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And that's the saddest thing about all this, they will try to wriggle out of it no doubt.
"I'm a cyclist myself." Yeah right. (Or perhaps she's going for the "irony" defence).
I suspect the 6 months was for killing two cyclists and the 10 years for not stopping for the police and running away.
So quit looking in the mirror. You're not that funny anyway, don't give up the day job
There's no point getting your knickers in a twist because YOU hadn't noticed the two prominent articles on the front page, the headline carousel AND the "Today's top stories" sidebar on this very website...
So what if its been discussed before? I didn't realise we had to post only about stuff no one has mentioned yet.
There's loads of threads on the Giro and every one has loads of replies.
And that my man is the perfect response.
I agree, it's laughable, he should put up or shut up.
2 of them are NeilG83 and TERatcliffe26 who've been there for ages. The league now shows them as having swapped positions (2<->3) and 1st remaining in 1st (grey arrow), whilst I went down 4 to 3. I'm not really bothered by any of this - it just looked odd.
All she's done is apologise for the tweet and is upset that her career is damaged, no mention of knocking someone off their bike or saying sorry.
Also '...blown out of precaution', says it all really.
As I've had it pointed out to me (after I blew my top in indignation on twitter), she can only apologise for the tweet, not her supposed actions, as she will have been advised by her lawyer and/or insurance company to say nothing whatsoever about the incident itself.
Heh heh!
Bow down, drheaton, bow down STEVESPRO, notwithstanding your recent stage win! Then again, maybe I should shut up, after all, at last call, I was No. 591 in the competition and you were No. 54 and No. 195 overall respectively!
So what? 
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ok, so I'm a little deluded... Changing over to Visconti or Navardauskas, especially (!) Navardauskas, or Mezgec would have definitely done you good yesterday and today(!), but (!) all the same... it wasn't such a bad or bold idea to leave the team unchanged if you were Premium or (!) Standard (!)
Just kidding, of course... Blowing off all the frustration of not being able to play Premium... 
At the end of April I had written:
But (!) to my surprise (!)
:
These were the highest ranking Standard Players in the Giro overall competition on May 15:
3 petiagos petiagos 1155
4 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 1144 2
5 Eyeballs Out richardk9 1135
6 Mountain Renegade tony kappler 1127 2
7 Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan 1124
8 karlake2 karlake2 1122 3
9 ZACATON anita 1115
10 Indurains lungs Samacollins 1105 7
11 rock n rouleurs matanhale 1099 8
12 Team Velosive Sebbe87 1094 4
12= Rangaedge Rangaedge 1094 11
14 Team Sky Blue NeilG83 1092 8
15 mischelka mischelka 1086 5
15= Hinaults Uno Hinaults Uno 1086 3
17 Eds Ripley Riders Eds Ripley Riders 1084 11
18 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter 1083
19 ProVelo ricycle 1080 4
20 pclark007 pclark007 1076 12
21 Got Milk TheDoctor 1074 5
21= CPT RACERS KIEF77 1074 7
23 Lampre-LSD ewen 1073 4
24 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave 1072 9
25 Klefbet.com kleff 1071 1
Pretty impressive!
That was on May 15. Back then, there were, if I counted right, 23 Standard Players in the Top 25 of the Giro overall competition.
Then this was the list of those Standard Players on May 20, just 5 days later:
Overall Ranking Team Team Owner
2 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
4 rock n rouleurs matanhale
7 petiagos petiagos
8 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
11 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter
13 Eyeballs Out richardk9
14 Chute Collective Chute Collective
15 Indurains lungs Samacollins
17 Rangaedge Rangaedge
20 BaggyBoy999 BaggyBoy999
23 Leipheimer not weeks memories of meseeuw
11 Standrad Players in the Top 25. Mountain Renegade (tony kappler) is sitting pretty at No. 2 in the overall and rock n rouleurs (matanhale) is at No. 4.
Not that I've ever "seen" them here on the forum, but a hat's off to them!
I'm looking forward to seeing if a Standard Player can win the competition. It would completely debunk my theory that Premium Members have a huge advantage over Standard Players, but I'd be mightily impressed with the smarts, strategy and logic of these players! Thanks for a thrilling ride!
And good luck! 
I never quite understood this hierarchy of comparing metals and people saying 'upgrading' to carbon or Ti. Each material has it's own properties that suit all manner of riders. I still use Alu/Carbon Bianchi. Yes it's a harsh ride at times, that can batter me on a long ride but I get the feel I want in the bars which communicate to me well.
If I could afford and had the space I would buy a bike of each material to compare their merits. Simply don't write off Alu or any other material b/c the masses say so.
Just get your leg over the bike and find out for yourself, you maybe pleasantly surprised of the outcome.
Belkov last again, would have been last yesterday because of Gavazzi got DQ's
Then all the "squeaky clean amateurs" who win get to have a well paid professional career, so the temptation remains the same.
Interesting how public perception from a poll does not actually reflect the results anyone can read on the UKADA website.
She does look and sound a little bit more respectable than her twitter account suggested. Bit of a Father Jack-type (a la Father Ted) apology though perhaps. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-05-22/im-sorry-says-cycle-tweet-girl/
Wow! What a great Giro!
I never thought the race would live up to the 2012 and 2011 editons, but, boy, was I wrong! 
Kudos to the organizers and the riders! What agreat race! 
Notwithstanding poor Wiggins and Hesjedal 
Better than most but 10 years for a double killing?
stick a zero on the end maybe!
Which is the exact way I use the site....well said that man
Bill Werbeniuk claimed (and didn't get) a TUE for his Beta blockers. He said they were to counter the effects of the thirty pints of beer he drank each day. He also claimed (and didn't get) Tax relief on the beer, which he said he drank to counter a congenital tremor. Now that's what I call a sport!
good for darts as well!
I remember a sport science lecture many moons ago and we discussed the ethics of doping then (90's post Ben Johnson) and amongst a room of sport students we struggled to come to a consensus about the morality of it.
Where there is money there will be cheating, whether it be sport, politics or business - it's human nature to grasp.
Surely that was what the whole point of the Olympics though, to be the best at your sport naturally - in its own quaint way I can see the appeal of amateur sport only in the Olympics to take away some of the temptation that money brings!
I know, tell me about it!
I can't get over how much he requotes himself.