Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 4: Plasencia - Pico Villuercas, 170.4k

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Let's hope that the GC guys would race hard in this stage unlike in 2021 when Bardet won the same stage by breaking away.
 
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Apr 26, 2019
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Let's hope that the GC guys would race hard in this stage unlike in 2021 when Bardet won the same stage by breaking away.
GC guys will start to race hard not earlier than 5 km from the finish line, no matter if a break is still up the road or not.
 
Mar 20, 2022
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First of many mountain stages that will go to the break. Hard start won't be controllable. I expect a strong break and some chaos cause it will have some maybe GC riders in it. Sadly we won't be able to see it.
I will teach one thing my friend (and I'm not trying to be arrogant) but 99% of times, the first MTF goes always to the gc guys.
 
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Sep 20, 2017
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Except for like 11 Giros in a row between 2013 and 2023, the Vueltas of 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2011 andd 2010 and the TdFs of 2023, 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2011 ad that is only since 2010.

Its not that its arrogant, its just bafflingly wrong
Was about to post this. It's usually only a few breakaway riders that stay away this early in the race, but that doesn't change the fact at all.
 
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Great job RTVE. We missed everything interesting and important in the first 160kms of the stage.

You didn't even have to bother with broadcasting until 16:30 to be honest now.
 
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Great job RTVE. We missed everything interesting and important in the first 160kms of the stage.

You didn't even have to bother with broadcasting until 16:30 to be honest now.

Always funny in these kind of stages when they go live just when the dull part of the stage starts. We can have full broadcasts of Frankfurt, Rund um fricking Koln, Denmark Tour, Norway, Poland, etc, but not of the Vuelta...
 
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The mustache on Carapaz is something I'm not used to.

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Sep 20, 2017
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Always funny in these kind of stages when they go live just when the dull part of the stage starts. We can have full broadcasts of Frankfurt, Rund um fricking Koln, Denmark Tour, Norway, Poland, etc, but not of the Vuelta...
So long as the Vuelta doesn't have full stage broadcasts, IMO it can never be bigger than the Giro.
 
Mar 8, 2024
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Roglic has this and wants this ...Bora at the front shows this
Also Roglic looked pretty good in the TT
As for other Bora riders...after last year Roglic wont ride for any other team mate nor I think will he want to let them get red...
The other Bora guys will only get a chance if Roglic isn't there or has GC all sewn up by a mile
 
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