Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 8: Úbeda - Cazorla, 158.7k

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Just managed to catch a replay, what an action packed 5km. Not sure what IPT was doing working all day, but that last climb was brutal in this heat. Great to see some racing, great to see Roglic and Mas looking to be both on very good form, pretty equal in the end. But a shame for the crash at the start of the climb, it seems Almeida got the worst of it. And now that I look at it, it seems no UAE riders in the top 10 even? And they have a team full of top talent, just seems crazy.

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what do you think now?
I was right about the middle part not being hard enough to drop people, but I didn't expect O'Connor to crack that hard on the final bit. I guess the very confident riding early on when Roglic first attacked played a part, as others have said. A bit like when he went with Pog in the Giro, only to be dropped by all the other pretenders afterwards. But O'Connor also doesn't seem at the level needed to make this interesting.

Again, good job being off by just one second in your prediction! :D