John Gadret AG2R La Mondiale rider, managed to become the best in advanced Giro d'Italia cycling stage 11. Mountain Stage medium climber successfully controlled by the French origin.
Start from Tortoreto toward Castelfidardo with a total mileage 142km, making mindle mountain stage this time is the stage which is quite heavy for the participants.
Finish the ramp Castelfidardo presenting these ditanjakankan sprint. John Gadret distage looked very strong this time, caught up with Daniel Moreno (Katusha) along with 11 other drivers who do breakaway.
200 meters before the finish John decided to do a sprint and finish with a perfect finish 2nd place is the Spanish climber from Kathusha Joaquin Rodriguez.
Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin-Cervelo) is one racer that looks very aggressive, several times tried to attack with purpose to snatch the Pink Jersey from Alberto Contador, both closed to within 1 minute 28 seconds at Overal Classification.
Saxo bank Contador to exploit the performance of Le Mevel chasing breakaway groups, with these results Maglia Rosa Pink Jersey is still safe in the hands of Alberto Contador Velasco.
Stage 12 continued giro d'italia 2011 is the stage of super-flat (horizontal) Castelfidardo - Ravenna 184km, constraints encountered is the possibility of cross wind because the wind will be blowing hard, the race took place on the banks of the sea.
Here are results of Giro d'Italia 2011 Stage 11
1 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:33:11
2 Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver (Spa) Team Katusha
3 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Vini Farnese - Neri Sottoli
4 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Androni Giocattoli
5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank SunGard
6 Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Pro Team Astana
7 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quickstep Cycling Team
8 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
9 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Team Movistar
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
General classification after stage 11
1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank SunGard 40:37:51
2 Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR) HTC-Highroad 0:00:59
3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0:01:21
4 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:01:28
5 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
6 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) 0:01:37 Team Movistar
7 Roman Kreuziger (CZE) 0:01:41 Astana Pro Team
8 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) 0:01:47 Androni Giocattoli
9 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:02:21
10 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
Points classification
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 80 pts
2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) 77 SunGard Saxo Bank
3 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Team Garmin-Cervelo 59
Teams' classification
1 Pro Team Astana 121:17:50
2 Androni Giocattoli 0:00:15
3 Movistar Team 0:03:58
4-TMC Geox 0:08:29
JOHN GADRET Grab GIRO D'ITALIA STAGE 11 2011 | RESULTS GIRO D'ITALIA 2011 STAGE 11
Giro d'italia Race stage 9 Result - Milano Show 100 - 163KM
Giro d'Italia Stage 9 Result:
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr|Team Columbia - Highroad)
2 Allan Davis (Aus|Quick Step)
3 Tyler Farrar (USA|Garmin - Slipstream)
4 Matthew Goss (Aus|Team Saxo Bank)
5 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini)
6 Robert Foerster (Ger|Team Milram)
7 Robert Hunter (RSA|Barloworld)
8 Davide Vigano (Ita|Fuji-Servetto)
9 Saïd Haddou (Fra|BBox Bouygues Telecom)
10 Thomas Fothen (Ger|Team Milram)
British sprint king Mark Cavendish claimed his first victory of the centenary Tour of Italy on Sunday to hand his dominant Columbia team their fourth win of the race.
Cavendish's win followed hours of controversy which left race director Angelo Zomegnan fuming after the entire peloton stopped in their tracks six laps from the end to make a protest about unsatisfactory safety measures.
Zomegnan agreed, reluctantly, that the times from the stage would not count towards the race's general classification.
Italian Danilo Di Luca thus retained the race leader's pink jersey with his 13sec lead on Sweden's Thomas Lövkvist intact ahead of Monday's rest day.
Controversy hit Sunday's stage before the halfway mark when, after riding at a relatively slow speed of 33km/h, the entire bunch stopped with six of the ten laps to finish to publicise their protest.
Di Luca, of the LPR team, read out a statement apologising to the public but explaining the riders were unsatisfied with safety measures.
"For myself and a lot of other riders the circuit was dangerous," said the Italian, who admitted the decision had caused a split in the peloton.
"At the start we asked for, and got, a neutralisation of the times and for that I thank the organisers. But the sprinters weren't happy, that's why we stopped to explain things to the public."
The peloton resumed riding minutes later but continued at the same, slow pace until the closing stages when the pace slowly wound up to something resembling racing over the last four laps.
