2013 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Avilés→Alto de L´Angliru (142 Km)

[alspacka]

Bonus second aren't going to be a factor.

I don't see how you can be so certain. There's 3 seconds in it after 3000km.

Letting the break take the stage doesn't seem worth the risk.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Mortirolo? One of the Giro stages there ended in Edolo, making Mortirolo the last climb. It's just that you can't descend Angliru. You hold Angliru responsible for the current fad in cycling, but the 1999 Vuelta was after the 1999 Tour, when the other half of what's responsible happened: the rise of the Postal train. Admittedly in 1999 it wasn't perfected yet, but neither was the Vuelta's current mountain stage fetish. The 1999 stage to Angliru was the best stage design of all stages to Angliru:

In theory, riders could go before the Angliru then. However, the difficulty of the beast meant there was little interest in that. It did mean, however, that when riders arrived at the base of the Asturian monolith they had more sapped from their legs and thus the gaps could become bigger.

The combination of teams racing in a style that is designed to keep the pace too high for anything of substance to happen prior to the final summit, and of race organisers hunting for more and more intimidating final summits, has led us to where we are today. That when you place mountains far from the finish of stages with big mountain finishes we keep seeing the modern péloton soft-pedal the lot or just let the break take it hasn't helped either as it has led to a major reduction in the number of climbs being utilised mid-stage in recent years, making it ever easier for the train template to be followed.

Mortirolo is a lot differnt. Yes it is a steep climb, but its quiet regular. Mortirolo does not have those crazy extrem gradients. It's more regularly in the 10-13% area, but hardly 18+ ore something.

 

[jens_attacks]

I don't see how you can be so certain. There's 3 seconds in it after 3000km.

Letting the break take the stage doesn't seem worth the risk.

ther won't be after today. the gaps will be massive

 

[murali]

I am reposting the break info for team-wise clarity:

2 teams with 3
Movistar: David Arroyo , Benat Intxausti , Imanol Erviti
Astana: Andriy Grivko, Jacob Fuglsang , Paolo Tiralongo


9 teams with 2
Katusha: Dmitry Kozontchuk , Angel Vicioso
NetApp-Enudra: Jose Joao Mendes , Jan Barta
Sky: Vasil Kiryienka , Dario Cataldo
Ag2r-La Mondiale: Rinaldo Nocentini , Carlos Alberto Betancur
Belkin: Bauke Mollema, Juan Manuel Garate
Vacansoleil-DCM: Juan Antonio Flecha, Rafael Valls Ferri
Cofidis: Nicolas Edet , Jerome Coppel
Caja Rural: Antonio Piedra, Andre Cardoso
BMC: Dominik Nerz , Ivan Santaromita


7 single
Maciej Paterski (Cannondale),
Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida)
Juan Jose Oroz (Euskaltel-Euskadi),
Serge Pauwels (Omega Pharma-QuickStep),
Francis De Greef (Lotto Belisol),
Kenny Elissonde (FDJ),
Johannes Frohlinger (Argos-Shimano),

18 teams total/
Interestingly, no radioshack, and no saxo.

 

[roundabout]

Arroyo doesn't ride for Movistar

 

[murali]

climb 1 results and its impact on KOM jersey

1. Nicolas Edet (84)
2. Andre Cardoso (63)
3. Antonio Piedra (67)

Total: (virtual top-7)
Edet - 41
Ratto - 30
Horner - 22
TXURRUKA - 22
CArdoso - 22
Roche - 19
Nibali - 19

 

[icefire]

The 3 men from CJR break away from the break

 

[murali]

Arroyo doesn't ride for Movistar

Sorry. I had pasted the list from CN live ticker without cross checking. I shouldnot have made such a mistake.

Arroyo is the leader of Caja Rural:

Correction:
Movistar with 2 riders: Benat Intxausti (6), Imanol Erviti(3)

Caja Rural with 3 riders, but without Amets Txurruka. If he didn't get stage win today, I am going to be ****ed off with the caja DS.

 

[Poursuivant]

How much time will the break need at Angliru?

 

[murali]

Grivko (AST), Arroyo (He is from CAJA Rural), Piedro(CAJ), Edet.

Surprised to not see cardoso there. He is the actual challenger in the current break.

 

[murali]

Go Kiri, GO!!!!


I change my vote. Kiri FTW.

Technically speaking, if kiri takes all the remaining climbs, and edet only gets 4 more points, Kiri will get the mountain's juersey

 

[jens_attacks]

How much time will the break need at Angliru?

4-5 minutes

papy in full flight can take even those back though. go chris!!!!!!!

 

[Rollthedice]

Maybe Betancur?

 

[murali]

4-5 minutes

isn't the monster worth more?

 

[Asturiano]

With the company of UNIPUBLIC, you can watch the amosphere of the whole climb this morning here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGncqzTkm-w


And more pics:

 

[murali]

Maybe Betancur?

i saw he is in the break. i dont want to jinx

 

[trevim]

Both of the portugueses in the break, nice !

 

[murali]

first intermediate:

1º Nicolas Edet (84)
2º Vasil Kiryienka (194)
3º Antonio Piedra (67)

31 sec adv to leaders.
peloton at 6:04

wtf is RLT and saxo doing?

 

[Asturiano]

There was a sunny day on Angliru but LOOK AT THIS, SOMETHING IS COMMING!.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

There was a sunny day on Angliru but LOOK AT THIS, SOMETHING IS COMMING!.

I wish the thunder god Hushovd was riding so we could get a proper storm out there

 

[murali]

There was a sunny day on Angliru but LOOK AT THIS, SOMETHING IS COMMING!.

rain rain go away.
come again another day

young-man horner wants to play

gap 6:26

 

[webbie146]

There was a sunny day on Angliru but LOOK AT THIS, SOMETHING IS COMMING!.

Please let it rain, please let it rain, please let it rain lol

 

[murali]

piedra loses contact, ticker says. I think he has gone back to collect cardoso.


leaders with 1:15 gap over chasers

 

[Rollthedice]

Question is, are we gonna see something with the fog and maybe rain?

 

[happychappy]

Nibbles to go on the attack in the downhill

His only chance