Vincenzo Nibali won the Giro going downhill.
I spy with my little eye a certain Michele Scarponi, who sadly lost his life while out training near his home two weeks ago, in there amongst his teammates after his captain, Nibbles, won the race. I’m torn about a death like Michele’s – we subject ourselves to similar risks every time we climb aboard our bikes and we accept it as part and parcel of our craft. Yet, while every day members of our tribe lose their lives to their trade, it takes a high profile rider to remind us how real that risk is.
But onto lighter topics, Nibali won the Giro last year going downhill, and it happened on the one stage I managed to sleep through which is another way of saying I missed it. But I love waking up to a that WTF feeling only a reshuffled GS can give you.
The race starts Friday morning, which is sooner than I expected, so I’ll stop typing so you can start picking. Get them in by the time the clock goes to zero, and remember that our Grand Tour scoring rules are a little different than the smaller events. So jump on that start list and get prognosticating!
Good luck!
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@Rick
And if there's no-one there to hear it..,
@Teocalli
I know Tommy D took a dump, but I had no idea he laid an egg! The Dutch chickens finally came home to roost!
@wiscot
Dang - can't even blame that on auto correct. Though he did come up with a Golden Egg, sort of.
@Teocalli
Not to worry. I had four of the top 5 right, but NITRO.
@Rick
He didn't get that far off the road ! I was gonna say, poor guy, he didn't get that far… but dang man, he won anyways ! So no one is thinking, poor guy, that's for sure. What a stud.
@chuckp
Astonishingly, I've retained the top spot. Probably more a consequence of most people going with the bookies and picking Quintana for the win. But gosh, I like him even less than I did.
Why did I not get my 20 points for getting Tom's first place right? Probably because of this crappy picks entry that did not work. I'm off.
@Jansen
But we'll miss you so much!
@Jansen
I fear you are taking this way, way, way too seriously. It's a bit of fun.
@Jansen
Also you only need to click on the dispute option against your pick and it will get sorted in the fullness of time. There is not an army of IT folk behind all this and so hiccoughs are to be expected. Get a grip man. Rule 5 and 43.