2015 Vuelta stage 8: Puebla de Don Fad.- Murcia (182.5 km)

[Carols]

Great stage IMO I was thoroughly entertained!

 

[deValtos]

Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

Jesper Hansen obviously thought Sagan was still in the group and missed his crash. Presumably he didn't have his radio in.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

He did not know that Sagan was down.

 

[luckyboy]

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Goncalves has been great this Vuelta

Oh Bilbao it was. Point still stands.

 

[trevim]

Re:

Was that Cummings attempting a sprint for MTN? If so he really should have had the sense to go with Hansen/make that move himself.

Sbaragli

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

He did not know that Sagan was down.

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a **** person.

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

Goncalves has been great this Vuelta

Oh Bilbao it was. Point still stands.

Yep.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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Dumoulin waiting for Degenkolb to join again instead of trying to get the red jersey

Spreading Sky disease... Now that they got rid of it (being total clueless tacticans), first Martinelli & AST got infected in the Giro (and SAX with a lighter version too), now Giant got it too. Wow!

Giant are a horrible team tactically for whom the sprint is always plan A if one of the big German sprint bullets is in the gun. The sprint is more important to them than the leader's jersey because they won't be able to keep the latter.

Just like when Kittel won stage 1 in the 2014 Tour and then announced he wasn't even going to try to defend it. I despise when a guy like that gets the chance to wear the leader's jersey.

Fully on your side...

... and ofc Giant gained nothing.

 

[PremierAndrew]

I wonder if that's the last we see of Sagan this Vuelta

 

[Billie]

can't believe Dumoulin didn't attack. don't understand it at all

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

He did not know that Sagan was down.

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a shitty person.

Wow that's pretty strong. I do believe Majka is quite self centered and rides for himself at every opportunity, but 's****y person' is jumping the shark a bit.

 

[Flamin]

Wow Stuyven great win!

This was actually a pretty good stage.

 

[Beech Mtn]

Re: Re:

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a **** person.

+1 on Majka.

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

He did not know that Sagan was down.

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a shitty person.

Wow that's pretty strong. I do believe Majka is quite self centered and rides for himself at every opportunity, but 's****y person' is jumping the shark a bit.

It's not only this. Also other things (not waiting at Contador in Tour, making winks in the camera when he's riding for the win, eating in front of the camera while he's been interviewing and his whole doing).

Really a creep. I don't trust him.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Re: Re:

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a **** person.

+1 on Majka.

Majka is easily one of the most hateable riders in the peloton for me

 

[Billie]

Re: Re:

Tinkoff such a **** team. What were they thinking?

Strange Bala didn't try.

Stuyven great win!

He did not know that Sagan was down.

The guy has a green shirt!!

And Majka could have told him. But once again Majka is a horrible teammate and a shitty person.

Wow that's pretty strong. I do believe Majka is quite self centered and rides for himself at every opportunity, but 's****y person' is jumping the shark a bit.

It's not only this. Also other things (not waiting at Contador in Tour, making winks in the camera when he's riding for the win, eating in front of the camera while he's been interviewing and his whole doing).

Really a creep. I don't trust him.

My favourite is him getting really angry at Oleg for not getting a Lambo

 

[Irondan]

Apparently Sagan spit at the medic car....

 

[BigMac]

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Apparently Sagan spit at the medic car....

And the medic car took him out? That'd be quite a scene.

Anyway, didn't know there was such dislike for Majka. I'm all in the bandwagon.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Now now, screwing over your teammates is usually a *** move, but this is Sagan we're talking about.

We're now getting reports that Sagan spat at the medical team because of being taken out by the moto (frustration and anger is absolutely understandable, but come on, it's not their fault) according to Race Radio. A bit like the Cav/Haussler issue, don't know if it's true, but for a guy with the petulant attitude Sagan has, and after getting so badly screwed over unnecessarily by some piss-poor moto handling that would reasonably anger any cyclist, it's readily believable.

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

What a truly horrible stage that was.

 

[BigMac]

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What a truly horrible stage that was.

Sarcasm-o-meter levels: overload.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Who would prefer this to a 1km mountain sprint on a Saturday?

 

[rainman]

Vila says his team mates were doing so much for Sagan but why was he left isolated with a bunch of wheel hangers and cowboy motos? He swung left into the path of a moto trying to get someone to take a pull, but that would never have happened if Saxo had been pulling big time bringing Sagan to a favourable position for the sprint.

 

[pedromiguelmartins]

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Now now, screwing over your teammates is usually a **** move, but this is Sagan we're talking about.

We're now getting reports that Sagan spat at the medical team because of being taken out by the moto (frustration and anger is absolutely understandable, but come on, it's not their fault) according to Race Radio. A bit like the Cav/Haussler issue, don't know if it's true, but for a guy with the petulant attitude Sagan has, and after getting so badly screwed over unnecessarily by some piss-poor moto handling that would reasonably anger any cyclist, it's readily believable.

Are you even suggestion that Sagan wasn't 100% right? Your first paragraph is shameful. Sagan is the bright spot of todays otherwise boring cycling peloton.

 

[Irondan]

Sagan's tumble caught on film. Looked like it could have been much worse.

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