Every sprint stage in this Vuelta has made me cringe, watching Farrar place Sbaragli in great positions and watching Sbaragli fail to podium every time.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
baseballlover312 wrote:
Every sprint stage in this Vuelta has made me cringe, watching Farrar place Sbaragli in great positions and watching Sbaragli fail to podium every time.
Would have made it better to watch Sbaragli place Farrar and watch Farrar fail to podium every time?
baseballlover312 wrote:
Every sprint stage in this Vuelta has made me cringe, watching Farrar place Sbaragli in great positions and watching Sbaragli fail to podium every time.
Would have made it better to watch Sbaragli place Farrar and watch Farrar fail to podium every time?
Well no but maybe it would have made sense to maybe switch it up at least once. Or bring a better sprinter. I mean they have so many and with this sprinter's field it's pretty embarrassing to never podium.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Great Vuelta, sad I missed most of the the fun live, will have to look for torrents when I get the time.
Some personal thoughts after this Vuelta:
- Chaves once again very solid, impressive stuff by him and Orica. Dont see him increasing alot in terms of climbing abbilities. But still could be a regular contender in Giro/Vuelta in upcomming years, dont really see him succeding in Le Tour though.
- Contador definetely showed his racing style again (ultra agressive) and made this Vuelta another brilliant edition. Hope to see him peak for Giro/Vuelta since its where he can cause the most chaos at this point (and the sky train isnt unbeatable).
- Quintana showed that he's definetely capable of matching Froome, gives me hope for future le Tours and fun to see all of Quintanas haters from TdF proven wrong. (Hi arberg!).
- Sky bots where missing the minimal gains here (or atleast for the majority of the race) Perhaps the Tour chef isnt the Vuelta chef and they need to up their cooking standards here?
- Dani Moreno is still riding pro apparently, thought he had retired for some reason.
dev4ever wrote:
- Sky bots where missing the minimal gains here (or atleast for the majority of the race) Perhaps the Tour chef isnt the Vuelta chef and they need to up their cooking standards here?
Does not sound to you discovered it but Poels, Henao, Landa, Nieve, Thomas etc was not with. If they were with, had Froome won, Movistar and Tinkoff was not coming in breakaway on 15 stage.
dev4ever wrote:
- Quintana showed that he's definetely capable of matching Froome, gives me hope for future le Tours and fun to see all of Quintanas haters from TdF proven wrong. (Hi arberg!).
Tour is not Vuelta. Quintana has of course not a chance in Tour. I'm not hater Quintana. I am hater of wheelsucker (except if lead) and doping convicted riders.
How did I wrong in that Quintana had no chance in Tour and was a wheelsucker all the way to Paris ?
Edited by Arberg27 on 11-09-2016 20:56
It was great to see Nairo on the podium, he has been VERY well spoken lately in interview and definitely on that podium. What a great speech he made, it touched be a bit I must admit.
He touched upon many things. That Froome was a great rival and made his victory much greater, he was actually pretty hurt on the stage he won to Covadonga and the following ones, he things there are 2 riders who are capable of Tour + Vuelta and he possible will try again next year - but that the big goal obviously is the Tour, its a dream and it has become more likely after this Vuelta.
He can really use this. I think it might have opened his eyes, those who dares often win. Now, I don't join the bandwagon like some and say he is a wheel sucker, but he is the kind of guy who only attacks when he feel it will stick. But the long range assault with Contador should remind him thats also how it can be done.
Im so glad. It was a great Vuelta, as good as the Giro. 8/10, at least. Had been better if not for the many breaks which succeeded, altho some of them definitely was interesting to follow, but you all know how I feel about breaks on the biggest stages.
Riis123 wrote:
It was great to see Nairo on the podium, he has been VERY well spoken lately in interview and definitely on that podium. What a great speech he made, it touched be a bit I must admit.
He touched upon many things. That Froome was a great rival and made his victory much greater, he was actually pretty hurt on the stage he won to Covadonga and the following ones, he things there are 2 riders who are capable of Tour + Vuelta and he possible will try again next year - but that the big goal obviously is the Tour, its a dream and it has become more likely after this Vuelta.
He can really use this. I think it might have opened his eyes, those who dares often win. Now, I don't join the bandwagon like some and say he is a wheel sucker, but he is the kind of guy who only attacks when he feel it will stick. But the long range assault with Contador should remind him thats also how it can be done.
Im so glad. It was a great Vuelta, as good as the Giro. 8/10, at least. Had been better if not for the many breaks which succeeded, altho some of them definitely was interesting to follow, but you all know how I feel about breaks on the biggest stages.
