2016 Vuelta a España, stage 14: Urdax > Col d'Aubisque 196km

[sir fly]

Good for riders it's fairly cloudy on this bare slopes.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Guess the Movi plan is to 1-2 Froome with Valverde and Quintana

 

[Flamin]

Lol, altimetrias might do some better research. Their site said this climb had pretty wide roads (3,5m). This is as narrow as it gets.

 

[Amnes2015]

still 6 Sky + froome at front of the peleton (and 8th Lopez in the break) , probably Knees, Golas and Puccio got the memo that today is die on bike day...

even if they get dropped climb finish is not very far away so they will make it back on the descent.

 

[jsem94]

Loving the way this stage is panning out

 

[silvergrenade]

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still 6 Sky + froome at front of the peleton (and 8th Lopez in the break) , probably Knees, Golas and Puccio got the memo that today is die on bike day...

even if they get dropped climb finish is not very far away so they will make it back on the descent.

Theyve been chiiling out since the start anyway.

 

[Amnes2015]

just don't tell me the descent is like the climb, 2 meters wide...

 

[ice&fire]

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just don't tell me the descent is like the climb, 2 meters wide...

It is. The moto can't overtake the cars and is blocking the riders.

 

[Josh Homme]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, stage 14: Urdax > Col d'Aubisque 1

That descent

 

[Flamin]

Bad crash from DDD. Rojas also standing alongside the road, damnit.

 

[Andro]

Damn that crash looked bad.

 

[RedheadDane]

Was just about to go comment on Geniez' amazing save, then Rensburg crashed. Does not like good!

 

[Josh Homme]

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Damn that crash looked bad.

Still in pain, but at least he managed to sit down and get medical attention acording to spanish TV moto guy.

 

[DanielSong39]

Hopefully the Vuelta will turn into a duel between Moreno and Pardilla!

 

[sir fly]

Forgot to notice - no dropped on the first climb.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, first I got really scared when I saw Rensburg's crash.
Then I thought that he was definitely out anyway.
But, naaah! Guess that wasn't enough to stop him.

 

[Brullnux]

Why didn't SKY put either König or Kennaugh in the break? With König they would've really held all the cards.

 

[Scarponi]

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Why didn't SKY put either König or Kennaugh in the break? With König they would've really held all the cards.

Winning a race with a second rider is worse then losing all together for some teams

 

[Arredondo]

I don't expect something to happen on Soudet.

All my hope on Marie Blanque

 

[SlickMongoose]

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Why didn't SKY put either König or Kennaugh in the break? With König they would've really held all the cards.

They didn't have much choice.......

The current break wasn't exactly planned by Movistar either, from what I saw. Lots of riders were pushing up front, there was a split in the field, Moreno found himself in the front 40.

 

[Swiss Tony]

Now the gaps steadied and slightly coming down don't think Froomes anything to worry about.. I was hoping that gap would grow further.
Even tempted to get out in the sun and save it for the highlights..

 

[Poursuivant]

Gap at 4:00.

 

[DanielSong39]

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Why didn't SKY put either König or Kennaugh in the break? With König they would've really held all the cards.

Winning a race with a second rider is worse then losing all together for some teams

See Tour de France, 2012. Sky's main goal was to make sure that Chris Froome did not win the race. All that did was keep Nibali in contention for a couple more days, LOL.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Does anyone have a good stream?

 

[Lexman]

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Does anyone have a good stream?

http://slipstreaming.tv/