Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2025, Stage 19: Rueda - Guijuelo (161.9 km)

[Rou]

How easily Visma and Jonas can destroy Almeida... It's a joke.

 

[Unchained]

The guy I picked for podium is back at the car for donkey duty carrying water..

 

[RobertCrawley]

Shark.

 

[Netserk]

24" out of his 44" advantage is the difference in bonus seconds. A 2020-like final MTF is fairly likely.

 

[Samamba]

If only there was a bit more wind.

 

[iBanesto]

UAE struggling and careless in the crosswinds.

 

[Samamba]

Actually if they really want to split this they can

 

[RobertCrawley]

UAE struggling and careless in the crosswinds.

Not the first time in Grand Tours.

 

[Unchained]

How easily Visma and Jonas can destroy Almeida... It's a joke.

What race are you watching? The race is 6+ across the road pace is geriatric at best

 

[Rou]

What race are you watching? The race is 6+ across the road pace is geriatric at best

Visma just made a slight acceleration and made a small echelon.
UAE started chasing like clowns. They don't anticipate anything.

 

[Unchained]

They are going so slow that they need a wider road

 

[RobertCrawley]

Very bad time for a flat.

 

[Rou]

Jorgenson is top 10 and first position sprinting and pulling the peloton.
Mcnulty should take notice.

 

[Unchained]

Visma just made a slight acceleration and made a small echelon.
UAE started chasing like clowns. They don't anticipate anything.

Echelon? That's a blob, they are pulsing like an amateur race..all the way across the road.. Need to get ambulances in position with this pace..guys in the back getting gapped isn't from wind it's from not keeping a wheel because they are 2 and a half weeks beat up. That's as ugly a look other than walking their bikes

 

[Unchained]

Nobody is even pedaling

 

[theyoungest]

So let's get this straight, has anyone looked at tomorrow's race profile? Almeida should be dicing it up with Mads Pederson for sprint points as a race strategy? Almeida is clueless, asleep, tactically challenged because he is not going after bonuses on a dead flat course with riders 6-8 across?
What a strange risk reward ratio!
And camera showing ebb and flow is so bad that Pedersen is bumping into Ineos rider that weighs @55-60 kilos..Almeida is not burning any matches today ,the race is tomorrow..
Just look at this with @37 to go..riders from BH and Cans too still in the mix, the definition of dangerous right now..don't know when the crash is happening but it's happening with the pace..thick pack ..

Vingegaard got 4 seconds for free. Didn't have anything to do for it, just follow Jorgenson's wheel. If (big if) Almeida manages to drop him tomorrow, he'll need nearly 50 seconds and then every second counts.

Phsyically there's not much that separates them. The difference is that Vingegaard has a team that races as team, and UAE are a team focused on every rider for themselves. That's always been the problem with UAE, if Pogi isn't in the race. They have no tactics, no team spirit.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Pidcock seems to speak English much less comfortably and fluently than most of the Peloton.

 

[Rou]

Nobody is even pedaling

Slow blokes. Only 100 km/h downhill.

 

[Unchained]

Cat 5 race strategy

 

[RedheadDane]

Nobody is even pedaling

What race are you watching?

 

[RobertCrawley]

That piece of road furniture seemed to come out of nowhere.

 

[RedheadDane]

Pidcock seems to speak English much less comfortably and fluently than most of the Peloton.

Earlier TV2 showed 2 interviews:
First Pidcock, then Hindley. Bit of a Tour de Dialects.

Meintjes got away from that pretty well.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Vingegaard got 4 seconds for free. Didn't have anything to do for it, just follow Jorgenson's wheel. If (big if) Almeida manages to drop him tomorrow, he'll need nearly 50 seconds and then every second counts.

Phsyically there's not much that separates them. The difference is that Vingegaard has a team that races as team, and UAE are a team focused on every rider for themselves. That's always been the problem with UAE, if Pogi isn't in the race. They have no tactics, no team spirit.

UAE has largest budget in professional cycling by far. They buy great talent, but great talent comes with challenges.

 

[Unchained]

Slow blokes. Only 100 km/h downhill.

Again, tomorrow has uphill and downhill, today has climbing smaller than parking garage or speed bumps.. All these sprinters and Conti riders are hanging around because there is no climbing.

 

[Unchained]

What race are you watching?

To me when it's all the way across the road, peloton is mushroom shaped, nobody is pedaling this is embarrassing.. It's a combo between parade lap and neutralized..