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No racing after two years, and he's leading his first race?

The guy is a class act.

http://pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullst...catname=Giro10

Vino: The Drama Queen
The prize for drama has to go to Astana today. The team put together a solid ride for the first 32 km, but heading into the ultimo chilometro, Astana lost their sixth guy, and then moments later, their fifth: Slovenian Gorazd Stangelj. Vinokourov, clad in his Maglia Rosa skinsuit, was on the front driving the pace, and was none too pleased to have to sit up in the final kilometer to wait for Stangelj. He waved his arm at him, shook his head...and didn't wait. The team was in tatters as Vino kept riding for a moment, another rider kinda sorta waited, and the others had no idea what to do - all along, Stangelj was still not attached to any semblance of a draft. He had nothing left, he completely cracked with 1000m to go. Vinokourov eventually let up a bit, shook his head, threw up an arm at Stangelj, and crossed the line. It was a show of exactly what not to do in a team time trial, and a horrendous display of team leadership by Vinokourov. Some of it can absolutely be explained by the heat of the moment, but it was a poor showing by Vino nonetheless.

One of the sport's greatest time trialists of all time, Chris Boardman, just wrote this gem on Twitter: "Vino knows how to motivate his guys in TTT: ride 50m in front of utterly spent teammate turning around periodically to shake head, revolutionary."

Btw, I celebrated today's Giro discussion by crashing during such discussion, throwing my hip, fracturing my elbow and wrenching my back. Geeze, I haven't fallen since 2006. Let's make it forty years for the next fall, as my body hates falling.