Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2022, stage 20: Moralzarzal - Puerto de Navacerrada, 181.0k

[RedheadDane]

BTW, now I want a GC rider to win the stage.

My heart might have broken a little bit when Pinot got caught - and dropped - but I guess he just didn't have it today, considering Reichenbach, who I pressume would have been working for him, is still in/near the front.

 

[Radeon]

carlton kirby very hard on landa for no reason.

The reason is he's a muppet. I dread him coming back on.

 

[red_flanders]

Fair enough. Not sure that's down to tactics though, more just the sort of riders Soler, and to a lesser extent Almedia are?

I would assume Almeida wasn’t too excited about Soler’s pull when Almeida was hanging off the back.

 

[noob]

Why is Remco descending behind Almeida?!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Taking a look at the composition of the break and GC group, it becomes clear just how many bad descenders are at this race. A younger Nibali would have had a field day, but no more.

 

[Samamba]

Movistar gave up, want the stage with Valverde now.
Congrats Remco.

 

[Big Doopie]

Why is Remco descending behind Almeida?!

old habits die hard.

almeida would be a perfect domestique for remco...

oh wait...

 

[BR2]

Taking a look at the composition of the break and GC group, it becomes clear just how many bad descenders are at this race. A younger Nibali would have had a field day, but no more.

I think Carapaz is a very good one, Higuita isn't bad either, then there's Arensman.. but in general I agree.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Movistar gave up, want the stage with Valverde now.
Congrats Remco.

Mas clearly didn't have the legs to drop Evenepoel. Movistar had one weekend to turn things around, didn't fully commit (would still have been a tall order though) and since then Evenepoel has gone back to being undroppable.

 

[Big Doopie]

Mas clearly didn't have the legs to drop Evenepoel. Movistar had one weekend to turn things around, didn't fully commit (would still have been a tall order though) and since then Evenepoel has gone back to being undroppable.

clearer and clearer that tough second week days for remco were 100% caused by his crash.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Why would UAE and Astana not pull when they have a domestique each? Weird move, wouldn't mind Rodriguez coming back though.

 

[Samamba]

Mas clearly didn't have the legs to drop Evenepoel. Movistar had one weekend to turn things around, didn't fully commit (would still have been a tall order though) and since then Evenepoel has gone back to being undroppable.

Back then the first thing on their mind was securing that top 3 for UCI points. Movistars future is more important than Mas getting that GT win. Understandable. Last week simply wasn't hard enough (pretty boring) and yes Evenepoel is also just better than Mas.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

clearer and clearer that tough second week days for remco were 100% caused by his crash.

Possibly, might also have been (partially) a 'regular' bad day on Pandera and the length/altitude on Sierra Nevada that caused it though.

 

[Didinho]

Why would UAE and Astana not pull when they have a domestique each? Weird move, wouldn't mind Rodriguez coming back though.

Big group back again

 

[ice&fire]

Movistar gave up, want the stage with Valverde now.
Congrats Remco.

Their tactics has been brilliant: stop Muhlberger at the summit when Mas was spent and leave Valverde alone.

 

[JosefK]

GC battle done and dusted. Stage drooping to a close.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Why would UAE and Astana not pull when they have a domestique each? Weird move, wouldn't mind Rodriguez coming back though.

There he is!

 

[Big Doopie]

y did uae let rodriguez back in? weird.

 

[noob]

Remco unisolated,
Rodriguez back?

 

[Samamba]

Incredibly boring last week, as expected. Roglic crash didn't help obviously.

 

[Rollthedice]

The front three are gone for the stage, Valverde is in the chasing group.

 

[noob]

UAE needs to drill it now to drop Rodriguez again

 

[Samamba]

UAE woke up.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Incredibly boring last week, as expected. Roglic crash didn't help obviously.

Stage 17 and 18 were pretty good. Today has been a damp squib. Don't think this final week has been much worse (if at all) than what came before it, which is of course a damning indictment of this Vuelta.

 

[postmanhat]

Is that Hart back in the GC group? Theyy must have really soft-pedalled if so.