Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2025, Stage 13: Cabezón de la Sal – L’Angliru (202.5k)

[scribers]

That was the complete depth of a non-July Vingo

 

[Unchained]

Almeida can win the Vuelta

For sure!! And the 2 of them just destroyed the hopes and possibilities for everyone else.. Great effort by both guys but Almeida really left nothing in the tank.. Impressive

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Balderstone dropped to 10th, but that‘s still really good for a Caja Rural rider

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Pidders still in 3rd

 

[RobertCrawley]

Nice to see Riccitello hanging in there.

 

[iBanesto]

Rnk.	+/-	Rider	Team	Time	Time won/lost
1	-	VINGEGAARD Jonas	TVL	49:30:54	-
2	-	ALMEIDA João	UAD	0:46	▲0:04
3	-	PIDCOCK Thomas	Q36	2:18	▼1:22
4	▲4	HINDLEY Jai	RBH	3:00	▼0:30
5	-	GALL Felix	DAT	3:15	▼0:58
6	▲4	PELLIZZARI Giulio	RBH	4:01	▼1:17
7	▲4	RICCITELLO Matthew	IPT	4:33	▼1:22
8	▲1	CICCONE Giulio	LTK	4:54	▼2:21
9	▼5	TRÆEN Torstein	TBV	5:21	▼4:15
10	▲4	KUSS Sepp	TVL	5:26	▼0:36

 

[James M]

I'm not surprised Vingegaard isn't going to the World Championship. World Championships are much more offensive than GT .

I was thinking the same way too passive for my liking. But then again, Jonas wasn’t able to do anything anywhere, so he probably had more than enough and was at his limit. Then I can’t really criticize him for being passive today.

But seriously impressive ride by Almeida in the front all the time, impressive.

 

[pastronef]

equal with Heras's record

 

[Tim Cahill]

Heras 41:56
Almeida/Vingegaard 41:56

 

[scribers]

Almeida can win the Vuelta

Not sure he has enough to break Vingo. Certainly not enough team. If he’d unpinned Vingo today the team would have had to focus on Almeida.

 

[proffate]

pacing better than Riccitello and Pellizzari. catching them

It seems like pellizzari is reluctant to help riccotello as competitor in white jersey and bc hindley is up the road, I think he could have gone a bit faster, you saw him drop the hammer at the very end but not enough road left to gain much ground.

 

[gunara]

We're lucky there's no separation between the two upfront, we would have missed it since the director decided to keep equal coverage time among the four groups. Cycling...

 

[Unchained]

Jonas wanted to win today ....He just did not have the legs
no gifts and no wheel sucking ...he didn't have it

He couldn't pass Almeida when they got to short flat skinny finish.. The idea that he had something left after staying in front of Vingegaard was astonishing!

 

[AnotherArmChair]

How is Gall in 5th place

every time i see him he is being dropped ??

 

[Rackham]

Almeida has his chances for the win now. That was predicted to be the most obvious Vingegaard stage win before the Vuelta so beating him here makes anything possible.

 

[postmanhat]

Ciccone must be delighted Ayuso is moving to Trek, as he'll never have to try to be a GC rider again.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Guys, tell yourselves whatever you need to tell yourselves, but Jonas was never in danger of getting dropped. Jonas is still the strongest rider in the race. Cope.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Almeida wins!
Cycling wins.
Ayuso loses.

Yes the sportswashing team with by far the biggest budget getting their 600th whatever stage this year is definitely "Cycling wins."

 

[fenns]

great ride from Almeida -for me one of the great mountain performances of recent years by someone not called Tadej or Jonas.

 

[Unchained]

We're lucky there's no separation between the two upfront, we would have missed it since the director decided to keep equal coverage time among the four groups. Cycling...

That is true but was Ameida awarded bonus seconds for first place? Were any available in the race?

 

[Cycling111]

Not sure he has enough to break Vingo. Certainly not enough team. If he’d unpinned Vingo today the team would have had to focus on Almeida.

He has a team, but they're on the breakaways. If Ayuso had helped the day Vingegaard won, Almeida would surely have wasted less time.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Guys, tell yourselves whatever you need to tell yourselves, but Jonas was never in danger of getting dropped. Jonas is still the strongest rider in the race. Cope.

I think Jonas wanted to win this stage, though. That would have made a Vuelta win more special.

 

[GroupDK]

I'm not sure that was a gift, you can't really come round there

You would take it earlier than on the last high-speed flat, but even though Jonas wanted to win this stage, he is also a double TDF winner, and got a decent lead on the ranking, and it could likely have rubbed some characters the wrong way if he dropped Almeida to land the stage and perhaps only a few seconds of gain...

The right result in my book, even though I would have loved to see some more action, but then again, it was only those two.
Almeida went all in, and deserved the stage. Impressive pace.

 

[pastronef]

That is true but was Ameida awarded bonus seconds for first place? Were any available in the race?

yes, bonus for the 3 first riders

 

[fenns]

Guys, tell yourselves whatever you need to tell yourselves, but Jonas was never in danger of getting dropped. Jonas is still the strongest rider in the race. Cope.

Agree but I think most thought Jonas would gap everyone on this stage. There's some hope for Almeida.