2013 Vuelta a España, Stage 8: Jerez de la Frontera → Alto Peñas Blancas (166 kms)

[willbick]

Biggest favorites aiming for WC/tired from Tour. Very open race and great win for König!

They are not aiming for the WC. Simply nibali hasnt prepared for the vuelta like he did for the giro

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Basso looked great.

Valverde and Rodriguez did nothing once again.
Moreno good but cowardly. Glad he didn't win.

Nibali looked less good.

 

[Netserk]

Nibali dropped his chain with 1 km to go.

 

[Roderick]

Valv Piti and Purito should be banned from racing for 3 months

 

[gthx_gthx_]

Great win by Konig and too bad for Anton. What a stage that was.

And happy to see Basso/Pinot active.

 

[willbick]

Also once wiggins didnt perform in the giro it was a very weak,race

 

[Zam_Olyas]

what a day .. everyday for kirby

 

[airstream]

Nibali is ready to resist Froome lol.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Basso awesome!
Leo is a beast!
Nibali, well I didn't think he would be to great today. He didn't loose much time to JRod or Valverde though, which is a good thing

 

[Jux1893]

I'm I the only one enjoying the display from that cop on the left?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Orica? It was Roche in the mountains jersey who was 3rd.

That explains it. How did I miss that? Looked like an Orica jersey here lol

 

[Jelantik]

is roche now in red????

 

[ILovecycling]

YE$ Konig!!!

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Nibali dropped his chain with 1 km to go.

really?

 

[brilleaben]

They are not aiming for the WC. Simply nibali hasnt prepared for the vuelta like he did for the giro

Which means he'll ride himself into peak form for 3rd week/WC.

 

[il_cobra]

so this race between purito and piti.

still basso did impressive perfomance with such painfull headwind.

 

[willbick]

Lol at those knocking moreno. He got maximum time gain for minimum effort. Smart riding

 

[murali]

is roche now in red????

my rough calculations say red with 12 sec

 

[Netserk]

really?

Allegedly.

But then again he also dropped his chain for a while on Montasio, but got it on immediately after.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Basso awesome!
Leo is a beast!
Nibali, well I didn't think he would be to great today. He didn't loose much time to JRod or Valverde though, which is a good thing

Im starting to think we shouldn't even look to Nibali, Valverde and Rodriguez tbh. They don't seem to have the form at the moment?
Maybe it's roche vs moreno vs basso vs konig lol

 

[willbick]

Which means he'll ride himself into peak form for 3rd week/WC.

He wont be at peak form at any time in this vuelta

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Nibali is ready to resist Froome lol.

And lol to you for being predictable and trying to stir.

 

[murali]

kreuziger is out of GC contention.

he was 5:25 down

 

[Arnout]

Anton

But happy with his performance at the same time.

 

[brilleaben]

Small resurrection from Antón too