Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2025, Stage 14: Avilés – La Farrapona (135.9k)

[Sciatic]

Very big headwind in the final kms. It's quite common on La Farrapona.

Good to know

 

[Sciatic]

Slightly more narrow finish and turn radius was different so as long as Almeida had front wheel in front of Vingegaard he could squeeze him near barrier, he would have had a take some risks and flat to slightly downhill so finish speed was a little faster yesterday. Today also majority of bonus seconds already awarded to Soler.
Vingegaard riding very good race individually and as a team.

Tomorrow is a real opportunity to pressure people at the start.. Curious to see what Pidcock, Hindley and Riccitello decide.

Tomorrow is for the break I’m pretty sure.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Slightly more narrow finish and turn radius was different so as long as Almeida had front wheel in front of Vingegaard he could squeeze him near barrier, he would have had a take some risks and flat to slightly downhill so finish speed was a little faster yesterday. Today also majority of bonus seconds already awarded to Soler.
Vingegaard riding very good race individually and as a team.

Tomorrow is a real opportunity to pressure people at the start.. Curious to see what Pidcock, Hindley and Riccitello decide.

Can't see any serious GC contender blowing himself up early trying to get in the break.

 

[Cycling111]

Almeida just couldn't power away from Jonas.

And Vingegaard him either, except for one day when Ayuso and Soler decided to save their energy. If they had helped Almeida that day, he'd now be about 20 seconds behind.
In 2023 Vuelta , Almeida was 26 seconds faster than Vingegaard in the same time trial

 

[Unchained]

UAE finding every day a new way to sabotage Almeida's GC chances. They might be winning stages, but they're not winning GC that's certain.

Vingegaard looks good but he has had a couple of substandard ITT rides..wouldn't put it passed him to ride average again. Almeida did a great counter to Hindley, effortless and double duty of making sure plan B was in place in the event Soler was caught.. In my opinion race is not over.

 

[Lequack]

Jonas is undroppable by anyone but Pogacar - noone else has done it for what must be 5 years.

JV seems to be doing the minimum necessary to win the GC - I believe there is more there if he needed it. You need to surge to drop Jonas - Almeida is not Pogi but he should at least give it a try on the remaining MTFs

Also Jonas rarely has bad days, at least not in the recent years. Even Pog cracked, Roglic multiple times, Remco multiple times, etc. But I don't think I've seen Jonas really drop, usually he just continues a bit slower but still dominates the rest, bar Pog maybe. He's quite consistent, so UAE counting on that is not a good strategy.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Also Jonas rarely has bad days, at least not in the recent years. Even Pog cracked, Roglic multiple times, Remco multiple times, etc. But I don't think I've seen Jonas really drop, usually he just continues a bit slower but still dominates the rest, bar Pog maybe. He's quite consistent, so UAE counting on that is not a good strategy.

Jonas said he had two bad days in this year's Tour -- the time trial and another day (can't remember).

 

[Sciatic]

What I don't understand is that Vingegaard sprinted today and yesterday he didn't for win the stage.

I think yesterday he would need to attack with 1/2 km to go to take the lead into the descent. Today he could simply wait till the final 100 meters to come around Almeida. Seems it’s all about energy conservation this week.

 

[Psycat]

UAE, yikes. Hard to find anything positive today, guess Hindley for podium is abit likelier so ill go with that.

Otherwise even more boring than expected.

 

[Boehmand]

Yes sorry, I had originally inteded to reply to another post who asked to send Kuss and Pellizzari in breakaways...

But while we're at it, I agree that they should get something better out than 4th and 6th, but 3rd and 6th might be good enough? Pellizzari is in the white jersey, which Bora at least valued a lot at the Tour (more than the podium according to one interview with Denk (?)). Maybe it's less important for them at the Vuelta but I imagine they will want to keep Pellizzari in white, so we might just see more of those quite late attacks like today?

Yeah, it would be easier if Riccitello was further back.

But still I'd argue shooting for the podium is far more important than the white jersey.

 

[Cookster15]

Congrats to Marc Soler. UAE? Sheesh! UAE have an 8 minute lead on Visma in the Teams classification.

Almeida confirming he is still an outside threat to Vingegaard. But 48 seconds is now looking like it could only be erased if Vingo cracks. I can't see that happening.

Another strong ride by Jai Hindley, losing out in the MTF sprint to the big two. But yes this seems the strongest Hindley we have seen since he won the Giro when he didn't face Vingo or Pogi. He usually gets better in the 3rd week so he must be confident.

Tenacious ride by Pidcock to retain a 32 second gap. 2023 winner Sepp Kuss is a good benchmark and Tom finished with him today.

 

[Escarabajo]

If Jonas had started to crack, would UAE have held back Soler?”

“What would it take for UAE to actually ride as a cohesive team?

 

[topcat]

Congrats to Marc Soler. UAE? Sheesh! UAE have an 8 minute lead on Visma in the Teams classification.

Almeida confirming he is still an outside threat to Vingegaard. But 48 seconds is now looking like it could only be erased if Vingo cracks. I can't see that happening.

Another strong ride by Jai Hindley, losing out in the MTF sprint to the big two. But yes this seems the strongest Hindley we have seen since he won the Giro when he didn't face Vingo or Pogi. He usually gets better in the 3rd week so he must be confident.

Tenacious ride by Pidcock to retain a 32 second gap. 2023 winner Sepp Kuss is a good benchmark and Tom finished with him today.

Hindley is improving. 3rd on the podium is a realistic goal.
He's 3:10 behind Vingo and with the itt to come, Hindley is not a realistic bet for the win.

 

[Sciatic]

Impressed that Pidcock is still hanging tough. BTW, was the entire Pidcock discussion thread removed? Doesn’t show up in my list of threads? Or just blindness on my part?

 

[Cookster15]

Impressed that Pidcock is still hanging tough. BTW, was the entire Pidcock discussion thread removed? Doesn’t show up in my list of threads? Or just blindness on my part?

Must be the eyes . Here is the last post:

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[Sciatic]

Must be the eyes . Here is the last post:

Page 66 - Tom 'Pidders' Pidcock

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Blindness confirmed Thanks

 

[aphronesis]

Jonas said he had two bad days in this year's Tour -- the time trial and another day (can't remember).

Hautacam

 

[CyclistAbi]

Nice win by Soler but in terms of GC UAE still not firing on all cylinders. In terms of stage wins close to V8.