2016 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Benidorm → Alto de Aitana

[Billie]

Froome not going to wait till 5kms to go

 

[carton]

Re:

Couldn't Trofimov just keep his rhythm?
Yates and Talansky are no real threats for Contador.

That's the smart play. But racers' gonna race.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Trofimov is going too slow

 

[Billopoulos]

Re: Re:

Couldn't Trofimov just keep his rhythm?
Yates and Talansky are no real threats for Contador.

Yeah....thing is it would be embarressing if Yates had ridden away and joined Chaves.

That wouldn't be easy, Yates to close 2 minutes to Chaves while Chaves is going fullspeed...

 

[doperhopper]

gap back to almost 2 min according to GPS (Trofi clearly fading, Bertie should take over)

 

[Matteo.]

Contador looks cooked

 

[Arredondo]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Benidorm → Alto de Aitan

Any chance chaves can still win the stage?

Zero

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

Contador looks cooked

How can you tell from such a distance ?

 

[doperhopper]

btw. this can be the breakthrough stage for Latour... PRLT FTW!

 

[carton]

Re:

Froome not going to wait till 5kms to go

Last 6.4km are into a headwind. That's where Lopez should be waiting.

 

[doperhopper]

Yates The Destroyer again?

Well, you can't repeat the same trick

 

[Sciocco]

Trofimov doing a decent job. Don't think he's signed with a team for next year yet?

 

[This Charming Man]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Benidorm → Alto de Aitan

Valerio Conti from Lampre, what an awkward uncomfortable pedaling style.

 

[cellardoor]

Re:

Trofimov is going too slow

Thing is that it's Trofimov (in the break all day) vs Chaves going full bore.....you wouldn't really expect him to be able to do any more than just contain the gap.

 

[Billie]

Re: Re:

Froome not going to wait till 5kms to go

Last 6.4km are into a headwind. That's where Lopez should be waiting.

Lopez is in the Froome group already i think

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Benidorm → Alto de Aitan

Pretty sure contador will keep his podium place. chaves just doesn't have enough of an advantage

 

[huangho]

Almost imposible for Froome to take 1 minute from Quintana now, Chaves is doing some heroic effort to get podium, but it will be close...

 

[ontheroad]

Froome is surely bound to start spinning like a washing machine very soon.

 

[Billopoulos]

Re: Re:

Froome not going to wait till 5kms to go

Last 6.4km are into a headwind. That's where Lopez should be waiting.

Lopez is in the Froome group already i think

I think only Konig is there for Froome.
Lopez should be somewhere in front.

 

[carton]

1:57 is the gap, handclocked.

 

[doperhopper]

btw kudos to LLS, keeping his ~25 sec advantage as Contador starts the pursuit

 

[IndianCyclist]

Movistar should help out considering stage 15

 

[Matteo.]

Re: Re:

Contador looks cooked

How can you tell from such a distance ?

The facts that he didn'chase Chaves , his nervousness ans because he looked enough bad when he closed the gap on Yates

 

[Kwibus]

Re: 2016 Vuelta a España, Stage 20: Benidorm → Alto de Aitan

Pretty sure contador will keep his podium place. chaves just doesn't have enough of an advantage

Contador doesnt look that good tbh. I hope I'm wrong, but I like the way Chaves took the initative.
Orica riding a very nice Vuelta.

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

Contador looks cooked

How can you tell from such a distance ?

The facts that he didn'chase Chaves , his nervousness ans because he looked bad when he closed the gap on Yates

No he didn't? And he doesn't look nervous to me at all.