Most entertaining part of this Vuelta is watching people try and ninja their way into the top 10.
Rigoberto Uran moves up 6 places to 12th today.
Rigoberto Uran moves up 6 places to 12th today.
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I think that Ayuso/Almeida did work well together and cleverly making turns to attack Rodriguez and making him try to close the Gaps, First to Almeida and then to Ayuso untill he blowned off and they dropped him.
Remco did, indeed ride superbly today. As for Roglic; it's a poker game as well as a MMA Cagefight. You need to chip away and having Mas as Remco's mutual threat is better than attempting a wild early attack at altitude and have everybody chase you. Isolating Remco is his best and most manageable strategy even if fans think it indicates weakness or reluctance. Very few stupid riders win any race, let alone a GT with everyone's domestiques folding.
He's probably someone who should be looking more for stage wins these days. It eventually worked for Meintjes.
Also loved Carapaz work for Rodriguez, at one point I even though that he would close the gap for Evenepoel and Roglic group but was a bit to short.
Sooooo, there was a stomp, even if only a small one after Roglič was dropped by Mas and Lopez. Remco couldn‘t stick with Roglič. The forum didn‘t scream at Mas to take pulls, they just ignored when he pulled. Superman resisted Roglič‘s mini-stomp on Hazallanas to attack at altitude. Froome, Julius Johansen and Padun were not at the front, Nibali only until they started climbing fast while Valverde went out the back early. Landani stayed with the top GC riders for a short while but was never at the front. This post didn‘t age badly but I kinda made the wording a little ambiguous.
López destroyed every chance of working together once he decided to attack Mas. Riding like mentally disabled as always.
Do you think these have have buttons the DS’s push to make them accelerate whenever they want. They have to be listening to their bodies as well as understanding the tactical situation.
So Mas is the wheelsucker who attacks and almost took second place in gc and Roglic is tactically perfect to sit on Remco's wheel till very late to gain 15 seconds or so? I am confused, really.
LOL. You got that right, the fight for the top 10 has been brutal!!!!
Aresman, Meintjes, O'connor, Uran, Hindley, Polanc, Kelderman.
It doesn't get more Ninja than these riders. Zubeldia would be proud of this race.
But they appear very chaotic to me
Pog ruins the fun sometimes. They however have something light to their chaos, it's always amusingly unclear whether they work together or not, compared to other recent fuckups by the likes of Movistar etc..
As far as GC I think that unless Evenepoel has a very bad day he has it in the bag! Also top3 imo it’s closed, no more high mountains for Mal. Despite what I said , If Roglic is close enough Evenepoel (around 1 minute) that stage 20 can be good fun!
But they fight for the Top-10 by attacking not by doing nothing all race.
Nairo got similar treatment from fans who would call him boring, despite him using exactly the same "some stages just settle in, pick one or two stages to attack from distance in" strategy that made the likes of Nibali so beloved. Once the reputation sticks, there's not much a rider can do, Mas would need to be pinging off the front with reckless abandon in flat stages to shake off his negative aura now.
Even then, recalling Quintana in the 2019 Vuelta, it might not be enough.
Quintana literally wasted his only real shot at the Tour by waiting too long to attack.
Ironically he could have just followed and worked with Nibali and he would've had a Tour in the bag.
Not yet. The third week, even though there are no hard climbs left, is full of traps!!
I mean full of traps!!! almost every stage.
For those saying that Mas worked as much with Lopez, you have to subtract the time from De la Cruz. That was a gift. You cannot have both ways.
And yes maybe they could have worked together better (Not only Lopez but Mas as well) but I don't think it was going to happen because:
And yes maybe they could have worked together better (Not only Lopez but Mas as well) but I don't think it was going to happen because:
- They were visibly tired. So when you are very tired the pointing the finger game starts when in reality both are dead.
- There is no love between these two. You are asking them for too much. They probably should patch things up in the rest day and work together in the next stages. They need each other I think.
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What, do you bet on him and lose money . . . Or is he from your region and isn’t upholding his heritage . . . Do you have shares in Movistar? Why go so sour on a guy who just did well on this monster climb, and in fact did attack and ride at the front for stints, and has to carry the extra responsibility of staying high in GC to garner points to avoid the team’s loss of WT status?
sorry to jump just on your comment—you were one of many saying similar.
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When they did this stage and finished at Hazallanas in 2013 the gaps in the top 10 were bigger than today
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