Impressive to miss almost anything meaningful in a stage where almost nothing happened whatsoever.Great camerawork, as always.
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Impressive to miss almost anything meaningful in a stage where almost nothing happened whatsoever.Great camerawork, as always.
Vuelta trying to make sure Gigs isn't watching.Unbelievable that they didn't find any way to show us the gap between Roglic and MAL until 100m to go. If you had told me that MAL had a 30 second gap with 200m to go I wouldn't have had a single reason to doubt that.
Moon landing had better coverage 50 years ago than this GC finish. Bernal looked good for the first time in a while at the end.
Impressive to miss almost anything meaningful in a stage where almost nothing happened whatsoever.
Jep! Happy for him. I think he is in a similar Spot as Quintana, with less extreme high and low: prodigy fading way too earlyWent to have a shot of the good stuff today and missed most of the 'action', though there wasn't much by the looks of it. Congrats Bardet, got the stage and if I'm not mistaken the KOM jersey as well?
Hard to tell. At one point they showed a heli image from the side and the gap looked pretty big. I tried to time it but they moved to a different camera very quickly. If I had to guess I'd say 15 seconds.Pretty sure Kuss closed down a part of the gap down already if that was indeed ~20s.
At least the moon coverage showed the final step and they probably even had the time it happened ...........God knows what the Vuelta TV director would have shown.......maybe the darknessThis is the Vuelta, so even if they had faked the stage, the coverage would probably still have been worse than during the Moon landing.
Hard to tell. At one point they showed a heli image from the side and the gap looked pretty big. I tried to time it but they moved to a different camera very quickly. If I had to guess I'd say 15 seconds.
Meanwhile Herrada got the combativity award.
True, but as Wayne Gretzky once said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. This could have ended up being like the 15-20 seconds Cobo took to La Farrapona while everybody else fell asleep. In the end it only amounted to a handful of seconds, but if Roglič hadn't been on a good day and had to stay at Kuss' pace, it could have beeen far more significant. He's committed to the team and they to him in the long run now, and if this means that they test out how Rogla responds and gives Mas a bit of an easy ride then in the long run it can work. They can even consider seeing if a 2019 Giro situation could present itself, although I don't think Jumbo would fall for that again, not from the same team at least. They have lost two riders, one of their rouleurs and one of their best climbers plus their most experienced leader, so their problem will be that if they do get into the race lead then they'll be there to be shot at. Their aim must surely be to take the jersey as late as possible, while simultaneously having the problem that the final day is an ITT where they would expect to lose time to Roglič as well.IMO this is looking a bit bleak for Movistar. That was a lot of effort from Lopez for very little. The JV train is back & the whole team looks like they've reached top form just in time for the 3rd week.