Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2022 (March 21-27)

[TourOfSardinia]

GC

Why Quintana?????

 

[Devil's Elbow]

GC

Why Quintana?????

Probably cumulative stage placings?

Quintana 25-17-3-2
Almeida 73-35-5-1

Also the GC was amended after to take O'Connor's bonus second from the intermediate into account so he's still in fourth and not sixth.

 

[AlfaLum]

Has Ciccone finished yet. Disappeared completely in that last 3K.

Really bad collapse from him again. I am not really into the new GC Ciccone.

Was always a really attacking rider that I used to like a lot. But now he never attacks because he focuses on GCs, but the results have gotten worse.

Hopefully he either rides a very good Giro (which he would have done last year) or goes back to being an attacking rider.

 

[RedheadDane]

*Ilmaestro99
*misspells

I don't do numbers!
The other one was a geniune typo.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I don't do numbers!
The other one was a geniune typo.

*genuine.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Can we expect any GC action the next two stages or will everything be decided on the last stage?

 

[RedheadDane]

*genuine.

Stop it!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Can we expect any GC action the next two stages or will everything be decided on the last stage?

Almida will win the GC on the last stage. Nothing on the next 2

 

[tobydawq]

Stop it!

*continue

 

[tobydawq]

Almida will win the GC on the last stage. Nothing on the next 2

Depends on the wind, I guess.

 

[ExperienPT]

Almida will win the GC on the last stage. Nothing on the next 2

Without Manada in the race, it will be easy!

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Depends on the wind, I guess.

Yeah good point. Nairo has the experience but Almieda has the team strength on numbers

 

[RedheadDane]

*continue

No... silly... "Stop it!" was definitely spelled right.

 

[postmanhat]

Really bad collapse from him again. I am not really into the new GC Ciccone.

Was always a really attacking rider that I used to like a lot. But now he never attacks because he focuses on GCs, but the results have gotten worse.

Hopefully he either rides a very good Giro (which he would have done last year) or goes back to being an attacking rider.

Yes, he was looking pretty good at both Giro and Vuelta last year till he was forced to quit both. Trek are obviously banking on him to avoid any similar bad luck this year, as they haven't got any one else who GTs except for Mollema.

Spectacular collapse by him today. Finishing with riders who were dropped 5K earlier. He's only got a couple of The Ardennes races planned before the Giro, so they'll need to change his schedule I'd imagine. For his confidence if nothing else.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Can we expect any GC action the next two stages or will everything be decided on the last stage?

Assuming no wind (terrain isn't too exposed) probably limited to battles for bonus seconds at most, although Saturday's stage may be suited to an ambush attack as the central part of the stage is constantly up and down on roads that are often narrow and twisty. And by central part I mean everything but the first 30 and final 20 kilometres.

 

[Norbea]

Uno-X certainly show they deserve to keep getting invites to big races.

 

[SafeBet]

Yes, he was looking pretty good at both Giro and Vuelta last year till he was forced to quit both. Trek are obviously banking on him to avoid any similar bad luck this year, as they haven't got any one else who GTs except for Mollema.

Spectacular collapse by him today. Finishing with riders who were dropped 5K earlier. He's only got a couple of The Ardennes races planned before the Giro, so they'll need to change his schedule I'd imagine. For his confidence if nothing else.

I don't know what happened to him today but there's a chance he dropped time on purpose after realizing he was not good enough so he'll be able to join a break later in the race.

 

[search]

Uno-X certainly show they deserve to keep getting invites to big races.

they do, but it's of course also a bit easier to peak for single big goals others mainly use as preparation

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Very happy for Nairoman, now that he leads the GC…

Came to Catalunya just for strolling around a little bit - it‘s still March, and what else is he supposed to do… Now he leads, and hopefully will win this bike race on Sunday… ;-)

 

[Mayomaniac]

Really bad collapse from him again. I am not really into the new GC Ciccone.

Was always a really attacking rider that I used to like a lot. But now he never attacks because he focuses on GCs, but the results have gotten worse.

Hopefully he either rides a very good Giro (which he would have done last year) or goes back to being an attacking rider.

Apparently he's doing a slow built-up because he's gonna ride Giro-Tour, at least I'm hoping that this is the reason for his results until now.

 

[AlfaLum]

Apparently he's doing a slow built-up because he's gonna ride Giro-Tour, at least I'm hoping that this is the reason for his results until now.

Yes I know he is doing that. But in the same interview he also said he wanted to test his level against top competitors in Tirreno and Catalunya. Today was a bit disappointing in that regard..

 

[Sciatic]

Zzz

I love Quintana but he doesn't deserve to win this race really. Elbow flicking Almida and waiting for a sprint. Lol

I do t get why folks seem so surprised, there are times Nairo is intent on attacking and then are (more) times he’s clearly not. With the gradient today he wasn’t going to gain a huge chunk attacking, though of course zi too would have liked to see him push a little longer when he did attack. He clearly wasn’t in best form at the end of P-N, so he’s not going to go all in and collapse, which he is vulnerable to.

I’m going to start again on my campaign to have the word “deserved” banned from race threads

 

[gunara]

The non stop influx of good young Danes and Norwegians could have been a bigger story even without Broccolidwarf, if not for that bigger storm coming from the South

 

[groogster]

I'm really happy to see that Nairoman is still at a high level at this final stage of his career

 

[Escarabajo]

Can we expect any GC action the next two stages or will everything be decided on the last stage?

It will be decided on a sprint the last stage!!