Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2020: Stage 11 (Villaviciosa › Alto de La Farrapona. Lagos de Somiedo 170km)

[Descender]

Friend of mine's brother is a technician at the Vuelta and apparently he heard something about riders striking due to fear of finishing the stage in the dark?

 

[repre]

Froome is crying ***) Sit up and win the jersey today

 

[Billie]

Froomey is starting a riot lol

 

[ice&fire]

Apparently some riders/teams were not happy with commissaires decisions in the past two stages (Bennett relegation, time gaps yesterday)
Wrong time and place IMHO.

 

[SafeBet]

Friend of mine's brother is a technician at the Vuelta and apparently he heard something about riders striking due to fear of finishing the stage in the dark?

Very sensible to delay the start then.

 

[Red Rick]

Friend of mine's brother is a technician at the Vuelta and apparently he heard something about riders striking due to fear of finishing the stage in the dark?

Then delaying the start is an extremely good idea

 

[Red Rick]

Very sensible to delay the start then.

Froomie anticipating getting dropped by Mareczko

 

[Fernandez]

Aparently its all about the 3" cut yesterday. What a joke!

 

[SafeBet]

Froomie anticipating getting dropped by Mareczko

He is now the spokesperson for the gruppetto apparently.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

now Mareczo for sure finished at night...

 

[Red Rick]

Apparently some riders/teams were not happy with commissaires decisions in the past two stages (Bennett relegation, time gaps yesterday)
Wrong time and place IMHO.

Lol. How can you make everyone happy when decisions directly punish riders.

 

[RedheadDane]

Very sensible to delay the start then.

They should've all just gone out to the start an hour early, and set off. If the entire peloton "jumped the gun", what can the commisaires do?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's a problem of the dissonance that the 3" rule doesn't apply on uphill finishes, but yesterday's finish wasn't classified as a climb yet was quite demonstrably uphill to enough of an extent to create gaps, and frankly a finish like that makes the 3" rule a joke as how the hell Roglič and those at the front can't be assessed as having opened up a time gap on that finish is beyond me. However, if the rules state that the finish has to be a categorised climb for the 3" rule to not apply (in which case, what of races like the Benelux Tour that don't have a mountains classification?) then it should be applied and that would give Carapaz the jersey back. If that were to be correct, however, then the finish would make a mockery of the rule (although the Vuelta could easily rectify this by introducing 4th category climbs, which they don't have).

 

[Fernandez]

Mate was angry with the protesters

 

[repre]

Froome OTL today

 

[Descender]

I see my sources are ***.

 

[Fernandez]

It seems like it has been Ineos who has leaded the protest because the 3" cut yesterday

 

[DanielSong39]

There was clearly a gap, it was electronically timed and the electronic timer proved that there was a gap
I understand that Froome is used to not following the rules, but this is one of the rare occasions where the rules are not broken to favor Sky/Ineos
I also understand that the riders don't want to finish in the dark but delaying the start then finishing in a huge gruppetto 2 hours behind the leaders doesn't help your cause

 

[richwallone]

It seems like it has been Ineos who has leaded the protest because the 3" cut yesterday

EF got involved, too... Aparantly, their DS lodged a complaint because Carthy lost 10 seconds due to the 3" rule change midstage... Again, classic communication failure between race organizers, UCI commissaires and the teams...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322502280466341888

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322502280466341888?s=20

 

[DanielSong39]

I think they should just get rid of the 3 second rule, go back strictly to the 1 second rule only on designated sprint stages with expected mass bunch sprints

I mean, it's a bad rule and hopefully this will be the trigger to change the rule

 

[richwallone]

Tim Wellens and Guillaume Martin kicking off the KOM points battle and trying to create a breakaway... As expected

 

[Jungle Cycle]

Who's wearing red??

 

[DanielSong39]

Who's wearing red??

Probably Roglic but Froome is the one seeing red

 

[richwallone]

Is this true???? I thought I saw him in red at the start...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322504426519699457

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322504426519699457?s=20

 

[ice&fire]

EF got involved, too... Aparantly, their DS lodged a complaint because Carthy lost 10 seconds due to the 3" rule change midstage... Again, classic communication failure between race organizers, UCI commissaires and the teams...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322502280466341888

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1322502280466341888?s=20

EF sent the complaint to UCI yesterday but asked their riders not to get involved in a rider protest