That would be great. I’m probably also taking into account how tired the riders seem. For this deep into a GT, they just don’t seem tired enough to see big differences.Last year stage 20 did not look tough yet it created the biggest time gaps
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That would be great. I’m probably also taking into account how tired the riders seem. For this deep into a GT, they just don’t seem tired enough to see big differences.Last year stage 20 did not look tough yet it created the biggest time gaps
This could be a point for big differences.its gonna rain tomorrow and be reasonably cold
I think he can drop them all and win the Vuelta.Can Carthy drop Carapaz and take 2nd place?
And how much Keldermam is in Roglič?How good is Rohan Dennis' Froome impersonation?
According to the various weather forecast models, weather seems to be just fine this afternoon on Alto de la CovatillaThis could be a point for big differences.
Roglic and Carapaz have both lost the red jersey twice in this Vuelta.
When was the last time two riders have lost the leader's jersey twice in any GT?
2013 Vuelta?Roglic and Carapaz have both lost the red jersey twice in this Vuelta.
When was the last time two riders have lost the leader's jersey twice in any GT?
2013 Vuelta?
Hey now, don't get carried away in shitting on legendary mountain domestique John DegenkolbMovistar are literally the only team who should have any real chance of doing something audacious unless Roglič has a Dumoulin 2015 level collapse and even then, he has a much stronger team around him than Dumoulin had back then to help him out. Carapaz and Carthy are close enough to use La Covatilla as their platform to attack on, while Martin hasn't got a strong enough team around him to do anything wild unless guys like Kuss and Vingegaard disintegrate on the early climbs which would seem unlikely.
There's a three minute gap from Mas down to 6th place, he is far enough down that he can't just leave it to La Covatilla, and he has over 5 minutes over Vlasov to play with to keep the white jersey coast to coast, and Movistar have some very useful strong climbing domestiques like Verona and, now, Soler, who has been losing time the last couple of days which suggests they might want him to have some spare energy for today. The big question is how he himself feels at this stage in what aren't back to back GTs but are close enough to one another to be akin to doing them in a normal season.
If the stage was the same as the 2015 one, then sure, Degenkolb would be a better domestique to have than Sepp Kuss, but today's stage ends on the climb.Hey now, don't get carried away in shitting on legendary mountain domestique John Degenkolb