2013 Vuelta a España, Stage 14: Bagá → Andorra. Collada de la Gallina (155.7 Km)

[l.Harm]

Canc if he takes the double at the Worlds

 

[PeteTheSpinner]

If Nibali won the Vuelta and Lombardia and Cancellara won the Worlds, who would win velo d'or, Froome, Canc or Nibali?

Cancellara, off course.
Froome doesn't have a chance unless he wins the Worlds. And we all know how possible that is.

 

[The Hitch]

Froome, cause he won French races.

Ok lets say, who should win in that situation.

oh and i mean if canc just takes road race. Wasn't it announced he wont do tt anyway?

 

[roundabout]

Relatively simple downhill and a good descender in Sanchez.

Still falls. The Rabo/Blanco/Belkin crash disease is contagious.

 

[murali]

Relatively simple downhill and a good descender in Sanchez.

Still falls. The Rabo/Blanco/Belkin crash disease is contagious.

i think the peloton will be careful then. giving more options for the break to succeed.

 

[icefire]

Vuelta ticker reports splits in the peloton in the descent with Basso being left behind the front of the bunch

 

[Broth3r]

Movistar Twitter is saying BBC is transmitting fine...?

 

[jens_attacks]

ivan basso in trouble on the descent

 

[murali]

ticker says: Ivan Basso (Cannondale) is struggling in the wet and cold conditions.

is tehre any actual worry here, or is basso just taking things easy to attack later?

 

[Netserk]

ivan basso in trouble on the descent

I was just going to write that.

Goodbye Basso

 

[Cyivel]

Pictures in 10 minutes apparently

 

[Afrank]

Ok lets say, who should win in that situation.

oh and i mean if canc just takes road race. Wasn't it announced he wont do tt anyway?

In that case I would probably say Nibali, it'd be very close though.

I believe he is still weighing his options on doing the TT and the RR. Will probably stick with the the RR as his main goal though IMO.

 

[The Hitch]

Movistar Twitter is saying BBC is transmitting fine...?

bbc? Eh you mean bcc - brussels cycling classic?

 

[murali]

Movistar Twitter is saying BBC is transmitting fine...?

any feeds?

...............................

 

[Broth3r]

Eurosport predicting footage from 14:45 GMT onwards, blames Envalira.

And uh, nvm, I read the tweet completely wrong. My bad.

 

[Piz Buin]

Live Signal in 10-15 min according to eurosport

 

[Hakkapelit]

i think the peloton will be careful then. giving more options for the break to succeed.

Basso appearently lost ground to the peloton, should we assume Pinot is in trouble too?

 

[burning]

Relatively simple downhill and a good descender in Sanchez.

Still falls. The Rabo/Blanco/Belkin crash disease is contagious.

Usually he's immune to that disease but Rabo curse is really strong

 

[Netserk]

"Daniel Moreno (127) has also been dropped on the descent"

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Surely Ratto would be better off still working with Gilbert

 

[murali]

"Daniel Moreno (127) has also been dropped on the descent"

is this stage intend on bringing down number of participants to less than 160?

 

[manafana]

5mins time as the helicopters are in the air again but im sure it could cut out on the final climb again

 

[Descender]

Expected... chances are the low visibility threat of thunderstorms will keep the choppers on the ground due to safety reasons.

Oh well.

 

[Netserk]

Imagine if they ended with a descent finish in this weather

 

[Netserk]

"Jose Herrada (5), Vasil Kiryienka (194), Vladimir Gusev (123), Imanol Erviti (3) and Luca Paolini (128) are the five riders who have a small lead over the peloton."

So two Katusha and Movistar riders up ahead.