Happenings 1/2: Bizarro /cyc/ is back on menu, boys! Unassuming from the profile, this stage turned out absolutely CUHRAZY. Strong crosswinds from the start smelled like opportunity and DQS seized it, forming huge breakaway of 46 riders with 7 out 8 DQS guys present (except Richeze, lmaoing at that shitter). The main happening was however that Movistar also managed to delegate half of their team, including our guy, our man, our hero Quintana. Due to positioning mistake from Roglic, Jumbo-Pissma and the rest of GC teams then proceeded to let this monstrous breakaway ride away full gas to the advantage of more than 5 minutes. With 50 km to go, rest of Movistar and Valverde back in peloton cranked up their trademark galaxy brain tactics and frantically tried to catch breakaway while Movistart with Quintana at cabeza worked to ride away. For a while that let group maillot rojo to gain a minute, but Movistar efforts significantly reduced its numbers. Roglic was completely alone, but hardly isolated as he comfortably wheelsucked behind Boomberde. Later in interviews, Valverde damage controlled it as an attempt to isolate Roglic that was ultimately foiled by Astana.
Happenings 2/2: Now that breakaway had numbers in their favor, they again gained 5+ minutes. At the last 2 kms, DQS played their cards perfectly with Stybar attacking first. He was reeled back and S.Bennett made his move to bridge him too early, blowing his fuse in process. Big dick Phil on the other hand measured his efforts well and outsprinted him to the finish line. With 5:19 advantage on GC leader group, Quintana's transformation to breakaway specialist propelled him to the second place, with 24 second ahead of SEETHING Boomberde. Lesser GC guys, who were able to ride in breakaway, also gained traction. Notably, Knox rised to the top 10, and now sits 8th at +8:03, another success for DQS. Kelderman up to 6th, Teuns up to 10th. On the other hand, Edet and Pernsteiner lost 23 minutes and yeeted out of contention. Valverde, Pogacar and Lopez down one place, Majka down by two, Roglic remains unshaken. MAL then was additionally penalted 10 seconds for "handslinging".
Average speed of this 220km stage was whooping 50.63 km/h (!!!) Apparently, it's a record breaking for the race over 200 km.
Also today: Fraud Der Poel Tour of Britain, Stage 6 (ITT) Pershore - Pershore 14.4 km
Yesterday, MVDP was exposed not only by big baby Groenewegen, but also by Trentin who took his GC lead back by 3 seconds. Now, we're going to find out just how good is MVDP's ITT. The man himself said he didn't touch TT bike in 3 years.
7th highest in the uci ranking this season, so feel free to apologize. Only Alaphilippe, Valverde, Fuglsang, Roglic, Bernal and Pinot ahead of him. So objectively the best sprinter this season.
>the butcher of bennett >the marauder of mareczko >the bully of bonifazio Ah yes, what an elite spr- >gets mogged by a leadout man >gets mogged by le cyclocross man J U S T
>Compete in two grand tours with the goat lead out team >Win only one stage hahahahahahaha
Jaxson Gonzalez
>Peloton splitting OHNONONONO
Xavier Lopez
Literally only up so high because of shit tier races like Prudential London, the one day long Driedaagse and the Cadel Evans Ocean Road Race
Bentley Diaz
Um sweetie, he rode more points together than Ackermann, Bennett, Groenewegen, Ewan and any other sprinter you may like
Zachary Sullivan
because he rode more low level races against low level opponents like the fraud he is, he couldn't beat them directly, whenever he rode against the real elite he got EXPOSED
Pogačar alone with 60k to go. What was the point in having a man in a breakaway yesterday?
Joshua Cooper
They're delivering the Vuelta daily meme
Carter Powell
Why is the bacon raw?
Luke Scott
>Eurosport commentators were discussing here whether horses are racist against donkeys or not. Shows how exciting this stage is Sounds just like our Eurosport guys
Colton Myers
it was out of date. but sure look can't be wasting good food.
Brayden Hughes
hello where are the ATAQUEs?
