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Vuelta a Espana (2019 from page 4)

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  • Massive by Froome
  • Addickted said:

    Fantastic TT by Froome today, winning by 30 seconds and making a minute on most of the other GC riders.

    Didn't like his post win fist bumps with Sky staff though.
  • Chris hasnt just won the Vuelta but by finishing in 11th today has also won the Points Jersey.

    Its crazy because surely the Madrid final stage is akin to the Champs Elysee so Froome surely has no business finishing that high on a Sprint stage...

    This win though has to put him on a level with the likes of Andy Murray as one of our greatest Sportsmen... Huge achievement to do what he's done by winning two Grand Tours in a single year, its even worse the fact he's come close to doing it three times!!

  • Great achievement. Would like to see him go for a giro.
  • Chris hasnt just won the Vuelta but by finishing in 11th today has also won the Points Jersey.

    Its crazy because surely the Madrid final stage is akin to the Champs Elysee so Froome surely has no business finishing that high on a Sprint stage...

    This win though has to put him on a level with the likes of Andy Murray as one of our greatest Sportsmen... Huge achievement to do what he's done by winning two Grand Tours in a single year, its even worse the fact he's come close to doing it three times!!

    No sprinters worthy of the name at the Vuelta.
  • Froome has just won Bronze in the World Road Race Championships (Men's TT)

    Tom Dumoulin won Gold with Roglic getting Silver...
  • edited September 2017

    Froome has just won Bronze in the World Road Race Championships (Men's TT)

    Tom Dumoulin won Gold with Roglic getting Silver...

    Dumoulin was untouchable.

    Great finish by Froome.
  • Worth a bump now we're in the last week.

    Can Yatesy do it, or will he blow up like he did in the last week of the Giro?
  • Addickted said:

    Worth a bump now we're in the last week.

    Can Yatesy do it, or will he blow up like he did in the last week of the Giro?

    No Dumoulin to push him over the top in the TT.

    I think he will do it.
  • hope he will do it. love the little rivalry with Quintana and movistar.

    been a good race so far. no one team able to dominate the peloton.
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  • edited September 2018
    Great chance. Especially since Valverde and Quintana hate each other and can't work together to save their lives and neither is strong enough to beat him on their own.

    Main worry is that he's always got a Jour Sans in him, so there's always the chance he could end up shelling 30 minutes on a stage. Have to say Jack Haig has been absolutely immense in support of him
  • Great day for Yates
  • As someone who would normally class himself as a Sky fan, I've got to say how much I'm enjoying the fact that they aren't in the running. The Mitchelton Scott, Movistar, Lotto Jumbo mix up is far more interesting. Come on Yates!
  • Welcome to the darkside Stig! A lot of people think the Sky hate from people who don't like them is because of the (frankly nonsense) drug allegations and just sour grapes in general. In reality, it's more to do with the fact they throttle the life out of races and just pummel other teams into submission. Having a budget pretty much twice what most other teams have allows them to pay riders who would be bona fide grand tour contenders elsewhere just to be domestiques. What you're seeing now is how racing COULD be if Sky didn't monopolise all the best talent.

    Nairo still can't win a GT though... :cry:
  • Welcome to the darkside Stig! A lot of people think the Sky hate from people who don't like them is because of the (frankly nonsense) drug allegations and just sour grapes in general. In reality, it's more to do with the fact they throttle the life out of races and just pummel other teams into submission. Having a budget pretty much twice what most other teams have allows them to pay riders who would be bona fide grand tour contenders elsewhere just to be domestiques. What you're seeing now is how racing COULD be if Sky didn't monopolise all the best talent.

    Nairo still can't win a GT though... :cry:

    Didn't he win this race in 2016 and the Giro in 2014 though ?
  • Welcome to the darkside Stig! A lot of people think the Sky hate from people who don't like them is because of the (frankly nonsense) drug allegations and just sour grapes in general. In reality, it's more to do with the fact they throttle the life out of races and just pummel other teams into submission. Having a budget pretty much twice what most other teams have allows them to pay riders who would be bona fide grand tour contenders elsewhere just to be domestiques. What you're seeing now is how racing COULD be if Sky didn't monopolise all the best talent.

    Nairo still can't win a GT though... :cry:

    Didn't he win this race in 2016 and the Giro in 2014 though ?
    Yup
  • It was a facetious remark :smile:
  • It was a facetious remark :smile:

    Sorry, you should have put a smiley thingy , not a crying one.
  • It was a facetious remark :smile:

    Sorry, you should have put a smiley thingy , not a crying one.
    I never get my smileys right... :cookie:
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  • edited September 2018

    It was a facetious remark :smile:

    Sorry, you should have put a smiley thingy , not a crying one.
    I never get my smileys right... :cookie:
    You're definitely right about Sky though, great to see such an open race for a change.
  • Am surprised about Kwiatkowski... thought he would be GC material yet the whole of Team SKY seem to have had a poor event
  • going along with the anti sky sentiment, (though i cant argue against what they have done for British cycling) it is a great achievement that Yates has done it at an Australian team. one that doesn't have the same resources. no critic could ever say the only reason any British rider is wining grand tours is because of Skys financial might.

    well done Simon. fantastic win.
  • I see the final stage starts at Alcorcon. Really needs a Roland Out banner on the route.
  • Chris Froome awarded 2011 Vuelta a Espana as Juan Jose Cobo stripped of title

  • stonemuse said:

    Chris Froome awarded 2011 Vuelta a Espana as Juan Jose Cobo stripped of title

    Rather ironic seeing that the press have been trying to smear him of late by saying that Froome should have been stripped of his titles
  • So does Froome now get Wiggin's knighthood as Britain's first Grand Tour winner?
  • Addickted said:
    So does Froome now get Wiggin's knighthood as Britain's first Grand Tour winner?
    Not sure he'd want it if it came with Wiggins' missus....  :D
  • Posted by @ColinTat on another thread: 

    ColinTat said:
    For all things related to the last Grand Tour of the season.  Opened with the usual Vuelta disaster on the first day.  Apparently a garden hose detatched from the tap, with water cascading onto the road. 

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/vuelta-a-espana/reason-behind-jumbo-vismas-vuelta-crash-broken-garden-hose-435565
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