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Giro D'Italia 2008 : Stage 1 - Saturday, May 10: Palermo (Team Time Trial), 23.6km

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Old 11-05.-2008, 12:38 AM   #31
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Even if Astana wins, I can still be happy today. Ferrari is on pole in Turkey.

Astana 2. half a minute down. Now the heads turn to CSC.
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Old 11-05.-2008, 12:42 AM   #32
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Bwaa ha ha ha ha. Astana 29 secs down on Slipstream. They must be saving their blood for the last week.
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Old 11-05.-2008, 12:43 AM   #33
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Bwaa ha ha ha ha. Astana 29 secs down on Slipstream. They must be saving their blood for the last week.
no no no, the poor boys only had one week to get ready, it's so unfair how they are treated...

see the PR machine is working already.
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Old 11-05.-2008, 12:48 AM   #34
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no no no, the poor boys only had one week to get ready, it's so unfair how they are treated...

see the PR machine is working already.

They probably like this situation: they don't have to defend the jersey for the first week and their three leaders already have for example 35 secs on Menchov.
Let's see how LPR does.
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Millar must be in good shape. He'll have a good shot at the first and third ITTs.

Slipstream is likely to have a successful first GT.
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Millar must be in good shape. He'll have a good shot at the first and third ITTs.

Slipstream is likely to have a successful first GT.

Yes they're going to finish well today, but CSC is on their way to ruin their party....8" ahead at 10km
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Too much uphill in the first ITT I think for Millar, hopefully he'll be in a position to take the last (slightly downhill) one.
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Wow. That was close. CSC must have lost a shitload of time on the last half.
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C'mon Slipstream and holding down the lead.
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Oh-my-god! Barloworld??? Where did that performance come from

Bloody hell...now the Astana trio is 15 secs down on Soler...
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Oh-my-god! Barloworld??? Where did that performance come from

Bloody hell...now the Astana trio is 15 secs down on Soler...
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but who cares, they beat Astana. now the discatana will either:
- say that their poor team was unprepared
- immediately start saying that Barloworld is full of dopers - using the history of the riders forgetting about the astana riders & staff history
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Euskaltel can already call it a successful GT. They beat a team in a TTT.
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Yep, I just thought, Barloworld?? wtf. But then again, I voted for Soler on this board's poll because it would be so cool.

ETA: Highroad's coming in ....
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Yep, I just thought, Barloworld?? wtf. But then again, I voted for Soler on this board's poll because it would be so cool.

A pure climber winning a GT...reminds me of the last TdF. Astana need not worry, if Soler looks like winning the Giro I'm sure information about Soler's questionable whereabouts surface
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A pure climber winning a GT...reminds me of the last TdF. Astana need not worry, if Soler looks like winning the Giro I'm sure information about Soler's questionable whereabouts surface


Well, I thought he maybe has improved his TT ability using a higher cadence or something. Seems I was right.

ETA: Cadel Evans' team looks really great

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