Time is running late so I need to make some Giro selections.
- Thirty-two riders have scored a top 10 in the last five years.
- Only fourteen of those thirty-two are in this years race.
- Eight are simply not participating.
- Three riders have retired.
- Seven riders are currently under suspension or left the sport because of drug involvement.
- The man to pick if you want a solid finish is Simoni, who has been top 10 in each of the past five years. In fact, if you don't count the 2002 expulsion because of cocaine-tainted candy from his mom, 1998 was the last time Simoni was not in the top 10.
- Two other participants in this years Giro have made top 10 in three of the past five years. My guess is that very few people could name them. They are Franco Pellizotti and Juan Garate.
Time for some picks. The race organizers made my picks easy this week with the last minute selection of Astana and insisting that they bring their stars. They might not be on ideal form since the Giro was not part of the training plan but my picks in alphabetical order are Contador, Kloden and Leipheimer.
If I were forced to not vote a straight party ticket. I would go with...
Contador
Piepoli
Nibali
Contador probably isn't in ideal shape right now but when he has raced this year he has been lights out. Maybe by the second half of the race he will be in good form for the mountains. I look at some of the stages like the finish on Passo Fedaia at the end of a brutal day of climbing, the Plan de Corones time trial and then the Gavia/Mortirolo stage and they seem like stages that he could go nuts.
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- Thirty-two riders have scored a top 10 in the last five years.
- Only fourteen of those thirty-two are in this years race.
- Eight are simply not participating.
- Three riders have retired.
- Seven riders are currently under suspension or left the sport because of drug involvement.
- The man to pick if you want a solid finish is Simoni, who has been top 10 in each of the past five years. In fact, if you don't count the 2002 expulsion because of cocaine-tainted candy from his mom, 1998 was the last time Simoni was not in the top 10.
- Two other participants in this years Giro have made top 10 in three of the past five years. My guess is that very few people could name them. They are Franco Pellizotti and Juan Garate.
Time for some picks. The race organizers made my picks easy this week with the last minute selection of Astana and insisting that they bring their stars. They might not be on ideal form since the Giro was not part of the training plan but my picks in alphabetical order are Contador, Kloden and Leipheimer.
If I were forced to not vote a straight party ticket. I would go with...
Contador
Piepoli
Nibali
Contador probably isn't in ideal shape right now but when he has raced this year he has been lights out. Maybe by the second half of the race he will be in good form for the mountains. I look at some of the stages like the finish on Passo Fedaia at the end of a brutal day of climbing, the Plan de Corones time trial and then the Gavia/Mortirolo stage and they seem like stages that he could go nuts.
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