The Liquigas Giro revolutionizes
The Liquigas team was able to get a win in the team time trial held on Wednesday between Cuneo Savigliano and for a distance of 32.5 kilometers. Thus, Vincenzo Nibali placed overall leader, followed by his companions Ivan Basso and Valerio Agnoli. Carlos Sastre and Cervelo did a good job and stay with all the options ahead of the general.
Simply brilliant. The Liquigas, a prophet in his land, has a stroke of authority in the Giro d’Italia to make jaw-dropping all the fans with a second part of the trial unbeatable. When it appeared that the Katusha Karpets would dress as the new leader, came the formation of Nibali and Basso to take a smack in the table and put no less than three of its runners in the top three positions in the classification.
But before that there were many things. In a day marked by rain, times were going until the BMC set the bar higher with a time of 37:58 which served as a reference to the main computers that are still missing to get out. However, his record would be easily face Celtic seemed to know that at the halfway point, Sky took him 1 minute and men of Cadel Evans.
You can discover another pleasant surprises of the day to learn that the Katusha marked a time of 37:04, which was the best of the day until he crossed the finish line of Wiggins Sky, which smashed all previous records, leaving the mark at 36:50.
But there were still heavy weights to get to Cuneo. Cervelo is the case, who made a sensational trial with a time of 37:15, giving up just 25 seconds with Sky. Thus, Carlos Sastre and his men managed to not stray too far from the best in the day and temporarily placed as second best time.
It was then that almost everyone assumed that Karpets of Katusha, would be placed as the new overall leader being only 17 seconds behind Vinokourov in general. But not done what everyone expected because few had a steamroller called Liquigas.
Italian Training goal came after the finish line by smashing all times and forecasts with a 36:37 time. Thus it was established that, nowadays, it seems may be the dictatorship of Liquigas, who consequently was placed among the top three overall, Nibali, Basso and Agnoli.
Then come the Columbia, marking the third best time of day and to Greipel placed fourth overall. And last compeltar the tour was Astana, which arrived just brokers. Its leader, Alexandre Vinokourov crossed the finish line with a sense of helplessness at having to be continually thrown his companions, who could do little more than match the time of Cervelo. So, all out show which was shown on the first day on Italian soil. On Thursday, the fifth stage between Novara Novi Ligure and for a distance of 168 km very well suited for the sprinters.