Giro d'Italia 2015 *spoilers*
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Great patience and waited for the right moment. Was impressive to see from the overhead camera. Deserved success for him at the Giro... finally! But also great performance by Hofland. Followed the right wheels without any support from his team. Greipel maybe started off bit too early?
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Yes, Greipel went early but he would have won from that position in the past... I'm beginning to think he just doesn't have that edge any more.
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Thanks for that robert
It was very tongue in cheek you know.I tried to leave it, I really did but "almost British" ..........piiiissssss off, nothing of the sort and incredibly disrespectful to refer to them as almost british or ex colonial nations...
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now thats cleared up, looking forward to the giro.....
Fwiw I am Scottish from an Irish family, with an English wife and am as far removed from a colonial attitude as is possible to be.
sorry!
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Great job by Viviani, and by Hofland - very pleased to be proved wrong. Wonder if that was planned by Sky or a bit of freelance sniping?
The camera (or directing) work is awful at times.
At the first intermediary sprint, we saw the peloton (Trek) setting up the sprint for the 6th place from the motorcycle-images, however they then switched to the helicopter-images, that had completely lost track of the front of the peloton and was filming the wrong part.
In the finishing kilometers (3-5km) there were 2 helicopters hovering over the peloton, however none of them was showing good images. The bottom helicopter was - for some unknown reason - not really zooming much, so you didn't really see well who was at the front. At one point they switched camera to the other helicopter (the upper one) but that one wasn't zooming either, so was therefore showing the bottom helicopter with some cyclists riding hard in the background.
(Also the tv-footage of stage 1 that was added in the T of Cal thread , wasn't great either during the final K, with the trees being partly in the way and no good fixed camera's to catch the sprint)
I don't think I am being overly patriotic, when I say many races would benefit with the Belgian (Flanders) filming/directing experience in (cycling) sports.
At the first intermediary sprint, we saw the peloton (Trek) setting up the sprint for the 6th place from the motorcycle-images, however they then switched to the helicopter-images, that had completely lost track of the front of the peloton and was filming the wrong part.
In the finishing kilometers (3-5km) there were 2 helicopters hovering over the peloton, however none of them was showing good images. The bottom helicopter was - for some unknown reason - not really zooming much, so you didn't really see well who was at the front. At one point they switched camera to the other helicopter (the upper one) but that one wasn't zooming either, so was therefore showing the bottom helicopter with some cyclists riding hard in the background.
(Also the tv-footage of stage 1 that was added in the T of Cal thread , wasn't great either during the final K, with the trees being partly in the way and no good fixed camera's to catch the sprint)
I don't think I am being overly patriotic, when I say many races would benefit with the Belgian (Flanders) filming/directing experience in (cycling) sports.
OP
OP
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Turns out that the crash which took out the peloton (and resulted in Pozzivivo losing a big chunk of time) was caused by some nobber riding into the bunch from the side of the road. Pics here:
http://www.cicloweb.it/news/2015/05...tagliato-la-strada-al-gruppo-facendo-cadere-d
http://www.cicloweb.it/news/2015/05...tagliato-la-strada-al-gruppo-facendo-cadere-d
Unbelievable: I read the report but didn't see any pictures until now. Wtf!
