Vuelta Stage 18: Suances → Santo Toribio de Liébana - 169 km

[cipurian]

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Man how do you guys find it in you to cheer for anyone other than Contador? The man is relentless. Not sure it'll pay off for him, but someone might gain from his smart decision to try to hurt and isolate the leader who showed weakness and signs of fatigue yesterday.

This one million times. Sometimes I wonder why some fans like sky and don't like contador... i love show and contador is a showman, in the other hand, sky is boring as hell

I like Froome/sky's measured and calculated approach and that's why I like to follow them. However Contador is the one I like to watch.

 

[webvan]

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Contador is really compensating for us having to deal with such a super strong Sky team in two GTs in a row. Chapeau!

Yep, with two Sky A-Teams in a row pretty much, it hadn't been the case on the Vuelta so far.

 

[GraftPunk]

Sky race-smother engaged.

 

[markene2]

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Zakarin seemed to blindly ride into the camera bike like a hound blindly following a scent. Looked "wobbly" or unstable.

His style reminds me of a snake, i like it though

 

[portugal11]

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Contador is really compensating for us having to deal with such a super strong Sky team in two GTs in a row. Chapeau!

Fortunately bala is not here (unfortunately due to injury), I'm sure he would be riding against contador and secure his golden podium

 

[MartinGT]

Excuse my ignorance, but is there a Spanish version of Chapeau?

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

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Contador putting nobody in trouble with his attacks so far.

He's softening them up to see if he'll expose weakness by the end. If his rivals cared enough about winning rather than defending their spots, they'd take turns attacking.

 

[Arredondo]

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I can only imagine with how many minutes Purito would've won Vuelta 2012 if he had a Sky team with him.

To be fair, he did have Dani Moreno with him on many occasions where he was in trouble, but yeah..

He wasn't in trouble on many occasions. He was in controll that whole Vuelta. Only on Fuente De he wasn't. And on that particular day, his whole team (apart from Losada) had an off-day.

There were a few occasions, where he was slightly left behind but he had Moreno to ride him back. Like on the stage to La Gallina. But yeah, he was the best climber that Vuelta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyYgyFJVibo&t=1s

Moreno was a really good domestique in that Vuelta. But i think Purito just rode with an actual game-plan on La Gallina (it's his home climb because he lives in Andorra, so he knows how to tackle those climbs), with or without help from teammates. I think he knew Froome and Contador couldn't sustain their efforts. He rode the same way on Ancares (where Moreno also was a big help), Covadonga and Cuitu Negru (where Moreno was dropped quite early)

 

[GraftPunk]

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Excuse my ignorance, but is there a Spanish version of Chapeau?

felicitaciones?

 

[portugal11]

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Man how do you guys find it in you to cheer for anyone other than Contador? The man is relentless. Not sure it'll pay off for him, but someone might gain from his smart decision to try to hurt and isolate the leader who showed weakness and signs of fatigue yesterday.

This one million times. Sometimes I wonder why some fans like sky and don't like contador... i love show and contador is a showman, in the other hand, sky is boring as hell

I like Froome/sky's measured and calculated approach and that's why I like to follow them. However Contador is the one I like to watch.

That calculated approach is so boring and so robotic, who didn't like a contador vs rasmussen in the tour? A froome vs cobo on pena cabarga? Contador vs andy on tourmalet?

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Vuelta Stage 18: Suances → Santo Toribio de Liébana - 16

Sky back to 4 doms in the peloton. I want to puke

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Contador is really compensating for us having to deal with such a super strong Sky team in two GTs in a row. Chapeau!

Fortunately bala is not here (unfortunately due to injury), I'm sure he would be riding against contador and secure his golden podium

Sure.

 

[GraftPunk]

wow, looks like Aru has a minute on the peloton...

 

[Alv23]

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Excuse my ignorance, but is there a Spanish version of Chapeau?

Chapó :lol:

 

[del1962]

Peloton has grown a lot larger

 

[No_Balls]

Re: Vuelta Stage 18: Suances → Santo Toribio de Liébana - 16

Sky back to 4 doms in the peloton. I want to puke

Sky is gonna kill this sport. The singlehandly most deadliest threat for the sport since US Postal but due to monumental corruption they have the protection.

 

[miguelindurain111]

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Peloton has grown a lot larger

Thanks to team Sky :razz:

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Alaphilippe not taking turns for some reason

 

[Rollthedice]

Giro Astana 2015 looks like a junior team compared to this Sky.

 

[Merckx index]

What motivates Aru? He's too far back to win the stage. The time he's gaining on the peloton isn't enough to get him in the top 5, let alone the podium.

 

[MartinGT]

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Giro Astana 2015 looks like a junior team compared to this Sky.

:lol:

 

[MrTea1976]

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What motivates Aru? He's too far back to win the stage. The time he's gaining on the peloton isn't enough to get him in the top 5, let alone the podium.

He wants to be alone.

 

[markene2]

Lutsenko smart

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Very well played Lutsenko.

 

[GraftPunk]

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What motivates Aru? He's too far back to win the stage. The time he's gaining on the peloton isn't enough to get him in the top 5, let alone the podium.

He might just be throwing a tantrum, who knows?