well, as Levi is out of contention now, leaving him free to go for the win, but also I think DiLuca could go for it, but Menchov will cover him, so maybe I'll go for some other sham.... Deignan anyone

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

Will be working on my Italian in front of Rai Sport for the afternoon. At last I have found a use for that random Hotbird feed that seems to be coming into my apartment!

Sastre for the win. Menchov will be all over DiLuca again like a bad smell, Basso will make some failed attempts at attacks, Sastre will do the damage but not win by anything like enough time to trouble Menchov. Lance will be blowing it out his arse while the others mount the attacks. In otherwords the same as the last day.

I never make predictions and I've a feeling I'll be regretting this later

Junior

Franco "Save Ferris" Pellizotti

For anyone looking for an English Stream

http://atdhe.net/index.html

should we stick a thread for streams ?

Raam

Denis Menchov

Junior wrote: »

For anyone looking for an English Stream

http://atdhe.net/index.html

should we stick a thread for streams ?

careful with that link. It threw up the adult friend finder. Not sure why me blockers didnt catch that

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

Raam wrote: »

careful with that link. It threw up the adult friend finder. Not sure why me blockers didnt catch that

Why are you discriminating against adults who need friends?

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

So, no love for Levi. That's probably to be expected. But null points for Menchov?

Junior

Franco "Save Ferris" Pellizotti

Raam wrote: »

careful with that link. It threw up the adult friend finder. Not sure why me blockers didnt catch that

maybe your blockers know more about you than you think ..

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

el tonto wrote: »

So, no love for Levi. That's probably to be expected. But null points for Menchov?

Yea I might have to pull a niceonetom.

Menchov will be there abouts for the stage win. Depends on how DiLuca holds up as Menchov will be on his wheel for a lot of the stage.

Raam

Denis Menchov

Three for Lance?!
Caroline_ie, RobFowl, short circuit.

If he wins, I'll buy all three of you a Livestrong jersey.*






* Offer will not be honoured

c0rk3r

Stefano Garzelli

From Paddypower

D Di Luca 11/4
C Sastre 7/2
D Menchov 9/2
I Basso 6/1
S Garzelli 10/1
F Pellizotti 16/1
G Simoni 22/1
L Armstrong 25/1
J Serpa 25/1

I think sastre will do what he done on the previous stage to take the victory. If i was betting id put €10 each way on Basso.

TinyExplosions

c0rk3r wrote: »

From Paddypower

D Di Luca 11/4
C Sastre 7/2
D Menchov 9/2
I Basso 6/1
S Garzelli 10/1
F Pellizotti 16/1
G Simoni 22/1
L Armstrong 25/1
J Serpa 25/1

I think sastre will do what he done on the previous stage to take the victory. If i was betting id put €10 each way on Basso.

Each way on Lance is good too... might have to do that!

ba

Denis Menchov

ha, fat chance for lance today. he just hasn't got the legs.
i would have voted for Basso if i could have had a second vote.

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

ba wrote: »

i would have voted for Basso if i could have had a second vote.

"Vote early and vote often"

EDIT: Got a laugh out of this
"We've heard that the Italian journos have started calling Lance "Osama", because he only communicates by video."

Clum

Watch it live here with English commentary.

DrGroove

Denis Menchov

I miss Sean Kelly's accented tones and insights - plus his sidekick David Harmon.

A day of the favourites marking each other and a day for a supreme climber to emerge from the bunch.

It is hard to look beyond Sastre as he looked so good the other day and there isn't many who can put in those bursts of pace on the steep climbs.

It's okay - I've got a live Audio link now for the Sean and David

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/audioplayer.html

Junior

Franco "Save Ferris" Pellizotti

If you really stuck you can use the feed I gave out and then turn on the audio from Eurosport..

