Somebody tell Paolo Bettini that he's not a sprinter....

[J-Lo's Protologist]

Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
Results
1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
(40.318 km/h)
2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas

[CyclePro]

"J-Lo's Protologist" > wrote in
message ...
> Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
> Results
> 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
> (40.318 km/h)
> 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
> 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
> 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
> 5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
> 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
> 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas
>

Ignorance=Bliss

[Raptor]

J-Lo's Protologist wrote:
> Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
> Results
> 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
> (40.318 km/h)
> 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
> 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
> 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
> 5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
> 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
> 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas

The little mini-sprinter blows right by all those huge horses leading
Ale-Jet up the little climb, gaining a gap WAY too big to chase down.

That was fun to watch. Might have been fun to ride, even.

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[Tom Kunich]

"CyclePro" > wrote in message
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> "J-Lo's Protologist" > wrote
> in message ...
>> Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
>> Results
>> 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
>> (40.318 km/h)
>> 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
>> 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
>> 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
>> 5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
>> 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
>> 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas
>
> Ignorance=Bliss

You must be talking about j-lo's toilet paper.

[sonarrat]

J-Lo's Protologist wrote:

> Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
> Results
> 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
> (40.318 km/h)
> 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
> 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
> 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
> 5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
> 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
> 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas

If he had been paying attention, that could have been a finish for
Cunego, too. He still did well to finish 9th...

-Sonarrat.

[Jonathan v.d. Sluis]

"sonarrat" > schreef in bericht
...
> J-Lo's Protologist wrote:
>
> > Stage 1 - May 8: Reggio Calabria - Tropea, 208 km
> > Results
> > 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 5.09.32
> > (40.318 km/h)
> > 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.03
> > 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.04
> > 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux
> > 5 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
> > 6 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team
> > 7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas
>
> If he had been paying attention, that could have been a finish for
> Cunego, too. He still did well to finish 9th...
>
> -Sonarrat.

Last couple of years, Garzelli had a monopoly on finishes like this one. I
think he is approaching the giro differently this year.

[Dan Gregory]

Raptor wrote:

> That was fun to watch. Might have been fun to ride, even.

That narrow bridge 4 km out looked "unfunny" though ... surprising
evrybody made it through, over, under, and round....
Great stage
All the best
Dan Gregory

[Tom Kunich]

Did you notice that they crossed over an old Roman causeway before
dropping down and under it?

[Stewart Fleming]

Tom Kunich wrote:

> Did you notice that they crossed over an old Roman causeway before
> dropping down and under it?
>

There's an aqueduct somewhere that goes _UNDER_ a river. Nature just
takes a second look at that kind of thing and pretends not to notice...

[Tom Kunich]

"Stewart Fleming" > wrote in message
...
> Tom Kunich wrote:
>
>> Did you notice that they crossed over an old Roman causeway before
>> dropping down and under it?
>
> There's an aqueduct somewhere that goes _UNDER_ a river. Nature just
> takes a second look at that kind of thing and pretends not to notice...

I'm an engineer so when I was in France one thing I took very careful notice
of was the hydraulic engineering feats that were everywhere. Every stream
and river had hydraulic engineering projects on it some that were plainly
more than a thousand years old. It was very impressive and I'm really
surprised that they haven't done a lot more studies of it. Perhaps that's
because it's so common in Europe that no one gives it a passing thought.

[jc]

Jeff Jones wrote:
> Dan Gregory wrote:
>
>
>>That narrow bridge 4 km out looked "unfunny" though ... surprising
>>evrybody made it through, over, under, and round....
>
>
> Escher would have been proud of that bridge.
>
> Jeff
>
>
LOL. It looked great on tv, but I sure would not have wanted to ride it
with 190 or so of my closest friends. I wouldn't know which way was up
by the end of that. Not that I do anyway.

jc