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After the action today it’s clear that Gaudu is poised to make a massive attacks on one of the remaining climbs and jump to a podium
For most combatitive.
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That's an appropriate expression
Del Toro was showing gaps before Soler surges. If he had it looked like he the OK to try his luck. 6th today and 2 decent breakaway showings. Vine had a little more at a minute back, Del Toro at a minute and a half back of MarkyMarc
Poole looked great..
Landa rode great..Riccitello big contributor, excellent ride today!! Graveyard Gaudu back from the dead ,guy rode lights out and fought and fought through some real struggles, impressive!! Didn't look like Roglic got out of the saddle , only to air out his shorts..he looks a lot like he is at a spinning class ready to talk on his phone
Nobody likes getting a kit because somebody else crashed out.
He was fined 20 UCI points for being late, he didn't seem too pleased.
View: https://x.com/LeGruppetto/status/1831030534010765593
Congrats to Soler, nice win. Enric Mas looks ominous but is still 1'20" behind Roglic and 1'25" behind BOC. I still think Roglic has more up his sleeve.
Ben O'Conner is outclassed but his suffering to hold red against all odds is impressive. He has honored the red jersey and is doing a great send off for Decathlon AG2R before he switches teams. Will be aiming to hold red until stage 19 - Alto de Moncalvillo.
Ben O'Conner is outclassed but his suffering to hold red against all odds is impressive. He has honored the red jersey and is doing a great send off for Decathlon AG2R before he switches teams. Will be aiming to hold red until stage 19 - Alto de Moncalvillo.
Yeah, there's pretty substantial evidence for him having been helped by the team car there.
Make it a five minute penalty then. That'll teach these riders not be late for the podium ceremony.
I don't think I need to be making concessions on this matter when you're not genuine yourself (with his 2 minute PR comment the other day).
Come on, give it a rest, will ya?
Sad to see one of the figures of this Vuelta having to quit the race.
Deserved win for Soler after all the work he did for Pogačar in the Tour.
Regarding the GC fight, after losing a minute today is almost impossible for O'Connor to win this race and Roglič has a fourth Vuelta title getting closer. Gaudu and Skjelmose perfoming at a high level once again and Carapaz is showing that he still is a force to be reckon with for Grand Tour GC's.
Deserved win for Soler after all the work he did for Pogačar in the Tour.
Regarding the GC fight, after losing a minute today is almost impossible for O'Connor to win this race and Roglič has a fourth Vuelta title getting closer. Gaudu and Skjelmose perfoming at a high level once again and Carapaz is showing that he still is a force to be reckon with for Grand Tour GC's.
Why did they make Covadonga such a mainstay? Genuine question. I didn't watch any of its stage before the one Piedra won, were there many good ones? Because since then...it's never much of a thrill. Feels like a lazy choice. The familiar feeling of mehness when we got into the descent before important people made important gaps....
Hmm. Rogla is now just 5 seconds off red, his team is spared another day and is a
lay down misère to win this Vuelta. O’Conner was obviously rushing to get to the podium ceremony and we still want our pound of flesh?
He's such a funny man - after TDF unchained I found him as annoying as most people did but at this stage I just love how he doesn't pretend to hide how stressed and grumpy he is
I watched the stage on replay. When Soler dropped del Toro, I wanted to come here to make a post about what a freaking idiot he is...but I didn't because I didn't want to possibly see who won, on the home page, and spoil the rest of the stage...good thing I waited, as I have less egg on my face.
Gutted for WVA, just heartbroken. I was cautiously optimistic about Worlds. 2024 has been a nightmare for him. Here's to hoping for a speedy recovery, and a better 2025.
Gutted for WVA, just heartbroken. I was cautiously optimistic about Worlds. 2024 has been a nightmare for him. Here's to hoping for a speedy recovery, and a better 2025.
That's a nice way of saying that he is a douchenozzle, who throws tantrums on the reg.
The first arrival in 1983 was awesome. Lejarreta attacked from the bottom and gained more than a minute on Hinault, who was second and highly praised the climb. Note than Hinault previous participation was in 1978 when the Vuelta was still organised by a Basque newspaper, routes didn't have many hard mountains and MTFs were a rarity. Routes started to change when Unipublic took over in 1979 and Covadonga was like a gem discovery in the search for harder climbs to the point that it feaured up to 5 years in a row.
The climb hosted good racing until the early '90s with stage wins by Lejarreta, Delgado, Millar and Herrera.
For me it lost its magic when Jalabert won for the first time in 1994. Since then it's been quite boring with the exception of 2016 (Quintana), 2018 (Pinot) and 2021 (Roglic)
Do we believe Nys is able to do some actual damage? Personally, i don't, and i also don't think he is the best suited for domestique duties. I'd rather call Van Eetvelt, assuming he can get in shape by then, and there was no serious issue why he underperformed during the Vuelta.
I'd pick from Evenepoel, Van Gils, De Plus, Van Wilder, Van Eetvelt, Van Sevenant, Wellens, Benoot, maybe Teuns or Hermans? The local circuit starts at 68km already, with 3km of climbing each lap. I don't know how much use the bigger guys like Stuyven would be.
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