Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2023, stage 16: Liencres Playa - Bejes, 120.1k

[Tricycle Rider]

Well, chapeau Vingo.

Bizarre stage, but the scenery was incomparable.

 

[GroupDK]

Well done to the champ and a beautiful salute to Nathan Van Hooydonck's horrific situation.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Braindead stuff from everyone apart from Vingegaard, unexpectedly hilarious climb

 

[tobydawq]

Well, okay then.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That's Storer.

My bad. The point still stands though.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Sepp leads GC by 29 seconds (not official, counted it on my own)

 

[Skalman]

Strange race

 

[Andy schleck]

Ridiculous what roglic did, and he couldn't make any difference to anyone.

Finally #freevingegaard.

 

[Divergence]

OK, so watch Rogla take 2min tomorrow.
At least we found out who the c*** is.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Vingegaard is growing on me when he does stuff like this.

 

[Gargamel35]

Wtf was that. So JV decided cry baby needs to win Vuelta and he can attack anytime he wants. Kuss and Roglič need to wait.

 

[Sciatic]

Maybe they dent have the legs, but hard to understand Mas and Ayuso not responding sooner/more as Vingegaard kept gaining time. Did they think Roglic would give them a tow?

 

[dercuforever]

Sepp does look very happy tbh.

 

[Alien Performance]

If Jumbo soft-paced the stage no one else would have put a proper attack in and Sepp wouldn't have lost any time. The have the riders to be defensive. If I was Sepp I'd leave the team.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Must be the biggest gap ever on such a short climb.

 

[ontheroad]

Of the Jumbo riders I'd prefer Kuss to win but I don't want him to be gifted it either. I have no problem with the Jumbo tactics and Vingegaards win was largely due to everybody in behind riding the last climb like a Sunday leisure ride.

 

[saunaking]

DOMESTIQUE VIOLENCE!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

Do we have a new Vélo d'Or winner?

 

[gunara]

This is "not thinking about cycling" looks like.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Vingegaard is growing on me when he does stuff like this.

Panache. A win for a teammate in the hospital.

 

[ManicJack]

Sepp didn't exactly look too upset while celebrating with his teammates

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Landa matched Kuss!

 

[saunaking]

At least if he lost the red he wouldn't have to go to the podium and act like its all good.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Sepp does look very happy tbh.

He's in the lead. He's in a bike race and no gifts. He said so himself.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Of the Jumbo riders I'd prefer Kuss to win but I don't want him to be gifted it either. I have no problem with the Jumbo tactics and Vingegaards win was largely due to everybody in behind riding the last climb like a Sunday leisure ride.

But Kuss is also gifting Vingegaard free seconds. If it was a proper race between them Kuss would've probably lost less time to Vingegaard on Tourmalet and definitively lost less time today.