Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2022 (March 21-27)

[Devil's Elbow]

This run-in could see crashes if we're sprinting in the wet...

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Don't know what's worse, the route itself or the official stage profiles. Funny enough, for the actual "mountain" stages the profiles are reasonable but for stage 1, 2 and 6 it looks like the peleton will have to ride over multiple Matterhorns.

 

[tobydawq]

Who thought of this finish? This is not made with a bunchsprint in mind

What's now wrong?

 

[Samamba]

What's now wrong?

The last km is perfectly fine, great even, but the km before that is just asking for crashes.

 

[sir fly]

"The rain looks pretty much the same everywhere..." Forrest Gump disagrees.

 

[tobydawq]

The last km is perfectly fine, great even, but the km before that is just asking for crashes.

Okay, I didn't pay attention at that time and saw that the final kilometre was completely straight and then became a bit exasperated when people somehow managed to find fault with that.

 

[Samamba]

That descent is going to be... interesting

 

[Samamba]

There's definitely going to be some splits in the bunch now which is good to survive that run up to the last km.

 

[JosefK]

Descent is slippery.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nice weather...

 

[SafeBet]

Is Hindley back?

 

[tobydawq]

Is Hindley back?

Yes.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Now Plapp has a mechanical, somehow Porte is among the luckiest Australian GC riders today. So far.

Edit: no mechanical, but waiting for a crashed Carapaz. Surprised he's the one to have to do this with Castroviejo after his Jabel Hafeet ride, Ineos maybe have a little too many options here.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So who is Matthews going to be outsprinted by today?

 

[Laplaz]

So who is Matthews going to be outsprinted by today?

Colbrelli

 

[search]

So who is Matthews going to be outsprinted by today?

Hofstetter and Molano are also still in there, for example

 

[glassmoon]

So who is Matthews going to be outsprinted by today?

himself

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So who is Matthews going to be outsprinted by today?

Didn't age well

 

[tobydawq]

Finally Matthews!

 

[RedheadDane]

Matthews took it!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Didn't age well

Should have known he'd win after I posted this.

 

[Samamba]

We witnessed a miracle today guys

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Should have known he'd win after I posted this.

Perfect anti jinxing.

Great sprint by Pacher as well. And another top 10 for Hofstetter.

 

[Red Rick]

Wasn't this supposed to be a terrible route with nothing happening day after day? I just woke up and the race is in pieces.

Mate the route is so terrible Matthews won a sprint