(pic from Yahoo! News)
Another exciting Paris-Nice is in the books. This one was particularly eventful with several lead changes and a dramatic last day stage win that sealed the overall victory by the latest “Next Indurain” of the Spanish peloton. In fact Paris-Nice saw two potential “Next Indurains” with Luis Leon Sanchez getting the moniker after his stage 6 win where he duped his former teammate Contador by going on a late attack that was ordered by his team management.
Both Sanchez and Contador came from the Liberty Seguros meltdown of 2006. Manolo Saiz must be waking up in a cold “Vega Vega Vega” for not being able to manage these two up-and-coming stars. If he only had someone else carry the bags of blood we wouldn’t be in this mess and these guys would both be riding for Saiz.
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Since NBC and most other Olympics reporters were saying Torino instead of Turin, I will hereby keep referring to Turin as Torino and Milan as Milano. Now that we have that clear, Igor Astarloa is coming back from the doldrums with a sprint win in Milano Torino today.
The Spanish wannabe Italian beat out Oscar (Porno Hair) Pellizotti, Mirko Celestino and Alessandro Ballan to take the important win. This is the first win for Barloworld under the direction of Claudio Corti and Alberto Volpi who came in to restructure the underperforming team during the winter.
Barloworld has been on great form since the begining of the year. They gained entry to bigger races in Belgium, Spain and France and had good form going into one of the more important races on the Italian schedule.
I am extremely happy with this victory. My last victory was in August, and this victory helps the team’s morale. This was my third race of the season and I am happy to show my good form. I have to thank the team, and the organizers RCS that let us in this race, Tirreno Adriatico and Milan San Remo. We would like to put on a good performance to repay their faith in our team.
In the Giro Contender Watch: Ivan Basso had a good result finishing one second behind with the leading contenders. Danilo DiLuca had a worse outing.
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