Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 15: Infiesto - Cuitu Negru, 142.9k

[Sciatic]

The fog of war..........

Very nice with the double meaning!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Should always be the first climb of whatever mountain block (preferably an early one) it's part of. If not, it is much better to finish at Pajarés and come from a series of big passes ending with Cobertoria.

2012 played out way differently than today

 

[Sciatic]

He said it ironic cause the interviewer led with "today didnt go as planned" and he responded in an ironic smug manner "oh i lost time to the red jersey i didnt realize how much did i lose?". Which i personally find pretty epic, but hey im a fanboy of his so what do I know

Thank you.

 

[Unchained]

there has to be something lost in translation here, there's no way he could possibly think O'Connor was ahead. Roglic was on his wheel the whole way up the climb until he and Lipowitz attacked.

You are right and the lost translation was likely, how much did I get back not how much did I lose.
When you saw top 3 riders absolutely blown, traversing, Sivakov and Vlasov almost hitting base of the metal barriers, struggling to go forward, I thought for sure O'Connor looked cracked enough to relinquish the red jersey, but just another surprise.
They also asked Castrillo to respond to questions in English, which was ridiculous!! Guy is in a state of jubilation and instead of expressing happiness, he instead says, don't know English words for my emotions..
ESPN should just have someone translate instead of physically and mentally blown bike racers required to be professional linguists after the race!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

Pablo is a very good actor if you ask me!

 

[Sciatic]

what does the word "cuitu" mean? Is it Latin or Asturian old dialect?

It means. “cooked” in French so prob something similar in Spanish? Which would be incredibly apropos in describing riders when they finish there.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Roglic +20s for drafting.

 

[Rackham]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1830274279990006059

Either the fog or some kind of amnesia

He was being sarcastic.

But apparently he did get a 20 second time penalty for drafting behind the Red Bull car after the bike change, which is bullsh*t.

 

[Valv.Piti]

He chose to switch bike himself. I think thats very fair

 

[Stelvio]

But apparently he did get a 20 second time penalty for drafting behind the Red Bull car after the bike change, which is bullsh*t.

Why is it bullsh*it? No one forced him/team to do the bike change.

 

[zlev11]

Roglic haters are gonna love this one. red_flanders where u at?

 

[Andy262]

Wow, what a tremendous stage. Chapeau to Castrillo, a wolf in sheep's clothing.

 

[Rackham]

Why is it bullsh*it? No one forced him/team to do the bike change.

Because he gained no advantage? I mean WTF. He was in the peloton safely, swapped safely and then returned safely.

If GC is decided by this penalty (which I don't think it will be) then sh*t.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Lettuce not act like that penalty isn't justifiable. You want a strategic bike change? Sure, go ahead. Just come back on your own terms, and not behind a team car.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I think they might've usually let it go but the gearing seemed to really help him catch Mas back up on the final steep section.

 

[Stelvio]

Because he gained no advantage?

With the bike change or the drafting? If he gained no advantage, why do it?

 

[Sciatic]

Why is it bullsh*it? No one forced him/team to do the bike change.

Was kind of stupid plan, even with the bit of drafting the team car, he still had to ride pretty hard just to get back to the peloton 2 km before the climb started. Strange decision but Bora has made many strange ones in this race.

 

[Andy262]

I have never seen anyone with this much fighting spirit on the bike.

I have never seen anyone fighting the bike with this much spirit.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I guess that penalty is for the team car waiting for him, so they could pull him up to the front part of the convoy without having to jump from car to car, but it didn‘t take long to catch up to the other cars, so it‘s a borderline call and probably just applied because he didn‘t actually have a mechanical.

 

[Andre]

It means. “cooked” in French so prob something similar in Spanish? Which would be incredibly apropos in describing riders when they finish there.

yes, but in French cooked is spelled cuit...I think it might mean something else

 

[Sciatic]

Because he gained no advantage? I mean WTF. He was in the peloton safely, swapped safely and then returned safely.

If GC is decided by this penalty (which I don't think it will be) then sh*t.

Hopefully Ben will post on whatever social media accounts he has left to complain about the race officials.

 

[Escarabajo]

What am i looking at

WWE

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I have never seen anyone fighting the bike with this much spirit.

You've clearly never seen me climb on my mother's old bike then.

 

[Sciatic]

yes, but in French cooked is spelled cuit...I think it might mean something else

Probably true, just taking a pass at possible meanings.

 

[Unchained]

Why is it bullsh*it? No one forced him/team to do the bike change.

Gotta say fairly obvious, visible infraction, but so are the hundreds of sticky bottle, jump on the gas pedal, Madison, hand slings done on every exchange from the team cars that are ignored, disregarded.
We will see the end result, Roglic turns green, all his clothes tear off as he turns into bike racing Incredible Hulk!! Something about don't make him angry!!