2013 Vuelta a España, Stage 13: Valls→Castelldefels (169 Km)

[fraserhughes]

The routes passes through Flecha's home town so I expect to see him in the break.

 

[rantanplan]

David de la Cruz will win it from the break. Second place for Flecha.


EDIT: accidentaly quoted, now edited.

De la Cruz has a damage Knee, yesterday he ended last, losing 26 minutes

 

[search]

there was an early crash again today, Lastras and Ten Dam had to abandon the race

 

[murali]

any idea on who took the KOM points?

Today, there is a chance for the KOM order to change

 

[Nuash65]

Alto del Collet (3) mountain result:

1. Diego Ulissi (139)
2. Nicolas Edet (84)
3. Luis Leon Sanchez (46)

 

[Arredondo]

I think a guy like Javier Moreno will have a good chance for the win.

Or LL Sanchez of course.

 

[murali]

edet is 1 pt behind roche and 4 pts behind horner in the KOM competition.

He must come atleast in the top 3 in the cat 1 climb. if horner comes 5th or roche comes 4th, then he needs to be in the top-2.

expecting a change of jersey today, unless roche and horner have other ideas.

The first intermediate sprint is before the next climb. a break will be lucky to cross it in one piece, esp after people have seen basso and roche cutting time.

my call for the day: vino option

 

[Arredondo]

There are six leaders on the road now;

Eddy Hagen, Jan Barta, Bauke Mollema, Yannick Eijssen, Dennis Vanendert and Mitchell Docker

Flecha and Morkov try to bridge the gap

 

[murali]

mollema? how come?

 

[classicomano]

mollema? how come?

Yeah he should be defending his top 10 spot? What do you mean exactly.

 

[jens_attacks]

if they go like this until rat penat , it might explode there

aupa igor anton!

 

[murali]

sorry about that qn reg mollema. i thought he was somewhere in top-20. didnt know tht he had lost 30+ min.


can anton sprint?


58 km, and no established break? wasn't this supposed to be the first chance for a break to actually stick?

 

[Arredondo]

sorry about that qn reg mollema. i thought he was somewhere in top-20. didnt know tht he had lost 30+ min.


can anton sprint?

He doesn't know what sprinting is

 

[murali]

from the looks of it, it seems that the pack wont let anyone go till the next climb

 

[Arredondo]

Abandon De La Cruz

 

[Netserk]

58 km, and no established break? wasn't this supposed to be the first chance for a break to actually stick?

Which is why it hasn't been established yet...

 

[murali]

Abandon De La Cruz

that makes it 5 for the stage, i think.


btw, is the abandons page of lavuelta working for anyone? i think around 20 riders have abandoned by now, but i don't know who some of them are.

 

[murali]

Which is why it hasn't been established yet...

they sould have let teams that dont have representation to add riders and leave it like that, right?


or was it the presence of the likes of EBH sanchez, that ruined the break?

 

[Netserk]

they sould have let teams that dont have representation to add riders and leave it like that, right?


or was it the presence of the likes of EBH sanchez, that ruined the break?

It's the fact that a lot of riders want to be in the break. So if Saxo wants a rider in the break, but doesn't have one, they will try to pull the break back, and so forth.

 

[fraserhughes]

New break:

6. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita), Ag2r, at 2:44 *
36. Bauke Mollema (Ned), Belkin, at 30:22
41. Amets Txurruka (Spa), Caja Rural, at 35:04

*That's going nowhere!!!

 

[ToreBear]

The Ds's should have an early morning meeting, picking one guy to go in the break that is not a threat on GC, so that each team has a representative.


Perhaps also select the winner so that each team can have a stage win. Eh, I need to think less or was it wright less? I'm confused again.

 

[murali]

i just spotted the reason why the earlier break didnt stick.

there was no caja rural member in the break

 

[Arredondo]

Really intensive race, still no break really save on the road at the moment.

93 km to go

 

[murali]

i just hope that this 18-rider group sticks and TM is in tht group.

I want to see a successful TT by TM.

 

[murali]

do you guys remember any stage where a successful break was formed after half the stage was over?