2016 Vuelta a España, stage 15: Sabiñánigo > Aramón Formigal

[TourOfSardinia]

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Can someone post what km i should watch from cant believe ive missed this ffs

start at km zero

 

[Frosty]

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BMC????

Possible reasons are Sanchez's position on GC and the infamous team competition

 

[dacooley]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

froome will not win the vuelta. bertie will be quite satisfied with that, so it's not nothing.

 

[rune1107]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

The last climb is not that steep. Maybe he will loose 45-60 sec on Nairo

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

Obviously. Maybe he'll allow Contador some freedom on stage 17/20 though

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Simon Geschke on twitter:

Hats off to @albertocontador. Love this kind of racing.

Wasn't it Geschke that Berto beat on Muro di Guardigrele?

 

[carton]

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Weird that people think Astana is protecting their gc spot. They simply like Sky/Froome more than Movistar/Quintana, that's it.

Same reason why Contador is riding so hard. He doesn't like Sky. Obviously he would never ride like this if Froome was in his group and Quintana was behind.

Astana and Sky haven't had the best history, particularly Nibs and Froome.

Are the Chaves-Quintana and Sanchez-Contador friendships playing a role?

 

[May0maniac]

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Simon Geschke on twitter:

Hats off to @albertocontador. Love this kind of racing.

Wasn't it Geachke that Berto beat on Muro di Guardigrele?

Yes, but that was still an impressive showing by Geschke.

 

[Sciocco]

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Simon Geschke on twitter:

Hats off to @albertocontador. Love this kind of racing.

Wasn't it Geschke that Berto beat on Muro di Guardigrele?

Yes, 6 seconds/

 

[Sykes]

Froome will just turn on the ITT mode and win this ***

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Kenny and Fraile chasing as well. Brilliant!

Why shouldn't they work?

Chasing with Alberto, be part of a legendary break, grabbing some mountain points and maybe a good stage result, or not working and not getting a thing at all.

Yeah but they weren't working in the beginning. Just thought it was nice to see

Alberto trying to get Cannondale in line

 

[TourOfSardinia]

gap gradually edging up
2m45s

 

[Red Rick]

I haven't seen a thing.
I log in
I see this thread has waayyyy to many replies
I see a message 'today will be mayhem', somebody misclicked the quote button, I see a report that says 'you're a god'
I don't have a stream

Somebody tell me what the *** is going on

 

[Miburo]

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Contador made the gap on the descent btw, but man what a bad descender right?

He still crashed like an amateur on the petite balloon. Life ain't black and white, pal!

Exactly my point

 

[HelloDolly]

Astna chasing is rubbish..No way will Scarponi gain anything in GC placings ....He is ahead of Konig by now and he is bringing Chaves & Yates up ??....Bide your time Astana and wait .....let Orica chase...rubbish tactics notto tire these guys out before the final climbs..>Also brining Froome up ???

 

[Poursuivant]

3 minutes

 

[deValtos]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

Obviously. Maybe he'll allow Contador some freedom on stage 17/20 though

Froome will too presumably? :lol: After Contador derailed his Vuelta ambitions again? (2014 aswell)

I think not.

 

[Jelantik]

why orica not riding? (Not that I"m hoping they are.. .

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Simon Geschke on twitter:

Hats off to @albertocontador. Love this kind of racing.

Wasn't it Geschke that Berto beat on Muro di Guardigrele?

Yes, 6 seconds/

Yep, think he praised him back then too.

 

[Mr.White]

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Kenny and Fraile chasing as well. Brilliant!

Why shouldn't they work?

Chasing with Alberto, be part of a legendary break, grabbing some mountain points and maybe a good stage result, or not working and not getting a thing at all.

Yeah and Quintana had a word with them, I think he told them that they would not going to get any KOM points if they don't work

 

[sometriguy]

Contador makes every stage worth watching. I've been waiting for years to watch the sky train get shelved

 

[Walkman]

LOL, are they already calling it a day in Orica? Gap increased from 2:30 to 3 minutes in like 4 minutes..

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

The last climb is not that steep. Maybe he will loose 45-60 sec on Nairo

I guess if they're still there they have agreed to go up together.

 

[Sciocco]

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I haven't seen a thing.
I log in
I see this thread has waayyyy to many replies
I see a message 'today will be mayhem', somebody misclicked the quote button, I see a report that says 'you're a god'
I don't have a stream

Somebody tell me what the **** is going on

Contador

 

[Descender]

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Quintana will win the stage, Contador will be left with nothing for his work

Obviously. Maybe he'll allow Contador some freedom on stage 17/20 though

Maybe in a parallel universe where steeper climbs produce bigger differences, which is definitely not what actually happens in the real world.