Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gallina

[Stella0596]

Yeah that was a bit unfair

 

[jaylew]

Re: Re:

Yates gifting a stage to the duo upfront.

Feel like he's doing it not to raise Giro-like suspicion

No gift. He's not a super hero.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gal

Vuelta a Espana 2017 - Stage 20 - Alto de l'Angliru - The legend of Alberto Contador Velasco ends
Vuelta a Espana 2018 - Stage 20 - Coll de la Gallina - The legend of Enric Mas Nicolau begins

 

[DNP-Old]

That's not a fair sprint.

 

[Stella0596]

Ooof Kelderman before Kruijswijk, that must hurt

 

[DanielSong39]

This one is going to go to the judges. DQ would be fair.

 

[Carols]

Re: Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gal

Yes! Yes! Mas Stage win, podium and Young Rider!!!

 

[Alexandre B.]

D*uchy move.

 

[The Chicken]

Another day, another GT victory for Great Britain No1 cycling country on Earth

 

[Climbing]

To DQ that sprint would be hilarious, looks perfectly fine closing the door imho.

 

[LaFlorecita]

WOW I am dreaming... Enric 2nd overall and a stage win!!!!!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

Quintana being a good lad!

 

[movingtarget]

Yates looked empty at the finish.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gal

Vuelta a Espana 2017 - Stage 20 - Alto de l'Angliru - The legend of Alberto Contador Velasco ends
Vuelta a Espana 2018 - Stage 20 - Coll de la Gallina - The legend of Enric Mas Nicolau begins

_O_

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So when you take the hotsteppers out of Mas, whats left. Thats the question for me.

 

[sir fly]

What a sprint!
And great shot of it.
Congrats to Mas.
And Michaelangelopez ( you know who made up this, right?).

Yates and Mitchelton Scott took their first GT.
Congrats.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Mas could eat an apple through a chain-link fence.

Good ride but Astana have to appeal the double block

 

[jaylew]

At least Lopez earned that podium spot today.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gal

Vuelta a Espana 2017 - Stage 20 - Alto de l'Angliru - The legend of Alberto Contador Velasco ends
Vuelta a Espana 2018 - Stage 20 - Coll de la Gallina - The legend of Enric Mas Nicolau begins

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

What the heck was Movistar doing especially yesterday and today. Makes no sense at all.

Movi in 3 weeks is horrible..

I think this is nonsense, they are not horrible at all. Simply that expectations are simply way too high for them these days. They are a middling budget team with very few quality riders. And they are doing way better than most teams with a similar budget.

Regarding 3 week races, they have one potential GT contender (Quintana), who seems to have been badly prepared and off form for over a year now. One guy who can challenge for top 5 if he's on form (Valverde) and one other very good climber (Landa) who has never even won a WT stage race. And nowdays they have a really poor team supporting them, with almost no decent engines.

They punch above their weight in many ways. Plenty of stage wins, week long race wins and one day race wins. And nearly always challenging the podium in GTs.

 

[Escarabajo]

Re: Re:

Yates gifting a stage to the duo upfront.

Feel like he's doing it not to raise Giro-like suspicion

No gift. He's not a super hero.

That was far from a gift!

 

[movingtarget]

The cracks were showing yesterday for SK and Valverde.

 

[El Pistolero]

Great day!

- Enric Mas wins the stage and is second overall
- Valverde & Quintana fall of the podium
- Kruijswijk also falls off the podium

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Re:

Yates looked empty at the finish.

Exactly the same on Wednesday as he crossed the line.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Vuelta 2018 stage 20:Escaldes-Engordany - Coll de La Gal

Definitely not the cleanest sprint but I really think giving the win to Lopez would be very very harsh.