Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2023, stage 20: Manzanares El Real - Guadarrama, 207.8k

[Nick2413]

Roglic to team up with Ineos or Remco and go on a long raid to capture red and cause an apocalypse.

 

[Rackham]

Rogla goes and signs with somebody random like Movistar or Intermarché or something where he gets to lead anything he likes (he's an older rider who can win GCs in short stage races but mostly likes to sit on until the final kilometre on uphill finishes, Unzué would love him like a son

I legitimately laughed out loud at this. Imagine the Netflix show. Amazing.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Evenepoel to win from the break with Cian, Almeida, Landa, and Vinge while Kuss and Roglic get stuck behind. Roglic to DNF and rip off his Jumbo jersey to reveal a Bahrain one.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Rui Costa to win the stage while holding the hands of Purito and Valverde, which he will have removed from their bodies shortly before the start.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Rui Costa to win the stage while holding the hands of Purito and Valverde, which he will have removed from their bodies shortly before the start.

Got caught in 4K

 

[Escarabajo]

This would be best timeline. Rogla goes haywire on the hills in a two man break with Remco, wins the stage and takes the red jersey as a final massive FU to Niermann and co, Jumbo hold a crisis meeting after the stage where Niermann is forced to consult his PR guru (the comments section under Benji Naesen's tweets) and the course of action is to fire Primož on the spot, so he is unable to start stage 21. Kuss gets to win his GT, Rogla gets to show he's the strongest, Jumbo get an easier job managing their leaders going forward, Rogla goes and signs with somebody random like Movistar or Intermarché or something where he gets to lead anything he likes (he's an older rider who can win GCs in short stage races but mostly likes to sit on until the final kilometre on uphill finishes, Unzué would love him like a son), and the 2023 Vuelta finally has something worth remembering. Unipublic recall the absolute chaos of the 2021 and 2023 penultimate stages and start to deliver lots of difficult hilly and medium mountain stages that are difficult to control, improving the variety and quality of the race no end.

The internet explodes because all of the elements of chaos are in place: Jumbo failing to control their riders (and then overreacting afterward), Remco playing kingmaker in the José Recio role creating 8000 pages of discussion all of itself, and all the accompanying chaos à la Rasmussen or Supermán.

Maybe, just maybe, Kuss will be too upset to let Rogla get the front seat of the car and prove he's not too good for this world once and for all.

Miguel Angel Lopez would be envious of this finale!!!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Got caught in 4K

Hopefully not, cause you just know the TV director will replay it 25 times while something exciting is happening in the race.

 

[Escarabajo]

Spanish Stampede!!!!
Race will blow to pieces.

 

[Berniece]

Roglic will win in a sprint against Remco, and Remco Will take the sprinters jersey for a day

 

[topcat]

With around 100 km to go, Remco attacks so hard he literally takes flight, turns into a silverback, crash lands near the finish, pumping his chest and spewing bile. Kuss has a simple smile on his face the whole way, high-fiving the fans who are shouting USA, USA- we’re alive baby. Vingo smirks like Borat all the way. Roglic is so angry, he starts to resemble Chuck Norris, but still doesn’t attack. Landa tries a half assed attack to get 4th but is effortlessly chased down by Borat who brings the Spanish Armada with him. Almida yo-yos to and from the gc group till near the end when he does a lame ass attack and no one cares. Forum takes a lay day.

 

[Skalman]

Cool profile, could be a action-packed stage

 

[Sciatic]

Landa has said on TV he will try.

Good, hope he does.

 

[Big Doopie]

QS should control with hard pace (other than Cattaneo, what exactly have they been doing for ten stages?).

Climb 7, Cattaneo lunches Remco.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Remco and Rogla ride clear and are a minute ahead by the finish. Rogla wins the sprint (no gifts, remember) and with the 10 second bonus, wins the Vuelta by a couple of seconds. He shrugs, and says…

”That’s what I do, eh?”

That would be my silent hope, seriously.
However, to my regret not gonna happen as long as a stronger "humble"* Mercifully Samartan is a part of the peloton.

*Humble before La Roja, that is.

 

[Rackham]

Good, hope he does.

Landa holds some keys here, as does Evenepoel, obviously.

Bahrain needs to drill it & cause a split with some favorites in the front bunch with a few teammates to pull, and some favorites caught behind. Take your pick regarding 'who' you want to see dropped for maximum entertainment value.

Tomorrow needs to be raced like a world championships road race, i.e. fast, hard, brutal, with progressively smaller groups of riders going off the front. And if the red jersey starts to lose wheels a long way from the finish... grab some popcorn.

 

[houtdffan]

Roglic will win in a sprint against Remco, and Remco Will take the sprinters jersey for a day

Remco cannot. There are only 50 points available tomorrow and he is 53 points behind

which is why he should have sprinted today

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Spanish Stampede!!!!
Race will blow to pieces.

For sure I expect a real spectacle tomorrow, even with some surprises.
The route is designed with dedication for this, without a subsequent WC this time and full three weeks until the last monument, so alot of riders should be expected to empty whatever they have left in their legs for a great show.

 

[Berniece]

Remco cannot. There are only 50 points available tomorrow and he is 53 points behind

which is why he should have sprinted today

No intermediate? But not that Remco cares he doesn’t want that jersey

 

[danielovichdk2]

If Roglic eyes any weakness in Kuss he is attacking that red jersey. Then Jonas attacks Roglic because he gets angry with Roglic not holding his end of the agreement.

Jonas wins. Roglic is fired (he started it). Sepp gets a depression and moves back to Colorado and becomes a shaman in the mountains where he mentally cracks totally.

Ineos buys Roglic. But Roglic has to change his name due to contract law stuff and is to become Steamus Sucklitz. He goes down from there on.

Jonas hires Lance and Eddy to win all 3 gts in 2024. Eddy has a facial lift so he can stand in for Jonas on the hardest climbs. Eddy trains only with glasses that can show Bernhard Hinault attacking.

Lance becomes Joans' motoman but crashes into a pizzaria and is never seen again.

Remco is riding so fast tomorrow that he will not be seen again.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

No intermediate? But not that Remco cares he doesn’t want that jersey

As far as the official site goes there's a single intermediate with points as close as 15k's to go... located at the middle of last 3rd cat climb (!) *edit* either before, after or in the middle of a tunnel in a flattened intermezzo of the climb.
Organizers really wanna spice things up, but most probably no cigar for a 'sprint' by that time.

 

[search]

Remco cannot. There are only 50 points available tomorrow and he is 53 points behind

which is why he should have sprinted today

40 actually, this is the most difficult category of stages. 20 at the intermediate, 20 at the finish.

 

[Rackham]

I hear there's potential rain forecast tomorrow in the region. It could make things a little bit more interesting.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Roglic should just use his volta catalunya muscle memory and wheelsuck remco from the start. Try and get away.

 

[Elos Anjos]

Seriously, if Remco and Roglic team up to win the stage and La Vuelta would be the biggest mind blowing thing of the past two decades days.

Remco and Roglic fans would unite in awe and cry together, the forum would go down after each post got 10000 likes. The thing is that Kuss would hug Roglic anyway.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Landa sets up a whats app group up for the Spanish riders in the race after watching highlights of 85 Veulta and they go gun ho ,let the fireworks begin.