Giro-d'Italia stage 15 summary

Changes in stage 15 compared to stage 14

Biggest gainers by position :
+3 Sven Krauss
+3 Giovanni Lombardi
+2 Yuriy Krivtsov
+2 William Bonnet
+2 Stef Clement
+2 Sergiy Matveyev
+2 Serge Baguet
+2 Paolo Bettini
+2 Olaf Pollack
+2 Leonardo Scarselli

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Yoann Le Boulanger
-2 Frantisek Rabon
-2 Gabriele Missaglia
-2 John Gadret
-1 Emanuele Sella
-1 Ivan Mayoz
-1 Jens Voigt
-1 Jose Serpa
-1 Leonardo Piepoli
-1 Paolo Tiralongo
-1 Serguei Gonchar

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Paolo Bettini
+0:12 Olaf Pollack
+0:08 Robert Forster

Biggest losers by time :
-2:16 Gabriele Missaglia
-2:12 Ivan Mayoz
-2:03 Preben Van Hecke
-1:40 Carl Naibo
-1:40 Yoann Le Boulanger
-1:26 Aaron Olsen
-1:26 Frantisek Rabon
-0:26 Benat Albizuri Aransolo
-0:16 Alessandro Vanotti
-0:16 Alexandr Kolobnev
-0:16 Amael Moinard

Favourites by position :
-1 Serguei Gonchar
-1 Leonardo Piepoli

Favourites by time :
-0:16 Serguei Gonchar
-0:16 Leonardo Piepoli
-0:16 Carlos Sastre Candil

Favourites standings :
1 Ivan Basso 59.44.07
2 José E. Gutierrez Cataluna 3.27
3 Paolo Savoldelli 5.30
4 Wladimir Belli 7.35
5 Gilberto Simoni 8.00
.....
7 Franco Pellizotti 8.14
8 Tom Danielson 8.35
9 Damiano Cunego 8.58
10 Danilo Di Luca 10.36
.....
13 Andrea Noe' 12.24
.....
18 Giampaolo Caruso 13.52
.....
23 Leonardo Piepoli 16.38
.....
27 Luca Mazzanti 19.56
.....
38 Carlos Sastre Candil 28.04
.....
46 Serguei Gonchar 31.44

Retirements to date :
AG2R Prevoyance Mark Scanlon DNF 12
" Tomas Vaitkus DNF 13
Bouygues Telecom Andy Flickinger
" Giovanni Bernaudeau DNS 14
" Sébastien Chavanel
Ceramica Panaria-Navigare Moises Aldape Chavez
Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone Cristian Moreni
" Leonardo Bertagnolli DNF 4
" Staf Scheirlinckx DNF 14
" Thierry Marichal
Davitamon-Lotto Christophe Brandt DNS 4
" Robbie Mcewen
Euskaltel-Euskadi Andoni Aranaga Azkune DNF 14
" Koldo Fernandez
" Roberto Laiseka Jaio DNF 12
Française des Jeux Bradley Mcgee
" Philippe Gilbert DNS 12
Gerolsteiner Davide Rebellin
" Ronny Scholz DNF 14
Liberty Seguros-Würth Team Dariusz Baranowski DNF 10
" Marcos A. Serrano Rodriguez DNS 13
Liquigas Vladimir Miholjevic DNS 14
Phonak Hearing Systems Axel Merckx DNS 15
Quick Step-Innergetic Remmert Wielinga
Rabobank Graeme Brown
" Michael Rasmussen DNS 12
Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni Alessandro Bertolini
" José Rujano Guillen DNF 13
T-Mobile Team André Korff
" Michael Rogers DNS 13
Team Milram Alessandro Petacchi DNS 4
Total retirements : 31

Bob Martin wrote:
Changes in stage 15 compared to stage 14

Bob, I really appreciate the summaries and stage color pieces you post.
They're great. If you had a PayPal link at the bottom of your posts
I'd send you a small token to thank you for the time and effort
involved. I think a lot of people would. You'd probably make a ton of
money. Of course all that money would probably go to your head - it
always does. It'd start corrupting you and probably open the doors to
bribery and shennagins. People paying to have _their_ favorites
featured. You'd probably be steenkin' rich, under investigation for
money laundering, indicted and thrown in the slammer. Some dude named
Spike would take a liking to you.

