Vuelta Colombia 2016 13/6/2016 - 27/6/2016

[Escarabajo]

Thanks DNP-Old

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ortega over Sevilla... lol, gotta be one of the most meaningless stageraces this year.

 

[jens_attacks]

Without DAOTEC, this is just not the same...


I agree though that it got worse and worse in the last years...horrible route, no big real contenders except 2, crrap coverage....

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Daotec wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes of this forum these days. The place is as sanitized as the public toilets at Vic station just after the cleaner left.....

 

[Escarabajo]

There has to be better routes than that. That is bad. With such a mountainous country they cannot pull something like this.

And the winners are not worthy like in the past. It just does not show who the best locals are.

 

[burning]

Re:

There has to be better routes than that. That is bad. With such a mountainous country they cannot pull something like this.

And the winners are not worthy like in the past. It just does not show who the best locals are.

To be honest, I truly think that this race shows the level of locals, they would be complete trash in europe.

 

[Escarabajo]

Re: Re:

There has to be better routes than that. That is bad. With such a mountainous country they cannot pull something like this.

And the winners are not worthy like in the past. It just does not show who the best locals are.

To be honest, I truly think that this race shows the level of locals, they would be complete trash in europe.

We are saying different things.

You are right that "these" locals would be trash in Europe. While other "Locals" are contending for the Giro, Tour and Vuelta.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Re:

There has to be better routes than that. That is bad. With such a mountainous country they cannot pull something like this.

There are better routes for sure. I don't know why they don't use something like Letras. In 2009 they had a mtf on La Linea, a Letras stage and Alto del Escobero. Of course this is a bit over the top, but it shows what's possible.

I have no idea why they build these routes now. What kind of politics are behind this? It seems a bit like they do everything to make Sevilla the winner of this race.

 

[DNP-Old]

I believe Ortega just won the overall with a margin of 1 (one) second!!!

 

[DNP-Old]

 

[pink_jersey]

Yessss!!!!!!! Grande Ortega!!!
Good results for Duarte as well.

 

[Escarabajo]

Mauricio Ortega for 2 seconds.

http://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ruta/21338-vuelta-a-colombia-mauricio-ortega-en-dramatico-final-derroto-a-oscar-sevilla-por-dos-segundos-y-es-el-nuevo-campeon-wilson-marentes-gano-ultima-etapa-.html

 

[jens_attacks]

Happy for ortega
Definitely stronger than babyface this year.

 

[Arredondo]

Finally. Finally.

 

[tristecsinamigos]

Re:

"Albeiro Rabón"... loool. Good name.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

What this thread needed was daotec...absolute legend of CN forunm.

 

[slosada]

Re:

There has to be better routes than that. That is bad. With such a mountainous country they cannot pull something like this.

And the winners are not worthy like in the past. It just does not show who the best locals are.

For sure there are:
http://altimetriascolombia.blogspot.ca/2013/09/top-15-de-etapones-de-montana-en.html

First of all, the original design was bad, and there were some controversies about start/finish town fees that put Cartagena and Bogotá out of the scope at the last minute.
The mileage was ridiculous.
They did every effort to put the big mountains far from stage finish (Ibagué and Cota)