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

[Hakkapelit]

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

Heard that Kennaugh has a similar saddlesore that Kwiatkowski had earlier this Vuelta.

 

[ice&fire]

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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.

Yet somehow that's the decission they should have taken when they re-instated all those lazy riders: none of your results in what remains of the race will count. You won't be declared the stage winner if you cross the line first. You will be given the time of the last man in the stage.

 

[ice&fire]

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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.

It would have probably been 5 days of racing as we saw in the Olympics

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great old style power sprint today. Congrats to Drucker.

 

[yaco]

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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.

Nah - It would have been a boring race ridden at a slow pace until near the end of the stage - These 91 riders comprise the domestiques who do all the work for the GC guys and the sprinters.

 

[StryderHells]

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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.

Nah - It would have been a boring race ridden at a slow pace until near the end of the stage - These 91 riders comprise the domestiques who do all the work for the GC guys and the sprinters.

I don't agree, plenty of teams would of been left with only a couple of riders who would of seen the chance of a GT stage win with the lack of domestiques left in the race to chase them down.

 

[Christian]

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

Nice job, "Hempy" (this is assumingly how Spaniards would pronounce his name)!

He has had quite an amazing trajectory, from cyclocross to a crappy continental team, close to retiring for lack of any offers, gets a charity ride with Verandas Willems, slowly starts picking up top-10's, four years later signs with BMC and now he has a GT stage win. Sometimes patience and hard work pays off!

 

[Christian]

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

This is the fifth Luxembourg stage win at the Vuelta after Johny Schleck (1970), Roger Gilson (1976), Benoît Joachim (TTT, 2004) and Fränk Schleck (2015)

 

[yaco]

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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.

Nah - It would have been a boring race ridden at a slow pace until near the end of the stage - These 91 riders comprise the domestiques who do all the work for the GC guys and the sprinters.

I don't agree, plenty of teams would of been left with only a couple of riders who would of seen the chance of a GT stage win with the lack of domestiques left in the race to chase them down.

You miss the point - It would have been like stage 3 of the Tour of Britain today which was dead boring - The break has their fun and the GC guys ride slowly in the peleton until the final climb.

 

[hrotha]

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

Nice job, "Hempy" (this is assumingly how Spaniards would pronounce his name)!

Actually, it's customary to pronounce J as Y in foreign names and words, so most somewhat educated Spaniards would say [ˈɟʝempi], similar to the way an English speaker would pronounce it.

 

[Brullnux]

Whereas even educated English commentators cannot figure out that the accent in STEfano or ARu or other Italian names goes on the first syllable, not the second. Same with the now Spanish Brambilla, pronounced Brambiya/Brambiglia