Road Cycling
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Sounds like it was an exciting day of racing, of which I've only seen the final 3 km.
Reasonable day for George, who finished in the second group - 37 seconds behind the winner (Quintana). It sounds like it might have been Roglic who initiated the attack that took away five other riders, so perhaps not a surprise that George didn't make the split.
Anyway, net result is that he's in 17th place overall and 73 seconds down on the leader (Roche), but with seven mountain stages to come, he's got plenty of time to make that up. Only a handful of riders ahead of him that will be difficult to get past once they start climbing - Quintana, Roglic, Lopez, Valverde, Aru - maybe Uran and Formolo.
Kruiswijk finished further back - he's a minute behind George - maybe affected by his crash, but perhaps promising for who has to sacrifice themselves first if push comes to shove in the mountains.
However, a long way to go...
There's lots of the biggest guns not riding this race.The Ineos leaders are Poels and Geoghegan Hart - and both are already 10 minutes behind the leader.
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I see Saturday's carnage is being blamed on a leaky paddling pool.
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@mariner4life said in Vuelta a Espana:
I see Saturday's carnage is being blamed on a leaky paddling pool.
Don Corleone's paddling pool?
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@Chris-B said in Vuelta a Espana:
@mariner4life said in Vuelta a Espana:
I see Saturday's carnage is being blamed on a leaky paddling pool.
Don Corleone's paddling pool?
the Giro was months ago
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@mariner4life I know, but I don't know the names of any Spanish gangsters!
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@mariner4life On second thoughts - maybe it's Gal Dove's swimming pool!
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@Chris-B I'd put Uran before Aru, I've been watching the CNC highlights on YouTube and will listen to the Cycling Podcast daily episodes to keep up on the action
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@DrivingMaul Yeah - certainly on TdF form. Though, will be interesting to see how riding the Tour affects a lot of these guys.
People like Quintana, Uran and Valverde (and Kruiswijk) rode really hard-out Tours. George had a couple of quiet days.
Most advantage to Roglic and Lopez who didn't ride it.
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Stage 4 safely negotiated, with the major news being that Kruiswijk has withdrawn due to a knee injury suffered in the TTT crash. So George becomes 2ic for TJV.
The peleton split in wind with about 12kms to go, but none of the major contenders got caught out - george remains in 17th overall (though the guy in 18th, Jesus Herrada, got caught out and dropped to 55th).
Five NZers in this race - hopefully someone gets a shot at an individual stage win somewhere.
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@Chris-B Sounds like Uran kept getting caught on the wrong side of splits but made it back. Will see how much that takes out of the team later in the race
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@DrivingMaul Should be an exciting stage tonight that starts to sort out the GC. It's classified only as "hilly", but finishes with an 11 km climb - second half of which averages about 10 degrees.
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@Chris-B said in Vuelta a Espana:
@DrivingMaul Should be an exciting stage tonight that starts to sort out the GC. It's classified only as "hilly", but finishes with an 11 km climb - second half of which averages about 10 degrees.
That last half looks brutal
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You can get daily highlights on GCN channel on YouTube
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@DrivingMaul said in Vuelta a Espana:
You can get daily highlights on GCN channel on YouTube
As a quick (under 10 minutes) package that GCN one is good..
The ITV one is an hour long and usually shows the last 5 km or so in full. -
Big thing that happened last night was a crash that took out (permanently) Uran, Roche and de la Parte - all guys ahead of George in the GC.
However, that's pretty shit in terms of the overall race.
The racing is way more unpredictable than the TdF - in part, I think, because none of the teams is overly confident they've got the best guy. Certainly, no-one is making a concerted effort yet to control things.
As a result, Dylan Teuns grabbed the GC lead from a breakaway last night, while several others temporarily vaulted themselves into the top 10 - de la Cruz and Gesink.
In terms of "genuine contenders", George is probably up to about 10th.
First "Mountain"stage tonight - and look at the profile of that final climb!
A little section at 25%, a lot at 13%+ and finishing at 17%.
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Anyone else listening to the Cycling Podcast?
They are doing daily shows including 2 riders who are giving their view of what it was like in the bunch rather than the story of the day
