Vuelta a España Vuelta 2025, stage 21: Alalpardo - Madrid (108 km)

[pastronef]

Pidcock joins the ranks of Cobo, Mosquera, Di Luca & Rujano.

c'est à dire podium for a rider of a wild card team

 

[RedheadDane]

And I find Riccitello's exit announcement a bit disrespectful, team supported him with all their heart throughout a difficult race for all, but especially Israel Premier Tech.

Why? For all we know, he'd already signed the contract with Decathlon before the Vuelta.
How long should he/they have been required to wait?

Feral Pidders realizing he probably shouldn't have his hat on and two pups in his arms with the Danish national anthem is being played!

Why not?

 

[Rob5091]

The post-race entertainment is more enjoyable then most of the race - not that we can talk about it here.

 

[RedheadDane]

Mama Pidcock to the rescue!

'One of the best moments of my career' – Jonas Vingegaard reveals Tom Pidcock's mum suggested car park Vuelta a España podium

Speaking days after his triumph in Spain, Visma-Lease a Bike rider says he "still dreams" of winning Tour de France

www.cyclingweekly.com

 

[Rob5091]

- "I'm better, but I was really screwed up. It's probably been one of the worst 15 days of my life. So much pressure, so much helplessness... for so long, I've never experienced it before."

I thought I was suffering watching the Vuelta, but apparently others had it worse.

 

[ruamruam]

UK is also a unitary state and perhaps a better comparison with Spain?

UK is not a unitary state. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved parliaments

 

[Wyndbrook]

UK is not a unitary state. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved parliaments

UK never make anything simple though, Wales has significantly less devolved powers than Scotland. Northern Ireland has more that both of them.

 

[Netserk]

UK is not a unitary state. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved parliaments

Correction:

The UK is a unitary state, because all sovereignty ultimately rests with the UK Parliament in Westminster. The devolved legislatures in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland exercise powers granted to them by Westminster, and those powers can in principle be altered or revoked by it.

That’s how devolution works in a unitary state: power is devolved from the center. Denmark and Greenland are a similar example. By contrast, in a federal system like Germany, the Länder (states) are the original source of sovereignty, and the federal government’s powers derive from them.