Giro d'Italia 2013, 4th-26th May - [Spoilers]

[Supersuperleeds]

Todays stage cancelled! Bugger!

That's solved today's biggest conundrum, I can watch no play at the cricket now

 

[Flying_Monkey]

 

[thom]

Todays stage cancelled! Bugger!

So much of much of this edition has been disrupted by the weather. A certain amount of cold, rain, wind and snow is characteristic of the Giro but surely this level of trouble must be seen as bad for the Giro. I wonder if it will be moved back a week or two in the future when the next schedule is filled in.

Cav certainly ought to be in the points jersey at the end now.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Oh well, I guess I'll have to watch the tour of Belgium then....

This weather's all wrong.

 

[HaloJ]

Today's stage cancelled and Di Luca tests positive for EPO. Sad day for the Giro and pro cycling.

 

[jifdave]

Vini Fantini directeur sportif Luca Scinto confirmed the news to Cyclingnews, saying: "It's true. He's mad, he's a cretino, he needs treatment.
"There's nothing else to say. We gave him a second chance and the sponsors put their faith in him and this is how he pays us back. It's crazy that a rider thinks they can get away with it like that."

 

[VamP]

Today's stage cancelled and Di Luca tests positive for EPO. Sad day for the Giro and pro cycling.

Cheats getting caught is a good thing. And getting caught in real time is so much better.

 

[HaloJ]

Cheats getting caught is a good thing. And getting caught in real time is so much better.

True and I'm happy he was caught. I just hoped that this cheating was behind us. The git has right messed up my Fantasy Cycling.

 

[VamP]

True and I'm happy he was caught. I just hoped that this cheating was behind us. The git has right messed up my Fantasy Cycling.

Cheating will never go away. At least it seems now they are getting caught. And I say that with all fingers and toes crossed hoping that Nibali is clean.

 

[jowwy]

di luca should now be banned for life for failing yet more drugs tests

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The cycling news article says that Italian press speculation was that Di Luca was pencilled in for Astana in 2014. How do Astana deal with this?

 

[PpPete]

"Cretino" about sums it up.

 

[Crackle]

He's worked on his time trialling, clearly, and he now has a stronger team around him, but the level of improvement seems to be within the realms of plausibility.

Still, of all the teams he could have joined...

I know but then again look at Sastre, widely considered clean, which teams he rode for and who his directeur Sportif was at one time.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Whilst I wouldn't bet my house on it, my gut feeling is that Nibali is clean. OK he looked very strong in yesterday's TT but it's not like he's been beating TT specialists on flat courses and blasting away from climbers in the mountains like Dirty Bertie when he was eating his special beef.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Well, that's no surprise at all given his past and the constantly attacking way he's been riding this Giro. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap...