Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2021: Stage 20 (Sanxenxo - Castro de Herville, 202.2 km)

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johnymax

johnymax

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Valv.Piti said:
Yates not trying to get the podium, Mas and Roglic's completely disinterest in a stage win etc etc.

I dont understand how these favourites race sometimes
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The only big mistake I saw is Yates not continuing with the attack when he dropped Haig. For a GC podium spot that is.

For the stage win, Roglič was the strongest. Anything both Mas and Yates do, Rogla wins easily, if he wants to. So they played the only card possible. Make Rogla work and chase if he wants to win. Maybe he gets a bit tired at the end and so Yates and Mas would have had a slightly bigger chance against him.

On the other hand Roglič already has 3 stage wins with a fourth coming tomorrow and will get the overall win. So why should he be the one to turn himself inside out to win the stage. It just didn't mean that much to him, so he thought, if I "gift" a stage, better be it to one of the riders who is not relevant for GC. And you get what we've just seen.
 
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Unterlenkerfahrend

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perico said:
Bernal didn’t sacrifice anything. He just didn’t have the legs.
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Of course he did sacrifice that, his attack helped opening the gap when Yates attacked and once the gap was there he had to stay behind Lopez. That doesn't mean Yates ownes him anything but you can't tell me he does that 1-2 with Bernal 40k out to "only" challenge for the stage. Surely this was about GC and so it's weird to not try to push on when he had the gap to Haig.
 
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Unterlenkerfahrend said:
Yeah Roglic and Haig were fine. Roglic has the jersey and has won enough, he even did slight pulling because he was probably bored but why should he close the gaps - the look he gave them said it all haha. Haig just wants the podium and is happy to hang in. But for Mas and Yates to play poker with Roglic, yikes. Yates even confirmed in the interview that he was going for the stage instead of just dropping Haig - I mean, what can you say...
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Yates has never won a GT stage so his tactics are understandable.
 
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perico

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Unterlenkerfahrend said:
Of course he did sacrifice that, his attack helped opening the gap when Yates attacked and once the gap was there he had to stay behind Lopez. That doesn't mean Yates ownes him anything but you can't tell me he does that 1-2 with Bernal 40k out to "only" challenge for the stage. Surely this was about GC and so it's weird to not try to push on when he had the gap to Haig.
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Bernal was struggling to hold the wheels on the first attacks. I would consider it a sacrifice had he followed the attacks then set the pace for his teammate but he couldn’t do that today. That doesn’t take anything away from him it’s just that he wasn’t going to go anywhere on GC anyway today.
 
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