Vuelta 2018 stage 13: Candás - La Camperona 174.8km

[Escarabajo]

Battle of the climbers!!!

 

[movingtarget]

If someone had told me before the vuelta the first three mtf's would go to Benjamin King and Oscar Rodriguez...

Vuelta is the breakaway grand tour.

 

[Climbing]

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It's funny how people always think Quintana can go much faster, just because he has a poker face.

Exactly this.
Though sometimes he did *** up to avoid risking too much tbh.

 

[Rollthedice]

Stoneface lite smackdown on Brit Purito.

 

[Gigs_98]

If someone had told me before the vuelta the first three mtf's would go to Benjamin King and Oscar Rodriguez...

Vuelta is the breakaway grand tour.

It's not just that all three stages went to the break. King isn't that great of a climber and I haven't heard the name Oscar Rodriguez in my whole life before today. Nobody could have predicted this.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

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How can Majka not win this?

Majka'2014 would win it. He won Vuelta' 2017 stage but yes, sth wrong has happened to his approach for last years. No heart, no believes in his own capabilities. Wheelsucking all the time.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

like i said before the Vuelta, if Quintana has any form he will easily take this. Especially when it was clear Porte and Nibali were ***.

 

[DNP-Old]

Nairo climbed 13 seconds faster than he did two years ago.

 

[yaco]

That win by Rodrigiez has to be one of the biggest surprise stage victories in a GT for years.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Nairo climbed 13 seconds faster than he did two years ago.

They must have gone faster at the bottom!

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Nairo climbed 13 seconds faster than he did two years ago.

Something wrong with Oscar Rodriguez' time, or did he really only lose 27 seconds to Nairo on the last 3k???
http://www.climbing-records.com/2018/09/nairo-at-his-best-on-camperona.html

 

[shalgo]

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That win by Rodrigiez has to be one of the biggest surprise stage victories in a GT for years.

Rodriguez had a career total of 17 CQ points before today. Unless he does something else unexpected, he will be eligible to be picked in the 2019-2021 emerging riders game.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

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That win by Rodrigiez has to be one of the biggest surprise stage victories in a GT for years.

Rodriguez had a career total of 17 CQ points before today. Unless he does something else unexpected, he will be eligible to be picked in the 2019-2021 emerging riders game.

Shall I just put him at the top of the popularity chart now?

 

[HelloDolly]

I thought SK rode well ....not his forte this steep stuff...
MAL and Quintana look like the 2 riders who may battle for win
Pinot also did well on the steep stuff

Bennett and Buchmann gone backwards
Aru ...even further back

 

[ice&fire]

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Nairo climbed 13 seconds faster than he did two years ago.

Something wrong with Oscar Rodriguez' time, or did he really only lose 27 seconds to Nairo on the last 3k???
http://www.climbing-records.com/2018/09/nairo-at-his-best-on-camperona.html

Seems ok. IIRC the break was around 3:00 ahead of the GC leaders at the bottom of the climb

 

[spalco]

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Something wrong with Oscar Rodriguez' time, or did he really only lose 27 seconds to Nairo on the last 3k???
http://www.climbing-records.com/2018/09/nairo-at-his-best-on-camperona.html

Why not? He looked fast, and beating Majka the time can't have been complete ***.

 

[Scarponi]

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That win by Rodrigiez has to be one of the biggest surprise stage victories in a GT for years.

Rusvelo MTT win is up there

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Something wrong with Oscar Rodriguez' time, or did he really only lose 27 seconds to Nairo on the last 3k???
http://www.climbing-records.com/2018/09/nairo-at-his-best-on-camperona.html

Why not? He looked fast, and beating Majka the time can't have been complete ****.

I'm just surprised that a relative nobody from a break only lost 27 seconds against Quintana, who even managed to better his own record. It really puts Rodriguez performance in a new perspective, knowing that his time is so good, that he would have, hypothetically, finished with the Kelderman-Kruijswijk group, had he been riding against the GC guys

 

[movingtarget]

If someone had told me before the vuelta the first three mtf's would go to Benjamin King and Oscar Rodriguez...

Vuelta is the breakaway grand tour.

It's not just that all three stages went to the break. King isn't that great of a climber and I haven't heard the name Oscar Rodriguez in my whole life before today. Nobody could have predicted this.

No, still it's been good for the smaller teams I suppose. A relatively weak Sky team plus GC teams that can't be bothered chasing doesn't help. Michelton and Movistar are desperate for a Vuelta win after what happened in the other grand tours and are trying to do it without dominating like Sky does.

 

[yaco]

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That win by Rodrigiez has to be one of the biggest surprise stage victories in a GT for years.

Rusvelo MTT win is up there

Though the team showed a rich vein of form prior to the Giro which hasn't been repeated - I suspected at the time that the timing equipment malfunctioned.

 

[ice&fire]

Two interesting comments from Oscar Rodriguez in the post stage interview:
He has raced the climb looking at his power meter, at 400W
He didn't know the climb. Actually, he crashed out in the stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon last year that finished on this climb.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Quintana has 43 seconds on Urán now. I also had the impression that he didn't go full gas until the final 200 m, because he was bothered about Yates being on his wheel. But it's true that he broke the record of the final 2.9 K with 11:55.

The big question remains, why did Movistar work so hard? It wasn't enough for the stage win and it wasn't necessary for the GC.

 

[ice&fire]

In a post stage interview Quintana has said they've worked to prevent some dangerous riders to get back into GC contention. I'm still wondering who are those dangerous riders.

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

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In a post stage interview Quintana has said they've worked to prevent some dangerous riders to get back into GC contention. I'm still wondering who are those dangerous riders.

But of course Valverde.. :lol:

 

[HelloDolly]

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In a post stage interview Quintana has said they've worked to prevent some dangerous riders to get back into GC contention. I'm still wondering who are those dangerous riders.

Ben King...