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

[Velolover2]

The organizers have decided to cancel the gap between the Valverde group and the rest of the peloton.

Lëlz.

 

[bajbar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1172524115892326401

View: https://twitter.com/TrainerwebCoach/status/1172524115892326401

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

The organizers have decided to cancel the gap between the Valverde group and the rest of the peloton.

Lëlz.

Wait what?

Why? He held on to a faster group and dropped the other GC guys fair and square.

 

[Breezy1985]

So, I was watching on a very bad connection but did Quintana seriously take a pull in the Roglic group when Movistar had split the race the second time?

Would anyone be surprised if he did?

 

[Breezy1985]

Great win for Cavagna, also very surprised to see Bennett strong on such a lumpy finish, he’s ready for Yorkshire in this form.

Would be real interesting to see him vs Sagan in a sprint to the line in Yorkshire

 

[HelloDolly]

MAL calling Movistar idiots and saying "What a World Champion we have"

 

[HelloDolly]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1172542581592510465

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1172542581592510465?s=20

 

[Moviefan1203]

Superman not afraid to speak his mind.

 

[d-s3]

Movistar did not win friends today.

 

[Breezy1985]

The organizers have decided to cancel the gap between the Valverde group and the rest of the peloton.

Lëlz.

Is this confirmed. Unless they called for neutralisation Movi didnt actually break any rules so this would be crazy

 

[ice&fire]

Superman not afraid to speak his mind.

Roglic has been asked and has declined to answer without seing a replay. Superman just looked as a whining child.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Would be real interesting to see him vs Sagan in a sprint to the line in Yorkshire

Add in MvDP too, please.

 

[Breezy1985]

Add in MvDP too, please.

Im sure there will be quite a few involved but it would be real interesting given the situation at Bora this year

 

[Lequack]

Is this confirmed. Unless they called for neutralisation Movi didnt actually break any rules so this would be crazy

There was hardly any gap though, dont know where they found 3 seconds, max 1 second.

 

[hayneplane]

Movistar DS Arrieta pretty much accused the UCI of giving carte blanche to the team cars via race radio to motorpace everybody back into the peloton. Which is pretty scandalous if true.

Might not be in the rules but definitely mostly right that so many riders should not be punished for getting caught up in an incident. Total *** move for Movistar to drive the pace when they were not one of the teams on the front of the peloton prior to the crash.

 

[tobydawq]

There was hardly any gap though, dont know where they found 3 seconds, max 1 second.

If there is a gap of one second or more between Valverde's back wheel and Van Der Sande's front wheel, the counting time gap is from Bennett's front wheel to that of Van Der Sande.

 

[HelloDolly]

Bit of a stupid outburst by Lopez

1. Whatever you think about Valverde he is much liked in the peloton
2. Wait to see what happened before shouting your mouth off
3. Soler said the DS told them where to ride before the crash started
4. Valverde seemed to call a halt to the attack
5. Watch Movistar v Astana now ...forget Red

 

[HelloDolly]

There was hardly any gap though, dont know where they found 3 seconds, max 1 second.

There definitely were gaps...thought it was more than 3 seconds

 

[Pantani_lives]

For a few moments it must have felt like Friday the Thirteenth for Roglic...

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Im sure there will be quite a few involved but it would be real interesting given the situation at Bora this year

haha! I totally missed that part. You're right, that would be juicy. Though, I think Bennett's beef is more with Bora than Sagan at this point. He would have known Sagan get's all the races he wants.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

If there is a gap of one second or more between Valverde's back wheel and Van Der Sande's front wheel, the counting time gap is from Bennett's front wheel to that of Van Der Sande.

Exactly. It’s not going to matter in the end, but canceling an entirely fair time gain for no obvious reason just reinforces the view that rules are arbitrarily enforced.

 

[Lequack]

Poor Tony Martin

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

haha! I totally missed that part. You're right, that would be juicy. Though, I think Bennett's beef is more with Bora than Sagan at this point. He would have known Sagan get's all the races he wants.

There has never been any tension between the two at least none visible from outside the team. They have done a few early season races together and attempted not very successfully to take a turn leading each other out. The one and only time Ackermann and Bennett were in the same squad, they knocked together, screwing up both of their attempts to sprint and nearly caused a big crash. Bora wisely didn’t try that a second time.

 

[333]

No doubt. There hasn’t been a guy who is one of the very fastest flat big bunch sprinters while also simultaneously being one of the very best uphill and tough race sprinters in quite a while. Everybody else is only genuinely top tier at one or the other.

Well I guess you could argue that there is that 3x World Champion racing on his own team, Peter something?

 

[Valv.Piti]

So, I was watching on a very bad connection but did Quintana seriously take a pull in the Roglic group when Movistar had split the race the second time?

Yes he did. And Movistar even stopped pulling in the front when they had Astana with Lopez and 3-4 Bora members.. due to Quintana missing the split.

Horrendous.