Vuelta a España 2019 stage 19: Ávila - Toledo > 165.2 km

[DJ Sprtsch]

Everyone moaning about Movistar, but 1) can't be a coincidence they had a full team in front at the time the crash happened, just before the open roads, and 2) No-one mentions the quicksteppers or Pogacar who obviously were going for it as well.

 

[RedheadDane]

did you just start watching cycling today ? its been done so since forever and only a real scum team does what Banesto did today

May even have been done since Movistar was called Banesto.

 

[glassmoon]

cavagna tt mode ON

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Unwritten rules - travesty
Written rules - who cares.

Written constitutions ok
Unwritten constitutions bre*it

 

[Red Rick]

Political correctness and the fake sportsmanship of Schleck and Fabian have brought us this

Great job finding a causal effect between 2 completely unrelated things.

 

[topt]

By lottery do you mean... exciting?

Not crashing, making great split second decisions and knowing how to deal with chaotic situations are skills that should necessary to make a great bike RACER

Cycling there days is mostly atrociously boring and people still wonder why no one watches and why there is no money involved.

if racing would be done like this than also some "help" to crash would start happening; hit the breaks a bit to soon, eh *** happens, its racing

 

[Red Rick]

Cavagna has this.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Cant help but think Valverde could have won this race given how bad Roglic is at echelons riding. 2 missed opportunities, basically.

 

[huangho]

And the unsportsmanship award goes to... Movistar
Oh wait, UCI has ruled it out!!

 

[Red Rick]

Cant help but think Valverde could have won this race given how bad Roglic is at echelons riding. 2 missed opportunities, basically.

Not like Valverde didn't miss one himself.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

What Movistar did may have been unsportsmanlike, but what everybody else did to get back was illegal and it's a travesty that it's allowed.

Indeed.

I agree. The problem is though that there’s no remedy if the race officials told the riders they were allowed to. You can’t tell people it’s ok to come back following cars and then apply the rule against following cars. The race officials are to blame if that happened.

 

[Blanco]

did you just start watching cycling today ? its been done so since forever and only a real scum team does what Banesto did today

Sky did it to Valverde in Vuelta 2012, and in the Tour 2013 together with Jumbo and Saxo.

 

[RedheadDane]

Say what you will, Cavagna is awesome!

 

[Angliru]

If it was Froome that crashed everyone would be screaming for the hammer to be put down

The poor set upon Froome and Sky/Ineos. So persecuted and unfairly treated by the masses. The world is so cruel.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Not like Valverde didn't miss one himself.

Needed to be smarter 2 days ago, but obviously much better than Roglic who seems to have no clue, but is just incredibly strong.

 

[Red Rick]

The poor set upon Froome and Sky/Ineos. So persecuted and unfairly treated by the masses. The world is so cruel.

I think this is the same Froome who partially won the 2015 Tour because Quintana refused to join Nibali when Nibali attacked during Froome's mechanical.

Which was uphill on an HC from a 10 man peloton.

 

[Red Rick]

Needed to be smarter 2 days ago, but obviously much better than Roglic who seems to have no clue, but is just incredibly strong.

Yeah Roglic is such a *** moron for missing echelons after he crashes.

 

[Noddy97]

Nah guys.

We must finally appreciate the great champion that is Alejandro Valverde for he is riding for the win and showing 2nd place isnt enough

LMAO

 

[Escarabajo]

Cant help but think Valverde could have won this race given how bad Roglic is at echelons riding. 2 missed opportunities, basically.

Roglic was cut in an echelon in the Tour de France a year before. He was the only big GC cyclist caught behing. If this continue like this then all the big guns will take advantage of this everytime they can.

 

[glassmoon]

looks like light drizzle in the finish

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Say what you will, Cavagna is awesome!

Refuse to contribute to the break (at least since TV pics have been on) and then attack. Not for me

 

[Salvarani]

did you just start watching cycling today ? its been done so since forever and only a real scum team does what Banesto did today

Lol, did you just start watch cycling?

It is only in the last era of cycling it has been like this

Don’t quote me again

 

[sir fly]

Refuse to contribute to the break (at least since TV pics have been on) and then attack. Not for me

Well, he has an excuse.
And everybody in the breakaway were aware of it.

 

[huangho]

Marcato out

 

[Bolder]

Refuse to contribute to the break (at least since TV pics have been on) and then attack. Not for me

I find the dynamics of a break interesting. At some point each rider has to decide how it's going to play out. You can pull the whole race and get nothing to show for it. Still plenty of time for this to come together at the finish, which is going to be carnage, I predict...