In the closing stages Quick Step sprinter Allan Davis had to battle with compatriot Matthew Goss, of the Saxo Bank team, to hang on to Cavendish's wheel in the home straight.
But in the end the lead-out work of Columbia teammates Edvald Boasson Hagen and Australian Mark Renshaw helped give Isle of Man rider Cavendish the edge as he came over the line to leave Davis in second.
It is Cavendish's first Giro win this year, and third in total after his two stage wins last year, although he came over the finish line first in the team time trial last Saturday to pull on the pink jersey.
"This is the stage I was really targeting," said Cavendish. "I messed up the first sprint (on stage two) but I've made up for it. There's a limited number of sprints in this year's Giro, so I wanted this one really badly."
Columbia's other stage wins came courtesy of Norwegian ace Hagen on Friday and Belarussian Kanstantsin Siutsou on Saturday.
Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, the winner of stages two and three, came fifth while a second peloton that had given up all hope of victory came over the finish line over two minutes in arrears.
Di Luca, the 2007 champion, will go into Tuesday's 10th stage, a 262km ride in the Italian Alps from Cuneo to Pinerolo, wary of a number of close rivals.
Lövkvist's Columbia teammate Michael Rogers is third overall at 44sec with a quartet of bigger victory contenders - Levi Leipheimer, Denis Menchov, Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre - all between 51sec and 1:24 in arrears.
General classification after stage 9
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini)
2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:13
3 Michael Rogers (Aus|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:44
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA|Astana) 0:00:51
5 Denis Menchov (Rus|Rabobank) 0:00:58
6 Ivan Basso (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:14
7 Carlos Sastre (Spa|Cervelo Test Team) 0:01:24
8 Christopher Horner (USA|Astana) 0:01:25
9 Franco Pellizotti (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:35
10 David Arroyo (Spa|Caisse d'Epargne) 0:01:49
History of Giro d'Italia
History Tour d'Italia / Giro d'italia
The Giro was inspired by the Tour de France and, just as the French race was intended to boost circulation of L'Auto, so Emilio Camillo Costamagna, the editor of La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, aimed to increase his circulation. The first Giro d'Italia started on May 13, 1909 at Milan with eight stages totalling 2,448 kilometres (1,521 miles). Luigi Ganna was the first winner.
Along with the Tour de France and the World Cycling Championship, the Giro d'Italia makes up the Triple Crown of Cycling. Along with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España it is one of the three Grand Tours.
Jerseys
Whereas the overall leader of the Tour de France is awarded a yellow jersey (originally to correspond with L'Auto 's yellow pages), since 1931 the overall leader in the Giro sports the maglia rosa (pink jersey), which corresponds with newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport 's pink newsprint. The "King of the Mountains" wears the maglia verde (green jersey). The leader of the points classification wears the maglia ciclamino (mauve jersey), the best young rider wears the maglia bianca (white jersey).
King of the mountains (maglia verde)
During mountain stages of the race, points are awarded to the rider who is first to reach the top of each significant climb. Points are also awarded for riders who closely follow the leader up each climb. The number of points awarded varies according to the hill classification, which is determined by the steepness and length of that particular hill. The green jersey is worn by the rider who, at the start of each stage, has the largest amount of climbing points. If a rider holds both the pink and green jerseys, the green jersey is worn by the rider in second place. At the end of the giro, the rider holding the most climbing points wins the climbing competition. In fact, some riders, particularly those who are neither sprinters nor particularly good at time-trialing, may attempt only to win this particular competition within the race. This is the same as the Polka dot jersey of the Tour de France. In 2008 it was won by Emanuele Sella.
7 wins: Gino Bartali
4 wins: José Manuel Fuente
3 wins: Claudio Chiappucci, Claudio Bortolotto, Franco Bitossi, Fausto Coppi
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13 May Giro d'italia Race stage 6 Result - Bressanone/Brixen - Mayrhofen 248km
Giro d'italia Race stage 6 Result :
STAGE 6 RESULTS
1 Michele Scarponi (Ita|Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli) 5:49:55
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:32
3 Allan Davis (Aus|Quick Step)
4 Filippo Pozzato (Ita|Team Katusha)
5 Matthew Goss (Aus|Team Saxo Bank)
6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel|Silence-Lotto)
7 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita|Lampre - N.G.C.)
