Vuelta a España - Stage 12+1: Rincón de Soto - Burgos 196km

[icefire]

Vuelta a España - Stage 12+1: Rincón de Soto - Burgos 196km

It's a pity that wind direction won't help animating the last kms. Sprinters should read the road book. Last bend is 500 m from the finish line.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Diputación de Burgos finishes should be required by law to be at Lagunas de Neila.

 

[krebs303]

Vuelta a España - Stage 12+1

Triskaidekaphobic?

 

[icefire]

Diputación de Burgos finishes should be required by law to be at Lagunas de Neila.

I might agree with you, but looking at the first 10 in the points classification I won't complain of lack of uphill finishes.

 

[icefire]

Triskaidekaphobic?

Nope. Just in case some posters around are.

 

[Barrus]

Nope. Just in case some posters around are.

To be honest I was relly confused by your thread title. I thought it was a second stage today. Probably especially for Stuey and Andy, a pubcrawl

 

[jaylew]

I thought he meant "more of the same" as in, another sprint stage.

 

[Frosty]

Be interesting to see if someone tries to push it on the two climbs to try and drop Cav, Farrar and others. They may well be able to do it but then they would have to maintain it to the finish with HTC and Garmin (at least) working hard to catch them up with not that much of a gap and many kilometres to go. Hope someone does try and make something of it but with 3 mountain stages coming up i think the sprinters and their teams will not want to mess this one up. Cav to win again. There is a sprint point after 8.4km which will be of interest to Cav and Farrar too; chance for a few extra points.

 

[Ferminal]

I thought he meant "more of the same" as in, another sprint stage.

That's how I saw it, either way it's fitting!

 

[Frosty]

Tyler takes the sprint and 4 points with Cav coming third and taking one. Weylandt was the filling in the sandwich

 

[Francois the Postman]

Looks like another day to get solid work in and free some time up for next week.

Just watched the last km from yesterday. Pfff....

Good on Mark for getting a win in all 3 GTs though. He doesn't excite me as he excites some others, but that's a feat not to be sniffed at, even with corner sprints like that and Goss having to cycle backwards to give it away.

 

[Frosty]

Must say something that this thread hasnt been stickied yet!

Roulston and Dean have both withdrawn from the race. HTC and Garmin both lose a man.

 

[Beech Mtn]

Please no Hamster Man repeat.

My vote is for a break to stay away, and somebody from Astana to get a victory.

(Yes, I know it will never happen. But I can dream.)

 

[Mellow Velo]

HTC and Garmin riding shotgun on the break. Quelle surprise.
Carlos Sastre has been on the deck, but is back in the pack.

 

[DAOTEC]

Quiet comeback

In the 11th mountain stage Anton won > 18° Andrey Kashechkin +1'05"

General now:
1° Igor Anton 47h37'15"

22° Andrey Kashechkin +6'42"

Kazach is doing good - born March 21, 1980 - 30 years old now and a lot of life left in there.

This is what he said to: [http://velonews.competitor.com]

“I want to regain my old level,” Kashechkin said briefly before the Clásica start. “I am starting over. I hope to do well in the Vuelta.”

Well till now he's doing right that

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Still a far cry from the level he had in the Vuelta 2007 when he and his buddy Vinodopourov destroyed Valverde

 

[icefire]

Still a far cry from the level he had in the Vuelta 2007 when he and his buddy Vinodopourov destroyed Valverde

That was in 2006. In September 2007 they had already started their 2 years holidays

 

[sublimit]

Looks like another day to get solid work in and free some time up for next week.

Just watched the last km from yesterday. Pfff....

Good on Mark for getting a win in all 3 GTs though. He doesn't excite me as he excites some others, but that's a feat not to be sniffed at, even with corner sprints like that and Goss having to cycle backwards to give it away.

HTC obviously did their homework on the finish, once they took the inside line on the last corner it was all over on that one.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

That was in 2006. In September 2007 they had already started their 2 years holidays

I;m getting old..it's already that much ago yeah

 

[Francois the Postman]

HTC obviously did their homework on the finish, once they took the inside line on the last corner it was all over on that one.

Yup, it helps to have a good look at the last bit, and HTC tends to. So we got treated to an uncontested sprint to the corner to decide the win. The rest was Goss trying hard not to win it, and Mark trying not to lose it to anyone but Goss. Pfff...


So we got DAVIS Allan (033), MORI Manuele (117), KAISEN Olivier (136), CHEULA Giampaolo (083) and TERPSTRA Niki (198) up front. Who had 6.20 but are falling back to just under 4 already. Certainly shaping up to be a repeat finish of yesterday.

 

[The Hitch]

Eurosport up. The Vuelta music isnt as good as the music eurosport had from start of season through spring classics, giro , to start of the tour at which point it was changed.

 

[Frosty]

Gap has come down quite a bit. I suppose the peloton might not be able to catch them as quickly going over the climbs so are putting in the work early.

 

[The Hitch]

Eurosport are talking very seriously about chances that the Vuelta will be cut to 2 weeks. This is bad news

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Eurosport are talking very seriously about chances that the Vuelta will be cut to 2 weeks. This is bad news

cannot see the organizers cutting it to two weeks. I wouldn't worry about harmon's dribble.

 

[Arnout]

Eurosport are talking very seriously about chances that the Vuelta will be cut to 2 weeks. This is bad news

That would be stupid. The Vuelta is already the youngest GT and does not get the same attention as Tour or Giro. When they cut it to two weeks, the race will recieve even less attention.