Vuelta a Espana Stage 2: La Nucía - Playas de Orihuela 175.5 km

[icefire]

Bennati leader by stage placings

 

[Tom T.]

Yeah, HTC must have been thinking degenkolb.

 

[hatcher]

Anyone see what happened to Sagan? Looked like he was there, and then absolutely nowhere two seconds later.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Yeah, HTC must have been thinking degenkolb.

doubt it. they probably just improvised after cav failed.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

very weird... why did so many stop on the top of that tiny hill?

Quite simple, they were fried after the hard pace and the attack of Boonen.

Only Sutton and Reynes had something left it seems.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Yeah, HTC must have been thinking degenkolb.

They were, the train was Tony, Cav, Degenkolb all the way, hence Cav was visible so early.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

But I wasn't talking about learning from the success of cycling in Kazakhstan.

I know. I wasn't responding to your comment, but to something someone else said.

 

[roundabout]

Very clever by Sutton and Reynes, Well done to them.

 

[Gubby Allen]

Sutton
Reynes
Kittel
Farrah
Brschel
Bennati
Gasparotti
Mondory
Paolini
Degenkolb

Think I've got 4 of them in my velogames team inc 3 of the top 5.

 

[ferryman]

The moment Der Panzerwagen ran out of gas Cav started sliding backwards.

Der Panzerwagen

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Prolly for Degenkolb...

And Tomke is getting in form, looking good for WC

matti too.

two guys we know can handle the distance which affects sprit greatly.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Anyone see what happened to Sagan? Looked like he was there, and then absolutely nowhere two seconds later.

That was a bit odd.

 

[Tank Engine]

Great day. Good job Sky have enough talent for two top leadout trains

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

hope the feeds improve as the vuelta plays out.

you too huh? Well, at least I HAVE internet now after the last week's constant interrupts. So I guess I can't complain too much.

 

[roundabout]

First tiny little gaps it seems.

 

[Ferminal]

Wiggins, Machado, Kash, Siutsou +13s

Sastre +20s

No Klöden yet.

Although JVdB finished 12th is a good sign.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Do the riders bother to use google maps to check out the finishes?

 

[Boardslide]

They were, the train was Tony, Cav, Degenkolb all the way, hence Cav was visible so early.

+1 You could see from about 20km out that there was another HTC behind Cav but everyone was focused on him.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I hadn't realized that Goss had abandoned......

 

[Eyeballs Out]

It was a bit like that uphill sprint in Tour de Suisse a few months back where Boonen goes too early, some bridge to him and sit up, then someone from well back keeps going (Bozic / Sutton) and momentum gets them the win

 

[Parrulo]

Prolly for Degenkolb...

And Tomke is getting in form, looking good for WC

matti too.

two guys we know can handle the distance which affects sprit greatly.

i missed the stage. cool to see tommeke is getting into shape.

him matti and freire can be really dangerous at this worlds. those 3 are pure born hard man that are fresher then most after 280k and do their best sprinting on tough slightly uphill sprints just like the worlds. cav better be careful.

 

[theyoungest]

It was a bit like that uphill sprint in Tour de Suisse a few months back where Boonen goes too early, some bridge to him and sit up, then someone from well back keeps going (Bozic / Sutton) and momentum gets them the win

Nah, that one was a real battle. Sagan/Freire/Bozic really went for it. Here all the strongmen came too late. Of whom, rather surprisingly, Kittel was the strongest. Definitely one to watch.

Oh, and now I remember, didn't LaFleur have a bet that he wouldn't reach the top-3 one single time? Ooops...

 

[hfer07]

Kind of surprised on how Boonen, Benatti & Sagan literally "miscalculated" the effort before the flat part-they all were blown off before the sprint.....
this final just proved wrong some folks here saying that 250 mts @ 8% wouldn't hurt the top sprinters...

 

[The Hitch]

Did any gc leaders lose time. For example of 9 Leopard riders on mt this morining only 2 remain meaning 7 lost time .

So its possible that on other teams some big riders, maybe a Scarponi or a Menchov for example may have lost a few seconds.

Edit they probably dropped a few in the ttt come to think of it, but it still means about 3 lost time.

 

[jens_attacks]

There, you just had a commercial on Eurosport about Romania. That's the country you're looking for

meh i'm from there.they made the commercial for those dutchies and belgians with little romanian kids singing and all of that.

i'm sure russia has a nice krokodil commercial because everyone is doing it out there.

congrats to sutton,he was clever.the other sprinters totally failed.