Laurent Fignon - Giro
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the Giro, 2016, starting in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands and finishing in Torino, Italy. Here is a provisional start list. The riders make the race so it should be fantastic racing, a race up the whole of the country, for three weeks, what’s not to love? The Giro usually has a crazy stage and we are unsure what this year’s edition holds in that category, maybe more racing at night, or on dirt, bring it on. The Shark, Landa, Malmerde, Uran Uran, even Red Ryder, and more, each have a decent shot at the over all.
We all know the drill, this race starts on Friday so keep your delgado monkey on a tight leash. Consult your personal oracles; there are bike frames, carbon wheels, V-kit and more for the winners of the season-long overall VSP. Further details can be found on the VSP page. Bon chance.
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I feel vindicated for swapping our Duran Duran for Majka. Dirty too, but vindicated.
I also managed a petit NITRO, with Valverde making the podium...
Good Giro this year - even if only one of my top three made it to the end.
@frank
Fuckin math(s). NITRO'd that shit.
@brett
@frank
Ah but Frahnk, you are forgetting about the soul points lost with swaps as well.
Don't worry Brett, you are ahead in the VSP of life!
@Buck Rogers
+1 Anybody that would put in rest day swaps is likely to be as morally corrupt as a Festina soigneur.
@chris
I take way more drugs than Denti, and he still beat me.
@brett
That last comment was directed at the wider community, I thought it was accepted fact that your moral corruption was complete and without equal.
Honestly folks I more enjoyed this year watching the Tour of Cali vs the Giro… Maybe that was because it was easier for me to get ToC on the big screen in high def here in states. And maybe it was also because that is were the world champ was racing. But the Giro this year for me just was meh… the race leader rode his bike head over heals in to a snowbank and that was that? And Astana? Ughhh. I swear, if that is where Sagan ends up...
@Randy C
This. Peter, I know you look at this site when you're not training or developing a new hair style (or performing a Grease skit or whatever crazy shit you do). Signing with Astana will cost you money and marketing cred in the long run. Go anywhere but Astana.
@Randy C
Sorry, but I completely disagree. I watched both (in HD) and the ToC was a pale shadow of the Giro. The latter had absorbing racing for three weeks, with multiple leader changes in most of the categories, amazing stages over incredible parcours through some of the most beautiful and varied scenery anywhere, and a final two days that couldn't have been more unpredictable if you'd written it.
I'm no Astana fan either, but the fact that Nibali won in an Astana jersey didn't detract from the amazing way in which he won, and even if we'd rather Chaves or Kruijswijk had triumphed in Turin, the battle for the podium was absorbing, and almost every stage winner won what could have been an awesome one day classic in its own right.
The ToC did have some okay racing through some nice countryside also, but nothing memorable like the GC or stage battles of the Giro, and no offence but I'll take Italy over Cali for scenery every day of the week.
@Oli
Completely agree, Oli! The Giro was fucking riveting from start to finish and one of the best Grand Tours in a quite a while.
The ToC, for me at least, was a Cat 4 warm up.
When will Sagan finally ride the Giro anyways???