Itzulia Basque Country 2024, April 1-6

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Jul 10, 2014
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Not one Visma LAB or Bora or Quickstep riders in the top 10 overall.

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Aug 3, 2015
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This particular stage is just a great design. This entire race would have just super good if stage 2 or 3 would have featured a classic murito or three, but circumstances meant it wasn't really worth watching outside of this last stage.

Juan Ayuso seems to have taken a step this year. Who knows what he can do in July...
 
Mar 8, 2024
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I dont understand why Soler took those seconds...he knew Ayuso had won it and the second didnt give him any advantage ??

They took 1st place from him they could have let him have 2nd

If I were Skjlemose I'd be pissed
 
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I dont understand why Soler took those seconds...he knew Ayuso ahd won it and the second didnt give him any advantage ??

They took 1st place from him they could have let him had 2nd

If I were Skjlemose I'd be pissed

Soler was mad that Skjelmose chased him down when he was on the attack.
 
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So we had an interesting ending despite the lack of three musqeteers! Well played by UAE, Soler was man of the day to me. Bridging from the peleton to the breakaway, threatening the GC lead and helping Ayuso at the end and ... giving Rodriguez the 2nd place in the GC with the final sprint! Ayuso attacked two times and succeeded in the GC with the help of stage winner Rodriguez. Congrats to both!
 
Feb 20, 2010
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So this race ended up more or less exactly as predicted by those who were told off for being negative about the race route.

A prologue, then two crappy stages where nothing of value or interest other than crashes happened, then another sprint on the Amorebieta stage, then the race organisers banked everything on the last stage being important from afar and it was.

The only thing we didn't predict was that the only other place where time could be won or lost was neutralised due to the big crash.

Hopefully the fact today was good does not deflect attention from the fact that the four days between the prologue and today were absolutely terrible, and we get a return to a more typical Itzulia next season.
 
Oct 15, 2017
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Yeah, honestly shut the hell up about "boho its bad manners", this aint a tea party, this is a god damn race and Soler is racing for every second as he should. That could easily be the diffeerence between a 4th or a 5th and what not, you don't really know whats going on or having the full picture of it, and regardless, its still a third on a stage.
Exactly, finishing third on the stage is not bad either.
 
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