Vuelta 2018 Stage 12:Mondoñedo - Faro de Estaca de Bares

[luckyboy]

Around 3:30 lead for Herrada

 

[SKSemtex]

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What a bloody moron !!!!!

Vuelta is very dangerous after the finish line.

Rather come 5th then win and break my collarbone !

Campenaerts said to Danish TV that he would rather have won and broken his collarbone than coming fifth

Hahahah they are a lot tougher then me

LOL for some of them the broken collarbones is like flu for me :lol:

 

[Lexman]

so no real action in the bunch?

 

[Alexandre B.]

Alex Geniez and his trademark monster sprint after hilly stuff.

 

[spalco]

I mean, yeah, Herrada won't win the race with those 3 minutes, but it's pretty remarkable anyway. Doesn't happen often for a break to get that out of hand for the peloton. Sky would've never allowed that if they had GC hopes.

 

[Kwibus]

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Kind of humiliating for van Baarle to lose the sprint, then crash after the finish line.
But the spectator got owned, the sunglasses flew off his face because he got hit in the head so hard. So there was a price to pay for this oblivious jaywalk blunder

Sigh

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Stage

GC

 

[ClassicomanoLuigi]

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So Van Baarle sprinted from about 400m out, but 50m behind. What was he playing at allowing that gap?

He got dropped because he was fooling around with Brambilla who didn't want to work, and he wasted a lot of energy bridging back to the leaders. He barely made it back on in time for the sprint, it was a mistake, not a deliberate tactic

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Can Herrada hold on to the jersey the next couple of stages? Camperona is so short that he's not going to lose 3 minutes, but 1½ minutes is not unlikely. Les Praeres on saturday looks very similar to Camperona, so I'm guessing he'll have lost his advantage by Sunday

 

[Laplaz]

Until Covadonga Herrada, after Covadonga MAL until Madrid.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Kind of humiliating for van Baarle to lose the sprint, then crash after the finish line.
But the spectator got owned, the sunglasses flew off his face because he got hit in the head so hard. So there was a price to pay for this oblivious jaywalk blunder

Wouldn't say humiliating cause it wasn't his fault and he's not exactly known as a sprinter

He was expected to win as the best sprinter of the bunch

Geniez was there. van Baarle's nowhere near as fast.

 

[Bolder]

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So Van Baarle sprinted from about 400m out, but 50m behind. What was he playing at allowing that gap?

He got dropped because he was fooling around with Brambilla who didn't want to work, and he wasted a lot of energy bridging back to the leaders. He barely made it back on in time for the sprint, it was a mistake, not a deliberate tactic

Yes, a mistake. He could have won. Of course, he would have had the satisfaction of being the first to clock that official...

 

[Armchair cyclist]

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So Van Baarle sprinted from about 400m out, but 50m behind. What was he playing at allowing that gap?

He got dropped because he was fooling around with Brambilla who didn't want to work, and he wasted a lot of energy bridging back to the leaders. He barely made it back on in time for the sprint, it was a mistake, not a deliberate tactic

No. He had left Devenyns and Brambilla behind, and rejoined the group of 4 that had got ahead, several km earlier. Then with about 1km left he and Formolo dropped behind the group of 4. If he had the power to catch up and be strongest of them in the last 200m, why did he let himself get so far behind with 800m to go? Threw it away.


Anyway, have we heard whether he is OK after flipping over the idiot official?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Emotional Herrada

 

[JRanton]

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Kind of humiliating for van Baarle to lose the sprint, then crash after the finish line.
But the spectator got owned, the sunglasses flew off his face because he got hit in the head so hard. So there was a price to pay for this oblivious jaywalk blunder

It wasn't a spectator, Van Baarle isn't a sprinter and the crash wasn't his fault. Other than that, great post!

 

[Armchair cyclist]

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Kind of humiliating for van Baarle to lose the sprint, then crash after the finish line.
But the spectator got owned, the sunglasses flew off his face because he got hit in the head so hard. So there was a price to pay for this oblivious jaywalk blunder

It wasn't a spectator, Van Baarle isn't a sprinter and the crash wasn't his fault. Other than that, great post!

And given the weather, I'm fairly sure they weren't sunglasses.

 

[Rollthedice]

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Emotional Herrada

To me he looked like he would be glad to give away the red jersey as soon as possible.

 

[tobydawq]

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So Van Baarle sprinted from about 400m out, but 50m behind. What was he playing at allowing that gap?

He got dropped because he was fooling around with Brambilla who didn't want to work, and he wasted a lot of energy bridging back to the leaders. He barely made it back on in time for the sprint, it was a mistake, not a deliberate tactic

No. He had left Devenyns and Brambilla behind, and rejoined the group of 4 that had got ahead, several km earlier. Then with about 1km left he and Formolo dropped behind the group of 4. If he had the power to catch up and be strongest of them in the last 200m, why did he let himself get so far behind with 800m to go? Threw it away.


Anyway, have we heard whether he is OK after flipping over the idiot official?

Yes, he spoke with Danish TV and seemed to be allright.

 

[luckyboy]

Herrada lost 1:14 to the best GC finisher (López) at Sierra de la Alfaguara and Le Covatilla.

Should hang on for the next two days then (assuming the GC guys aren't attacking really early) and then will probably lose it on Lagos de Covadonga.

 

[Kwibus]

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Kind of humiliating for van Baarle to lose the sprint, then crash after the finish line.
But the spectator got owned, the sunglasses flew off his face because he got hit in the head so hard. So there was a price to pay for this oblivious jaywalk blunder

Wouldn't say humiliating cause it wasn't his fault and he's not exactly known as a sprinter

He was expected to win as the best sprinter of the bunch

Geniez was there. van Baarle's nowhere near as fast.

Indeed. I actually was surprised van Baarle gave Geniez a hard time. Geniez pretty much always wins a group sprint.

 

[Jagartrott]

How the hell was that glasses-guy allowed to be there and do that at that moment?

 

[tobydawq]

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It wasn't a spectator

Good observation, that makes it more embarrassing (for the local race organizers)

Van Baarle isn't a sprinter

Didn't say that he was

and the crash wasn't his fault.

Doesn't matter, neither was mine

Other than that, great post!

Do the race yourself, spend 100 miles and five hours riding over small mountains, then crash after the line because of an absurd situation. Then you can tell me that.

Call you what?

 

[hrotha]

How come he needs to do all that to comment, but you don't?

 

[markene2]

Is Herrada capable of doing a Kivilev?

 

[Escarabajo]

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Is Herrada capable of doing a Kivilev?

Or an Arroyo since he is Spanish!