From Be❀lfast to Trieste through the lens of Tim De 🍌Waele
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Fans in Belfast came out in drove🍃s to see the Giro d'Italia.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Rigoberto Uran in second makes it anoth🐟er Colombian on the podium at the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Team managers met at the start of stage 17 to discuss the controve♎rsial attack of Quinta🌟na on the Stelvio(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Stefano Pirazzi gave Bardiani a hat-trick of stage wins, but why the rude ♔gesture?(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Samuel Sanchez was too frozen to eat, and was fed by a hꦅelper🧜 atop the Stelvio(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The moment of controversy: did the mo❀to✅ ref with the red flag indicate the race situation was neutral on the Stelvio?(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Dario Catꩲaldo (Team Sky)🐻 was away solo when the race crested the Stelvio(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The maglia rosa, R𝓀igoberto Uran, bundled up against the elements on the🦋 Gavia pass(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The controve🐷rsial breakaway after the Stelvio: Nairo Quintana, Pierre Rolland and R꧃yder Hesjedal(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fabio Aru (Astana) gave Italy more to celebrate🌟 with an impressive win on Plan di Montecampione(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans dug deep to chip away at Ura🔴n's lead on stage 14(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Enrico Battaglin o♌n his way to giving Bard𒀰iani CSF its second stage win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Jussi Veikkaneꦬn (FDJ) mistook h♑imself for the stage winner(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Julian Arredondo (Trek) had already confirmed himself as b༒est climber when he won stage 18 of thﷺe Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fernando Alonso ♏raised hackles by showing up at the Giro to scout riders for his new team(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nairo Quintana ♛enjoys ꦇhis national anthem with his child on the podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fabio Aru made it three under-2⛎6 riders on the podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Julian Arredondo🍒 gave Colombia another trophy to celebrate(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nairo Quintana was 𓆉ultimately declared a worthy Giro d'Italia champion, despite the controversial Stelvio stage.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
AG2R La Mondiale celebrates its status as overall team classifica💦tion w♚inners by hoisting Pozzovivo aloft(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fab🌞io Aru was cheered vigorously along on th🌊e Zoncolan(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Rogers gets a memorable win amid the rabble on the Zo💧ncolan(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The maglia rosa heads through a brief moment of calಌm before the mayhem of the Zoncolan finale(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Mario Cipollini made an appearance on stage 19, showi🌄ng his fashi🌃on sense hasn't changed much.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tim Wellens (Lotto Belisol) spent jus💜t about every stage in the✅ last week on the attack.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The lexan sign-on 🅘grid provided a photogenic backdrop(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Rigoberto Uran (Omega Pharma-Quickstep𝔍) spent four days in the maglia rosa(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) celebrates h♛is first win of the Gi𓆉ro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Matthews loses the pink jersey on stage 8(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Joaq♑uim Rodriguez in pain again after crashing out of the Giro.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Matthews gets his dream victor꧅y, thanks in part to a crash-induced split in the finale.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The first stag🌜e in Italy turned into a "go slow" because of slick roads.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Marce𓆉l Kiཧttel (Giant-Shimano) in red before his early exit from the race.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The rain kept♏ Svein Tuft's magl🎉ia rosa under wraps.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Matthews inherited the maglia rosa from his Oric🐭a-GreenEdge teammate(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) won the ✤rain-soaked first stage.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Sve𒆙in Tuft became the first maglia rosa after Orica-GreenEdge won the team time trial💖.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Pieter Weening gave Orica-GreenEdge another stage victory on🍌 stage 9(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Matthews lost more than just a little skin ဣon stage 9(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The Australians had a great first half of the Giro d'I𝔍talia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Colombianꦅ fans had much tꦑo cheer for in the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Ma♛rco Canola gave Bardiani CSF its first s🌠tage win on stage 13(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Storms left the road ൲littered with hail on stage 13(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Rig𓂃oberto Uran (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) took over the race lead in the time trial(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans (BMC) enjoyed his final day in the pink jers🐼ey♌ on stage 11(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Movistar's Ad🧸riano M🙈alori became an internet meme, soldiering on in agony, in sharp contrast to melodramatic footballers.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Rogers' teammat🌼e Chris Anker Sorensen had less luck on stage 11(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Rogers wins his first Giro d'🎉Italia sta🦄ge with an attack on the descent to Savona(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A massive crash in the sprint on stage 10(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ) 🐟wins his third stage of the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The first Grand Tour of the 2014 season is now behind us, but we can't stop looking back and reveling in all the exciting moments of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia. From the opening three stages in Northern Ireland and Ireland, where the spectacular green landscapes only served to accentuate the pink that was everywhere. The rain couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the fans. Orica-GreenEdge led the way by winning the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:first stage and holding the maglia rosa ꦿfor the first seven stages ღbefore their luck began to slowly unravel.
The return to Italy was met with more rain, and the slick roads led to the only really dull stage of the race, when the peloton called a go-slow to avoid ꦜcrashing. Even so, once they got to racing the final sprint was marred by a crash in the final bend. It was the beginning of Nacer Bouhanni's time to shine, as the Frenchman tallied up three wins in the second week.
The rain also gave the first bit of controversy for the race: on a shower-slicked roundabout, most of the peloton went down behind the pace making of the BMC team, and Cadel Evans rode on leaving his GC rivals in the dust. Amazingly, Michael Matthews was able to hang on through the final ascent to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Montecassino, but his time in pink ended soon after.
With the sprinters left well behind on the stage to Montecopiolo, the jersey passed along to Evans, but Rigoberto Uran was his shadow. Unable to gain time on the Omega Pharma man, and ceded his maglia rosa in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:stage 12 time trial.
That previous day, Adriano Malori (Movistar) was on his way to becoming the first internet meme of the race: a photo of him riding with a mud-coated, shredded team kit on to the finish after a crash in stage 11 went viral after being paired with an image of a melodramatic footballer feigning injury to draw a penalဣty on the opposing team. "Pretends he is injured" it said of the footballer. "Pretends he is OK", it said of Malori.
The drama came to a climax on stage 16, which would 𒁏crest the highest altitudes of the race in weather that made roads barely passable. Crews worked day and night to clear snow from the pavement, but the freezing temperatures and fog, sleet, snow and rain the riders encountered on the Gavia and Stelvio passes raised objections from riders and directors alike.
The misunderstandings around the communications regardin🔴g the Stelvio descent - was it neutralized? was it ꧙not? - only made matters worse, as Nairo Quintana sailed away to the maglia rosa.
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The pole🐈mics flew for days, but once the race headed to Cima Grappa and the Zoncolan, it became very clear that ꦗthe time Quintana might have gained on that descent was far exceeded by the time he took heading uphill, and in the end he was crowned a worthy champion in Trieste, much to the delight of the entirety of Colombia.