Vuelta Ciclista a Asturias

[jens_attacks]

it looks like the rain has come.

 

[python]

Those clouds are starting to look threatening.
No idea how far it is to the climb..........
..........ah 25kms to go.

from the profile, they are just about on the climb...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Aupa Gorka, for homeland and my CQ team!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Ouch! This is tough. The peloton numbers about 7.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Can see two Caja Rural guys there with Zaballa and a Barbot guy - Santí or Sérgio? Hernâni Broco is leading the second group.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Santi Sparebag making 'em grovel.
4 men left..........

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's Sérgio. José Herrada is superdomestiquing. Amazing week from Sérgio Sousa!!! Luis Pasamontes, Santí Pérez and Hernâni Broco behind.

Sousa has now been dropped... then there were 3.

 

[icefire]

Zaballa attacks in the downhill

 

[jens_attacks]

amazing herrada.good race until now.

 

[jens_attacks]

mano a mano shiit right now.amazing.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Zaballa's hit for home on the descent, Moreno's on his wheel. Moreno can just sit there as far as he can - Zaballa needs 14 seconds, and with them likely to go 1-2 on the stage at this rate, that means Tino needs 10 seconds of real time.

Herrada back on, this is a great ride from him.

 

[jens_attacks]

c'mon tino!crack him.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No way, Tino already got the win here before. Javi!!! Also José Herrada deserves Javi winning the GC for the job he's done today. Moreno just short-routed that corner, makes me think he might not be feeling too good.

The chasing pack actually aren't all that far behind.

 

[Escarabajo]

http://www.rtpa.es - same as ever. Ver En Directo, in the right hand corner.

Thanks.

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[Libertine Seguros]

Another group making their way across to the front three. Sérgio Sousa and Luís Pasamontes shown on screen.

The 3 joining the front 3 are Hernâni Broco, Rory sutherland and another UHC rider from the looks of it.
edit: Wegelius?

Wegelius now on his own out front, but we've lost pictures from the ground.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Charlie Wegelius.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Images from the finish... what do we have???

Moreno and Zaballa pass Wegelius... Zabs wins the sprint, Moreno gets the GC. Wegelius 3rd, Herrada 4th, then Meier, Broco... 10-15-20 seconds back or so. Hard to keep track of.

Sveshniskov less than a minute down, that's got to be ride of the day, just ahead of Herrada.

The entire EPM team or so it seems coming in now at 1'50".

 

[Mellow Velo]

Sad for Charlie. He never wins anything!
Great weather again.

 

[jens_attacks]

what a crazy race.unitedhealthcare storming the mountains=)))))))))))))incredible.at least tino got the stage win.fantastic race for miche.

and yeah not a bad average speed for a mountain stage....39,1 km/h

 

[Escarabajo]

Images from the finish... what do we have???

Moreno and Zaballa pass Wegelius... Zabs wins the sprint, Moreno gets the GC. Wegelius 3rd, Herrada 4th, then Meier, Broco... 10-15-20 seconds back or so. Hard to keep track of.

Sveshniskov less than a minute down, that's got to be ride of the day, just ahead of Herrada.

The entire EPM team or so it seems coming in now at 1'50".

Was it a team time trial?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Moreno gave Zaballa the stage because he was keeping the GC. The two best in the race fought it out in the end, and Moreno was the better man. Good stuff. This race is a gift that just keeps on giving.

Zaballa celebrated too early, had to take a few more pedal strokes before trying again. Don't worry, Tino, we've all done that.

 

[Descender]

Why didn't Moreno sprint?

Fantastic stage, fantastic race. Great stuff.

Congrats to Moreno and Caja Rural.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Provisional stage results:

1 Constantino Zaballa (MIE) ESP 4'29'40"
2 Javier Moreno (CJR) ESP M.T.
3 Charles Wegelius (UHC) GBR +04"
4 José Herrada (CJR) ESP +14"
5 Christian Meier (UHC) CAN +16"
6 Hernâni Broco (LAR) POR +18"
7 José Vicente Toribio (ACG) ESP +19"
8 Luís Pasamontes (MOV) ESP) M.T.
9 Sergey Belykh (RUS-NAT) RUS +21"
10 Sérgio Sousa (BEF) POR) M.T.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Provisional GC:

1 Javier Moreno (CJR) ESP 21'31'57"
2 Constantino Zaballa (MIE) ESP +09"
3 Sérgio Sousa (BEF) POR +1'03"
4 Hernâni Broco (LAR) POR +1'16"
5 Luís Pasamontes (MOV) ESP +2'10"
6 José Herrada (CJR) ESP +2'42"
7 Juan Pablo Suárez (EPM) COL +3'53"
8 Christian Meier (UHC) CAN +4'27"
9 Alejandro Marque (BOA) ESP +5'26"
10 Stefan Schumacher (MIE) GER +5'34"

MARQUE!!!

GPM
1 Rafael Infantino (EPM) COL 33
2 César Fonte (BEF) POR 22
3 Constantino Zaballa (MIE) ESP 21

Metas Volantes
1 Evgeny Shalunov (NAT-RUS) RUS 9
2 Pablo Urtasun (EUS) ESP 7
3 José Iván Gutiérrez (MOV) ESP 3

Regularidad/Points Jersey
1 Constantino Zaballa (MIE) ESP 74
2 Javier Moreno (CJR) ESP 70
3 Stefan Schumacher (MIE) GER 50
4 Sergey Shilov (NAT-RUS) RUS 44
5 Rory Sutherland (UHC) AUS 37

Intervuelta
1 Victor Cabedo (ORB) ESP 4
2 Gorka Izagirre (EUS) ESP 3
3 José Luís Cano (ACG) ESP 3

Asturian
1 Luís Pasamontes (MOV) ESP

Teams
1 Caja Rural (CJR) ESP 64'42'03"
2 EPM-UNE (EPM) COL +7'03"
3 Barbot-Efapel (BEF) POR +9'35"
4 Miche-Guerciotti (MIE) ITA +12'17"
5 Selección Rusa (RUS-NAT) RUS +24'40"

 

[Descender]

I still don't understand why Moreno handed the stage to Zaballa.