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

[lenric]

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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.

Didn't like his team's posture yesterday.

 

[portugal11]

Astana is completly lost as team in this final week

 

[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.

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?

I do realize they just suck all the entertainment value out of the cycling and while it is a sport, what is being sold by organizers and tv broadcasts is entertainment. And in that aspect they are failing horribly, me thinks it's impacted more by lack of parity than anything else. Plus you have all these funding issues and what not. Lance is right in saying that cyclists need to unionize to have a pull and change things, because no one else will.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

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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.

Maybe he's tired of not influencing the race?

 

[Ruby United]

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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.

Maybe Lutsenko is about to drop back to help him.

 

[Carols]

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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.

Didn't like his team's posture yesterday.

Top 10 get a helo ride today.....

 

[Rollthedice]

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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.

Didn't like his team's posture yesterday.

Aru doing a "Landa".

 

[del1962]

Wants to be ahead of MA Lopez on GC

 

[webvan]

Aru looking for a team for a 2018 ?

 

[Casperov96]

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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.

We complain that not enough people try things, so when a guy tries to pick up some time in a solo counter-attack, we wonder what he's thinking? Even if he's lost his chance to win the stage or the race, I respect someone attacking to move up from ninth place than someone making his team work to preserve ninth place. After the peloton let the break go, there wasn't much else he could achieve today.

 

[GraftPunk]

Aru 1:30 on red jersey group

 

[del1962]

Armee has this

 

[Rollthedice]

The last climb looks deadly. Some disturbing gaps me think.

 

[Eclipse]

Armee smashed that

 

[markene2]

***! almost

 

[ice&fire]

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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?

I do realize they just suck all the entertainment value out of the cycling and while it is a sport, what is being sold by organizers and tv broadcasts is entertainment. And in that aspect they are failing horribly, me thinks it's impacted more by lack of parity than anything else. Plus you have all these funding issues and what not. Lance is right in saying that cyclists need to unionize to have a pull and change things, because no one else will.

Lance tweeted last Monday that Contador was calling for a salary cap one week before retiring

 

[MartinGT]

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Aru 1:30 on red jersey group

Thanks, I was trying to find that out.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Great Vuelta for Lotto S

 

[Ruby United]

700m to go - Kirby talking about how Armee is going for second because he knows how he can't beat Lutsenko
600m to go - Lutsenko cracks, Armee wins

 

[Carols]

Armee First pro win!!!! Chapeau!

 

[MartinGT]

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700m to go - Kirby talking about how Armee is going for second because he knows how he can't beat Lutsenko
600m to go - Lutsenko cracks, Armee wins

The bloke is an idiot

 

[webvan]

Aru 1:19 now ?

Nice mountain scenery !

 

[Inquitus]

So who's gonna nick a few seconds on the finish?

 

[Valv.Piti]

This climb can potentially expose Froome, but Nibali isn't exactly explosive either, remembering Naranco?

 

[Eclipse]

I'm a little scared for Nibali looking at this Sky train and the way that climb looks ><