Vuelta a España 2022 Vuelta a España stage 7(Carmago-Cisterna), 190km medium mountain

[Lequack]

Remco should drop everyone just to assert authority. What are they going to do, they can't even hold his wheel?

 

[Breezy1985]

If Nibali is gonna go in a break surely it'll will be the weekend mountains.

Same goes for Tibo and probably a bunch of other former GC men

 

[Earns1985]

BORA have already made it clear on previous stages that the jersey is a goal for them, and that they are marking Pedersen closely. But if he ends up getting into a decent sized break with a BORA rider in his wheel, they might not want to use the rest of the team to hunt it down with two mountain stages to come.

Yes, they said that they want to target the green jersey. The thing is that as best Bennett will have half of his team to support him with that target. Keldermann, Higuita and Hindley are going for GC. Fabbro, Koch, Mullen and van Poppel are there for domestiques duties to support 4 leaders. (Bennett, Keldermann, Higuita and Hindley)

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Pedersen to join the break and win

 

[sir fly]

The profile promises interesting dynamics.
Heterogenous breakaway, struggle on the climb, yo-yoing all they long... if the mix is right.
However, they could've put the finish line less far from the top of the climb in order to encourage attackers... about where the sprint is.

 

[CyclistAbi]

A profile that sparks the imagination. It depends on the field. If they are all more or less good for now. Or if Evenepoel would like to have more or others for him to have less. I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect some GC action. If successfully executed likely involving the breakaway.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hagen has been cleared to race.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1563071616443351041

View: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563071616443351041

 

[ice&fire]

Does Puerto San Glorio fall into 'joke-climb'?

San Glorio is up there with El Purche as the hardest non-MTF climb in this Vuelta.
Unipublic placing the finish 60km away from the end of the short descent is the joke.
It took ages to have it on the race. It will take ages to have it playing a significant role.

 

[red_flanders]

A profile that sparks the imagination. It depends on the field. If they are all more or less good for now. Or if Evenepoel would like to have more or others for him to have less. I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect some GC action. If successfully executed likely involving the breakaway.

It would be stunning if anyone tried to go on the giant climb so far out. Plenty of stages in which to grab time without such a long drag to the finish while teams chase you down. You gotta figure Jumbo will have enough guys over the top to chase anyone down. It would be an all or nothing gambit. I don’t see it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A profile that sparks the imagination. It depends on the filed. If they are all more or less good for now. Or if Evenepoel would like to have more or others for him to have less. I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect some GC action. If successfully executed likely involving the breakaway.

Do you actually feel this way about the stage?
I mean it's a worse version of the 2011 Bilbao-Vitoria stage. The only way there can be GC action is if the red jersey is being gifted to someone in the break.

 

[topcat]

I do feel it's delusional to expect gc action in this stage. It's possible to have an interesting breakaway but I think I'll break away fishing for the day. I'll be back tomorrow to see King Remco dethrone King Roglic.

 

[Potomac]

A non flat profile delivering flat profile results.

 

[search]

Vendrame and Jaakko DNS with Covid. Ag2r doesn't seem to be particularly lucky (?) in that regard

 

[KZD]

Vendrame and Jaakko DNS with Covid. Ag2r doesn't seem to be particularly lucky (?) in that regard

With already 4 riders positive for covid, I am starting to fear for the rest of the race. Hopefully this is the last GT with covid protocols in place as they don't make sense anymore in their current format.

 

[Valv.Piti]

San Glorio is up there with El Purche as the hardest non-MTF climb in this Vuelta.
Unipublic placing the finish 60km away from the end of the short descent is the joke.
It took ages to have it on the race. It will take ages to have it playing a significant role.

Serves as a good transitional stage though. I dont really have a problem with it tbh. Much rather include it then dont, and have a totally flat stage!

 

[Earns1985]

Hmm.. the break is not so strong. Only 6 riders:

1		22	BATTISTELLA Samuele	40:35
2		37	WRIGHT Fred	21:57
3		51	HERRADA Jesús	27:37
4		106	GOLDSTEIN Omer	37:57
5		117	SWEENY Harry	25:11
6		183	JANSSENS Jimmy	59:42

Should be possible to bring those riders back, the question is, who wants to..

 

[search]

Trek and BikeExchange are working already. A bit odd that Groves was on the attack yesterday when he has ambitions for today.

 

[Samamba]

It's a small, but very strong group. Agreed that Groves move yesterday was a bit weird knowing today might be his best shot at a stage win. Even tho I don't believe he beats Pedersen.

 

[staubsauger]

Hmm.. the break is not so strong. Only 6 riders:

1		22	BATTISTELLA Samuele	40:35
2		37	WRIGHT Fred	21:57
3		51	HERRADA Jesús	27:37
4		106	GOLDSTEIN Omer	37:57
5		117	SWEENY Harry	25:11
6		183	JANSSENS Jimmy	59:42

Should be possible to bring those riders back, the question is, who wants to..

Wright versus the bunch actually sounds like an interesting battle.

Too bad he doesn't have any teammates with him though.

That would have made it quite entertaining

 

[Netserk]

San Glorio is up there with El Purche as the hardest non-MTF climb in this Vuelta.
Unipublic placing the finish 60km away from the end of the short descent is the joke.
It took ages to have it on the race. It will take ages to have it playing a significant role.

As I recall it, it was ridden at a somewhat decent pace in 2014.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

looking ready in red

 

[Ilmaestro99]

In the last 2 stages Masnada moved up from 138th to 68th on GC.

 

[sir fly]

Tough to tell whether this breakaway can go the distance.
Maybe the ascent shall tell us more.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

In the last 2 stages Masnada moved up from 138th to 68th on GC.

What a rider, clear favorite for Vélo d'Or

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

From PCS

The longest time between two consecutive stage wins for any rider in history.

#	Rider	Time	Year	Year
1	BONTEMPI Guido	10y + 14d	1981	1991
2	PLAZA Rubén	9y + 360d	2005	2015
3	TAARAMÄE Rein	9y + 347d	2011	2021
4	MARTIN Dan	9y + 55d	2011	2020
5	VANDERAERDEN Eric	9y + 13d	1983	1992

Rojas is at 10 years and 8 days.
I sense a win and a record coming up in the last week.