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

[noob]

Tell you who would've been up there and cooking on the climb today is Juan Ayuso

He likes the cold better though...

 

[scribers]

The fuq gall finishing 10 seconds ahead of O’Conner?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Del Toro was pacing for Almeida and ended up their best finisher =/

 

[perico]

Don't think anyone on this forum did...

Look at the Vuelta preview on the main page. Al Fotheringham didnt mention Más among his contenders. The other one mentioned him among the long shots behind guys like del Toro.

 

[Nyanderc]

So who crashed, Van Eetvelt, Kuss, Woods?

Yes only ones down/really of the bike.

 

[scribers]

What the hell. Sivakov was also not great, but we couldnt expect that from him, this is probably his limit. Yates quite bad as well on a perfect stage for him, so Del Toro is their best bet!

This was a really exciting climb tbf. Great Vuelta so far!

These guys peaked in June.

 

[zlev11]

That's A LOT of time to lose on such a short climb. That requires someone like Vlasov to drop him in the first steep km by quite a margin and then hammer it on the shallower part to drive the advantage home. Don't quite see that happening. I'll be surprised if O'Connor is dropped before the final steep ramp.

what do you think now?

 

[search]

Del Toro was pacing for Almeida and ended up their best finisher =/

he would have started the climb in last position anyway, though

 

[Valv.Piti]

Also, 3:49 without with 5 incredibly hard MTFs, the queen stage and an ITT is all under control. Ben is no bum, but Ag2R should seriously consider their tactics now and let Gall do his stuff.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Look at the Vuelta preview on the main page. Al Fotheringham didnt mention Más among his contenders. The other one mentioned him among the long shots behind guys like del Toro.

Cycling media being terrible at punditry just means it's a day ending in y.

 

[will-10]

Also, 3:49 without with 5 incredibly hard MTFs, the queen stage and an ITT is all under control. Ben is no bum, but Ag2R should seriously consider their tactics now and let Gall do his stuff.

let Gall do what, finish 7th?

they will never have a better chance to win a GT and are rightly all-in to try

 

[Netserk]

see also Steven Kruijswijk as well. And formerly Ezequiel Mosquera.

Unlike them, Mas is really good on very short and steep climbs. Like Valdepeñas de Jaén. Same today.

 

[Valv.Piti]

let Gall do what, finish 7th?

they will never have a better chance to win a GT and are rightly all-in to try

Romain Bardet fluking a Tour was a better opportunity. Ben is not better than this. Tomorrow Ben will get absolutely fried on Hazallanes, this is just an insanely hard climb, hard stage overall in blazing hot weather. +3 minutes at least

 

[JosefK]

It appears that Roglification occurred on this stage.

 

[Netserk]

So close.

They were 14th from the peloton

 

[Samamba]

So far he's impressed more on shorter stuff than the longer stuff imho, so not that surprising.

That is true, but he was pretty disappointing on the last "short" one.

 

[jfazendeiro]

Almeida has covid-19.

 

[Samamba]

Wtf happened with Sivakov. He was in the first 10 after those first 500m of the climb so he survived the crash? Did he buy a parking ticket?

 

[perico]

Almeida has covid-19.

It’s Ayuso’s fault. He infected him!

 

[Didinho]

Pogi could’ve got the triple easily this season.

Roglic another stomp, looks really in control and strong enough to fight his way back to O’Connor. Mas is always a different beast in the Vuelta, hope he can surprise in the end.

 

[Lequack]

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.

 

[Squire]

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!

 

[tobydawq]

Cycling media being terrible at punditry just means it's a day ending in y.

Indeed. I'm used to Axelgaard now, but every time I see CN previews, I'm afraid my contact lenses will be lost in my brains from rolling my eyes too much.

 

[Miha81]

According to interview Bora is extremely happy. Preserved watts for tomorrow.

They should send thank you note to IPT.

 

[will-10]

Romain Bardet fluking a Tour was a better opportunity. Ben is not better than this. Tomorrow Ben will get absolutely fried on Hazallanes, this is just an insanely hard climb, hard stage overall in blazing hot weather. +3 minutes at least

The Vuelta is a lot longer than this weekend, Roglic hasn't had a lie down yet and there are actually other guys in the race