8 Michael Rogers (Aus|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:36
9 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini)
10 Tadej Valjavec (Slo|AG2R La Mondiale)
Michele Scarponi of the Diquigiovanni team soloed to victory on the sixth stage of the Tour of Italy to claim his first career win on the race Thursday.
Fellow Italian Danilo Di Luca, of LPR, retained the race leader's pink jersey after a 248 km ride in which a five-man breakaway provided much of the day's drama on what was a transitional stage into nearby Austria.
Di Luca, the 2007 champion, retained his five-second lead over second-placed Swede Thomas Lövkvist with his Columbian teammate Michael Rogers still in third at 36s.
A quartet of arguably more probable Giro winners - Levi Leipheimer, Denis Menchov, Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre - sit in fourth to seventh places.
Scarponi was part of the earlier five-man escape group which formed around 50km into the stage, but for most of whom the stage's principal climb at Hochkrimml 50km from the finish line was their undoing.
Only Belarussian Vasik Kiryienka managed to stay with Scarponi on the ascent before dropping behind, apparently due to cramp.
Scarponi dug deep, went off on his own and managed to hold off a rapidly closing but tired peloton.
Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen of Columbia attacked the pursuers in the final kilometre to finish second at around 30s on the stage, thus picking up the bonus seconds that may otherwise have been snatched by rivals of his team.
It is Scarponi's first Giro stage win and comes only months after returning to the peloton following an 18-month ban for his implication in the Operation Puerto doping scandal.
America's Lance Armstrong will target a stage win in the Giro d'Italia after falling off the pace in the overall standings, race leader Di Luca claimed after Stage 6 on Thursday.
"You mustn't forget that he stopped competing for three years and fractured his collarbone a month and a half before the race," the Italian said.
"I saw the footage of the Alpe di Siusi stage (on Wednesday) on television and he gave everything," Di Luca added of the seven-time Tour de France winner. "He's doing his best, he's honouring the Giro. I think he'll focus on a stage victory."
Armstrong finished 73rd on Thursday and currently occupies 25th place overall, 4 minutes, 13 seconds behind Di Luca.
General classification after stage 6
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini) 22:11:15
2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:05
3 Michael Rogers (Aus|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:36
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA|Astana) 0:00:43
5 Denis Menchov (Rus|Rabobank) 0:00:50
6 Ivan Basso (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:06
7 Carlos Sastre (Spa|Cervelo Test Team) 0:01:16
8 Christopher Horner (USA|Astana) 0:01:17
9 Franco Pellizotti (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:27
10 David Arroyo (Spa|Caisse d'Epargne) 0:01:41
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Giro d'italia Race stage 5 Result - Alpe di Siusi 125KM
Giro d'italia Race stage 5 Result :
STAGE 5 RESULTS
1 Denis Menchov (Rus|Rabobank) 3:15:24
2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini) 0:00:02
3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:05
4 Ivan Basso (Ita|Liquigas)
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA|Astana) 0:00:09
6 Christopher Horner (USA|Astana)
7 Carlos Sastre (Spa|Cervelo Test Team) 0:00:19
8 David Arroyo (Spa|Caisse d'Epargne) 0:00:22
9 Michael Rogers (Aus|Team Columbia - Highroad)
10 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe|Fuji-Servetto)
Russian Denis Menchov won an uphill sprint to claim the fifth stage of the Tour of Italy over 125km from San Martino di Castrozza to Alpe di Siusi on Wednesday as second-placed Danilo Di Luca took the leader's pink jersey.
On a relatively short stage, that ended with a punishing 25km climb up to Alpe di Siusi, seven riders arrived at the final kilometre together with favourite Ivan Basso leading them.
Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre attacked first but Rabobank's Menchov surged past him with Di Luca of LPR struggling to keep his wheel.
Di Luca finished two seconds back but crucially three seconds ahead of third-placed Thomas Lövkvist, the pink jersey wearer on the day.
The Italian had only needed to make up two seconds on the Swede and coupled with the time bonus he received for finishing second, he did just enough to claim the leader's jersey by five seconds.
Record seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong suffered on the final climb and finished just under three minutes back.
The 37-year-old Texan admitted he wasn't expecting much more from the day.
