Vuelta 2012, Stage 18: Aguilar de Campoo > Valladolid (204,5 km)

[Kwibus]

Hey Rabobank, very smart of you to send Bos to the Worlds Ports classic and Memorial van Steenbergen instead of the Vuelta!

You just missed out on 5 stage wins.

Doubt it. Maybe 1 or 2.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Hey Rabobank, very smart of you to send Bos to the Worlds Ports classic and Memorial van Steenbergen instead of the Vuelta!

You just missed out on 5 stage wins.

Had the same thought. But not 5 stage wins. Degenkolb is not that much worse. (and defo better on slightly uphill finishes)

 

[jens_attacks]

i like swifty but no doubt he has one of the ugliest styles ever seen in a sprint.
he sprints like froomey would

 

[El Pistolero]

Had the same thought. But not 5 stage wins. Degenkolb is not that much worse. (and defo better on slightly uphill finishes)

Yeah I know, I'm just talking about the maximum number of opportunities for him in this Vuelta.

Even Boonen could've won a sprint here.

 

[Christian]

Congratulations to Bennati! A lot of bad luck this season. But the guy has class and he fights until the end ... and what do you know, he gets his win in the end.
I wish him more success for next year, wherever he will end up!

 

[burning]

Hey Rabobank, very smart of you to send Bos to the Worlds Ports classic and Memorial van Steenbergen instead of the Vuelta!

You just missed out on 5 stage wins.

To be fair, Rabo did great this stage

Gesink got 4 amazing seconds, he gained big time

 

[Carols]

I saw it; a bit of excitement when there was a bit of cross wind....Very Fast stage....Chapeau Bennati.

Wouter won stage 17 that ended here in 2008. Sad...

 

[T-Nielsen]

To be fair, Rabo did great this stage

Gesink got 4 amazing seconds, he gained big time

What ending 7th with a man who was not allowed to go for the stage, but wait for the slowest sprinter in the peleton.

EDIT: You guys screw me over with that size 1 writing. I DO NOT SEE IT. Hehe. Luckily my guidedog bites me if I keep missing it.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

And again, even if Gesink is not a sprinter. He is, among the climbers, definitely not slow when it comes to a final 200m sprint (even on the flat).

 

[Old School]

Have to give Bennati big props...if you watch the sprint replay from above, he stopped sprinting at least 5 lengths from the line, sets himself up, and throwns that bike ahead of Swift. NICE piece of bike handling there.