Vuelta a Espana Stage 12: Ponteareas - Pontevedra 167,3 km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I'm rooting for Kessiakoff, but Mollema winning would be funny too since it would vindicate all the completely baseless (as far as I could see) TGBM stuff in this forum.

baseless?

The guy did win both the Tour l'Avenir and Circuito Montanes in his last year as U23 rider, when he was only riding a bike for 4 years. People forget easily. He has always been a major talent.

 

[spalco]

baseless?

I included the brackets on purpose. It's just that I didn't see it, and you have to admit "The Great" is a bit grandiose.

Anyway, I'm always happy about new faces showing up and challenging for the titles.

 

[Machu Picchu]

Don't know if this has been posted:

Marcel Kittel to quit after todays stage (though I don't actually see a quote from him saying so):

“I hope there’s a sprint at the finish of today’s stage,” the German said before the start. “It won’t be easy but I think that I have a good chance for a second stage win"

“I hope it won’t be too difficult for me before the sprint,” he added. “It’s been really hard for me to ride the Vuelta until stage twelve; this is my first Grand Tour. I’m really tired, but I’ve already gained so much experience from this first participation to the Vuelta.”

from velonation

 

[killswitch]

Don't know if this has been posted:

Marcel Kittel to quit after todays stage (though I don't actually see a quote from him saying so):

Wondering who will Bennati finish second to in the bunch sprints in the third week?

 

[Descender]

Or I don't have any sense of humor
I think the x is being used a lot in Catalunya as well. Not sure though. I remember being in Javea, which used the be called Xavia. That's between Valencia and Alicante though. Not really in Catalunya.

Jávea in Spanish, Xàbia in Valencian Catalan. The official name is currently Xàbia.

The x is used more in Basque, Galician and Catalan than in Spanish.

 

[WinterRider]

Does anyone have any feeds that work in North America? Steephill.tv feeds have been dead all week for me.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Does anyone have any feeds that work in North America? Steephill.tv feeds have been dead all week for me.

If most of the discussion is about the relative preponderance of Xs and Zs in various Iberian tongues, you probably don't need to bother...

 

[shalgo]

Does anyone have any feeds that work in North America? Steephill.tv feeds have been dead all week for me.

http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-7.php

 

[Jux1893]

They've corrected the 3rd placed in the first sprint.

It was Brandle from Geox.

 

[Gingerale]

Does anyone have any feeds that work in North America? Steephill.tv feeds have been dead all week for me.

http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/# the dutch streams come on sooner than english.

fromsport.com (i think it changed to lemonsport.com ) it has some cycling. i use it to stream tennis tournaments mostly.

 

[Ferminal]

Go the break, inside Sherwen's Law with 20km to go

Nevermind, new time gap says it's only 1'25"

 

[luckyboy]

haha Busche

 

[Tyke1968]

Escapados brindis.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Were we not told that Velits was DNF yesterday?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Why is Gavazzi attacking in a stage where he can sprint well... what a baffoon

 

[Zoncolan]

Sutton at the back.

 

[Ferminal]

Why is Gavazzi attacking in a stage where he can sprint well... what a baffoon

Doesn't want to lead out Ale Jet I guess.

 

[zapata]

Sutton out of it, apparantly.

 

[luckyboy]

Sutton at the back for Sky

 

[Zoncolan]

Degenkolb, Kittel, Pettachi, Sagan.
There's a small uphill with 1 km to go. That might be a problem for Kittel.
I think Sagan might jump them.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kittel dropped

 

[Ferminal]

Haussler FTW

 

[zapata]

Kittel also in trouble on the little climb.

 

[goggalor]

Would love to see Haussler get a win.

 

[zapata]

I pick degenkolb.