Giro Stage 17

VVV73 wrote:

Bookies cleaned up... $5 Bouhanni, nearly got last, no way FDJ are strong enough to pull peleton we seen that other day Paddy Power be rolling in it...Sprint stage LOL.

Weren't Paddy's refunding losing bets if an Italian won the stage? Strings attached, no doubt, but that was the offer I saw.

chiv30 wrote:

Haha not all bad for me ..... I still had wellens

Me too - brought him in thinking he'd take on Arredondo in stage 16 and then whinging that he hadn't

cherrypicked wrote:

Go Wellens

He is certainly a talent... last year I marked down Killer Kwaitowski and Magic Majka for this year...
This year I have marked Wellens and Preidler (LTB and GIANT have some good climbing youth coming thru) before here tho... and Aru just gets better, his improvement last 12 months extraordinary . He couldn't stay with Majka and Kelderman most of last year.

chiv30 wrote:

For the record 25 man break 4 mins on the bunch

And I've not got any of them!!

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 ?

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?

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.

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

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