It is not often you get an offer for an all access media pass to the finish line at the Giro d’Italia. And even better, today was the Giro’s 100 year birthday. No work, just fun – stress free shooting and some plain old spectating, how great. Or, on assignment to cover the finish for DolomiteSport as it was a Dolomite stage? The Alpe di Siusi is an amazing location for a finish and one of the best roads I have ever seen for a climb, I will be headed right back to do it.
Buon Compleanno Giro d’Italia
Some fun pics:
100 meters of sausage laying in the sun. Yum.
The perfect setting for watching TV
Marco Pantani fans
My view down the media lane to the finish
Winner Denis Menchov after crossing the finish line
Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner
Ivan Basso interviewed
2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
The media crush on Lance Armstrong
Fabian Cancellara actually impressed I married a Swiss, seriously!
Interesting juxtaposition; waiting or passing by?
Dolomites Tour Operator
When you actually sit down and look at all the different components you suddenly realise what am amazing and often overlooked feat of engineering it is