Vuelta a España - Stage 18 Valladolid - Salamanca 148.9km

[icefire]

Dave Harmon from English Eurosport suggests Bbox Bouygues Telecom is finished. Bad news if true.


Edit: Probably in the wrong thread

Not the wrong thread. Although nobody has heard Mr Guillen naming any team, everyone around him knows Bbox is one of those he would have never invited to the Vuelta if he had had the choice.

Bad news they disappear, but they've done nothing remarkable to prove they deserved to be in the Vuelta. Same with Milram.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Windkante, please !

Peloton tutto completto now.

Gilbert TT-sucker attacking now.

 

[The Hitch]

Gilbert goes for a practise.

 

[woodie]

live stream anyone?

 

[Cobblestoned]

live stream anyone?

http://atdhe.net/21330/watch-la-vuelta-a-espana

 

[The Hitch]

small split
edit no more

 

[Anonymous]

what fascinating tactics by quick step

 

[The Hitch]

oOh

unlucky Haedo.

Quickstep did brilliant work for cav there

 

[dgodave]

No bunny hop this time.
.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Ugly mass-sprint

Cavendish
Haedo
Cardoso
Dumoulin
Farrar
Förster
Mata

 

[roundabout]

cavendish simply too good

Footon 3rd

Make it 2 in the top 10 and 3 in the top 14

An emerging sprint super team?

 

[The Sheep]

The GC top 3 in the top20

 

[roundabout]

Velits earns 4 seconds over the rest except Schleck in the battle for 3rd

 

[insideout leadout]

Welcome to the Cavendish talkshow....!

No he was too good today. Haedo had the perfect position but could do nothing about the win once he got wind on his nose.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Odd sprint I thought, gearing or uphill?
Turns out it was both.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Between Britain and this, this might have been the least interesting day of cycling all year. And considering that the Tour had three consecutive pancake-flat sprint stages where the break never got more than 3 minutes, that's saying something.

 

[Pharazon]

Between Britain and this, this might have been the least interesting day of cycling all year. And considering that the Tour had three consecutive pancake-flat sprint stages where the break never got more than 3 minutes, that's saying something.

wow, you might just win the competition for the most miserable person in the whole world

 

[Cobblestoned]

Welcome to the Cavendish talkshow....!

No he was too good today. Haedo had the perfect position but could do nothing about the win once he got wind on his nose.

Yes, for a short moment I thought he would pass Cav - but not enough power.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Cav's interview mentions that (Peter) Velits pulled a kilometre in the wind.

Third in the GC and you're working for a sprinter who would win going backwards without a train.

 

[Swiss Tony]

Between Britain and this, this might have been the least interesting day of cycling all year. And considering that the Tour had three consecutive pancake-flat sprint stages where the break never got more than 3 minutes, that's saying something.

Coverage could be better but...What the hell's wrong with ToB???

 

[djlovesyou]

wow, you might just win the competition for the most miserable person in the whole world

I'm thinking that if we're talking instantaneous miserableness rather than overall miserableness, you could be right.

He'd be right up there with those Chilean miners right now I would imagine.

In fairness, there is something about that Cavendish gurn that sends me into temporary depression.

 

[dgodave]

Welcome to the Cavendish talkshow....!

Good interview. Interesting.
.

 

[Scirea]

These Vuelta sprints are jokes. Cav against a bunch of incompetent idiots.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

wow, you might just win the competition for the most miserable person in the whole world

I'm sorry, in future I'll jump for joy when Columbia dominate a field they could dominate without trying and nothing happens anywhere. Yay, what an amazing and totally unpredictable win! I would NEVER have expected Columbia to stop the break from gaining any time in a sprint stage! Quick Step looked to have Goss under some pressure... then just pulled over and let him through. Same thing happened with Cavendish's first win, the other teams just pulled over and let them through.

Coverage could be better but...What the hell's wrong with ToB???

Nothing's been wrong with it so far, it's been surprisingly entertaining. Until today.

 

[Sasquatch]

Edit. All fixed now