Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2021: Stage 7 (Gandia - Balcón de Alicante, 152.0 km)

[Samu Cuenca]

Polanc going all-in on the KOM sprints doesn't seem like a wise choice, if he wants to be in red after the stage.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Cherie Pridham showing how she gets paid to be in a team car and Brian Smith doesn't.

 

[BlueRoads]

Polanc going all-in on the KOM sprints doesn't seem like a wise choice, if he wants to be in red after the stage.

Didn't Tinneke say he spent a lot of time with Pogacar?

 

[roundabout]

I would have thought not taking points from Bardet would have been the deal here to make sure DSM keeps on working instead of trying to win the stage with the smallest gap possible

 

[Kainabru]

Bahrain playing it smart, sending Haig up the road to overtake Landa in GC in order to unleash his secondary leader powers.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

And up and down and up and down they go, the scenery is interesting today. Lots of trees right now (yay!) and earlier I saw an old-world town that reminded me of some jigsaw puzzles I've worked on. Now that's what I'm talking about!

 

[roundabout]

It's interesting that Jumbo are still working to keep this group close. Is Polanc, Großschartner and Haig gaining time an acceptable tradeoff for Kuss also becoming a potential GC threat? More riders up there on GC is more of a problem for Movistar and Ineos than it is for Jumbo (assuming Roglic continues to look a level above the rest).

It's a fairly irrelevant question at this stage though because it's basically a stalemate with Trentin and Arensman (now Hamilton) cancelling out Gesink and Oomen. Probably better for Jumbo to keep this tempo up instead of dropping the pace and risking more attacks from dangerous riders in the peloton.

I think/hope that the plan is to go hard on the penultimate climb to try to isolate Roglic for the final one so leaving Jumbo to work makes sense

 

[Tim Cahill]

Carthy DNF, sick surely, looked very sharp in Burgos.

 

[BlueRoads]

Hugh Carthy out...

 

[Leinster]

Carthy abandons. Must be gutting for the lad.

 

[Anderis]

Carthy DNF, sick surely, looked very sharp in Burgos.

Garate said yesterday that Carthy was not ill.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Didn't Tinneke say he spent a lot of time with Pogacar?

So do you think he will do the opposite of Pogacar; going for the KOM, but then also winning the GC by default?

 

[Samamba]

Garate said yesterday that Carthy was not ill.

Yeah and that was obviously ***. The guy said it was just a result of the echelons. Sure bud, youre gonna lose more than 2 minutes on a 2km climb because there was some echelon action before.

 

[BlueRoads]

So do you think he will do the opposite of Pogacar; going for the KOM, but then also winning the GC by default?

Well, at least he surely thinks it's normal to win GC and KOM at the same time now.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yeah and that was obviously ***. The guy said it was just a result of the echelons. Sure bud, youre gonna lose more than 2 minutes on a 2km climb because there was some echelon action before.

And you're definitely not going to be dropped on the first climb the next day because of it either.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Expecting action on the penultimate climb is naive.
Expecting action on the penultimate climb in the first week is hilarious.

Now please prove me wrong

 

[Earns1985]

Bad moment for Kuss..

 

[Netserk]

Libertine's voodoo strikes poor Sepp.

 

[southwards]

Expecting action on the penultimate climb is naive.
Expecting action on the penultimate climb in the first week is hilarious.

Now please prove me wrong

Pogacar attacked on the penultimate climb at the first week of the Tour, didn't he?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Pogacar attacked on the penultimate climb at the first week of the Tour, didn't he?

Expecting others to do what Pogacar does is hilarious as well

 

[sir fly]

Pogacar attacked on the penultimate climb at the first week of the Tour, didn't he?

I think he responded to someone's attack.
... and then just continued.

 

[roundabout]

ohoh, Movis start early

 

[Netserk]

Movistar!

 

[Samamba]

LETS GOOO Its happening

 

[Netserk]

Rojas launches Valverde with Carapaz on his wheel.

Yates and Poels(?) there too, Kruijswijk pulls the bunch.