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/audioplayer.html

niceonetom

Denis Menchov

Junior wrote: »

If you really stuck you can use the feed I gave out and then turn on the audio from Eurosport..

http://eurosport.yahoo.com/audioplayer.html

yup - but the audio will be about 30 seconds behind the video.

oflahero

Denis Menchov

Deignan on his arse!! :-(

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

Come on folks, use spoiler tags. Most of us won't be able to see it until tonight.

oflahero

Denis Menchov

Ha ha, sorry chap. Got excited. I'll restrain myself from now on.

(He's still riding now, so back to what you knew already...)

petethedrummer

Denis Menchov

Lance certainly 'rested' himself well yesterday.

zzzzzzzz

Ivan "Tilting at Windmills" Basso

petethedrummer wrote: »

Lance certainly 'rested' himself well yesterday.

was thinking the same thing...

who the fcuk is phillippe daynyon?

zzzzzzzz

Ivan "Tilting at Windmills" Basso

euro 2 feed up on justin.tv

AstraMonti

http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raisport/direttaGiro.html

Its working flawlessly, but they speak Italian

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

WTF was Lance playing at today on the climb? I'd say he'd have a canary if roles were reversed.

petethedrummer

Denis Menchov

I take back what I said earlier, Lance look ****ed at the end.
Menchov though. He must be one hell of an actor to keep a straight face and barely move his body while all around him are busting a gut. Only for he couldn't match DiLuca in the last sprint, you'd have to say something VERY fishy was up. He hardly opened is mouth to breathe. Maybe he has big nostrils.

DrGroove

Denis Menchov

Can we talk now about this stage ?

I presume you'se were all either up till 2 in the morning or up at 7.30 this morning to see hi-lights.

I think the predictaors - myself included have some explaining to do

Raam

Denis Menchov

I reckon all discussion is fair game at this stage

bcmf

still havent seen it.any one got a link.I 've seen the results just wanna see the action

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

Have to say, I find DiLuca's performance depressing.

RobFowl

Damiano "Clear Conscience" Cunego

Diarmuid wrote: »

Have to say, I find DiLuca's performance depressing.

Danielo "Oil for drugs" DiLuca and Denis "humanplasma" Menchov both
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/may09/may28news

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

RobFowl wrote: »

Danielo "Oil for drugs" DiLuca and Denis "humanplasma" Menchov both
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/may09/may28news

Told ye that Kohl's confession about Humanplasma would cause ructions.

RobFowl

Damiano "Clear Conscience" Cunego

el tonto wrote: »

Told ye that Kohl's confession about Humanplasma would cause ructions.

You're not wrong :eek:
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Menchov_brushes_off_boos_and_doping_questions_after_Blockhaus_article_283380.html

DrGroove

Denis Menchov

I know that I went for Sastre because your heart says - that's a clean climber and when he flew up the climb the other day it was a case of a pure
climber leaving others in their wake when the road get's real steep.

But with Di Luca 'the killer' you get the feeling that you are dealing with tainted goods there. I hadn't heard of Menchov until the last previous comment.

It is getting to the stage where you see three riders at the business end of a mountain stage like Blockhaus and you are thinking is the only clean one - two minutes down the road. :(:(

Lumen

After watching the last couple of stages, I do wonder why some of the riders don't make an effort to look more knackered.

Lance looked clean as a whistle yesterday.

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

If anyone is in any doubt about how much doping is still going on at the business end of the pro peloton, go and read everything Bernard Kohl has been saying over the past few days.

Chips Lovell

Denis Menchov

Lumen wrote: »

After watching the last couple of stages, I do wonder why some of the riders don't make an effort to look more knackered.

Even if you are totally fried, there is good reason to try and appear relaxed and comfortable. It may encourage your rivals not to attack you, since they would feel there was no point.

Lumen wrote: »

Lance looked clean as a whistle yesterday.

Diarmuid

Denis Menchov

el tonto wrote: »

Told ye that Kohl's confession about Humanplasma would cause ructions.

Pat "Fcuking Useless" McQuaid is really going to investigate closely Kohl's claims.