Interesting cycling items from across the Internet, September 29, 2011
Interesting cycling items from across the Internet, June 29, 2011
One rider who has impressed me in the last few years is Stefano Garzelli. Perhaps the shadow of his doping positive from 2002 shall haunt him forever, but he is a rare breed of riders who can climb, TT, and sprint well. His palmares certainly prove so.
Garzelli began his career as a domestique for Marco Pantani‘s Mercatone Uno team and was a key member of the Giro-Tour double-winning team of 1998. Pantani’s return in 2000 after his doping suspension wasn’t quite as well-prepared as expected: when il Pirata showed up overweight to the Giro d’Italia, the team pointed to Garzelli to...Continue Reading
Did the 2011 Giro d’Italia turn out to be a great edition worthy of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification? Or was it a political flop that drove riders, teams, and organizers to agony? Here’s a special Giro-edition of Pavé’s favorite game: Win, Lose, or Draw.
Win
1. It’s hard to imagine a bigger winner than Saxo Bank’s Alberto Contador. Even with seemingly little preparation, thanks to the ongoing discourse on his doping allegations, Contador triumphed over a field of aggressive contenders in an extremely difficult Giro. Yet, he himself remarked that his 2008 Giro d’Italia win was his most beautiful of all.
2. Italian...Continue Reading
Pavé would like to thank Laekhouse for supporting our coverage of the 2011 Giro d’Italia.
Here’s this week’s (Memorial Day) Monday Musette:
1. Julius, one of Pavé’s Contributors, is putting together a more substantial Giro d’Italia Wrap-Up, but let’s take a minute here—at least until we hear otherwise—and give Saxo Bank’s Alberto Contador some credit for winning what many consider to have been the hardest grand tour in quite some time. Contador’s greater than 6-minute margin of victory was the largest since Ivan Basso’s 9-minute win in 2006. Let’s just hope he’s not forced to take a “break” similar to Basso’s.
Seriously speaking though,...Continue Reading
We had so much fun with our Cima Coppi contest that we decided to have another!
The challenge: pick the winner of the climb over the Colle delle Finestre. Stage 20′s Finestre climb is further proof that Angelo Zomengan and crew are sadists. 19km, with an average gradient in the neighborhood of 9%. As if that wasn’t bad enough, a massive 8km of the climb is unpaved.
If you’re the only one to correctly pick the first person reach the top of Finestre, you’ll win your choice of a Laekhouse T-Shirt from the Icons or Classics series!
Danilo di Luca was first to the...Continue Reading
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