"I'm definitely a little tired, it's a hard climb and we knew that we'd be behind," he told Rai TV. "We just said ride tempo and try to limit the losses. I thought it may be two minutes but it's closer to three minutes but I'm ok with that.
"I've always said the first half is not going to be mine, I've still not got my condition back after my accident and I can't expect to be at the front."
Armstrong was not the only one of the favourites to be dropped on the climb as Basso's Liquigas team set a furious pace.
Sylvester Szmyd did the most damage once the race entered the final 10km, the most punishing part of the climb.
Armstrong dropped off but so too did 2000 Tour of Italy winner Stefano Garzelli as well as 2004 champion Damiano Cunego and Maurizio Bruseghin.
When Szmyd dropped off with 4km left Basso took over the pace and he immediately thinned the field, with his own team-mate Franco Pellizotti among the victims.
With 2km to go the leaders were down to a select seven with Lövkvist starting to lose touch but with no-one willing to help Basso with the pace-setting, they slowed allowing Lövkvist to stay in touch.
Four more riders had also got within touching distance by the time the leaders reached the final kilometre. That sparked Sastre's attack but he simply could not match the burst put in by Menchov or Di Luca.
Basso finished fourth with Levi Leipheimer, Armstrong's Astana team-mate in fifth.
"It was hard, Ivan was strong but when Di Luca and Menchov (attacked) they can go so fast, I can't jump with Di Luca, he's very explosive," said Leipheimer, who is now fourth overall.
He also praised team-mate Armstrong, who broke his collar-bone in March at the Tour of Castilla e Leon and had been a doubt for the Giro.
"I think he's doing very well. I saw him two weeks ago and he's much better now, I think he's content."
Australian Michael Rogers finished ninth on the stage and is third overall while Basso is up to sixth on the general classification, one place behind Menchov and one ahead of Sastre.
General classification after stage 5 giro d'italia
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini) 16:20:44
2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:05
3 Michael Rogers (Aus|Team Columbia - Highroad) 0:00:36
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA|Astana) 0:00:43
5 Denis Menchov (Rus|Rabobank) 0:00:50
6 Ivan Basso (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:06
7 Carlos Sastre (Spa|Cervelo Test Team) 0:01:16
8 Christopher Horner (USA|Astana) 0:01:17
9 Franco Pellizotti (Ita|Liquigas) 0:01:27
Giro d'Italia Race Stage 3 Result
Giro d'italia Race stage 3 Result:
STAGE 3 RESULTS
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita|LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini)
2 Tyler Farrar (USA|Garmin-Slipstream)
3 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita|Lampre-NGC)
4 Dario Cataldo (Ita|Quick Step)
5 Damiano Cunego (Ita|Lampre-NGC)
6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel|Silence-Lotto)
Italian Alessandro Petacchi of the LPR team won his second stage in a row to take the lead in the Tour of Italy on Monday after a 198km third stage slog from Grado to Valdobbiadene.
Petacchi made the most of a crash near the front of the peloton around 10km from home that split it in two and distanced many of his sprint rivals.
When it came to the final sprint he surged three bike lengths clear of the field and the late charging American Tyler Farrar could do nothing to catch him.
Italian Francesco Gavazzi finished third on the stage while seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finished safely in the lead group to move up to fifth in the overall standings
Previous pink jersey holder Mark Cavendish of Britain was caught behind the crash which happened in a narrow street and held up about three quarters of the peloton.
He gave chase with a small group but about 4km from home on a hilly section he admitted defeat and slowed up. He came in with the main group 1 minute, 25 seconds back and now sits 32nd, almost a minute and a half off the pace.
Of the overall favourites only Russian Denis Menchov was hindered by the crash and he lost 24 seconds on the stage.
How the race unfolded
The day began with an early breakaway from five riders after just just 5km with Giuseppe Palumbo (Acqua e Sapone), Yuriy Krivstov (AG2R), Mauro Facci (Quick Step), Michael Ignatiev (Katusha) and Bjorn Schroder (Milram) distancing themselves from the pack.
Halfway through the race they had opened up a lead of six minutes over the peloton but the pack gradually ate into that over the next 60km.
The gap was little over a minute with 45km to ride and the category 3 Combai climb facing the riders and it was no surprise that the breakaway had been as good as swallowed up by the time they reached the top.
But with 14km remaining French darling Thomas Voekler took off with Quick Step team-mate David Malacarne in tow.
