Giro Stage 17

ray silvester wrote:VVV73

ray silvester wrote:

VVV73 wrote:

VVV73 wrote:

ray silvester wrote:

It’ll be interesting if Quintana or Rolland(remember he has form for attacking in dubious circumstances in the ‘tacks on the road’ stage in Wiggo’s TDF?) has a mechanical?

Who?
Wasn’t LL Cool J = Luis Leon Sanchez , away and the winner that day ?

Still not sure who you were talking about here RAY, you haven’t responded!
Only rider in that break that is here , was GORKA. cadel had to change tyre 3 times.

Rolland was the guilty party on that day attacking the Maillot Jaune group whilst Wiggo(and Nibali for that matter) attempted to neutralise the racing for their 50 strong group to let Evans recover…..LuLu’s escape group(11 strong at the time) were well and truly clear and were perfectly entitled to fight out the stage.

Rumours exist that Haimar Zubeldia was the angriest rider and had to be stopped from confronting Rolland at stage end?

This was the GC situation at the time

General Classification after Stage 13
GBR 1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 59:32:32
GBR 2 FROOME, Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) + 2:05
ITA 3 NIBALI, Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) + 2:23
AUS 4 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) + 3:19
BEL 5 VAN DEN BROECK, Jurgen (LOTTO BELISOL) + 4:48
ESP 6 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) + 6:15
USA 7 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 6:57
SLO 8 BRAJKOVIC, Janez (ASTANA) + 7:30
FRA 9 ROLLAND, Pierre (EUROPCAR) + 8:31
FRA 10 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ-BIG MAT) + 8:51

Ok cool I remember that too, just I didn’t know who you were talking about.
Yes LL was long gone, MY THINKING that’s why it happen, it was I am sure the BASQUE fans with the tacks, previous form for it and I am sure some nice bets were landed by the Basque mafia :O

VVV73 wrote:VVV73 wrote:ray

VVV73 wrote:

VVV73 wrote:

ray silvester wrote:

It’ll be interesting if Quintana or Rolland(remember he has form for attacking in dubious circumstances in the ‘tacks on the road’ stage in Wiggo’s TDF?) has a mechanical?

Who?
Wasn’t LL Cool J = Luis Leon Sanchez , away and the winner that day ?

Still not sure who you were talking about here RAY, you haven’t responded!
Only rider in that break that is here , was GORKA. cadel had to change tyre 3 times.

Rolland was the guilty party on that day attacking the Maillot Jaune group whilst Wiggo(and Nibali for that matter) attempted to neutralise the racing for their 50 strong group to let Evans recover…..LuLu’s escape group(11 strong at the time) were well and truly clear and were perfectly entitled to fight out the stage.

Rumours exist that Haimar Zubeldia was the angriest rider and had to be stopped from confronting Rolland at stage end?

This was the GC situation at the time

General Classification after Stage 13
GBR 1 WIGGINS, Bradley (SKY PROCYCLING) 59:32:32
GBR 2 FROOME, Christopher (SKY PROCYCLING) + 2:05
ITA 3 NIBALI, Vincenzo (LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE) + 2:23
AUS 4 EVANS, Cadel (BMC RACING) + 3:19
BEL 5 VAN DEN BROECK, Jurgen (LOTTO BELISOL) + 4:48
ESP 6 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN) + 6:15
USA 7 VAN GARDEREN, Tejay (BMC RACING) + 6:57
SLO 8 BRAJKOVIC, Janez (ASTANA) + 7:30
FRA 9 ROLLAND, Pierre (EUROPCAR) + 8:31
FRA 10 PINOT, Thibaut (FDJ-BIG MAT) + 8:51

Dave Atkinson wrote:Ghedebrav

Dave Atkinson wrote:

Ghedebrav wrote:

As for third place, I’d (rashly?) count out Rolland as he can’t TT for toffee

it’s not a TT* though, it’s just riding as fast as possible up a massive hill. he’s good at that.

*it is technically a TT. but you won’t see any TT bikes

I’ll be happy to eat my words as he’s in my squad and I’m not planning on taking him out.

TERatcliffe26 wrote:Got the

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Got the full house, went for sprinters. Only really lost out on about 12 points by bringing in Bouh, Nizz and swift for Uran, Majka and Pozz. I had Wellens still which is all good. Just need a penalty tomorrow.

You say Rolland can’t TT for toffee 😕 yes on a normal TT, but this is uphill, think im gonna risk him over Uran for the next few stages

Love to see Rolland in a downhill TT , he has to be one of the best downhiller on tour , he gets away effortlessly. Seems Veocks passing on his knowledge. Watch those House patio’s in france tho , make sure the gate is open. LOL

VVV73 wrote:ray silvester

VVV73 wrote:

ray silvester wrote:

It’ll be interesting if Quintana or Rolland(remember he has form for attacking in dubious circumstances in the ‘tacks on the road’ stage in Wiggo’s TDF?) has a mechanical?

Who?
Wasn’t LL Cool J = Luis Leon Sanchez , away and the winner that day ?

LuLu won from a break that had already formed long before the tacks……..Rolland attacked whilst everyone else waited for Evans to claim a team mates bike……Cummings and Tejay both blanked him I think?

Rolland was left hanging in the gap between Lulu’s group and the Group Maillot Jaune under Wiggo’s patronage until it got it’s act together and caught and then spat him out of the back…..if memory serves?

None of my riders in
None of my riders in breakaway so I expected a very bad score.

And it was 60 points. I think Uran was my first rider to finish.

However all of my 9 riders managed to scrounge points somehow. So I ended up with Full House Badge. =D> Well done team. Haha.

Ive gone for Rolland over
Ive gone for Rolland over Uran, but that means I can bring in Hesjedal for the ITT if I wish, shame I will have to axe Wellens though.