Vuelta 2012, Stage 17: Santander > Fuente Dé (187 km)

[skidmark]

Poor Purito, I was really liking that guy.

 

[thegrimpeur]

Contador shows how a champion wins races. Supreme tactics today when he clearly had his best day so far in the vuelta, completely cracking J-Rod who has been slightly better for the past days. Obviously anything could happen in the last k's, but this looks good for Contador

 

[GroupDK]

And there were people who thought that Saxo is weak? Where is team Katusha?

been the strongest team in the vuelta sofare and ride impressing

 

[Parrulo]

quintana helping piti, so piti for second place

 

[UpTheRoad]

Quintana with Valverde. 2nd place overall will be within reach!

 

[cineteq]

Saxo has been brilliant, chapeau!

 

[brilleaben]

The atmosphere at Katusha dinner tonight....

 

[therhodeo]

Such a crazy day. Wonder what Tiralongo will get for this one?

 

[jflemaire]

I'm happy for Contador but feel somewhat sad for Rodriguez. He must be in hell right now...

 

[trevim]

This is an amazing top3, even Valverde is still looking to climb a f*** spot. Oh by the way, Quintana being awesome yet again

 

[*G*K*S*]

Purito dragging a Saxo-Tinkoff plow. That's gotta suck.

 

[vcampbell]

been the strongest team in the vuelta sofare and ride impressing

No! It was Moreno and Losada. Menchov was good once, but the others? But the whole Saxo shows how strong they are.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Reporter just said that every Saxo tactic was planned today in the bus. And boy did it succeed.

 

[Publicus]

What is the gap between Valverde and Purito? Also love that Alberto has a teammate in the Valverde group too. Saxo may not win the best team award, but so far they are proving to be the best team

EDIT: well not any more. still they've done an amazing job

 

[Bala Verde]

ITT for Contador!

Glorious victory in the making.

Valverde has been wisely saving energy and drops the baggage to propel himself into 2nd in GC.

Jrod looks like he will get "crushed" in GC (1 --> 3). I wonder if Froome/Gesink group can even get back to him if he doesn't regain his rhythm.

 

[hiero2]

The wheels have come off Team Harmon and co.
He hasn't a clue whats happening and flat out lied about the live feed.

Gap now over 2 minutes and climbing......

Man, what are you on about? He's said he doesn't know whats happening openly today! Apparently the move happened before he came on air, and the live feed is not telling the story accurately - he mentioned that he was getting different stories about the gaps from different sources.

 

[Descender]

12 never-ending kilometres for Contador.

 

[Cimber]

Such a crazy day. Wonder what Tiralongo will get for this one?

He aldry got payed. Berti gifted him the Giro stage win in 2011

 

[Bushman]

hahaha, saxo with one guy with purito and one with valverde, fantastic!

EDIT: Forget it

 

[levione]

I just got home from work and switched on. What on earth has happened??

 

[trevim]

Such a crazy day. Wonder what Tiralongo will get for this one?

He got his gift in advance, more than a year ago

 

[T-Nielsen]

Now we know why he dances in the pedals... The size of "them" makes it difficult for him to sit. ;O)

 

[richwagmn]

Wow. This almost doesn't seem real??? It's a Landis like ride (not implying anything here).

Bad rest day? How do you explain this?

 

[MatParker117]

Amazing from Contador.

 

[marioni]

What a stage, holy jesus!