Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 6: Some random Carrefour - Yunquera, 185.5k

[Moose McKnuckles]

As punishment for ridiculously bad tactics, the entire Bora management will have to take turns sniffing Ben O'Connor's race-worn chamois.

 

[jmdirt]

I love it when the winner comes from a break! Solo makes it even better! Hard racing to TAKE the win!

 

[noob]

Lipowitz was clearly going for this stage :O

 

[yaco]

Simply O'Connor had a super day. He had multiple teams and riders chase him and they lost time.

 

[scribers]

Bora neutralized itself with a quasi contender in the break. Then Ben motored away from their failed strategy.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Lipo "The plan was none of us to go in the break ........so i went in the break...I am happy with my shape " ?????

 

[Miha81]

Wtf is Lipowitz doing trundling in at like 5.30 down

He said he had good legs 🤣😂

Some Rabofail disease came to Bora?

 

[Rackham]

GC over normally.

I don't know these guys look at a parcours ever but there's no Giro queen stages here

I don't see it this way.

O'Connor had already lost nearly 2 minutes already in just two GC stages (ITT & Tuesday).

There's the name O'Connor (4th in the Giro) & then there's the O'Connor here in this Vuelta. It was a strong ride today no doubt but there's a huge difference between what he did today & defending that jersey all the way to Madrid.

It also becomes a little bit easier for the others from a tactical standpoint as well, i.e. I can imagine Rog might get a few magic carpet rides to the upcoming MTF's in this Vuelta because everyone will want to be distancing O'Connor more than they're concerned about losing bonus seconds at the top.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The group didn't try and did an average of 150 watts for the final 3 hours today

So GC is over because the 23rd-placed rider from the first MTF gained time because the Peloton softpedalled? Confusing narrative

 

[Red Lobster]

Lipo "The plan was none of us to go in the break ........so i went in the break...I am happy with my shape " ?????

I take it he's not one of those riders you find out is doing an engineering degree in his free time?

 

[scribers]

Lipo "The plan was none of us to go in the break ........so i went in the break...I am happy with my shape " ?????

He should be on the all Ayuso team

 

[Lequack]

I think they will regret giving O'Connor 5 minutes, I can't see him losing al the lead, even if he has a bad day or two.

 

[Samamba]

Riccitello lost 13 minutes. Probably also crashed.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

O Connor is no pannenkoek on the climbs

Cant remember which race but he was only rider to follow Pog (well for awhile anyway)

 

[tobydawq]

GC over normally.

I don't know these guys look at a parcours ever but there's no Giro queen stages here

Not really. O'Connor has a big chance to win now but it's definitely not sown up.

And there is obvious terrain on stage nine and stage 20 to go early. Probably also other stages.

But he has a really strong team. So it will be a very hard nut to crack.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Okay I didn't follow the stage. WTF happened?!?!?

They all drunk except for O'Conner or what?

 

[Heston]

Already a more interesting GC battle than the Giro and Tour combined

 

[Lequack]

Okay I didn't follow the stage. WTF happened?!?!?

They all drunk except for O'Conner or what?

Bora relied on others to chase, others relied on Bora, and here we are.

 

[meat puppet]

O'Connor was clearly on a super day, but beside that the stage also gave an answer to the age old question: rabofail can transmit from organization to organization.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

O Connor said he suffered in the heat on Tuesday

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Bora relied on others to chase, others relied on Bora, and here we are.

All drunk then!

 

[SafeBet]

Biggest stage winning margin since?

Anybody knows?
Because this felt like a historic effort by O'Connor and not just terrible tactics by the peloton.

 

[pmcg76]

Going to be like Lemond v Chiapucci. Little nibbles of time every stage, don't know if Rog is going to get 5 minutes worth of nibbles though.
Not with how strong O'Connor looked today.

More appropriately, like Marco Giovannetti at the 1990 Vuelta. He and a few other outsiders were spotted a similar gap, also on stage 6 which was a similar stage to today through the same general area. He managed to hold off Delgado, Indurain etc for his only GT win.

Fantastic ride by O'Connor, didn't weaken at all.

 

[Rackham]

Dude's clearly strong. You can't safely extrapolate much from a first MTF like that. That's insane.

We'll see.

I still think Rog has his Tour legs & I still think the only threat he faces here is the tarmac.

All things being equal (like if Rog displays the same power he had in his battle versus Vinge, Pog & Evenepoel on stage 11 of the TdF last month), minutes will be handed out later all over this race.

 

[Samamba]

GC over normally.

I don't know these guys look at a parcours ever but there's no Giro queen stages here

Sunday and last Saturday are only stages you can put minutes into him.