2011 Vuelta a España Stage 20: Bilbao → Vitoria, 185km

[zapata]

Sastre not giving up. Funny.

 

[joe1265]

where's the 2005 CSC team when you need them. nice cross wind sections.....

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

What sprinters are left in the peloton? Seems like there's over 70 riders still there.

Sagan? Haussler?

 

[Gingerale]

the dum dum not knowing sean kelley?

it wasn't me this time

harmon was nice about it.

 

[La Canaja]

So to sum it up:

- Froome confused the 20km banner with the intermediate sprint;
- by doing so, he prompted the attack of Sastre;
- Sastre managed to get the second place in the intermediate sprint;
- Wiggings spinted to get 2 boni seconds.


Sky: new horizons in pro cycling.

 

[Maxiton]

Those limp noodle "attacks" from Sky .

 

[hatcher]

Those limp noodle "attacks" from Sky .

Wasn't an attack. Try and keep up.

 

[Anonymous]

So to sum it up:

- Froome confused the 20km banner with the intermediate sprint;
- by doing so, he prompted the attack of Sastre;
- Sastre managed to get the second place in the intermediate sprint;
- Wiggings spinted to get 2 boni seconds.


Sky: new horizons in pro cycling.

lets not forget that sprint point isnt even in the road book.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Indeed, according to the Vuelta site, there is no sprint. But suddenly now there was a sprint

 

[cineteq]

Sastre not giving up. Funny.

It's more that he needs to justify his salary and have something to talk about in his blog...

 

[joe1265]

.... and now Geox has the guy taking the 12 bonus seconds up the road. What is Sky doing? Geox is slapping them around......

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

And here I thought Sky would own Cobo and Geox on the flat or so I heard from these forum posters

 

[Havetts]

46 seconds, Geox dominating Sky in tactics. lol

 

[Ferminal]

Sastre FTW

 

[salixcycling]

So to sum it up:

- Froome confused the 20km banner with the intermediate sprint;
- by doing so, he prompted the attack of Sastre;
- Sastre managed to get the second place in the intermediate sprint;
- Wiggings spinted to get 2 boni seconds.


Sky: new horizons in pro cycling.

Sky got late notification that there was an extra sprint point that NO-ONE knew about until then, and got the mile marker confused. At the actual extra sprint point (that may not be anything), Wiggins stopped Cobo getting bonus seconds.

Yes, hate on Sky.

 

[zapata]

It's more that he needs to justify his salary and have something to talk about in his blog...

They're increasing, though. No hope to stay away, probably, but the chase seems a bit half-hearted so far.

 

[luckyboy]

Pretty irrelevant anyway.

 

[The Hitch]

The sad thing is that that sprint for second is the last thing Sastre will ever win.

How the mighty have fallen. A great career comes to an end.

 

[vcampbell]

Now the commentators here said, that after the start of today stage the organizers decided to put one more intermediate sprint here, and they have talked about this to the team managers on radio. Maybe thats was the reason that Froome didn't knowed were the sprint is.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

It's so strange to see Sastre fighting against the peloton on the flat.

 

[La Canaja]

Yes, hate on Sky.

I stated facts.
Have no business in hating any team.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The sad thing is that that sprint for second is the last thing Sastre will ever win.

How the mighty have fallen. A great career comes to an end.

Let's not forget his super duper awesome 20th place in the GC.

 

[joe1265]

about the bonus points, I don't know what it said on the vuelta site, but Steve Schlager on Universal Sports live webcast was saying at 25k to go "I wonder if these guys know the sprint point has been moved to around 16k". So he must have heard that SOMEWHERE

 

[salixcycling]

Sky got late notification that there was an extra sprint point that NO-ONE knew about until then, and got the mile marker confused. At the actual extra sprint point (that may not be anything), Wiggins stopped Cobo getting bonus seconds.

Yes, hate on Sky.

Good grief. ITV4 just said official confirmation that that *was* the second sprint. No wonder there was confusion.

 

[salixcycling]

I stated facts.
Have no business in hating any team.

No, you stated things with a specific slant.