Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 12: Ourense - Estación de Montaña de Manzaneda, 137.4k

[Sciatic]

Someone explain to me what the point is of setting a pace there only to do absolutely nothing?

Yes please

 

[noob]

And it wasn't even that.

who has a birthday?

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Boy that was a long finale


poole 2nd today , 3rd yesterday ...very good form
Needs to rest up a few days and then go again

 

[tobydawq]

who has a birthday?

Skjelmose's girlfriend.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Congratulations to Pablo castillo on a prestigious and historic win atop the alto de Masnada. What a beautiful moment

 

[gunara]

Hasn't been this hurt from watching cycling for a long time, that body rocking, Pablo...

 

[RedheadDane]

A few more of those and Carlton might get Skjelmose's name right

Sean is this err... Tao Geoghegan Hart?

Carlton really got a problem with identifying those Danish riders!

 

[movingtarget]

Nice win for Castrillo and his team. Another day ticked off for O'Connor. He won't mind that sort of stage.

 

[Samamba]

Blame group dynamics

No he should blame himself, he was gone with Narvaez 2 or 3 times on the climb but he refused to immediately word or his turns were only a few seconds.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Great and courageous win

 

[tobydawq]

Castrillo is currently in an extremely exclusive club of riders whose only wins have been in Grand Tours, who have won stages in all Grand Tours they've participated in and have won all Grand Tour stages in their team's history

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Yates looks right in the polka dots

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I've been on a long vacation without following the race and I'm kinda shocked how much time buffer O'Connor got in a breakaway. He can realistically win the Vuelta if he doesnt f*ck up (which can hapoen in his case OFC, its O'Connor after all). Still, an interesting plot twist, Primoz, Mas and co are in a tricky situation.

 

[Netserk]

Skjelmose won the prestigious 21-man group sprint for 11th:

 

[postmanhat]

Beautiful seeing how much the win meant to the team and Castrillo. Especially as it was largely due to the WT riders ****ing about, trying to be clever. Seems so rare that a victory like this seems to happen in GTs these days?

 

[Tim Cahill]

First Spanish ProConti Vuelta win since?

 

[tobydawq]

First Spanish ProConti Vuelta win since?

Oh, too quick with the yes.

Mikel Iturria won stage 11 in that race.

 

[Sciatic]

Beautiful seeing how much the win meant to the team and Castrillo. Especially as it was largely due to the WT riders ****ing about, trying to be clever. Seems so rare that a victory like this seems to happen in GTs these days?

Great stuff—really happy for Kern Pharma who already had shown more aggression than most pro-conti teams in GTs these past few yrs.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Beautiful seeing how much the win meant to the team and Castrillo. Especially as it was largely due to the WT riders ****ing about, trying to be clever. Seems so rare that a victory like this seems to happen in GTs these days?

Most likely the emotions come from the passing of Manolo Azcona, who died this week. He was the big man behind the team. All the way from a minuscule team called AD Galibier, to the famous Lizarte school and which would eventually become Kern Pharma. The team that has launched so many careers, including Castrillo and Soler and, to some extend, Carapaz.

 

[tobydawq]

Most likely the emotions come from the passing of Manolo Azcona, who died this week. He was the big man behind the team. All the way from a minuscule team called AD Galibier, to the famous Lizarte school and which would eventually become Kern Pharma. The team that has launched so many careers, including Castrillo and Soler and, to some extend, Carapaz.

I think he even died today (or maybe yesterday) as there was a minute's silence in his honour at the start of the stage.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Castrillo & Kern Phrma - he's been in the break a few times and looked good so a well deserved win. A win for an invite team is also always a good thing. Poole again with a chance to win, but messed around a bit too much and throw it away. Another day maybe.

 

[Oldermanish]

Absolutely. Poole did not trust his ability.

Or overconfident on his closing ability by 20 seconds or so. The Vuelta is always entertaining for these kinds of finishes.

 

[Bolder]

No he should blame himself, he was gone with Narvaez 2 or 3 times on the climb but he refused to immediately word or his turns were only a few seconds.

Oh yeah, definitely on Poole. I meant the fear of pulling anyone who might have something left to come around you at the line...

 

[saunaking]

At least the last 7 km are relatively hard and last 2 km enough to do a bit of a different. Will definitely see more than yesterday, thats too pessimistic of a take I think, Netserk. It is a MTF after all with decent gradients towards the end. Could see Ben lose 10-20, but nothing major will happen.. and then I agree with you: WVA for the win!

man screw you guys for me getting my hopes up today
what a snorefest

 

[Valv.Piti]

I think my assessment was half right to be honest, the terrain was there to do more than what happened. Everybody just agreed to wait for tomorrow