Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2022, stage 16: Sanlúcar de Barrameda - Tomares, 189.4k

[Bertram Wooster]

Normally you would think Remco would be following Roglic from close distance with a finish like this one. So why was he that far in the peloton?

Maybe he did follow Roglic... And maybe he punctured before the 3km line, making it difficult to stay close to Roglic. Maybe that was the reason why he was that far i nthe peloton. His teammanager might have said to wait with signaling the puncture till after the 3km line.

It would be interesting to see if he was with Roglic at 4.0 and at 3.5km from the finish.

 

[StryderHells]

I dont understand that 3km rule

Surely Roglic was more than 8 seconds ahead when Remco had is very convenient puncture.....cycling rules make no sense

Looks though Roglic is very badly knocked up and wont contest the win

Whoever said cycling rules made sense? What about cycling as a sport makes sense?!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Sure and Remco in the malliot roga, with all the reflectors on him, would be so daff as to pull a stunt like that and for what? To totally ruin his reputation as a sportsman? To say nothing of how devious a shadow on his team ond its sponors. Oh, please.

Did you not see me explicitly call it a conspiracy theory? I'm just saying why some people get suspicious when this happens to a team which doesn't have a stellar fair play reputation.

 

[zlev11]

Sure and Remco in the malliot roga, with all the reflectors on him, would be so daff as to pull a stunt like that and for what? To totally ruin his reputation as a sportsman? To say nothing of how devious a shadow on his team ond its sponors. Oh, please.

honestly, it would definitely go through my mind if I was a GC rider. i don't think there's really any way to prove he didn't have a puncture either, there's almost no way to get caught.

 

[Lexman]

Roglic touched Wrights wheel https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20...tter&utm_medium=dlvr&utm_campaign=twitterfeed

 

[roundabout]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1567182366992384000

View: https://twitter.com/Copedaleando/status/1567182366992384000?t=R3w0OeseHeiZPWKp-DjOuA&s=19

Jury is checking Remco puncture

I don't think there is any way to verify when exactly the puncture happened, so it's a bit of pointless task (if that's what the jury are/were doing)

 

[Panda Claws]

I don't see the point in faking a puncture unless you can't follow the pack. Would be an extremely frightful way of thinking to think that Roglic could realistically take much more than 8s on the pack here.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1567182366992384000

View: https://twitter.com/Copedaleando/status/1567182366992384000?t=R3w0OeseHeiZPWKp-DjOuA&s=19

Jury is checking Remco puncture

LOL, does this happen to every mechanical in the last 3k

 

[303pbmf]

I don't see the point in faking a puncture unless you can't follow the pack.

Hate makes people think the leader of the Vuelta cant follow sprinters on a 400 m ascent, it's ridiculous

 

[Samamba]

Loool what is this, I'm far from an Evenepoel fan but seriously why on earth would he fake a mechanical? As if he wouldn't be able to follow a 40 man group a little hill. This is ridiculous.

 

[ice&fire]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1567182366992384000

View: https://twitter.com/Copedaleando/status/1567182366992384000?t=R3w0OeseHeiZPWKp-DjOuA&s=19

Jury is checking Remco puncture

That's BS. The first car after the peloton is the jury car. Valverde has said in an interview that he saw the jury talking to Remco and telling him not to stress because he was inside the last 3km.

 

[StryderHells]

Loool what is this, I'm far from an Evenepoel fan but seriously why on earth would he fake a mechanical? As if he wouldn't be able to follow a 40 man group a little hill. This is ridiculous.

Nah he faked it! Why? Because ummmmm just because!!!

 

[HelloDolly]

Whoever said cycling rules made sense? What about cycling as a sport makes sense?!

Emmmmmmm?

I dunno .....Carlton Kirby has fulltime employment thus leaving Mrs Kirby home alone and sane ??

Every rider is taught the word 'super' to insert in every interview sentence ?

I'm struggling here

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Tuned in just in time for the post-race interviews. Ackermann was not the only thing that was fùcked in the finish. Damn, what a shame for the race and such a crappy reward for a gutsy attack.

 

[search]

I don't see the point in faking a puncture unless you can't follow the pack.

Valverde got s.t. in 84th as well, by the way

 

[Red Rick]

Uphill finish why is there a 3km rule

 

[noob]

Cycling fans are used to being fooled by clinical issues so when something like this happens one just doesn't want to be as gullible.
So we want to tell everyone "I told you so!" when something goes wrong. Sort of.

I tend to believe it was an accident, as I did with Hindley at the giro. But if someone asked me to bet my life on it I wouldn't.

 

[Nick2413]

Wow, I need a cigarette after that finish.

Amazing by Roglic and hopefully he can stay in the race and be strong. It’s possible Remco had a very minor flat but it’s hard to believe he would completely fake it altogether. Probably not a stage that should’ve had the 3km rule and maybe that needs to be revisited, but I don’t put any blame on Remco for this.

 

[Berflamand]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1567178937683296260

View: https://twitter.com/fconavser/status/1567178937683296260?cxt=HHwWiICygZm83r8rAAAA


Clear puncture, very sad that so many people would think he would fake that.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Evenepoel faking a mechanical after getting gapped.

It's too obvious it's not funny.

As usual everyone is a Sinner apart from Lord Roglic !!!!

 

[303pbmf]

Uphill finish why is there a 3km rule

There was no uphill finish, there was a 400 meter ascent starting 3 km from the finish line

 

[HelloDolly]

Loool what is this, I'm far from an Evenepoel fan but seriously why on earth would he fake a mechanical? As if he wouldn't be able to follow a 40 man group a little hill. This is ridiculous.

He did say in his interview that he was scared of the finale as QS reconed it on the rest day and he said it was very slippy

 

[noob]

This is where the problem of QS' unsporting actions in the past comes back to bite them, though. It seems pretty unlikely that a team or rider would do something like that, but then we have seen them break rules to gain advantage in recent memory with Lampaert and Wellens, and we have seen (non-QS) riders pretending to have been involved in crashes in the last 3k to get the same time before. We remember Sky taking the time penalties of illegal feeds deliberately to avoid the hunger knock when their leader was distanced on a final climb. And hell, to jump to a different sport, I thought it pretty unlikely that any motor racing team would deliberately tell a driver to crash into a wall at F1 speed, but it happened.

It's all conspiracy theory villainy, but because of the timing of it and because QS have that negative reputation for their behaviour in defence of a lead, people are more willing to believe conspiracy theories about their villainy than if it was a team with an unblemished reputation - even if in some cases only because they want to believe that their guy would have won if he hadn't been screwed over.

Had it been Alaphilippe as much as I love him I would be much less secure about an accident. For the same reason you mention.

 

[F_Cance]

i don't see a "clear puncture"

 

[Bonimenier]

i don't see a "clear puncture"

Try watching with your eyes open