Giro d'Italia 2017 **spoilers**

[Pro Tour Punditry]

As mentioned over in https://www.cyclechat.net/posts/4776654, nightly highlights on Eurosport's sibling Freeview channel "Quest" at 10pm, repeated 7am. Presumably with the same team, so maybe I'll get a reminder how wonderful Carlton Kirby is... and may even switch back to German Eurosport before the end of the Giro

Edwards did the anchoring for the cycling at the Commonwealth Games when it was in Glasgow and iirc did a not bad job of it; mind you, if I did a search of old threads* on here I would probably find a few from myself slagging him off

* edit - I have just checked and there are none slagging him off

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Bloody insensitive.

UCI have asked RCS to drop the "competition"
https://cyclingtips.com/2017/05/uci-asks-giro-organisers-drop-controversial-descending-competition/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

INRNG provide an excellent overview as always:
http://inrng.com/giro/

 

[smutchin]

I have also just spotted that the daily coverage is being fronted by Johnathan "Hop-Step-Jump" Edwards,

We had a Giro themed quiz for tonight's club social. One of the questions was about who is presenting. I didn't know about Edwards until I read this thread today.

We won the quiz by half a point.

 

[ColinJ]

'Descending competition' ... quite literally 'an accident waiting to happen'!

You can just picture the solemn official silence before the stage following the tragic death of some unfortunate rider, and an ashen-faced Giro official trying to explain how much the organisers regretted what had happened ...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Quintana will win I think, Thomas will maybe podium but probably top 5

If you fancy it, there's a pundit competition running for the Giro; nae prizes:

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/pro-tour-punditry-2017-no-spoilers-please.212345/post-4786436

 

[brommers]

We had a Giro themed quiz for tonight's club social. One of the questions was about who is presenting. I didn't know about Edwards until I read this thread today.

We won the quiz by half a point.

I take it was a cycling club quiz - otherwise shame on you for only winning by ½ point - most people don't have a Scooby about the Giro.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Looks like all teams have now confirmed their starters. Astana riding with 8, following the death of Scarponi.

 

[smutchin]

I take it was a cycling club quiz - otherwise shame on you for only winning by ½ point - most people don't have a Scooby about the Giro.

If last night's evidence is anything to go by, most cycling club members don't have a Scooby about the Giro either.

 

[rich p]

If last night's evidence is anything to go by, most cycling club members don't have a Scooby about the Giro either.

Psssssst, I believe there's more than a few CCers who don't even ride a bike...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

UCI have asked RCS to drop the "competition"
https://cyclingtips.com/2017/05/uci-asks-giro-organisers-drop-controversial-descending-competition/

And the descending competition has been dropped.

 

[mjr]

And the descending competition has been dropped.

You could even say it's crashed out...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Roll up, roll up for your Ivan Basso 2006 victory nostalgia - available now on ebay

 

[brommers]

Psssssst, I believe there's more than a few CCers who don't even ride a bike...

You don't have to ride a bike to enjoy pro cycling, just as you don't have to be able to jump a triple Salchow to enjoy ice skating.

 

[Crackle]

Roll up, roll up for your Ivan Basso 2006 victory nostalgia - available now on ebay

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If that's yours, the ILI is superflous.