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

[Salvarani]

O’Connor just dropped them all… peloton included

Strongest in the race

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wtf is Lipowitz doing trundling in at like 5.30 down

 

[johnymax]

A Vuelta winning sprint by Lipowitz right there.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

But this is the DS decision—and as in many sports where managers, coaches whatever have control they tend to think they are right no matter, and are inflexible about changing strategy on the fly. Batsh@t crazy

I actually think there are too many top riders who dont ride as they are too 'good'

Martinez and Vlasov ...where are they

Same with UAE riders ???

 

[slim charles]

lol I love that NOW they decided to up the tempo.

6:41 in the end. Almost 5 minutes on Roglič in GC if I'm not mistaken?

O'Connor now a favorite to win imo.

 

[noob]

Rogla looked a bit WTF

 

[Zoophonic]

O‘Connor so much ahead… Dangerous for all other GC guys. Why do they let him so far ahead?

The guy finished 4th in the Giro. A ridiculous miscalculation by the Peloton.

 

[Netserk]

Remco last year.

Ah, 11" off.

 

[Salvarani]

Rogla looked a bit WTF

Looks a bit confused and shocked tbh

 

[Ripper]

But this is the DS decision—and as in many sports where managers, coaches whatever have control they tend to think they are right no matter, and are inflexible about changing strategy on the fly. Batsh@t crazy

Totally! DS can be even worse than the riders themselves (I mean, most of them are former racers)!

 

[Heston]

Yates??

 

[noob]

Yates finished just now

 

[kingjr]

Yates??

Crashed, according to PCS

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The GC teams clearly only had one objective for this stage: to deny the Joan Bou Company a top 10.

 

[noob]

Ben himself looks in disbelief, as did Roglic

 

[dobrien]

lol I love that NOW they decided to up the tempo.

6:41 in the end. Almost 5 minutes on Roglič in GC if I'm not mistaken?

O'Connor now a favorite to win imo.

The group gained nothing on him on the last climb; that was a very very strong ride today. Now two relatively easy stages to recover until Sunday. Certainly a very unexpected turn of events!

 

[BigCoward]

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.

 

[kingjr]

This really only makes any sense if Roglic wasn't feeling good.

 

[noob]

Looks a bit confused and shocked tbh

Indeed! Confused definitely!

 

[SHAD0W93]

General classification after stage 6 and time won or lost in the classification.
RNK. +/- RIDER TEAM TIME TIME WON/LOST
1 ▲22 O'CONNOR Ben DAT 23:28:28 ▲1:56
2 ▼1 ROGLIČ Primož RBH 4:51 ▼4:51
3 ▼1 ALMEIDA João UAD 4:59 ▼4:51
4 ▲16 LIPOWITZ Florian RBH 5:18 ▼3:28
5 ▼2 MAS Enric MOV 5:23 ▼4:51
6 ▲19 RODRÍGUEZ Cristián ARK 5:26 ▼3:28
7 ▼3 TIBERI Antonio TBV 5:29 ▼4:51
8 ▼3 VAN EETVELT Lennert LTD 5:32 ▼4:51
9 ▼3 GALL Felix DAT 5:38 ▼4:51
10 ▼2 SKJELMOSE Mattias LTK 5:49 ▼4:51

 

[scribers]

I would understand this if there was a MTF tomorrow. But with two mid mountain stages until a hard Sunday, BOC has time to recover somewhat from this effort to defend his position

 

[ontheroad]

Looks a bit confused and shocked tbh

I think we all are!

 

[JosefK]

This really only makes any sense if Roglic wasn't feeling good.

I think that is possible. Roglic did mention his back flaring up, so ...

 

[ashhutch1997]

I think we could have a race on our hands here. The GC have no choice but to attack now, especially given that we don't have a proper 'queen' stage like you would in the Giro.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Roglic said after his win in Tuesday that nobody asked him about whether the team should pull or not. They just pulled

Maybe instead of waiting to be asked, he take command, as a leader, and the gap is not so big

Remco or Tadej would no let this happen

Then again, maybe he just felt awful. Who knows