2016 Vuelta a España, stage 16: Alcañiz > Peñíscola 156.4km

[Flamin]

Km 75.4 - Alto Castillo de Morella 3.4 km a 5.2% - categoría 3

Fresh Sky riders to create echelons and drop Quintana. Sky gets outrageous abuse. Forum crashes.


Top-10 GC
1. QUINTANA Nairo 7 MOVISTAR TEAM 61h 36' 07''
2. FROOME Christopher 21 TEAM SKY 61h 39' 44'' + 03' 37''
3. CHAVES Johan Esteban 51 ORICA BIKEEXCHANGE 61h 40' 04'' + 03' 57''
4. CONTADOR Alberto 11 TINKOFF 61h 40' 09'' + 04' 02''
5. YATES Simon 59 ORICA BIKEEXCHANGE 61h 41' 14'' + 05' 07''
6. SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel 37 BMC RACING TEAM 61h 42' 19'' + 06' 12''
7. TALANSKY Andrew 141 CANNONDALE-DRAPAC PRO CYCLING TEAM 61h 42' 50'' + 06' 43''
8. FORMOLO Davide 145 CANNONDALE-DRAPAC PRO CYCLING TEAM 61h 43' 24'' + 07' 17''
9. DE LA CRUZ David 133 ETIXX - QUICK STEP 61h 43' 30'' + 07' 23''
10. SCARPONI Michele 61 ASTANA PRO TEAM 61h 43' 46'' + 07' 39''

 

[Alexandre B.]

Felline has a great opportunity to be 3rd here.

 

[jsem94]

Hope for crosswind action. Contador takes back time on all rivals. Let me dream.

 

[DFA123]

Would be better with a murito finish. I guess a huge breakaway of, oooh lets say, 90 riders will contest this.

 

[Red Rick]

Gigs, are you gonna watch?

 

[BigMac]

Let him watch, cause 99% chance this will be a snooze and we don't want the myth to be busted.

If I'm [gladly] proven wrong you're free to claim you were away all day following a ticker, Gigs.

 

[Rollthedice]

After today all they need is a finish in Penis Cola tomorrow.

 

[sir fly]

Re:

After today all they need is a finish in Penis Cola tomorrow.

You mean at Penis Cola?

 

[Gigs_98]

Re:

After today all they need is a finish in Penis Cola tomorrow.

lol :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Jagartrott]

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Hope for crosswind action.

What if this happens, but with Sky shredding the peloton apart?
What'll the organisation do then? Deduct sprinter points?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Bunch sprint please. No breakaway, at least not one which wins without being chased by the peloton.

Farrar will transition from OTL to first over the line.

 

[Tank Engine]

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Hope for crosswind action. Contador takes back time on all rivals. Let me dream.

The wind should pick up tomorrow afternoon, but only to 20km/h and generally it will be a cross-tailwind.

https://www.google.pl/#q=weather+forecast+morella+spain

Hence, probably nothing to write home about. On the other hand, ....


Meersman wins the sprint, but due to a pre-stage agreement regarding the riders over the time limit in Stage 15, Felline is declared the winner

 

[Amnes2015]

who cares? the Vuelta is over anyway. however even finished already on stage 16 was miles better than the tour.

 

[TomLPC]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, stage 16: Alcañiz > Peñíscola 156.

Secret exclusive footage from tomorrows stage

 

[carton]

Hoping for a standard sprint stage, TBH. Will be hard to get away from the polemica if it isn't.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

What to expect after today?? we are going to be spoil for awhile...

 

[PremierAndrew]

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Gigs, are you gonna watch?

We need to know the answer to this

 

[42x16ss]

Let's be serious here - how many sprinters are there in the race worth riding most of the day on the front for?

Felline, Farrar, maybe Vandersande and who else? I doubt that Orica, Tinkoff or Movistar will be worrying about chasing for Keukeleire, Bennati or Rojas with the next few stages coming up. The break will take this with a 5-6 minute gap

 

[Sykes]

I don't know who's gonna win, but i seriously hope that isn't one of those guys that ended the stage after the time limit, that would be unfair at least

 

[Escarabajo]

Hoping for a sprint tomorrow!

We had enough action in this Vuelta anyway.

 

[orangerider]

Massive break from Direct Energie, one of them will take the win.

 

[The Barb]

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Let's be serious here - how many sprinters are there in the race worth riding most of the day on the front for?

Felline, Farrar, maybe Vandersande and who else? I doubt that Orica, Tinkoff or Movistar will be worrying about chasing for Keukeleire, Bennati or Rojas with the next few stages coming up. The break will take this with a 5-6 minute gap

That's a very odd selection of three sprinters you've chosen! I would also be surprised if Farrar's team chases the break for him because:

A. I believe Sbaragli is their sprinter and Farrar is there to lead him out
B. Farrar's best finish in this Vuelta is 126th, in yesterday's stage (so perhaps his form is improving).

More realistically, Etixx could chase for Meersman or Giant for Arndt.

Etixx had 6 riders in the gruppetto yesterday so no reason they shouldn't have the means to chase for Meersman.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re: Re:

Let's be serious here - how many sprinters are there in the race worth riding most of the day on the front for?

Felline, Farrar, maybe Vandersande and who else? I doubt that Orica, Tinkoff or Movistar will be worrying about chasing for Keukeleire, Bennati or Rojas with the next few stages coming up. The break will take this with a 5-6 minute gap

That's a very odd selection of three sprinters you've chosen! I would also be surprised if Farrar's team chases the break for him because:

A. I believe Sbaragli is their sprinter and Farrar is there to lead him out
B. Farrar's best finish in this Vuelta is 126th, in yesterday's stage (so perhaps his form is improving).

More realistically, Etixx could chase for Meersman or Giant for Arndt.

Etixx had 6 riders in the gruppetto yesterday so no reason they shouldn't have the means to chase for Meersman.

Arndt has only once finished inside top 150 in this Vuelta.

 

[Robert5091]

After yesterday's fireworks, it'll be interesting to see what happens today. 93 riders had a nice easy day so I'd expect a big break and a easy day for the GC guys.

 

[Savant12]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, stage 16: Alcañiz > Peñíscola 156.

Movistar and Tinkoff to put their whole team in the break