Cooper Taylor
>eating out of date, raw bacon
Kevin Collins
Pogacar looks likes at his Limit already
Cooper Roberts
meanwhile Top 5 will start soon at ToB
Chase Scott
State of this weak ass break. I could drop half these bums
Thomas Cruz
Lopez attaqe incoming
Noah White
You called it
Dominic Wright
VAI
Justin Anderson
meh they will catch him on the descent anyway Still waiting for big brain Movistar tactics
Dominic Bailey
superman
Tyler Wilson
Wouldn't it be kino if roglic were to crack and the Vuelta would be between Valverde and Quintana
Aiden Wright
LOOOOONG range attack can Superhombre keep it up tho
Jayden Ortiz
Gap to close too bad nairo isnt with him
Carter Wilson
no
Anthony Campbell
>Kelderman
If you can't even follow a shitter like Hagen you should just quit
Noah Martin
Roglic could even let Movistar work with his 4 minutes
Samuel Sullivan
Vino himself handing out bottles
Robert Cox
>le 28 yo prospect
Joseph Foster
that would mean MOVISTAR TACTICS actually work and they were just playing 56D chess the entire time
Jaxson Stewart
>The The Tour
Kevin Fisher
MVDP starting
Brandon Cruz
Attack backwards for fuck sake
Isaiah Green
Quintana about to drop the time he got gifted yesterday
Chase Stewart
>EF rider in the lead how long until he crashes?
Logan Adams
no bully, I got him in my roster
Jonathan James
Bjarne Riis btfo'ing Jumbo Visma right now
Isaiah Thompson
For me, it's drinking coffee and being comfy while watching de La Vuelta
>14 hours long TT >Only few few seconds of difference between the best who are sprinters Damn
Lucas King
Is that about two and half hour ride?
Kayden Bennett
One hell of a race.
Brayden James
wtf i love sprinters now
Matthew Gomez
This Vuelta is ugly as fuck
Carter Parker
ataque
Brandon Carter
digits and no one attacks
Jayden Morales
0 IQ Lopez
Matthew Ross
@everyone interested in the /cyc/ PES divegrass team you can watch our last grupstage match at link related from 1:33 onwards twitch(point)tv/videos/478723363
tomorrow we play /eurovision/ in the knockout stage in what is surely going to be a great match
Samuel Lopez
absolute fucking state of *neos
Eli Gray
Yes, almost two and a half hour (not counting the the times when I had to wait at the junction because of traffic...), had some nasty short climbs as well, but still only about 500 m elevation gain.
Matthew Gonzalez
Okay sorry, but Lopez is not the brightest guy, is he?
He switched to more powerful motör to try and keep up with the new clean generation of ski jumpers.
Ryan Johnson
tbf movistar has tried to help valverde more than can'tana, that being said it's not like their tactics are extremely good for valverde either agreed, but the reason they are 2nd and 3rd isn't movistar
Xavier Smith
ye he won we are just waiting to see who gets second
Cant believe these idiots are helping Nairo and Pogacar instead of jumping them at the last km.
Henry Reed
Actually its Meintjes Hagen might ride against someone behind
Josiah Foster
Valverde Epo'd so much hes body still keeps the gains. Its actually a proven fact they have an advantage even when they stop using them. Pisses me off so much. Retire already you fucking cheater cunt
>tfw I couldn't go faster than 67 km/h on a minus 9 percent grade descent because of my tyres alone
Rolling resistance is a bitch
Bentley Walker
>he has the vocabulary of a 10 year old. they need to get rid of him dont you mean irish vocabulary
Cooper Peterson
Have you read Ulysses
Logan Martin
no but i know its about stream of conciousness
Anthony Smith
f a s t
Christian Watson
I dont mind Highuita winning. I mind hes colombian. now these fucking animals (Colombian fans) will put him at Froomes level and lose their fucking minds as always.
No one landed on the moon, but that discussion is for another board.
Grayson Kelly
shoo shoo, Bruce
Landon Evans
I`m just kidding you burger, lol.
Adrian Anderson
This. Kubrick got killed because he wanted to speak up about his involvement
Kevin White
Kinda funny how the ones where the favourites won (Roglic and Bernal) were the most fun and the one where a literal domestique won (Carapaz) the most boring
