WTF!!... The last eight riders of the stage classement of today are the eight Deceuninck riders... What happened there to the best team in the world?!
I don't know about you but for me the stage was very enjoyable. Good racing, quite unpredictable. I even clapped my hands for the sensational winner, which had to look stupid if someone saw me...
None of them was ever likely to win today's stage, so they all stayed with the green jersey to make sure he was inside the limit. No big mystery.
they were shepherding Jacobson in under the time limit. Though, for sure, shepherds and wolves aren't usually a good match!
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Then Ineos could have been 4th and 5th with White but it happens.
Officially a stage hunter now like Quintana and maybe Pinot as well. Maybe he was thinking of another possible TT meltdown instead of watching Haig's back wheel ? Talented rider but erratic in many ways.
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Didn’t David Millar throw his bike off into a ditch?
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Yes one had absolutely no idea which rider were popping up next! It was insane!
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Yup, mighty impressive throw it was too. Think he continued on a new bike after the mechanical
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Yeah and Lopez wasn’t there so they all would have moved up of Bernal wasn’t marking Lopez.
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Yes I am extremely uncomfortable until I know this guy is safe.
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The best Millar DNF-slash- tantrum was getting almost to the top of Angliru in 2002 and then quitting.
Millar protests brutal Angliru
Cofidis’s David Millar stopped half a meter short of the finish line of the Tour of Spain's killer 15th stage on Sunday in protest at the conditions on the Vuelta's most feared and notorious climb. Millar refused to cross the line after climbing to the top of Angliru. According to Victor...
www.velonews.com
Ok, as it's a slight downhill finish, almost to the finish would be a more fitting description
I don't think he'd be a successful stage hunter, much like Quintana isn't. The stages he excels at aren't even guaranteed every year (the high altitude steep MTFs). Pinot at least at his best is a Lombardia winner, and can win out of a small group finish after a hilly/mountainish stage which I don't really think Lopez can.
Maybe he can be a mountain domestique in the vein of someone like Kuss but he'd have to show that really. His days as a GC leader are over at a major team after today.
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Alright guys who still wants to argue this Vuelta was completely awful?
I haven't watched a replay, but think I saw Lopez marking a first attack from Bernal and when everyone reached to them Yates made the counterattack that created the gap. I'd say Lopez and Bernal didn't have the legs to follow.
It's the best GT we had this year. I wouldn't say it was good though.
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The Vuelta is never awful. I thought the first two weeks were too easy compared to recent years, but it was still fun. The Vuelta may or may not be competitive, but it’s never boring.
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This should become a meme image: I might even make it my avatar here.
I know is is more likely a face contorted by effort, but I like to see it as a 'gotcha' guffaw.
If live betting in cycling were available, I wonder what odds one could have got on Champoussin with 2km to go.
This should become a meme image: I might even make it my avatar here.
I know is is more likely a face contorted by effort, but I like to see it as a 'gotcha' guffaw.
If live betting in cycling were available, I wonder what odds one could have got on Champoussin with 2km to go.
I'd like to see more GTs finish with a stage like today's as the last GC stage; hard enough to be really selective, but a finish that actually has to be raced.
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When I saw him riding up I was thinking who is this Voeckler impersonator. XD
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Stage hunter really? and not even guarantee because he only excel in high mountains which are not guaranteed at the Tour? LOL. And your best example is Pinot who is hanging on the rope with his own demons.
I think he should retire based on your assessment. Don't you think?
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When he went and Roglic sat up I thought that's probably it tbh.
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