2016 Vuelta a España, stage 5: Viveiro > Lugo (171.3km)

[Flamin]

Km 118.8 - Pto. de Marco de Álvare. 11.8 kilometre-long climb at 3.6% - category 3

Looks like a sharp corner right before that hill at 2km is about to start. Good for a puncheur. Gilbert is a 100% certainty to attack there. Kwiatkowski will try too I think.

Official start at 13h30 CEST.

Top-10 GC:
1. ATAPUMA Darwin 32 BMC RACING TEAM 13h 23' 10''
2. VALVERDE Alejandro 1 MOVISTAR TEAM 13h 23' 39'' + 00' 29''
3. FROOME Christopher 21 TEAM SKY 13h 23' 43'' + 00' 33''
4. CHAVES Johan Esteban 51 ORICA BIKEEXCHANGE 13h 23' 49'' + 00' 39''
5. QUINTANA Nairo 7 MOVISTAR TEAM 13h 23' 49'' + 00' 39''
6. SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel 37 BMC RACING TEAM 13h 24' 18'' + 01' 08''
7. FERNANDEZ ANDUJAR Ruben 4 MOVISTAR TEAM 13h 24' 21'' + 01' 11''
8. KONIG Leopold 26 TEAM SKY 13h 24' 23'' + 01' 13''
9. KENNAUGH Peter 24 TEAM SKY 13h 24' 25'' + 01' 15''
10. BRAMBILLA Gianluca 131 ETIXX - QUICK STEP 13h 24' 33'' + 01' 23''

 

[Red Rick]

Thanks for the stage threads Flamin. I appreciate it

 

[Flamin]

Also a 40% chance of (light) rain in Lugo. Not bad.

Thanks for the stage threads Flamin

No problem.

 

[Netserk]

Will someone post the last 3km here after the stage, please?

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

Will someone post the last 3km here after the stage, please?

If I think about that, I will. I'm unlikely to watch anyway though, so don't count on me.

 

[Netserk]

Thanks. I will try to post there after the stages I have seen live, since you might as well just follow (most of) this Vuelta that way.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Nielsen FTW!

 

[Netserk]

Re:

Nielsen FTW!

Nah, I think Cort will come just shortly before him 😉

 

[markene2]

Someone can definatly win solo here, Vino won at the same finish in 2006

 

[hfer07]

Another successful breakaway please!!! perhaps another French win 😀


meanwhile the peloton just chilling......

 

[search]

Re:

Someone can definatly win solo here, Vino won at the same finish in 2006

maybe someone can, but it was not the same finish at all, they finished on the Av. de Madrid back then

...which is here: (orange circle)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I'm looking at the startlist to see if there is a French uphill sprinter somewhere. .....

 

[liamito]

Re: Re:

Someone can definatly win solo here, Vino won at the same finish in 2006

maybe someone can, but it was not the same finish at all, they finished on the Av. de Madrid back then

...which is here: (orange circle)

2006 was (much) harder?

 

[Krokro]

Perfect for Felline ?

 

[ThePirate81]

1 Kwiatkowski
2 Meersman
3 Cort Nielsen

 

[Orbit501]

Re:

I'm looking at the startlist to see if there is a French uphill sprinter somewhere. .....

Hurrah! Tony Hurel ftw! 😀

 

[Robert5091]

A nice relaxing day for the peloton ... though a bet on a crash at the finish might be smart - not the world's best sprint trains and not many chances for glory to come.

 

[Flamin]

Machado and Morice in the break, no one else cared, as expected.

 

[BigMac]

Machado seems desperate for a new contract. Things don't look nice for him. He could easily find a team in PCT level, but is clearly fishing for another WT chance.

He was supposed to be the second coming of Agostinho and a better rider than Costa...

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re: Re:

Nielsen FTW!

Nah, I think Cort will come just shortly before him 😉

His name is Nielsen, Magnus Cort so I don't agree 😉

 

[Jungle Cycle]

it doesnt look that rainy but Zoidl went down and Fisher already out...

 

[Lexman]

terrible weather, will wear the riders down after the heat f the previous days...

 

[portugal11]

I don't know why but i have a feeling that contador will attack today

 

[Flamin]

Re:

terrible weather, will wear the riders down after the heat f the previous days...

It's still over 30C.

 

[Lexman]

Lugo :19°C says Sporza...