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

[Verious]

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

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9gcr4VhwsE
- On the day that Sky even joined and toppled valverde, he lost 1 min.

 

[Faserr]

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

Tactically yes. But winning like this is lame.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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

What, he also managed to miss the next one by a mile, nowhere to be seen. Thats obviously what I am talking about.
And last year in the Tour..

 

[Valv.Piti]

Blanco, yes, Valverde has been *** up a few times by such tactics. Its not uncommon for him, so...

 

[sir fly]

What's the gap between Cavagna and the rest of the breakaway?

20" apparently.

 

[Breezy1985]

Cant see the race because of work. Probably too much to ask but anyone on here got an honest neutral opinion of what happened after the crash.

 

[TommyPlus]

Slovenia scrambled their apache helicopter and Bala noticed a ominous red dot moving around his face so radioed off the ambush.

 

[hrotha]

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

But that was payback for a previous incident, wasn't it?

 

[Noddy97]

Roglic didn't lose the race today because of the cars. He should get at least 30 seconds of penalty. On the other hand, movistar was awful

 

[ice&fire]

GPS going nuts?

 

[d-s3]

Cant see the race because of work. Probably too much to ask but anyone on here got an honest neutral opinion of what happened after the crash.

Peloton was just exiting a town into open fields with a lot of wind.
Movistar was near the front but the race was not (yet) on and the peloton did not yet hit the wind.
Crash happened and Roglic was involved.
In that moment Movistar put the hammer down.
They pushed for some 10k.
UCI apparently did not disconnect the convoy so the chasers including Roglic were using the cars to get back.
Maybe it was even explicitly allowed.
Therefore Movistar stopped riding.

IMO the race was not on at the moment of the crash and Movistar did not play it fair.
Personally I would not want to win this way.

However if UCI explicitly allowed the use of cars / draft, it was also wrong.

 

[Velolover2]

Very late reaction by the peloton. Haha.

 

[King Boonen]

Cant see the race because of work. Probably too much to ask but anyone on here got an honest neutral opinion of what happened after the crash.

CN ticker says that Movistar claim the attack was planned but that there was an appearance of a distinct lack of fair play in the timing.

To be honest, it's about time these decisions fell on the officials rather than the riders and teams. If a crash warrants a neutralisation until everyone is back together, the race director should call that.

 

[Velolover2]

Well deserved win. The peloton screwed this up.

 

[Salvarani]

But the racing was going to be on. So because of an unfortunate event right before. The race shouldnt be on at all?

B*

 

[sir fly]

Cavagna made it.
Congrats for holding on.

 

[Velolover2]

A tiny gap from the Bennett-Stybar-Gilbert-Valverde group to the rest of the peloton?

 

[Bolder]

Nasty finish, amazing effort by Cavagna.

Now, let the debate begin...

 

[TourOfSardinia]

howl: wolf pack
(not the best camera work)

 

[ruamruam]

Bora messed up

 

[Red Rick]

Damn that finish would have looked cool with a peloton

 

[Gigs_98]

Pretty incredibly effort by Cavagna. Benefited from the peloton being quite tired but still amazing to hold the peloton off for 25 kilometers starting with hardly more than a minute.

 

[Noddy97]

I wasn't expecting bennet to be so good

 

[King Boonen]

But the racing was going to be on. So because of an unfortunate event right before. The race shouldnt be on at all?

***

This is the problem with this unwritten rule. It was a very obvious place to attack, in fact that's probably why the crash happened as people tried to get up front in case of splits. If that's the case, Movistar shouldn't be punished for getting up there early and spending the energy to stay in the right position.

 

[RedheadDane]

Honestly, after his... display... in California I was a bit nervous when Cavagna was descending.