Vuelta's hardest stage: El Entrego - Alto de Farrapona

[Asturiano]

One of the hardest stage of Vuelta's history:

Colladona (second category)
Cordal (second category)
Cobertoria (HC)
San Lorenzo (HC)
Farrapona (first category or HC)

 

[Asturiano]

 

[Asturiano]

 

[Asturiano]

Montero, the creator of the web I'm taking the images from, wanted to include this climb too but Unipublic didn't want because it included a bit of "sterrato".

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

AC and JRod to take minutes on everyone else after an attack on San Lorenzo

 

[Netserk]

167 km

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

167 km

oh why do you ruin my dreams

 

[jens_attacks]

happy for you guys who fought for this hard stages to happen over all the spanish forums
i still think nothing major will happen until the last 6 km of farrapona. until then farrapona is basically a false flat which will discourage any long range attack
an intxausti-bruseghin kind of attack might happen again but i don't expect any big gun to go before the last 6 km

 

[icefire]

167 km

Luz Ardiden 1992 was even shorter (144km). The first 7 arrived within 1:45. The 8th arrived 5min after the stage winner, the 10th at 6:30 and the 20th at 9:20.

Andorra 1999 was also 147km. 12 guys arrived in different groups within 2 minutes. The next riders arrived (one at a time) at 3:37, 6:14, 7:44 and 8:24.

 

[icefire]

Montero, the creator of the web I'm taking the images from, wanted to include this climb too but Unipublic didn't want because it included a bit of "sterrato".

The problem with Trobaniello is not the sterrato; is that the connection between Trobaniello and Ventana is sterrato + downhill, even if only at 2%.

 

[Taxus4a]

happy for you guys who fought for this hard stages to happen over all the spanish forums
i still think nothing major will happen until the last 6 km of farrapona. until then farrapona is basically a false flat which will discourage any long range attack
an intxausti-bruseghin kind of attack might happen again but i don't expect any big gun to go before the last 6 km

It deppends the race situation, but it is a stage to give a big change in GC if someone need that and he is strong. That the important, if nothing happens no problem, but a stage like this must be in the Vuelta to give the chance.


I remember the Giro 2010, after Aquila breakaway, Basso attacking in small climbs as if were the last stage... and finally, when the Giro in his soulders, the last hard stage in domiltes. with Gavia, nothing important happens, except Vino-Sastre at the begining, and some attacks at the end...

 

[Ferminal]

Think 3900m puts it ahead of anything in the Tour. And maybe even the Giro except for Gavia-Val Martello.

 

[Asturiano]

It's a good thing to have an stage with more than 10 km with a porcentage over 10 % (6 of them with a porcentage over 11 %).

 

[Arredondo]

Well, we saw in 2010 how fantastic this stage was......

 

[icefire]

Well, we saw in 2010 how fantastic this stage was......

It was 2011. And it taught the cycling world that Froome and Wiggo > Nibali

 

[Arredondo]

It was 2011. And it taught the cycling world that Froome and Wiggo > Nibali

2011 yeah, can you imagine. I forgot the 2011 edition totally, after 2010 there comes 2012

 

[roundabout]

Well, we saw in 2010 how fantastic this stage was......

2011 was a much easier stage

 

[Ferminal]

Only San Lorenzo wasn't it? Is that where there were suggestions of Froome getting dropped or was that only Cordal... Either way hindsight would seem to suggest they were total BS.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes, there were reports of Froome dropping on San Lorenzo, yet he was still among the strongest on Farrapona, so either he went through a bad patch but was able to recover or perhaps he was "dropped" because he was doing something like going back to the car.

2011:

2014:

The difference is clear.

 

[jens_attacks]

de la fuente was so generous that day. teamwork at its best

 

[Asturiano]

These climbs are the ones that Vuelta didn't climb in 2011 and riders are going to climb in 2014, apart from "San Lorenzo" and "Farrapona".

Note: "Cordal" and "Cobertoria" are longer than 10 km.