Category: 2005 Giro d'Italia
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Salvodelli Wins the 2005 Giro d’Italia by Dosing His Effort
Reading Time: 2 minutes I guess I’m not as surprised as a lot of people that Paolo Salvodelli won the Giro d’Italia. The biggest reason I’m not too surprised he won is because the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team hired him to captain their Giro effort. Maybe there weren’t a lot of other Giro General…
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Altitrainer Seized by Italian National Police in Investigation After Stage 10
Reading Time: 2 minutes An Altitrainer appears to be a training device used in conjunction with a stationary bike or treadmill. Is this the device that was seized by Italian police? [ Photo: SMTEC, S.A. ]. Robbie McEwen of Davitamon-Lotto edged Fassa Bortolo rider Alessandro Petacchi in the Stage 10 finishing sprint into Rossato Veneto.…
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Petacchi Sprints to Victory in Stage 9
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Fassa Bortolo train stayed on the tracks on Monday, and the result was that Alessandro Petacchi sprinted to his first victory of the Giro. Paolo Bettini of Liquigas and Aurelien Clerc of Phonak finished right behind him. Danilo DiLuca continues in the pink jersey, maintaining his 9-second advantage over…
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Salvodelli Apparently Didn’t Work on TT Positioning in the Wind Tunnel This Year
Reading Time: < 1 minute During the coverage of the Giro d’Italia Stage 8 Individual Time Trial on OLN, the analysts noted that Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team rider Paolo Salvodelli worked on his time trial positioning in the Allied Aerospace Low Speed Wind Tunnel this year during the off-season. Initially I believed it because…
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What Was RAI Thinking By Not Following Zabriskie in the Time Trial?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Congratulations to American Team CSC rider Dave Zabriskie for winning the Stage 8 Individual Time Trial in the Giro d’Italia. He was one of the earliest starters on Sunday, so the television producers from RAI didn’t cover his ride. What a mistake. I guess no one from the production team…
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Koldo Gil is the Deserving Winner of Giro Stage 7
Reading Time: 2 minutes After I got home from a 26-mile ride on Saturday, I sat down to watch Stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia on the Outdoor Life Network. Since it’s the weekend, U.S. cycling fans get same-day coverage on television– which is much appreciated after a work week of webcasts without commentary. I…
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Fassa Bortolo’s Problems in the Giro Put Discovery’s TdF Successes in Perspective
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the first six stages of the Giro d’Italia, a variety of errors and problems have caused the Fassa Bortolo team to fail to launch Alessandro Petacchi, the greatest pro cycling sprinter, to victory. As I watch the Giro stages, I’m struck by how perfectly things have to go in order…
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Another Spectacular Crash at the End of Stage 4
Reading Time: < 1 minute I caught the finale of Stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia on the webcast. The apparent winner of the stage Paolo Bettini of Quickstep was relegated to fourth place because the race commisars concluded that he was careless in his bike handling during a sprint with Francaise des Jeux rider…
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Didn’t Have Much Time to Watch Stage 3 Yesterday
Reading Time: < 1 minute I didn’t watch much of the webcast of Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia yesterday. As you probably know, it was won by Danilo DiLuca of Liquigas-Bianchi, with defending champion Damiano Cunego and former champion Stefano Garzelli finishing second and third. I skimmed through a bit of it on replay,…