They were then joined by about 10 other riders all breaking off the front of the peloton with Levi Leipheimer, one of the Giro favourites, among them.
That appeared a shrewd move on his part the crash split the near the front of the peloton with just under 10km left stopped the main group in its tracks in a narrow street.
However, other than Menchov, all the top riders managed to position themselves in the front 50 and stay avoid any loss of time ahead of Tuesday's fourth stage, which enters the Dolomites .
That will be the first to finish a mountain finish following 162km from Padova to San Martino di Castrozza.
It will be the first opportunity for the Tour's big hitters to make some gains on each other, although these are unlikely to be too great.
General classification after stage 3
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita|LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini)
2 Tyler Farrar (USA|Garmin-Slipstream)
3 Michael Rogers (Aus|Columbia-Highroad)
4 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe|Columbia-Highroad)
5 Lance Armstrong (USA|Astana)
6 Danilo Di Luca (Ita|LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini)
7 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr|Astana)
8 Levi Leipheimer (USA|Astana)
Saxo Bank Specialized S-Works TTR prototype
Saxo Bank time trial and classics specialist Fabian Cancellara arrived at this year's Giro d'Italia with a brand-new aero prototype that he has been testing over the past several weeks. Currently nicknamed the Specialized S-Works TTR (for 'time trial Riis', according to team rider development manager Bobby Julich), the new bike's more organic shape is a drastically different machine from his previously more angular Transition.
The TTR's most defining feature is undoubtedly the highly integrated front end. Whereas Specialized had previously angled the Transition's top tube to fall behind the stem in an effort to smooth out airflow, the TTR now sports a proprietary stem situated perfectly in-line with a now-level top tube similar to what Giant – and now Scott – have done with their latest aero machines.
Extending below the stem and situated in front of the head tube is a secondary 'nosecone' that effectively increases the aspect ratio of the combined elements to far greater than 3:1, thus apparently skirting around the applicable UCI rule. Don't call it a fairing, though; while Felt and Giant apparently get away with their extensions because they either reinforce or are the steerer tube, Julich says that the TTR's nosecone should be considered a structural element because it provides the sole mounting point for the front brake.
Cancellara's TTR also ditches the Transtion's kinked seat tube in favour of a slightly more conventional straight design with a deep rear wheel cut-out and easily adjustable telescoping carbon aero seatpost – which even sports an aero-shaped head.
As before, the integrated rear brake is mounted below the chain stays – thus making for a smoother junction around the top of the seat stays and seat tube – and both the seat stays and chain stays closely follow the rear wheel before making an abrupt turn out towards the rear-facing aluminium rear dropouts.
Naturally, all of the cables are internally routed with the entry point in the frame being the now-standard top of the top tube, right behind the stem.
Parts-wise, most of Cancellara's other bits are rather standard such as the SRAM Red group, Zipp carbon tubular wheels, and Specialized integrated carbon crankset. The front SRAM carbon brake lever has been modified to accept a small barrel adjuster since the nosecone makes the front brake cable rather inaccessible after installation and shifters are the company's new 1090-R2C model with levers that always return to the forward position after a shift for marginally reduced drag.
Team sponsor Prologo have also provided Cancellara with a new prototype saddle developed just for time trials. The nose is especially broad and heavily padded with surprisingly soft foam, and also rather short to facilitate a more forward position while still adhering to UCI guidelines for setback. Grippy appliqués up front also presumably help Cancellara maintain his position on the nose and perforations in the shell softer that area up even further.
Time will tell just how long Cancellara's TTR will stay in this precise configuration however. Julich suggested there might be some elements of the bike that may not pass muster when the UCI begin their more stringent equipment rule reinforcement July 1 though supposedly only minor changes will be required. Come Tour de France time, it stands to reason that Specialized may outfit the rest of the team with similar rigs so we'll have to wait until then to see what – if any – modifications have been made.
All told, Cancellara's new TTR weighs 8.1kg (17.86lb) – a bit above the minimum limit but still admirably feathery for a dedicated time trial machine. Regardless, Stage 1's dead-flat team time trial course on Lido di Venezia won't require much in the way of gram-shaving and if Cancellara's new bike is as fast as it looks – and if his legs churn out their usual freight train-like power – we'll allow two guesses as to who'll be taking the longest pulls on the team.
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