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There are rest days in the Giro, they are on a wednesday, at least they were this year

Great read tho

The Giro and Vuelta are also three weeks long and not two weeks

http://www.uci.ch/ucinet/uci.asp?page=Calendar&discipline=roa&ryear=2007&ridercategory=me&continent=pro&l=eng

I'm pretty sure they didn't used to be.

Oh well

Yep the Giro, Tour and Vuelta are definatly 3 weeks long Always have been, for as long as we've been watching anyway

Then were talking about the fifties for the vuelta http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuelta_Ciclista_a_Espa%C3%B1a

the Giro was always three weeks

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d%27Italia

But instead of this little detail I loved the article

You know how nit picky we fans can be Jon

Tips for this year Kiwi?
I think, now the excrement has stopped flying, Basso will do the Giro and the Tour

winning Giro and Tour? Basso? With this Discovery Channel? No way

I hope that Cadel Evans wins it, comes closet to a Belgian win

But the most important races are coming first: the primavera, tour of flanders, liege-bastogne-liege, paris-roubaix, amstel gold race

where I hope; boonen, boonen, merckx, boonen and merckx will win

You're Belgian I take it

Boonen's been very unlucky green jersey-wise in the Tour, he might just do it this year but unless they break McEwen's strangle hold on sprints he has no chance

Axel Merckx has joined T-Mobile and I think it'll do him a lot of good.

I'd like to see Cadel Evans do well, he's got better over the years, is he still with Davitamon(sp)?

Cadel Evans is with Predictor-Lotto, so yes I think


Your from the UK? How come that somebody from there is intrested in cycling? I thought it was only popular in the Benelux, France, Italy and Spain

Yes I am from the UK and cycling does have a big following here, not as big as it is in Belgium but big enough. I've always liked cycling

Alex Valverde will win it.

Well, actually, his knee will fall off sometime in the first week, but he'll be in contention up till that point!

He does have that problem doesn't he