Cadel attacks and wins!

confusedfan

Stage 3, Coppi e Bartali, results here, or Italian live ticker here which says (according to babelfish) that Evans attacked from 10 km out and stayed ahead of the chasing Garzelli, Nibali, and Axelsson to win by 32 sec.

The requisite article containing lots and lots of exclamation points is at the Lotto team website but only in Dutch so far (their web guy is quite liberal with the exclamation points when one of their riders wins).

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Eldrack

Wow, his second attack of the season right? I.e his second attack in his career . Still, nice to see he's getting more aggressive in his riding.

ilpirata

Evans showing some serious strength and stamina! He is off to a great start this year. Garzelli's performance is also making a statement to Zomegnan, who did not invite his team to the Giro. Men like Simoni, Bruseghin, Honchar finishing way back. Nibili looking good for the Giro.

Cobblestones

Cheers mate!

Truly, something is wrong in cycling. Strange results come from France and Belgium. And Cadel attacks.

Powerful Pete

True that, but riders like Garzelli should be riding their heart out now. They will have ample time to recuperate in May...

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confusedfan

Video clip of highlights from yesterday's stage - unfortunately, no actual footage of Evans attacking, but good footage of his victory salute.

(Chicchi won today's stage - Evans still in the lead on GC).

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confusedfan

Actual video evidence of Cadel attacking here (for fans, or for those who don't believe it possible ).

Evans came 6th in the final stage today to win the overall, his teammate Matt Lloyd dropped to 7th on GC from 6th because Sella got bonus seconds for his stage win today, but still a good result for Lloyd and should help him get a spot on Lotto's Tour team.

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Crankyfeet

Thanks confusedfan... Good to watch...

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oely

Are you a confused fan because its confusing that Evans attacked? Or confused because there is footage of it?

confusedfan

Hey, I'm one of those who actually remember that Evans attacked in the 2005 Tour ... so I'm not confused that he attacked. Just helping those who don't believe, to see the light by providing the evidence ...

I picked my login name right after last year's Tour, when I was confused as to whether it was morally/ethically proper to be excited about having had a great trip to see the Tour (including seeing Evans on the podium, and meeting lots of people, say such as at Malaucène) when there had been so many doping problems at the Tour...
(and yes, I realize that you have succeeded in your likely goal of trying to get me all defensive ).

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Rolfrae

"In the past I have been beaten by cheats. Landis, Vinokourov... I know that it could happen again, but I will never search for a short cut." Cadel Evans

That quote from today's cyclingnews.com. Attacking riding style and attacking interview style. The new Cadel for the new cycling?

thunder

You have to reserve judgement. He was on Saeco, Mapei and TMobile.

He said the testing procedures were working, and the UCI was doing a good job (during 2007 tour).

Cyclingheroes interviewed him when he was at TMobile, and Cadel said he was working with Ferrari.

His manager is Tony Rominger.

There are lots in that, which one could consider incongruent with a clean rider. He may be clean, and have had to compromise his PR communications so he does not make a rod for his own back. He may have accepted injections at those teams without querying what was in the cartridge. He may not have many options for an agent.

But he does not act like a cleanskin, say Mcgee. But even Brad Mcgee has worked for riders, and been a leadout man, chased breaks, for riders who were probably compromised. There are no 7 degrees of separation, only incest.

TheDarkLord

It is good to see him ride more aggressively, but his words mean jack shit when it comes to whether he is clean or not. Wasn't it the last tour that somebody joined a protest against cheaters, and then was busted himself for cheating? BTW, I am not implying that he is cheating - just saying that his words cannot be used to interpret things one way or the other...

hoggy

I like Cadel but that could be becuase he is an aussie who may well win this years tour but I also agree in the current climate you can not judge clean or doped by what one says.
One thing to consider though is that his comments about being beaten by cheaters could explain why didnt attack much previously. Maybe he knew going into the red to beat a cheater was futile.