Vuelta a España 2019 stage 17: Aranda de Duero - Guadalajara > 219.6 km

[Rollthedice]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyjBZ0sQwE

Am I hearing it right "Richie Porte, ex-surfer from Tasmania"?

 

[King Boonen]

6 minutes!! if this continues Nairo will be in red by a distance.

 

[luckyboy]

Movistar gets a lot of criticism for their tactics. But today, without pics to fully judge it, they seem to have executed the ecehlons perfectly with Quintana up the road and the three strongest roleurs on the team (Erviti, Oliveira, Rojas) on his side.

It's good but it'd be a lot better to have Valverde there.. Quintana lost 2:34 on the last mountain stage. I would have no faith in him to actually hang on and win the race even if he takes the lead today.

 

[SafeBet]

I'm missing this ffs.

 

[ice&fire]

Almost 6 minutes and more than 80km to go

 

[del1962]

Why would Astana?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

No idea why Astana is riding but well...

Probably Izagirre riding into the top 10 on GC.

 

[King Boonen]

Movi need to start playing games in the chasing group...

 

[ppanther92]

It's good but it'd be a lot better to have Valverde there.. Quintana lost 2:34 on the last mountain stage. I would have no faith in him to actually hang on and win the race even if he takes the lead today.

Thats true of course. But usually you attack (as its always a bit of a gamble) with your second leader (if you have one). And regarding the mountains - they one coming are not that hard anymore.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Front break is around 25-30 riders.
Peloton is around 30-35 riders.
Still a group of around 10-15 riders inbetween.

 

[HelloDolly]

How many top 20 in breakaway

Is Fuglsang or Tuens ???

Anyone got a list

 

[Broccolidwarf]

The time gap is constantly growing, the peloton is steadily losing this tug of war.

Sunweb hitting the front of the break with 3 guys now (one of them Kelderman himself), Movistar and DQ behind them.

Pics from the peloton now - Astana seen close to the front, still unclear if they have decided to help, or if they are backing off.

 

[King Boonen]

How many top 20 in breakaway

Is Fuglsang or Tuens ???

Anyone got a list

List on CN tracker. No Fugl, Tuens is there.

Vuelta a España stage 17 – Live coverage

Complete coverage of an expected stage for the sprinters

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[Broccolidwarf]

How many top 20 in breakaway

Is Fuglsang or Tuens ???

Anyone got a list

The list on the Cyclingnews live blog is pretty accurate.

 

[Jagartrott]

This is awesome, but the chances that Quintana will lose all of those (currently) 6 minutes again in the remaining mountains are very high. Though I commend him and his team for creating chaos.

 

[SafeBet]

How many top 20 in breakaway

Is Fuglsang or Tuens ???

Anyone got a list

Teuns is there, Fuglsang not.

 

[Rollthedice]

How many top 20 in breakaway

Is Fuglsang or Tuens ???

Anyone got a list

According to CN live text:
José Joaquín Rojas, Nelson Oliveira, Imanol Erviti, Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team), Gorka Izagirre, Luis León Sánchez (Astana), Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida), Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe), Jonas Koch (CCC Team), Philippe Gilbert, Eros Capecchi, Fabio Jakobsen, Tim Declercq, Zdenek Śtybar, James Knox, Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Lawson Craddock (EF Education First), Thomas De Gendt, Tosh van der Sande (Lotto Soudal), Sam Bewley, Dion Smith (Mitchelton-Scott), Edvald Boasson Hagen, (Dimension Data), Wout Poels, Owain Doull, Ian Stannard, Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Ineos), Neilson Powless (Jumbo-Visma), Wilco Kelderman, Nikias Arndt, Casper Pedersen, Rob Power, Max Walscheid (Sunweb), Alex Kirsch (Trek Segafredo), Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates)

 

[King Boonen]

The time gap is constantly growing, the peloton is steadily losing this tug of war.

Sunweb hitting the front of the break with 3 guys now (one of them Kelderman himself), Movistar and DQ behind them.

Pics from the peloton now - Astana seen close to the front, still unclear if they have decided to help, or if they are backing off.

Definitely looks like the break is working better than the chasers.

 

[IndianCyclist]

The gap will come down towards the end when Movistar is the only team pulling for GC

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Definitely looks like the break is working better than the chasers.

As you posted that, we see Movistar and DQ cursing each other out at the front of the break, they are clearly not in agreement on what should be done.

Movistar and Sunweb are now pulling the break together.

 

[HelloDolly]

The gap will come down towards the end when Movistar is the only team pulling for GC

Sunweb are riding for GC

 

[HelloDolly]

And maybe DQuickstep

 

[King Boonen]

As you posted that, we see Movistar and DQ cursing each other out at the front of the break, they are clearly not in agreement on what should be done.

Movistar and Sunweb are now pulling the break together.

Yep, sitting on 6 minutes now and DQS want others to work. That's enough of a gap for them, if others want more they need to contribute.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Astana are now doing work in the peloton.

They have clearly decided Lopez keeping Quintana behind him, is more important than Izagirre hitting the top 10.

This may be the help Jumbo and UAE needed.

It is still unclear however, if they are pulling hard or just rolling along, but they are dispersed amongst the UAE and Jumbo riders working at the front.

 

[Brullnux]

It’s fallen to 5:30 in about a minute? Mistake?