2022 Vuelta a Asturias (2.1) (29 Apr - 1 May)

[ice&fire]

Rush thread. The race is on

Vuelta Asturias Julio Alvarez Mendo 2022 Stage 1 results

Vuelta Asturias Julio Alvarez Mendo 2022 Stage 1 from Oviedo to Pola de Lena was won by Simon Yates before Vincenzo Albanese and Alexis Vuillermoz. Simon Yates was leading the general classification.

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Top Competitors

• YATES Simon
• LATOUR Pierre
• FORTUNATO Lorenzo
• ALBANESE Vincenzo
• GARCÍA CORTINA Iván
• PEDRERO Antonio
• VUILLERMOZ Alexis
• RODRÍGUEZ Cristián
• HOWSON Damien
• KANGERT Tanel

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

 

[ice&fire]

Easy win for Yates with a solo attack in the last climb. Does that make him now the favorite for the Giro?

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Yates gonna easily take this GC.

 

[yaco]

Interesting that Yates is using this as his Giro Prep - The team felt the two break from the Tour of Alps did not work for him in 2021 as it took him a week to find his legs - We'll know more in a week or so.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Seems odd to pick out García Cortina from the Movistar lineup in this race, you'd have thought Iván Sosa was a much more obvious contender.

However, seeing as the nature of the finishes are fairly similar with only that stage 2's lead-in climb is a lot longer, given how easily Yates took this one you'd think he's a good bet to win the GC fairly comprehensively and, in all honesty, could take all 3 stages if he so wishes.

 

[Samamba]

Yates might just win every stage and GC

 

[Netserk]

Interesting that Yates is using this as his Giro Prep - The team felt the two break from the Tour of Alps did not work for him in 2021 as it took him a week to find his legs - We'll know more in a week or so.

It's also very easy points.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Albanese is really bouncing back at Eolo-Kometa. If he stayed at Bardiani it wouldn't surprise me if he had already retired...

 

[ice&fire]

Seems odd to pick out García Cortina from the Movistar lineup in this race, you'd have thought Iván Sosa was a much more obvious contender.

However, seeing as the nature of the finishes are fairly similar with only that stage 2's lead-in climb is a lot longer, given how easily Yates took this one you'd think he's a good bet to win the GC fairly comprehensively and, in all honesty, could take all 3 stages if he so wishes.

Movistar's man for GC is Sosa. I guess PCS justs lists contenders sorted by ranking.

 

[RedheadDane]

Is this the first time an Angolan team has been at the start of a (European) pro race?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Is this the first time an Angolan team has been at the start of a (European) pro race?

BAI-Sicasal have done the Volta a Portugal a couple of times I believe, probably when Carlos Oyarzún was riding with them.

 

[ice&fire]

Interesting that Yates is using this as his Giro Prep - The team felt the two break from the Tour of Alps did not work for him in 2021 as it took him a week to find his legs - We'll know more in a week or so.

Carapaz won Asturias in '18 and '19 and won 1st week Giro stages both times.

 

[Mayomaniac]

BAI-Sicasal have done the Volta a Portugal a couple of times I believe, probably when Carlos Oyarzún was riding with them.

I was going to post the same, I remember seeing a team from Angola on the startlist.

 

[Red Rick]

Doubt Yates will win all 3 just because why would he spend that much effort? More likely he'll go for it on stage 3.

 

[SafeBet]

Albanese is really bouncing back at Eolo-Kometa. If he stayed at Bardiani it wouldn't surprise me if he had already retired...

Whole different rider.
It's mind blowing that he hasn't won a race since turning pro (yes, he won Trofeo Matteotti in 2016 but he was still an u23 riding for the national team).
With these climbing legs I think he is a dark horse for stage one of the Giro.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Whole different rider.
It's mind blowing that he hasn't won a race since turning pro (yes, he won Trofeo Matteotti in 2016 but he was still an u23 riding for the national team).
With these climbing legs I think he is a dark horse for stage one of the Giro.

Yeah, Albanesee looked like an Italian Sagan in the u23 races, but at least Eolo-Kometa managed to bring him back on track.

Makes you wonder what a good team could get out of other Bardiani/ex-Bardiani guys such as Carboni and some of the talented young guys that turned pro with them like Tolio and Omar El Gouzi. Rota has also taken it to a whole different level since he left them.

 

[Red Rick]

Whole different rider.
It's mind blowing that he hasn't won a race since turning pro (yes, he won Trofeo Matteotti in 2016 but he was still an u23 riding for the national team).
With these climbing legs I think he is a dark horse for stage one of the Giro.

I honestly don't know a lot of riders well enough to guess that stage but for me MvdP is just a massive favorite vs the entire field that I hardly think about dark horses.

 

[ice&fire]

Movistar going nuts from the bottom of Acebo

Yates dropped from the main group. Doesn't look well for him.

 

[AlfaLum]

Movistar going nuts from the bottom of Acebo

Yates dropped from the main group. Doesn't look well for him.

Even in a three day race he isn’t capable of riding consistent. Such a weird rider.

 

[tobydawq]

I honestly don't know a lot of riders well enough to guess that stage but for me MvdP is just a massive favorite vs the entire field that I hardly think about dark horses.

True, but I'm sure a lot of people said the same about Amstel Gold Race.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Iván Sosa is alone and looking strong out there. Yates has been dropped by a couple of Euskaltel helpers, but they only have a couple of cameras out there and are following Sosa and Yates so how many riders are in the gap isn't quite clear at the moment.

 

[Red Rick]

True, but I'm sure a lot of people said the same about Amstel Gold Race.

This sort of effort, while fresh, is much more down to intrinsic ability than being in super great form. Amstel was based on the assumption that he was as good as in De Ronde. This is based on him just needing to show up in 60% form.

The field for that specific finish is also just really weak in my opinion.

 

[Red Rick]

Iván Sosa is alone and looking strong out there. Yates has been dropped by a couple of Euskaltel helpers, but they only have a couple of cameras out there and are following Sosa and Yates so how many riders are in the gap isn't quite clear at the moment.

Yates getting his bad days out of the way before the Giro?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yates getting his bad days out of the way before the Giro?

Or Sosa getting his good ones out of the way likewise.

 

[tobydawq]

This sort of effort, while fresh, is much more down to intrinsic ability than being in super great form. Amstel was based on the assumption that he was as good as in De Ronde. This is based on him just needing to show up in 60% form.

The field for that specific finish is also just really weak in my opinion.

Magnus Cort?