"I was hoping to have more help from a rider like Cunego. We could have > made a different Giro if he was there to help me," Simoni said. "Instead, > I was often alone in the mountains and I couldn't overcome the difference > Savoldelli made to me in the time trial."

He was absolutely correct if a bit unheroic.>

"Tom Kunich" <tkunich@earthlink.­net> wrote in message > news:fnMme.2742$s64­.1720@newsread1.news­.pas.earthlink.net..­.>

And what support did Savoldelli have in the mountains? It would be nice for > a change if he just said that he was beaten by a rider who was faster.

h squared wrote:>

He's jealous, still. Cunego had free reign to ride this Giro as a> training race for the Tour. It's the big secret that no one on Lampre> will admit, at least not to any Italian journalists while the Giro is> on.>

He always predicts that he is going to win and has > an excuse when he doesn't.

Ya, some of us like to see that rather than whining about a teamate.> Your lack of racing experience shows here - the pervasity of excuse> making in bike racing is nauseating after awhile. Best exemplified by> the Masters Fattie.

Ya, some of us like to see that rather than whining about a teamate.> Your lack of racing experience shows here - the pervasity of excuse> making in bike racing is nauseating after awhile.

never mind the fact that when he and i were both dropped from the lead > group, and i came past him by myself, he couldn't get it together enough > to get on my wheel.

Now if *that* doesn't put things in a different light for y'all..!

also, i have heard plenty of excuse making (although obviously not as >much as you). some guy once complained that i beat him in a race >"because you never take a pull".

As I said, it seems a bit pedantic but was nonetheless true. Since I> don't speak Italian and I didn't hear what he REALLY said I can just> judge that he was telling the absolute truth.>

Or are you forgetting that Cunego came into this Giro as last years> winner and a super star climber?>

Simoni is a whiner. Evidenced by:>

1) his attacking Cunego w/ Garzelli when Cunego was in pink last year> at the Giro

2) that sort of issue (Cunego working hard enough?) should stay in the> team. He shouldn't be talking about it to the press

I can't understand why he can't just say that he didn't win because someone > else was faster

I think that last year about this time I started a post with the same title. >Then it was that Cunego didn't give him enough support in the mountains. >Now it is that Basso was sleazy by asking him to ride slow on the decent >then left him on the run in to the finish. From the Cycling News Stage 20 >report>"An angry Simoni called Basso an "extraterrestrial" for his crushing >performance and accused him riding unfairly by asking him to ride easy on >the perilous descent off the Mortirolo only to leave him stranded on the >final hump to Aprica.">

I can't understand why he can't just say that he didn't win because someone >else was faster