Volta a Portugal 2016 (2.1, 27.07./07.08.)

[rodanafrenteguigs]

I was there wachting the stage, and that finish was amazing!!!!!!! Congrats to Daniel Mestre

 

[portugal11]

Sporting is so weak, only nocentini was there in the final sprint.

 

[FilipeFD]

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Sporting is so weak, only nocentini was there in the final sprint.

2 Sporting guys made the top10
none was Nocentini

 

[BigMac]

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Sporting is so weak, only nocentini was there in the final sprint.

Please, please, call them Tavira.

 

[Nirvana]

Nocentini wrote on Facebook that he crashed.

 

[Tank Engine]

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Horner awful. Just awful.

This is a good day.

I don't get it. Who is it that you guys are referring to as "Horner"?

Rui Sousa

At least I figured that out (after looking to see if Horner really was on the starting list ).

Regarding another rider, Is that THE Aitor Gonzalez I'm thinking of who's racing, or someone less famous?

 

[StryderHells]

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Horner awful. Just awful.

This is a good day.

I don't get it. Who is it that you guys are referring to as "Horner"?

Rui Sousa

At least I figured that out (after looking to see if Horner really was on the starting list ).

Regarding another rider, Is that THE Aitor Gonzalez I'm thinking of who's racing, or someone less famous?

No unfortunately it's just his namesake

 

[StryderHells]

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Sporting is so weak, only nocentini was there in the final sprint.

Did you watch the finish? 2 Tavira guys in 9th and 10th with neither of them Nocentini

 

[Billie]

140LOEFGeorgChristina Jewelry Pro Cycling 21:48
141KRIGBAUMMathiasChristina Jewelry Pro Cycling ,,
142SCHULZEJulianChristina Jewelry Pro Cycling ,,
DNFZEUNERFrederikChristina Jewelry Pro Cycling -

Christina have no idea what they started WIll be interesting to see if the non-portugese teams start to complain again like last year

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

Horner awful. Just awful.

This is a good day.

I don't get it. Who is it that you guys are referring to as "Horner"?

Rui Sousa

At least I figured that out (after looking to see if Horner really was on the starting list ).

Regarding another rider, Is that THE Aitor Gonzalez I'm thinking of who's racing, or someone less famous?

This is "the other Aitor González", i.e. Aitor González Prieto as opposed to Aitor González Jiménez.

To save confusion, you can just call him "Aitor González" since the main Aitor González is correctly referred to solely as THE AITORMINATOR©.

Anyway, this Aitor González is not in the robbery business, and is a guy who was one of the top amateurs in Spain last year with AMPO, since he's Basque he's joined the Murias team this year. He won the Volta a Galicia last year after winning the MTF at La Manzaneda (same one used in the 2011 Vuelta). He's a decent rider but he's already 26 so ceiling for improvement is probably comparatively limited, and has shown this year that pack skills are something that needs work. He may carve out an ok niche but I don't see him rising above the Continental level if I'm honest, which is a shame as I like him.

 

[Tank Engine]

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This is "the other Aitor González", i.e. Aitor González Prieto as opposed to Aitor González Jiménez.

To save confusion, you can just call him "Aitor González" since the main Aitor González is correctly referred to solely as THE AITORMINATOR©.

Anyway, this Aitor González is not in the robbery business, and is a guy who was one of the top amateurs in Spain last year with AMPO, since he's Basque he's joined the Murias team this year. He won the Volta a Galicia last year after winning the MTF at La Manzaneda (same one used in the 2011 Vuelta). He's a decent rider but he's already 26 so ceiling for improvement is probably comparatively limited, and has shown this year that pack skills are something that needs work. He may carve out an ok niche but I don't see him rising above the Continental level if I'm honest, which is a shame as I like him.

Thanks for the information.

 

[BigMac]

Today we have 2km of sterrato and this.

 

[FilipeFD]

very curious about this stage, but dont expect the jump :razz:

 

[BigMac]

Lots of attacks going on in the break. Efapel attacked the peloton and made a group just of themselves for some time until w52 brought the rest back. Moto interviewer disappeared just when he was about to start talking to Américo Silva in Efapel's team car. I think they either crashed or dropped the mic. We haven't heard them in some time.

Already more action than during the entire TDF.

 

[BigMac]

http://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtp3

and then, at 16h GMT / 17h CET,

http://www.rtp.pt/play/direto/rtp1

40ºC

 

[BigMac]

Robinson Chalapud seems to have crashed badly. Moto guy says he looks like ''a Christ''. Jersey and bibs all torn up.

 

[BigMac]

Sterrato and Pedra Sentada:

https://youtu.be/q4KnQeHmC68?t=2m35s

 

[Arredondo]

WOW COOL! Portuguese sterrato!

 

[Arredondo]

Torres dropped

 

[Arredondo]

Torres and Broco made it back to the front group.

 

[BigMac]

Oh God, why didn't they close the other side of the road? Not even decent barriers in the middle.

Embarassing.

 

[luckyboy]

Interested to see how Carthy will hold up this week. I thought Bernal was on an earlier startlist but that must've been wrong. Too early for a race like this I guess.

edit: oh Carthy isn't here either huh

Nice section before

 

[Arredondo]

Goncalves with his usual of-his-line sprint.

Love it!

 

[MikeTichondrius]

Gavazzi takes it. I like that final cobbled kick.

 

[Arredondo]

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Interested to see how Carthy will hold up this week. I thought Bernal was on an earlier startlist but that must've been wrong. Too early for a race like this I guess.

Nice section before

Carthy isn't here too.