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How The Race Was Won – Giro d'Italia 2014 – Stages 1-3

Posted on 12 May 20144 July 2021 by cosmo

A Team Time Trial and a pair of rainy sprints.
Music: https://soundcloud.com/bill-craig/molly-malone-2013

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  1. CarnSoaks says:
    12 May 2014 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks again CC. Would Love a clarification from the ‘spert.
    BG: Matt White at GIRO12 -Youtube VID#: “a2rfSWDc5S0” 3min 40sec: in for his comment.
    Movistar & FDJ both had moments up that rise where riders displayed some backdoor lovin.
    Did it actually contravene a UCI rule? (maybe it has changed lately).
    Imagine – Quintana DQ’d for a schoolboy error. Expletive deleted, very deleted

    Reply
    1. Cosmo Catalano says:
      13 May 2014 at 12:04 am

      Copied over my reply from YouTube, in case there are some takedown issues: “That is verrrrrry curious—I suppose there must be some flexibility in how the rule is interpreted and enforced (welcome to cycling…) but still. The Movistar tap could be overlooked, but the epic FDJ shove, not so much…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rfSWDc5S0&t=3m40s

      Reply
  2. Graham says:
    12 May 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Love the attention to idiosyncratic details that I miss because I can’t bring myself to watch 100km of a flat stage. Thanks for putting in the hard work for us. Oh, and thanks for getting these up so quickly of late!

    Reply
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Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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