Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED

Rovi

A few minutes ago via Twitter:

Giro d'Italia ‏@giroditalia 20m
Due to adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on the stage route in its entirety, stage 19 has been cancelled. #giro

Dammit


From Cadel Evans:

Cadel Evans ✔ @CadelOfficial

Snow still falling here at our Giro Hotel...and we are at 1000m lower altitude than the proposed climbs.... #giro #fullofsurprises

From Cav:

Mark Cavendish ‏@MarkCavendish 1h
I remember waking up excited to see snow. Then I became a cyclist. Now I wake up to snow & have to wait to see if I'm excited or not..

Slo_Rida

You can bet your ass Cav is thrilled...

#global warming

elduggo

The rest of Danilos diLuca's cycling career looks to be cancelled too

Chips Lovell

Scinto:

"He's mad, he's a cretino, he needs treatment. There's nothing else to say. We gave him a second chance and the sponsors put their faith in him and this is how he pays us back. It's crazy that a rider thinks they can get away with it like that."

bazermc

So what happens now? Do they take a few days break and try to finish the Giro extending in to early next week

Or just skip the whole stage and move on?

Chips Lovell

Skip and move on.

Morrisseeee

A great day for cycling :rolleyes:

bazermc

Has this ever happened before in a Grand Tour - If my memory serves I dont think it has at least in modern times

AstraMonti

How the hell did diLuca think he'll get away with it? Puzzles the mind..

Inquitus

Lol at the Killer, about as much of a surprise as Gabrovski at last years Tour of Turkey!

laraghrider

Cav will be delighted. He was likely going to card 0 points today where as Cadel would have likely scored some given that he is going for GC.

Rovi

Yep, this can only be a good thing from Cav's point of view.
I haven't heard anything about tomorrow's stage, but it's in the same area as today's was meant to be, so is very likely to suffer the same fate in my opinion.
The final stage on Sunday is a straight up sprinters finish, so it's most unlikely that Evans will overtake Cavendish in the points race there.

TheBlaaMan

Inquitus wrote: »

Lol at the Killer, about as much of a surprise as Gabrovski at last years Tour of Turkey!

From the tweet machine this morning...

Gazzetta dello Sport reporting that Danilo Di Luca failed an out-of-competition test for EPO on April 29. Vini Fantini announced they'd signed him on April 26.

Scinto: 'I never wanted Di Luca. He's an idiot. He needs to get help.'

"Doping is a weakness, period. But it's disappeared from cycling and other sports" Danilo Di Luca interviewed by La Gazzetta on Wednesday

"I can give advice to young riders because cycling today is very different to the cycling of 10 or 15 years ago" - Danilo Di Luca, last week.

He's up there with Ricco as an lying waster.....

AlreadyHome

The system is just not working if someone like Di Luca can be caught again and again and yet still end up competing successfully in grand tours.

If holes this big exist in the net, there must be an awful lot of other fishies slipping through as well...

swimming in a sea

just wondering is Vincenzo Nibali definitely planning to ride the Tour de France?
as he is 33/1 in places seems massive since he is clearly better than last year and has not really been pushed in the Giro.

Chips Lovell

At the moment, no, he's not mean to be riding the Tour.

Slo_Rida

AlreadyHome wrote: »

If holes this big exist in the net, there must be an awful lot of other fishies slipping through as well...

This is always my fear. We're getting our hopes up that the winners of the grand tours these days are clean...because they're a bit slower and they TELL us they're clean.
We've heard repeated denials somewhere before though, who was that again?

Hermy

Slo_Rida wrote: »

...We're getting our hopes up that the winners of the grand tours these days are clean...

I wouldn't go that far. The sport is definitely cleaner but sadly I think we've a long way to go before we can have absolute confidence in professional cycling. In the meantime I'm almost relieved to see another big name being caught as it means the testing is working and that's the only thing that's going to root out the cheats.

Inquitus

Hermy wrote: »

I wouldn't go that far. The sport is definitely cleaner but sadly I think we've a long way to go before we can have absolute confidence in professional cycling. In the meantime I'm almost relieved to see another big name being caught as it means the testing is working and that's the only thing that's going to root out the cheats.

The people being caught are mainly idiots like Di Luca and Gabrovski, who we all knew were positives waiting to happen based on their track records and their performances coming from nowhere, and after long layoffs.

It is certainly possible that some less stupid riders are being somewhat more subtle and slipping through the net. That said the blood passport does do its job and its only not in play for the likes of Gabrovski as his team was 3rd tier and exempt and Di Luca as he was "retired", hopefully it keeps the established pro's honest.

Rovi

Some news about tomorrow:

Giro d'Italia wrote:

Due to continuing adverse weather conditions, the route of tomorrow’s stage 20 has been modified. Here the new route.-

Slo_Rida

Inquitus wrote: »

The people being caught are mainly idiots like Di Luca and Gabrovski.

Not wanting to hi-jack the thread and I'm not disagreeing with your point but Contador and Schlek (spell) were caught recently too....

dastardly00

Di Luca's last post on his Twitter account was way back in December 2009, saying: "The Di Luca is innocent and I will clear my name."

