Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2022 (La Vuelta Ciclista a España)

[Grassmarket 3,586]

Nothing happens for 4h40m, then a day’s worth of drama compressed into 3 minutes.  Roglić attacks, Evenepoel punctures, Roglić crashes & looks really bad.  Has staggered across the line but looks shell-shocked

[heywoodu 15,319]

  On 9/6/2022 at 3:50 PM, Grassmarket said:

Nothing happens for 4h40m, then a day’s worth of drama compressed into 3 minutes.  Roglić attacks, Evenepoel punctures, Roglić crashes & looks really bad.  Has staggered across the line but looks shell-shocked

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And he's out, DNS today.

[AsensioWillemsen 158]

We could have been in for an interesting fight between the brave, pretty offensive youngster and the one who only attacks in the last 3000 metres, too bad it isn't meant to be.

 

At least this basically ensures Mas scores a podium to salvage Spanish cycling. Once again. But I still don't feel like he will ever do more than that.

[hckošice 15,074]

Molano prepared the sprint for Ackerman so perfectly that at the end he ended by winning it himself

[heywoodu 15,319]

Well, this was an extremely underwhelming Grand Tour  

 

I mean, the course was designed for a bit of a dull three weeks, so it's no surprise, but damn, I had at least hoped for more action. Too bad attackers like Yates and Roglic had to leave during the race.

 

Remco Evenepoel takes the win, the first Belgian GT win since 1978. Hip hip, hooray.

[dodge 1,027]

Yeah. Covid and crashes really didn’t help the Vuelta. Shame but I think the best rider won GC