You know what, Bob? Skip the PayPal link and just accept my thank you.

R

in 505349 20060522 233545 "RicodJour" wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:
Changes in stage 15 compared to stage 14

Bob, I really appreciate the summaries and stage color pieces you post.
They're great. If you had a PayPal link at the bottom of your posts
I'd send you a small token to thank you for the time and effort
involved. I think a lot of people would. You'd probably make a ton of
money. Of course all that money would probably go to your head - it
always does. It'd start corrupting you and probably open the doors to
bribery and shennagins. People paying to have _their_ favorites
featured. You'd probably be steenkin' rich, under investigation for
money laundering, indicted and thrown in the slammer. Some dude named
Spike would take a liking to you.

You know what, Bob? Skip the PayPal link and just accept my thank you.

R

Thanks for the thought and for a good laugh ;-)

btw it is very little effort - I have been doing it for my son and me for quite a few
years so I just had to add a few lines of code to post it at the same time.

in 505349 20060522 233545 "RicodJour" wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:
Changes in stage 15 compared to stage 14

Bob, I really appreciate the summaries and stage color pieces you post.
They're great. If you had a PayPal link at the bottom of your posts
I'd send you a small token to thank you for the time and effort
involved. I think a lot of people would. You'd probably make a ton of
money. Of course all that money would probably go to your head - it
always does. It'd start corrupting you and probably open the doors to
bribery and shennagins. People paying to have _their_ favorites
featured. You'd probably be steenkin' rich, under investigation for
money laundering, indicted and thrown in the slammer. Some dude named
Spike would take a liking to you.

You know what, Bob? Skip the PayPal link and just accept my thank you.

R

Forget to say that I can't take the credit for the "color pieces" as that is a different Bob
(there's a lot of us).

Bob Martin wrote:

Thanks for the thought and for a good laugh ;-)

btw it is very little effort - I have been doing it for my son and me for quite a few
years so I just had to add a few lines of code to post it at the same time.

Hmmm. See, I would have said something along the lines of not minding
doing the several hours of work at the wee hours of the morning as I
felt it was a crucial public service to the cadre of loyal cycling
fans. You know, lie.

How long does it take you to work up the summary?

R

in 505429 20060523 152443 "RicodJour" wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:

Thanks for the thought and for a good laugh ;-)

btw it is very little effort - I have been doing it for my son and me for quite a few
years so I just had to add a few lines of code to post it at the same time.

Hmmm. See, I would have said something along the lines of not minding
doing the several hours of work at the wee hours of the morning as I
felt it was a crucial public service to the cadre of loyal cycling
fans. You know, lie.

How long does it take you to work up the summary?

R

You almost convinced me to exaggerate, but as soon as I know the results are available
I run the program, check the output and if it looks good I give it the ok to post. About 20 seconds.
Good job you didn't send that cash ;-)

Bob Martin wrote:
in 505429 20060523 152443 "RicodJour" wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:

Thanks for the thought and for a good laugh ;-)

btw it is very little effort - I have been doing it for my son and me for quite a few
years so I just had to add a few lines of code to post it at the same time.

Hmmm. See, I would have said something along the lines of not minding
doing the several hours of work at the wee hours of the morning as I
felt it was a crucial public service to the cadre of loyal cycling
fans. You know, lie.

How long does it take you to work up the summary?

R

You almost convinced me to exaggerate, but as soon as I know the results are available
I run the program, check the output and if it looks good I give it the ok to post. About 20 seconds.
Good job you didn't send that cash ;-)

20 seconds?! Kee-rist! For that little time expenditure I would have
insisted on a refund.

R