"he is the kind of guy who only attacks when he feel it will stick"
Let's cast our minds back to every GT with Nairo so far. He attacks for 30m, then stops, tries again, stops.(Repeat)
So this Vuelta was an 8/10 AT LEAST? Despite half the stages were lame as fuck?
It's no Vuelta we will remember for long(Only reason may be, that your hero won, or maybe it had enough hills)
The Giro was already meh. The Tour was meh as well.
Riis123 wrote:
It was great to see Nairo on the podium, he has been VERY well spoken lately in interview and definitely on that podium. What a great speech he made, it touched be a bit I must admit.
He touched upon many things. That Froome was a great rival and made his victory much greater, he was actually pretty hurt on the stage he won to Covadonga and the following ones, he things there are 2 riders who are capable of Tour + Vuelta and he possible will try again next year - but that the big goal obviously is the Tour, its a dream and it has become more likely after this Vuelta.
He can really use this. I think it might have opened his eyes, those who dares often win. Now, I don't join the bandwagon like some and say he is a wheel sucker, but he is the kind of guy who only attacks when he feel it will stick. But the long range assault with Contador should remind him thats also how it can be done.
Im so glad. It was a great Vuelta, as good as the Giro. 8/10, at least. Had been better if not for the many breaks which succeeded, altho some of them definitely was interesting to follow, but you all know how I feel about breaks on the biggest stages.
"he is the kind of guy who only attacks when he feel it will stick"
Let's cast our minds back to every GT with Nairo so far. He attacks for 30m, then stops, tries again, stops.(Repeat)
So this Vuelta was an 8/10 AT LEAST? Despite half the stages were lame as fuck?
It's no Vuelta we will remember for long(Only reason may be, that your hero won, or maybe it had enough hills)
The Giro was already meh.The Tour was meh as well.
This was the Best Vuelta in the last 10 years.With 2012 coming close only.
And the Formigal stage was one of the greatest stages of Vuelta history along with Pajares 2005 and Fuente De 2012.
About the bolded:You are trolling.
Riis123 wrote:
Paul, can't you find somebody else to get personal on instead constantly? I don't even know how to respond...
I don't get personal with you. I just respond to your nonsense.
Or just y'know, be mature and ignore things you don't like. Like with Arberg, if people stop interacting with him he'll eventually get bored and disappear. (Of course not saying that Riis is annoying at all, let alone on Arberg's level).
Also, never would have thought that Orica would wind up being one of the most successful GT teams this season. 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the three GT's for a team not known for its stage racing is impressive.
Riis123 wrote:
Paul, can't you find somebody else to get personal on instead constantly? I don't even know how to respond...
I don't get personal with you. I just respond to your nonsense.
Dude, whatever, but please, whatever anger and hate you feel inside whenever I post.. can you at least just tone it a bit down? You are pretty hostile and many times, for no reason at all besides disagreeing with me. Which you tend to all the time.
Also, claiming the Giro was just meh is simply incredible. I honestly don't know if you are trolling like Schleck or you just are being straight up ignorant. Which seems to be the question I find myself asking at an alarming rate whenever you post.
Hey hey hey let's not get carried away, this doesn't even come close to 2012's Vuelta. It was good, but the route could have made it a lot better than it was. I tuned in for the last 5 kilometers or so on every stage but Aubisques, Formigals and yesterday's one and I can't say that I regret to have missed anything. I actually regret tuning in so early for 2 of those 3.
Riis123 wrote:
Paul, can't you find somebody else to get personal on instead constantly? I don't even know how to respond...
I don't get personal with you. I just respond to your nonsense.
Dude, whatever, but please, whatever anger and hate you feel inside whenever I post.. can you at least just tone it a bit down? You are pretty hostile and many times, for no reason at all besides disagreeing with me. Which you tend to all the time.
Also, claiming the Giro was just meh is simply incredible. I honestly don't know if you are trolling like Schleck or you just are being straight up ignorant. Which seems to be the question I find myself asking at an alarming rate whenever you post.
Whats wrong with you?
I never said the Giro was meh.It was the Best GT this year.
I said that Paul was trolling since he said Giro was meh.
matt17br wrote:
Hey hey hey let's not get carried away, this doesn't even come close to 2012's Vuelta. It was good, but the route could have made it a lot better than it was. I tuned in for the last 5 kilometers or so on every stage but Aubisques, Formigals and yesterday's one and I can't say that I regret to have missed anything. I actually regret tuning in so early for 2 of those 3.
