TheGreenMonster Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Great sprint by Froome to take the stage 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Think he was a bit happy at that win 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Great to see the two favourites slugging it out on the climb. Good efforts from Valverde and Konig to keep their men up there too and they're both having good races. On the power meter thing, am I just imagining this or did they have a stage in the TdF several years ago where team radios were banned? They only had the motorbikes with the chalk boards on to tell them their progress. I think the Olympics is like this too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Big psychological blow for Froome. Seems to be riding his way into form, just in time for week 3. Be interesting to see if Quintana can hold his form? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Nice win for Orrica today, nobody near their man in the sprint for the line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Nice win for Orrica today, nobody near their man in the sprint for the line. Really enjoyed the end of the stage, with so much attacking and uncertainty over who was going to win.Good to see Simon Yates getting involved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Kelly talking about his favourite topic, cow dung, just now. Topped by Carlton Kirkby's "sheep dropping hand grenades"! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Quintana repeatedly trying to attack Froome up the final climb but he doesn't take any time from him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 (edited) Fantastic stage, great win for Gesink, following his heartbreak at Covadonga. Yeates catapults himself into the top 4, Valverde blows big style & we had a big standoff between Quintana & Froome. Must have been a good half dozen times Nairo tried to break the Sky rider, but he was the Colombians equal to tge line. The rate he initially closed him down, having lost his last teammate, was phenomenal. Quintana's inability to sustain his attacks is going to be his undoing. Froome looks to be hitting form, just in time for this last week. Unlike Nibbles at the Giro, it hasn't been an instant return to from for Sky's no.1. Don't know what the Spanish TV were doing, after the stage win was decided, sticking with Bertie as the top two duked it out all the way to the summit. Edited September 3, 2016 by kiddy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Some great racing in this Vuelta. When I saw the Parcours I thought that it was pretty tough, with loads of climbing even though it's a Vuelta and not a Tour but the organisers seem to have it spot on. Even the often derided Team TT made things interesting with Bertie having to play catch up from the get go. A lot of this is due to Orica having a great race though and becoming a genuine third force to Sky and Movistar. With Tinkoff folding, they will have a lot to say in the future. Both Yates brothers and Chaves in the same team could give them so many options and they are clearly tactically astute. I was surprised Sky and Movistar didn't react sooner to them having so many in the breakaway but it made for some great racing and with Movistar getting 2 up the road too it forced Sky to really put in the work for the first time. Froome is still probably favourite but there are plenty of other riders who can win this. Great stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham89 Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 After just 5 and a half hours sleep, I'm on a train to Glasgow to watch the start of the ToB. I must be mad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Froome and Chaves currently almost 3 minutes down on Quintana and Contador, still a long way to go but that's going to be hard to pull back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Absolute bollock dropped by Sky today, Contador and Quintana attacking early, Froome missing out on the break and almost all his team sleeping and get split off from their leader. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 (edited) They were 2 mins down when I picked up the race. Sounds like Ettixx/Tinkoff & Movistar managed to break the race into 3 with Froome isolated in the 2nd group. ALL his team ending up in the 3rd. BIG, BIG result for Quintana, taking 2.45 off Froome. He'd almost have to fall off to lose this Vuelta, with a near 4 min lead. Eurosport commentator making too much play over the ITT, Froome also needs a significant stage win too now IMO. As for the Tour/Vuelta double, I think think that ship set sail today. Edited September 4, 2016 by kiddy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Cracking stage today. Credit to Contador and Tinkoff in particular for attacking from the start and then pushing home the advantage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow-sheep Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Entire sky team apart from Froome outside the limit today but only with 80 odd others so they were allowed back in. Some riders fuming having busted a gut to make the time limit while sky sat up and have saved energy for the days ahead. Sky dropped the ball badly today, as did orica to a lesser extent. But brilliant from bertie blowing it apart from the start. Looks like it is quintana for the win now unless something even more spectacular happens 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Surely lightning can't strike twice? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Yeah, you have to think Nairo has it in the bag now unless he has a crash or a really bad day and one of the others can get a couple of minutes up the road. Sky clearly weren't expecting Movistar to go with the Contador break that was expected, Konig was 5th before today and ended up nearly an hour down on the leaders FFS. Don't know if that was Brailsford, Froome or whoever but they've messed up big time today. If anything, they've got a fight on their hands to keep Froome in 2nd. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 After yesterday's cockup by Sky it was a standard bunch sprint today only livened up by the Tinkoff rider who went on a late dash for the line only to be slowed down to a crawl by (yep, you've guessed it) a TV motorbike. Poor show yet again. In the Tour of Britain, the World Tour teams seem to be taking it pretty seriously with Griepel leading the points race and Cummings, Swift, Roche and Dan Martin amongst those in the break today. Decent crowds too, as there were in the Glasgow to Castle Douglas stage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 18 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said: After yesterday's cockup by Sky it was a standard bunch sprint today only livened up by the Tinkoff rider who went on a late dash for the line only to be slowed down to a crawl by (yep, you've guessed it) a TV motorbike. Poor show yet again. In the Tour of Britain, the World Tour teams seem to be taking it pretty seriously with Griepel leading the points race and Cummings, Swift, Roche and Dan Martin amongst those in the break today. Decent crowds too, as there were in the Glasgow to Castle Douglas stage. Need a stage with a finish atop Bealach-Na-Ba, or a Glasgow/Edinburgh TT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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