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

[TomLPC]

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So who's the rightful winner?

Valverde, the moral victor, shades of Ben swifts moral milan San remo victory

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Drucker wins. No one crashed afaik which is good. Now onto the rest day and then can't wait for next stage.

So yesterday's time limit game
didn't pay off, really.

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... if Bennati had managed to pull that one off that would've been the longest sprint ever!

 

[Billie]

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So who's the rightful winner?

Bennati surely. Would have hold on had he not been chased by guys who took rest day yesterday

Wasn't Bennatti one of them too?

he was in Froome group yesterday

 

[BigMac]

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Now who's the first guy that finished within the time limit yesterday?

None from the top ten.

 

[BlackWhiteEagle]

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

Top 10 all OTL yesterday.

 

[saganboss]

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Now who's the first guy that finished within the time limit yesterday?

None from the top ten.

chaves is the first. great win for him
edit: froome second and quintana third. what a podium would've been

 

[LaFlorecita]

Poor Benna, rode out of his skin to make it inside the time limit yesterday, chased down and beaten by dudes who took an extra day off

 

[jsem94]

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Well... if Bennati had managed to pull that one off that would've been the longest sprint ever!

Only possible because of the 483 roundabouts in the last 2 km. And also the insanely weak sprint teams.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Poor Esteban. He would have won this stage easily if the rules were applied yesterday.

 

[carton]

Sprint teams had too many fresh riders not to be a sprint finish, no matter that the actual sprinters involved weren't exactly the crème de la crème. I'm good with that. It's the best realistic outcome that could've been expected. Was pulling for Mate to make it, but at least he should start tomorrow with the red numbers.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Poor Esteban. He would have won this stage easily if the rules were applied yesterday.

Nah, Bennati, man

 

[Brullnux]

Nice win from Bennati. Oh wait.

 

[PremierAndrew]

1) Chaves 2) Froome 3) Quintana

ASO robbed Froome of 2 bonus seconds on Quintana. Knew they were in the Movistar camp this whole time

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

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Poor Esteban. He would have won this stage easily if the rules were applied yesterday.

Nah, Bennati, man

Joke.

 

[TomLPC]

"I suffer a lot these past 2 days"

Jp surely trolling

 

[Samamba]

Congratz Chavez winning your first bunch sprint!

 

[RedheadDane]

Ya know... I don't think you can just take the result, subtract everyone who was OTL yesterday, and say that that would've been the result for today.

 

[orangerider]

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

So Bennati, one of the worst climbers in the peleton, fought hard yesterday with a 19 minute time deficit to stay within the limit, and then today gets blown away by a bunch of riders who were on vacation? Disgusted with this race that promotes cheating.

 

[huangho]

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Now who's the first guy that finished within the time limit yesterday?

Congrats to Chavito, won the bunch sprint of the only guys into the time limit yesterday.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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

So Bennati, one of the worst climbers in the peleton, fought hard yesterday with a 19 minute time deficit to stay within the limit, and then today gets blown away by a bunch of riders who were on vacation? Disgusted with this race that promotes cheating.

Good post. It's very simple, if Bennati can finish within 20 minutes of the winner on such a stage, then so can 95% of the peloton.

 

[huangho]

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

So Bennati, one of the worst climbers in the peleton, fought hard yesterday with a 19 minute time deficit to stay within the limit, and then today gets blown away by a bunch of riders who were on vacation? Disgusted with this race that promotes cheating.

Good post. It's very simple, if Bennati can finish within 20 minutes of the winner on such a stage, then so can 95% of the peloton.

For sure, he lost today because rules were not applied properly!! I'm a lot due to peloton's agreement yesterday, would have been nice for them to let Bennati go and grab the victory!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

What's with the Skybots:
Kennaugh and Boswell last to finish again

 

[hrotha]

Most likely, the/a break would have made it. But I guess that also goes to show how adulterated the whole thing is now.

 

[Brullnux]

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Most likely, the/a break would have made it. But I guess that also goes to show how adulterated the whole thing is now.

It would have made for awesome racing, no? Ever team bar Movistar with 5 or 6 riders, attacks all over the place from really tired riders noticing their amazing chance of winning a stage. And repeat until Madrid. Pity.