Vuelta Stage 16: Circuito de Navarra - Logroño (40.2km)

[klintE]

Chaves is flying...
down in GC

 

[Rob_Roy]

Contador still ahead of Ludvigsson at the second time check, guess it will be a nice top 6 or so for Ludvigsson!

 

[MatParker117]

If I'm reading these splits right, Contador is fading.

 

[deValtos]

I reckon those bikes have already added 30+ seconds to peoples times, the ones in front of Contador are absurd.

 

[DFA123]

Very good performance from Contador and the Guardia Civil so far.

 

[Vasilis]

According to GPS, Froome is closing the gap to Kelderman, only 10s

 

[Climbing]

Pretty sure though that Froome started slow to accelerate in the second part.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re:

Very good performance from Contador and the Guardia Civil so far.

Payback for 2006

 

[Rollthedice]

Froome doing a TT yoyo.

 

[Forever The Best]

Re: Re:

Very good performance from Contador and the Guardia Civil so far.

Payback for 2006

??
Would be interested to learn what's behind it.

 

[Eclipse]

Froome gonna hit a hard neg split by the looks of it.

 

[telencefalus]

as i said froome even if he moves his shoulders a lot , has just too much raw power he is recovering

 

[MatParker117]

Re:

Froome doing a TT yoyo.

Aka a negative split.

 

[The Barb]

Argh, I spoke too soon ... Froome gaining on Kelderman.

Nibali fading?

Bad day for Lopez.

 

[portugal11]

Nibali 15 seconds slower than froome.

 

[Eclipse]

Re:

Argh, I spoke too soon ... Froome gaining on Kelderman.

Nibali fading?

Bad day for Lopez.

Nibali is consistent, he's about where he was to Kelderman at the first. It's Froome who is coming back hard

 

[telencefalus]

but maybe he will use a lot of energy today and Tomorrow he will collapse

 

[webvan]

Re:

If I'm reading these splits right, Contador is fading.

As is his wont...

 

[Tank Engine]

Re:

Well, not catastrophic for Froome, but surely not what he wants. If he isn't going full gas yet, he certainly should.

On MTFs it's called yo-yoing, in TTs it's called negative splits. From what he said before the stage, maybe he is planning to spread the yo-yo over several stages

Let's wait and see.

 

[Kafviar]

Kirby forgetting Zakarin?

 

[The Barb]

Re:

Well Froome can't compete against people getting motor paced ...

I think Froome gets more than his share of motor assistance.

 

[telencefalus]

just look at the difference of cadence now between froome and keldermann , Froome now unleash the power of his engine

 

[Ruby United]

Re: Re:

Froome is losing 23" to kelderman

Of course he got motor paced for 1 kilometer after that turn.
This is unwatchable.

Agree, this is ridiculous honestly.

There is a tailwind so a moto that far away won't give any benefits.
If there was a headwind they wouldn't be hanging around like that.

 

[GraftPunk]

Any word on how woods is hanging in?

 

[DFA123]

Contador's position starting to get very ragged. Has he gone off too hard again?