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Vuelta a España 2017 - Preview/Week 1
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 24-08-2017 18:11
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And it was Betancur the Movistar in Contador's group until Tejay's crash took him down
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| Shonak |
Posted on 24-08-2017 18:26
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Aquarius97 wrote:
And it was Betancur the Movistar in Contador's group until Tejay's crash took him down
Damn he looked so fine fine, GET HYPED!
Edit: ugh just realized he finished way down. GC hopes out of the window for betancur. 
Edited by Shonak on 24-08-2017 18:34
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Shonak |
Posted on 24-08-2017 18:35
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Surely he will keep trying until he ends up with one. He is in some stellar form. Maybe he'll do it like Landa and end up with the mountain jersey as well. 
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 24-08-2017 19:02
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We should remember that it's Mas first year as a professional, and he was only beaten by Landa in Burgos, and finished in top15 in both Pais Vasco and California
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 24-08-2017 20:11
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What a pity I can't follow this race at the TV... Great day for Haig. If he finishes Top-15, you own me MG Gesink, alex 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 24-08-2017 20:17
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tsmoha wrote:
What a pity I can't follow this race at the TV... Great day for Haig. If he finishes Top-15, you own me MG Gesink, alex
In 2-3 years maybe 
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Posted on 24-11-2024 20:33
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| dominox |
Posted on 24-08-2017 21:00
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Betancur withdraws from Vuelta after crash with TVG. |
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 24-08-2017 21:17
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This is La Vuelta. Not a boring stage in sight with lots of hilly days with many possible outcomes, you know what, that makes for great viewing. instead of the endless of mundane, predictable and downright dreadful flat stages, especially in the Tour de France. A few unknown riders up the road, no racing going on for 5 hours, sprint. Is that actually racing at this point?
No it isn't. The predictable has become more predictable, the inevitable more inevitable the last few years. What has La Vuelta done? As I have advocated for a long time, just don't have these flat travesty of stages! Thats so obvious yet at the same time brilliant. One sprint after stage 4 excluding Madrid. Racing pretty much all day apart from those few predictable sprint matches.
Viva La Vuelta. And it hasn't even properly started yet. |
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 24-08-2017 21:46
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Riis123 wrote:
This is La Vuelta. Not a boring stage in sight with lots of hilly days with many possible outcomes, you know what, that makes for great viewing. instead of the endless of mundane, predictable and downright dreadful flat stages, especially in the Tour de France. A few unknown riders up the road, no racing going on for 5 hours, sprint. Is that actually racing at this point?
No it isn't. The predictable has become more predictable, the inevitable more inevitable the last few years. What has La Vuelta done? As I have advocated for a long time, just don't have these flat travesty of stages! Thats so obvious yet at the same time brilliant. One sprint after stage 4 excluding Madrid. Racing pretty much all day apart from those few predictable sprint matches.
Viva La Vuelta. And it hasn't even properly started yet. Good points here but also some I disagree with.
Most of the hilly days in Vuelta are usually ______/ which annoys me. (i.e. battle on the final uphill finish of 3-5 kms) (Not that much this year though, this years route is very good for Unipublic standards although the TT kms are once again very low.)
I agree that the Tour has too much flat stages (and most of them are without obstacles, which makes the matters even worse. For example in the first TDF I designed there were 5 straightforward sprints, one uphill finish in Rodez, 2 stages with cobbles (1 with RVV and one with PR) and in the 2nd TDF I designed there were once again 5 straightforward sprint stages and 1 stage that can end with an uphill sprint (but there are 10 categorized climbs with a 1km at %8 climb at 5km to go before the sprint so maybe it may be like AGR), one stage with the ribin roads of Tro-Bro Leon. There is also one more stage that is categorized flat but it is a medium mountain since there is Mont St. Clair (1,5 km at %10,6) 5.5 km from the finish.)
The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan'
Gracias Alberto.
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:10
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Riis123 wrote:
This is La Vuelta. Not a boring stage in sight with lots of hilly days with many possible outcomes, you know what, that makes for great viewing. instead of the endless of mundane, predictable and downright dreadful flat stages, especially in the Tour de France. A few unknown riders up the road, no racing going on for 5 hours, sprint. Is that actually racing at this point?
No it isn't. The predictable has become more predictable, the inevitable more inevitable the last few years. What has La Vuelta done? As I have advocated for a long time, just don't have these flat travesty of stages! Thats so obvious yet at the same time brilliant. One sprint after stage 4 excluding Madrid. Racing pretty much all day apart from those few predictable sprint matches.
Viva La Vuelta. And it hasn't even properly started yet.
Here we go again.
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:16
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Motorbikes at it again.
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| LuckyLukas |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:22
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BMC and Bahrain should try to challenge Froome on the cobbles. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:23
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Spanish TV coverage never fails to fail.
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:30
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GO ROJAS |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:31
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Go..go..will deserve that one |
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| Vali |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:33
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Flippin' hell Rojas, will you ever learn to win?
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:33
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UAE shirt is ugly, but results has been lot better then Lampre days |
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:35
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this are not quite serious cobble stones. And dont forget Froome did survive tour "Roubaix" stage quite easily. |
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| Kiserlovski01 |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:36
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'Descending like Froome' everywhere... please, Mohoric did it way earlier when he became world champion.
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| LordBeerus |
Posted on 25-08-2017 16:36
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Guido Mukk wrote:
UAE shirt is ugly, but results has been lot better then Lampre days
4th worst team in CQ Ranking.. So no |
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