Vuelta a España - Stage 20 San Martín de Valdeiglesias - Bola del Mundo 172.1km

[Mellow Velo]

Neither race is close to the Tour de France.

Certainly true, in terms of size and............................... boredom.

Meanwhile, all RAI can do is show Liquigas at the GP Modena and talk about Nibali's victory.

 

[Scirea]

Not to mention yesterday's 12 seconds weren't a gift. Saying "Mosquera should have been with Nibali in that finish" is like saying "Nibali should have been with Mosquera in that climb" if he had lost 55 seconds today.

It wasn't just Mosquera being too slow. He was near Schleck when he almost crashed.

 

[Francois the Postman]

Either way, the hegemony has been continued.

In 2010, the most prestigious GT was the Tour, followed by the Giro then the Vuelta. And the Giro provided the most excitement, followed by the Vuelta, then the Tour.

More or less the same as every year - even last year, when the Vuelta and Tour seemed to be in an argument as to who would be worse.

And each year I think there ought to be enough in place that this year, for once, the Tour could move up one sport on the excitement ladder, and each year I get to the end of it concluding that yet again, it hasn't.

But surely, next year, with Contador on Team CashStrapped(Seriously), next year could be the year that the Tour delivers..... surely?

 

[Scirea]

To be quite honest, IF the stopwatch from Sporza was correct Mosquerra never had more, than if I am correct 13 seconds

I think it topped out at 18 secs

 

[Climbing]

Certainly true, in terms of size and............................... boredom.

Meanwhile, all RAI can do is show Liquigas at the GP Modena and talk about Nibali's victory.

What a bunch of idiots (RAI i mean).
But is works like this for everything here, so sport isn't any different.

 

[Escarabajo]

Well, that's where the "imagine" part comes into play. That's all. You're right on the calculations though.

Let's do it again: Nibali had 38 seconds on Mosquera prior to stage 19. Imagine the Spaniard did not concede any time on stage 19. That's 38 seconds going to stage 20.

At -1 kilometer, on the Bola del Mundo stage, Mosquera had 20 seconds on Nibali. If we do the math: 38 - 20 = 18 seconds. Let's say, for the heck of it, that someone ended up the stage between Mosquera and Vincenzo, meaning the Galician would get the 20 second time bonus and Nibali would get 0 (I don't think there was a time bonus for 3rd). That's 18 - 20 = - 2 second to Mosquera, making Ezequiel the winner of the 2010 Vuelta.

That's gotta itch like a bítch with STDs.

"Si mi Tia tuviera huevas seria mi Tio"

 

[Mellow Velo]

Just did a quick count back of the stages that effected the outcome of each GTGC.
IMO, the Giro had 12 key stages.
The Vuelta had 11.
The Tour had..........just 8.

 

[Winterfold]

Great effort by Nibali - he was really sufferring and all over the shop in those last 3kms but more than hung in and is a deserving winner.

 

[Spare Tyre]

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Not my credibility anyway, i took it from Christopher Hitchens when i chose this name. He has vast stacks so no need to worry.

In my eyes he lost a heck of a lot of it when he supported GWB and the neocons in the invasion of Iraq.

 

[The Hitch]

In my eyes he lost a heck of a lot of it when he supported GWB and the neocons in the invasion of Iraq.

I will take my responce to this to the general politics thread.

 

[luckyboy]

Awesome final climb today, very tense stuff. Sucks a bit that Eurosport only showed the last 12km of the stage due to some domestic cricket in South Africa

Great effort by Eze, came away with a nice stage win and career-high second. Hope he gets one better next year..

Congrats to Nibali, did a great job to get back today (kinda wish he didn't though). Chapeau to Sastre (top 20 in all 3 GTs this year), Roche (highest GT placing for a Bikepure guy I think)

 

[Señor_Contador]

"Si mi Tia tuviera huevas seria mi Tio"

Si tu tia tuviera "huevas" sería un caso clínico. A menos que estés hablando de ladillas claro...

Me supongo que quieres decir "huevos" y no "huevas".

En fin, tú dirás.

 

[Señor_Contador]

I'm not trying to change the subject here on Nibaly Day but... when it comes to the Giro and the Vuelta, if they want to beat the Tour de France all they have to do is simple: Double the TdF prize winnings. All of a sudden the best riders and the best teams will show up at those events and will avoid the TdF.

It's that simple.

Money talks bullshít walks.

 

[rghysens]

I'm not trying to change the subject here on Nibaly Day but... when it comes to the Giro and the Vuelta, if they want to beat the Tour de France all they have to do is simple: Double the TdF prize winnings. All of a sudden the best riders and the best teams will show up at those events and will avoid the TdF.

It's that simple.

No, it's not that simple. Team sponsors want media coverage, and that's what the tour is giving them waaaaaaaaay more than the giro and vuelta combined.

 

[rghysens]

Well, that's where the "imagine" part comes into play. That's all. You're right on the calculations though.

Let's do it again: Nibali had 38 seconds on Mosquera prior to stage 19. Imagine the Spaniard did not concede any time on stage 19. That's 38 seconds going to stage 20.

At -1 kilometer, on the Bola del Mundo stage, Mosquera had 20 seconds on Nibali. If we do the math: 38 - 20 = 18 seconds. Let's say, for the heck of it, that someone ended up the stage between Mosquera and Vincenzo, meaning the Galician would get the 20 second time bonus and Nibali would get 0 (I don't think there was a time bonus for 3rd). That's 18 - 20 = - 2 second to Mosquera, making Ezequiel the winner of the 2010 Vuelta.

That's gotta itch like a bítch with STDs.

you thought wrong here, 3rd gets 8 boni seconds