Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2021: Stage 9 (Puerto Lumbreras - Alto de Velefique, 188.0 km)

[ppanther92]

Meintjes in the best form since 2017?

 

[Fantastico]

What happened to Carapaz? He has not finished yet.

 

[Eeslliw]

Mas can really put Rogla under pressure in the third week on the two hard MTFs. This is still a super open race!

For sure he looked the best today. Pulled Roglic for 4-5km, who was clearly on the limit and just happy to follow. Hope his TT is good this time, might get interesting.

 

[sir fly]

Let's hope there's more in the script than 10 days.

Congrats to Caruso.

Grenadiers just can't get themselves together.
Brailsford's issues and Portal's departure are visible on the road.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Mas has never been better than this. Predictable after his first week. Does this mean hell reach stratospheric Contador levels in the third week? One can only hope...

 

[Netserk]

The way he rides. He was on limit.

Why is Lopez chasing Mas with Yates and Haig on his wheel?

On the balance, it's better to have López closer to Rogla and further from Bernal, than to have Mas gain more time on Haig and Yates. That is, they want to put as much time on Bernal as possible, while still having two cards to play against Rogla.

 

[dercuforever]

Is this version of Mas stronger than 3rd week TDF 21 ?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[SHAD0W93]

On the balance, it's better to have López closer to Rogla and further from Bernal, than to have Mas gain more time on Haig and Yates. That is, they want to put as much time on Bernal as possible, while still having two cards to play against Rogla.

Stinks what happened to Valverde! I’m sure they would be a lot more animated.

 

[roundabout]

Mas has never been better than this. Predictable after his first week. Does this mean hell reach stratospheric Contador levels in the third week? One can only hope...

He looks to become better in week 3, but doing doubling up with the Tour is still a slight question mark for me even if he did in 2020

 

[Billie]

Bahrain lose their leader and still get three in the top ten on the stage, and possibly in the GC now?

Landa to become a super-dom

Landa will be flying again when the pressure of leading the team is gone

 

[Netserk]

Kuss and Kruijswijk around 10th from the favorites at the finish

I'm quite disappointed that they don't realise that they better tank and save themselves (even with a rest day coming up).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What happened to Carapaz? He has not finished yet.

He didn't really have a reason to push on after he was dropped, unless INEOS care about the team classification.

 

[JosefK]

Roglic is struggling i think

Checking to see how this aged.

 

[Fantastico]

What happened to Carapaz? He has not finished yet.

He finished 9 minutes behind Caruso.

 

[Escarabajo]

Movistar must trust in Mas because they could have eliminated the second card.

 

[roundabout]

Carapaz lost 9'08'' to Caruso, but at least he can now be used to do damage from far out if Ineos feel confident enough after the drubbing today

 

[Netserk]

Mas very happy and content after the finish.

Now the eyes should be on the red jersey.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Meintjes in the best form since 2017?

He reminds me of every GC rider on the 2012 Radioshack Tour team.

 

[Red Rick]

No Combativity for Caruso

 

[Rackham]

Does roglic go this far ahead on this stage if Mas didn’t draw him out?

No.

That was the difficulty for Roglic today: multiple attacks by rivals & choosing which wheel to follow.

On this climb with the lower gradients at the top, working with Mas was the wise choice & now he's pretty much down to one main rival. Not bad after a week's racing.

 

[Pinot's goat]

They should have delayed La Vuelta so Landa had time to get fit.

 

[roundabout]

No Combativity for Caruso

wut? why?

 

[Cagalitroso]

Jack Haig, hopefully he goes Full Padun later in the race

The Australian Nairo

Huh? Haig is 3 years younger than Nairo but he does not have even 1 top 10 in GT. At his age Nairo had 6 podiums in GT.

 

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GC

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