Tricolore with Tanlines
2010 Tour of Qatar…or Oman? Whatever, whichever: Clearly your administrators [who likes to speak of herself in the plural like old-fashioned Royals] enjoy posting images of the Italian Tricolore so, um, so there.
Credit: Luis Barbosa via Some Message Board.
More Muddy Mayhem
2010 Classics Seasons [Paris-Roubaix?]: Ya’ll even happier now with more road wary and worn Pippo, m’kay?
Credit: Photo News via DeMorgen.be.
Mud Makes the Man?
2010 Milano-San Remo: Since ya’ll seems to heart “Pippo covered in mud [that is not of the exfoliating type]” pics, well, here’s another filled with post race angst.
Credit: Milansanremo.co.uk.
Poolside
2010 Katusha Team Training Camp: We here at the Pippo Appreciation Society are baffled and bewildered by Astana fans posting pictures of team Katusha at Astanafans.com. We are—or rather were committed to investigating this picture posting intrigue, among the many thousands in Cycledom not involving the UCI but let us not digress; however, we decided against the investigation because it is positively Pippo picspam. And picspam is picspam. And pretty picspam is PRETTY. And SHINY. And PRECIOUS—hey, quiet Gollum! Yes, pretty poolside picspam with Pippo which there is not enough of so will Pippo someday—PLEASE!—race at Curaçao to have his picture taken with the dolphins?
Credit: ????? via Toscana/Astana Cycling Team Fan Club.
Pippo and Plushie
2010 Giro d’Italia, Stage 12: Pippo the stage winner received his very own stuffed Girbecco
Credit: Sirotti via CyclingNews.
Looking at the World Through Green-Colored Glasses
2009 Tour de France: Uh-oh, more helmetless riding by Our Hero. Call the fashion authorities—quick! We cannot have Tommeke getting jealous because he, er, cannot use hair gel so generously, right?
Credit: Tim de Waele (methinks but too lazy to research this) via Cyclowired.jp.
Podium Posse
2010 Giro d’Italia, Stage 12: As soon as the stage is won the podium posse of chaperones, coaches, journalists, and soigneurs swarm the winner, impeding celebration with teammates.
Credit: Roberto Bettini via CyclingNews.
Perfecto!
2010 Giro d’Italia, Stage 12: Clad in the Tricolore, Pippo outsprinted Frenchmen Thomas Voeckler and Jerome Pineau.
Credit: Roberto Bettini via CyclingNews.
Pippo is interviewed about the 2010 Giro launch in Amsterdam that is oh-so-ordinary but the questions veer off the stereotypical path halfway through into “de rosse buurt.”
Sheer Luck at San Sebastian
2008 Clasica San Sebastian: Summer kits are often more diaphanous which is desirable for racing in the Spanish heat.
Credit: envisionpublicidad.
