Valverde and Froome can walk into the sunset together. Its time.
Amazing ride, but he went really deep. still seems the extremele steep parts don't let him breath. ofcourse he takes 40seconds on the 2km before it... that might be expected. Hope he can recover from this, rest day might come just in time.
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Well, I hope he did. When you have a chance to take time on everyone, go all in...I doubt he lost much in the last km from being tired but more like the finish was really a bit confusing so difficult to gauge effort properly.
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No offence intended but why all the love for Meintjes? He's been a shameless wheel sucker whose most memorable moment was hopping off his bike and running with it up a steep incline in the TDF. I guess fair play for fulfilling a dream by winning a GT stage but meh...
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Mas only put 8 seconds into Roglic. ... Primoz is a tough one.
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Because he's not being a shameless wheelsucker and has this season ridden how everyone wanted him to ride while realising the success that it can bring?
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He rode for GC to stage 19 ...I dont know what other way to say it ...he did most of the tour and at a hard pace
he deserves some love on here
he deserves some love on here
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Remco in this form would've easily won this year's Tour de France.
La Vuelta ciclista a España 2018 Stage 14 results
La Vuelta ciclista a España 2018 Stage 14 from Cistierna to Les Praeres. Nava was won by Simon Yates before Miguel Ángel López and Alejandro Valverde. Simon Yates was leading the general classification.
www.procyclingstats.com
Yates rode his opponents on 2 seconds, 5... 7.. in 2018 on this climb... damn what a difference compared to today.
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Maybe because a CSS where half the field is completely tired from the Tour and the other half is in Vuelta prep is slightly different from the Vuelta?
You can find like 1 datapoint to predict this and 10 to predict that it doesn't happen so it's fairly normal that some people are very surprised.
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We have to give due merit when deserved
Hindley is not putting out numbers to match his performance in the Giro; Carapaz has also put our bigger numbers in the past. Remco is the only one of the top contenders who prioritized the Vuelta this year, and I think that’s a big part of it. But Remco is also delivering GT winning performances, no doubt.QS has a pretty good support team for this particular Vuelta. Having Alaf to lead that final cat 3 and descent safely was a great move -- he dropped a bunch of riders. Not sure what Ilan can really do but with Remco's shape it didn't matter today.
As I noted in another thread, at first I was surprised at what I thought was the poor form from a bunch of decent riders -- Hindley, Higueta, Carapaz, Sivakov, Yates, O'Connor, Almeida etc -- but it really does seem that Remco is just on another level right now. "Riding yourself into shape" isn't an option when you're just struggling to limit losses....
All in all not a particularly interesting stage without Kuss...if he was healthy he'd have stayed with Remco, I think...
Meintjes getting into the breaks regularly has finally paid off.
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Ehm, of course he wouldnt. Tour de France is entirely different to Vuelta a Espana - at least it was this year. The Tour was ridden incredibly hard, it was super hot and a couple of the mountain stages were attacked from further out than normally in LONG climbs.
No one would have beaten Vingegaard this year, on this route, with this team, in this weather, and how the race was ridden.
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BTW, I saw a blue shadow of what it seemed to be an Astana rider climbing like a rocket. I wouldn't be surprised if this was Lopez who got cut by the crash. As usual.
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The less draft, the better for Remco in this condition. When you ride like Remco, just setting a tempo on the climbs, its always better for the climb to be consistently over 10%, and when its a 15 min effort, all the better. No one stood a chance today, and thats not surprising given what we have seen this Vuelta and how he has managed efforts of this sorts before.
To be fair, the MTF at Volta a la Comunidad Valenciana is more similar to this than CSS.
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I was actually kinda hoping Battistella would win. If for no other reason, then so his photo would appear on the graphics. It appeared briefly early on, and... what the heck has he done to his hair?
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Absolutely nobody would have beaten that Jumbo team this year. Maybe Contador with 09 Astana team.
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