That man is an absolute joke. His entire palmarès should be just thrown in the bin :mad:

bazermc

Any chance we can keep this thread to talking about Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED and not doping etc???

catweazle

Balls i put a few bob on Betancur to finish top 6, I was hopeful he would break Majka in the mountains - He seems to be a strong sprinter so looks like hopefully he might squeeze a time bonus on tomorrows stage which might be my best chance as I cant see Majka letting him go

MrCreosote

bazermc wrote: »

Any chance we can keep this thread to talking about Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED and not doping etc???

Not a lot to say about that, is there. It's snowing, the stage is cancelled. That's it.

buffalo

bazermc wrote: »

Any chance we can keep this thread to talking about Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED and not doping etc???

How do you talk about something that isn't there?

bazermc

buffalo wrote: »

How do you talk about something that isn't there?

Well then close this thread and start a new one talking about Di Luca failed test

Slo_Rida

bazermc wrote: »

Well then close this thread and start a new one talking about Di Luca failed test

Stop talking about Di Luca will ya

Hermy

Someone's in denial!:rolleyes:

elduggo

bazermc wrote: »

Any chance we can keep this thread to talking about Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED and not doping etc???

ha ha

Chips Lovell

Why he probably thought he wouldn't be caught:

The amount - 50 picograms - was 400 time smaller than a WADA accredited lab was required to be able to detect but, despite its minuscule concentration, the mere presence of the drug warranted a two-year ban.

Lumen

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Why he probably thought he wouldn't be caught

Someone needs to explain "half life" to these people. Or not.

uphillonly

Secret Pro had mentioned the peloton knew about a forthcoming drug outing of a former GT winner but it was said to be for biological passport rather than failed test. Also the timing of the test and his article seems too tight.

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2013/05/the-secret-pro-2/

Could be that that DiLuca's biological passport was showing anomalies (secret pro & peleton knew) and hence the extra out of completion testing. Hopefully this is the case and and we haven't got to endure another case to come.

bbosco

bazermc wrote: »

Has this ever happened before in a Grand Tour - If my memory serves I dont think it has at least in modern times

Giro, 1989 , stage 16 to Santa Caterina di Valfurva. Pretty close to the route of today's stage.

IM0

wiggins must be really really pissed right now, he pretty must lost the giro because of a bad cold

Beasty

bazermc wrote: »

Any chance we can keep this thread to talking about Giro d'Italia Stage 19 – May 24th - CANCELLED and not doping etc???

Err ... OK - bit white up there innit ..

Morrisseeee

IM0 wrote: »

wiggins must be really really pissed right now, he pretty must lost the giro because he descended like a wuss

FYP

TinyExplosions

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Why he probably thought he wouldn't be caught:

That 50 picograms is the amount of Clenbuterol found in Contador's sample, not the amount of EPO found in DiLuca's one, no?

That article makes me think there was suspicion of DiLuca, so they sent a sample to Cologne, rather than a local lab...

Slo_Rida

Morrisseeee wrote: »

FYP

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
What the hell does FYP stand for??? Final year project is all I know!

Beasty

Slo_Rida wrote: »

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
What the hell does FYP stand for??? Final year project is all I know!

Fixed Your Post

elduggo

TinyExplosions wrote: »

That article makes me think there was suspicion of DiLuca, so they sent a sample to Cologne, rather than a local lab...

maybe they should just always use that lab.

Morrisseeee

Slo_Rida wrote: »

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
What the hell does FYP stand for??? Final year project is all I know!

IBTL ftw IMO


:pac:

Beasty

BTW what does AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH stand for?

fat bloke

Fup it anyway. Same last weekend. Waited all week looking forward to a couch suffer fest only to have the meat taken out of it.

Is a giro without mountain stages still a giro?

Chips Lovell

They had more climbing in it when they went to Denmark last year.

MPFG

elduggo wrote: »

maybe they should just always use that lab.

Or always use a lab which is not in the courty represented by the rider or his team.....

Lance Armstrong called Di Luca " F***ing stupid*.....says it all really

Russman

Stupid for getting caught, I'd say he meant though.

IM0

Morrisseeee wrote: »

IBTL ftw IMO


:pac:

gtfo tl;dr :rolleyes:

Chips Lovell

Probably the only person in the world who was surprised by the news.

buffalo

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Probably the only person in the world who was surprised by the news.

There is now tea on my monitor and keyboard. Thanks Vlad!

boege

TinyExplosions wrote: »

That 50 picograms is the amount of Clenbuterol found in Contador's sample, not the amount of EPO found in DiLuca's one, no?

That article makes me think there was suspicion of DiLuca, so they sent a sample to Cologne, rather than a local lab...

That may be the real benefit of the blood passport, it gives a hint and then they target for tighter testing. I would image the tighter testing is more expensive and therefore only called into play where other information suggests something 'not normal'.

Given they tested him almost immediately after he signed on for the team fair play I say. Job well done.

One question, why so long to announce?