Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 18: Vitoria-Gasteiz - Maeztu, 179.3k

[QueenStagiaire]

How hard is this last rise on the profile?

From the thread opener:

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Yes mate mattia cataneo, you sit there in group with Lakzano, Soler, Poole, Vlasov, vaceck, izagirre, castrillo, Schmidt etc and look good for the cameras, you pick the right wheel you might get 6th place in the stage, really great job man. WTF is they doing ?

Not like your GC leader who fight a podium is losing his GC placement to fking Dave gaudu or something like that. No nothing is happening. J

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Will Pablo go for the hat trick?

 

[ppanther92]

And VPP was there?

Almost, yes. He is the solo guy behind the O'Connor group, doing that sprint to catch up.

Went back now in Eurosport player. That was the gap on top. Roughly 5s.
E: to the tail of the group even less.

 

[E_F_]

From the thread opener:

It's not nothing..!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What a joke my god, Cattaneo sit in a group with actual winners for an 8th place in the stage. PULL HIM BACK NOW, this is an all hands on deck situation. Landa should go to new Astana team, they would actually care for theirnleade r

Now now, 8th place in a stage is more important than the GC at the Tour de France, let alone the Vuelta a España.

Just ask Lorena Wiebes and Anna van der Breggen.

 

[Miha81]

Landa not gaining time I see

 

[Faserr]

From the thread opener:

Carapaz will go

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Yes mate mattia cataneo, you sit there in group with Lakzano, Soler, Poole, Vlasov, vaceck, izagirre, castrillo, Schmidt etc and look good for the cameras, you pick the right wheel you might get 6th place in the stage, really great job man. WTF is they doing ?

You want Cattaneo to wait for 10 minutes, just so Landa can lose 3 minutes instead of 3:30?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

You want Cattaneo to wait for 10 minutes, just so Landa can lose 3 minutes instead of 3:30?

Yes obviously?

 

[Sciatic]

Hiker thinking, “will be so great to get away from civilization, peace and quiet with only the wind to listen to . . .
Vuelta: hold my beer, I’ve got a heli to flly over your head.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Sorry the text keeps going accidental bold

 

[noob]

My commentator saying Denz and Adria looks worried :O

 

[Netserk]

Y u no pull, Denz?! Don't you want Lipo to overtake Landa???

 

[ppanther92]

Yes mate mattia cataneo, you sit there in group with Lakzano, Soler, Poole, Vlasov, vaceck, izagirre, castrillo, Schmidt etc and look good for the cameras, you pick the right wheel you might get 6th place in the stage, really great job man. WTF is they doing ?

Not like your GC leader who fight a podium is losing his GC placement to fking Dave gaudu or something like that. No nothing is happening. J

Tbf, those will probably not be the last minutes Landa uses. Isolated bad days are possible but probably he is declining with having raced the TdF for GC as well. He was simply dropped on the climb. A lot of climbing still to come in the next two days.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Just came home from work: what happened with Landa? Bad day, crash, vodoo?

 

[ppanther92]

From the thread opener:

With this - I am going to say 3:50 for Landa today.

 

[solo80k]

Landini, what have you done....?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Just came home from work: what happened with Landa? Bad day, crash, vodoo?

Doesn't matter because Cattanoe is gonna save the Vuelta with a great 7th place in the stage . This is more important, clearly

 

[ppanther92]

Just came home from work: what happened with Landa? Bad day, crash, vodoo?

Just went out the back on the climb with Kuss.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yes mate mattia cataneo, you sit there in group with Lakzano, Soler, Poole, Vlasov, vaceck, izagirre, castrillo, Schmidt etc and look good for the cameras, you pick the right wheel you might get 6th place in the stage, really great job man. WTF is they doing ?

Not like your GC leader who fight a podium is losing his GC placement to fking Dave gaudu or something like that. No nothing is happening. J

You're being a bit mean to Cattaneo here. He's like Masnada, but with actual talent.

However the team should probably never had put three riders in the break in the first place.

 

[E_F_]

They're good at quick stepping, not so much quick thinking.

 

[SafeBet]

Free from team support...

He's done. No team support would save him against 6-7 domestiques working hard to bury him.
Time to think about getting in tomorrow's break and win a stage (if he's healthy).

 

[ppanther92]

Doesn't matter because Cattanoe is gonna save the Vuelta with a great 7th place in the stage . This is more important, clearly

Eisel on Eurosport is in on your criticism

 

[Sciatic]

Seems catching the chasing group has taken some of the dynamic out of GC action, but there are (short) steeper section in each of the final non-Cat climbs