2015 Vuelta stage 3: Mijas > Málaga 158.4km

[RedheadDane]

This has nothing to do with who will win the stage or anything. But Tiralongo will be quite easy to recognise today:

 

[Stilletto]

Grande Tira!

 

[hrotha]

Kudos to him and all that but he probably shouldn't have been allowed to start. Having someone whose field of vision is reduced by that much isn't a good idea.

 

[RedheadDane]

Just put him at the front of the peloton and have him pull. After all; he can still see what's straight ahead.

 

[Gloin22]

Tira abandons.

 

[Stilletto]

Nooooooo first nibbles and now Tira !!! Only wheel suckers left now !!!

 

[Gigs_98]

Thats really really bad news. If froome gets the jersey we need a team which can put him under real pressure and Astana probably wont be this team.

 

[RedheadDane]

Re:

Tira abandons.

What a shame.
But health comes first.

 

[Sasquatch]

Live TV after the climb?

 

[Beech Mtn]

Re:

Kudos to him and all that but he probably shouldn't have been allowed to start. Having someone whose field of vision is reduced by that much isn't a good idea.

+1. What the hell were they thinking?

 

[ice&fire]

After the MTF of stage 2, it's obvious that the clever positioning of that Cat 1 climb in the middle of nowhere is to give the KOM jersey to a rider other than the GC leader.

 

[ILovecycling]

Astana with 7 guys,thats very bad

 

[ILovecycling]

Nice pace by Saxo,I thought Sagan is in bad form

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Bouhanni should be DSQ for doing a Nibali.

 

[Carols]

Bouhanni should be DSQ for doing a Nibali.

If it was a car it's a Nibali. If it was a moto it's a Froome!

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Bouhanni should be DSQ for doing a Nibali.

If it was a car it's a Nibali. If it was a moto it's a Froome!

Well, it was a car. 15 seconds long sticky bottle.

 

[Flamin]

Bouhanni crashed again?

 

[BigMac]

Re:

Bouhanni crashed again?

Don't think so. It was just Cofidis twitting late.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Re: Re:

Bouhanni crashed again?

Don't think so. It was just Cofidis twitting late.

He was on the ground. Maybe it happened during commercial brake so you all missed it.

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

Bouhanni crashed again?

Don't think so. It was just Cofidis twitting late.

He was on the ground. Maybe it happened during commercial brake so you all missed it.

I stand corrected then. Not normal.

 

[AlexNYC]

The sticky bottle thingy seems to be very common place within some teams unfortunately. I don't think anyone has made an issue about it, but after yesterday's crash, Tiralongo also got a hold of one of those magical bottles for far longer than what should be legal. I know he was badly hurt, but maybe he should have retired from the race there and then.

 

[KyoGrey]

In the Spanish TV, the camera moto commenter has just told what he saw and heard yesterday.

Apparently, the towing of Nibali was far longer of what we saw in the video ("at least more than 1-2 km").

There wasn't an official complaint made by any team, just some angry words in the moment of riders who were in the same group from where Nibali cheated.

The organisation acted by their own means because they thought it was too suspicious.

 

[TMP402]

Re:

The sticky bottle thingy seems to be very common place within some teams unfortunately. I don't think anyone has made an issue about it, but after yesterday's crash, Tiralongo also got a hold of one of those magical bottles for far longer than what should be legal. I know he was badly hurt, but maybe he should have retired from the race there and then.

That was the race doctor's car, though, no?

 

[Carols]

Fabu abandons with stomach problems

 

[Afrank]

Fabu abandons with stomach problems

Wow, to think before the race started we were all talking about how dominating Astana was going to be.

Things sure change quickly.