Men's Road Cycling UCI La Vuelta Ciclista a España 2019

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Big crash and Uran is out (plus two others).

 

 

Without Uran and Carthy, I guess EF will have to focus entirely on Sergio Higuita. Which is not necessarily a bad thing at all.

 

 

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Edited August 29, 2019 by heywoodu

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And that's it for Roche as well after three Sunweb guys went down (magically, Kelderman wasn't one of them, what the hell  )

 

 

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Formolo and Higuita are in trouble too

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Van Garderen crashed and is highly unlikely to get back on track so it seems. What a shitshow for EF today, damn.

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All hopes for an incredible victory on Oscar Cabedo today, with the stage leaving from the home town of his family. His older brother Victor, very talented, was killed by a driver (who never came forward or was found) in 2012, which is basically why Oscar started living for cycling. That's the short version of this tragedy, it'd be so incredible if Oscar can show himself today...I can't imagine he won't at least try to get in the attack.

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What a total monster climb

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Quintanta doesn't accept Piti has been appointed as the leader  

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Piti  

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Explanation: "Met de billen bloot gaan" literally does indeed mean "Showing/exposing your buttocks", however in context it's the equivalent of something like "putting your cards on the table"  

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The entire Atlantic Ocean is apparently falling down on the final climb in Andorra and so there's no live images from the race anymore. It's a big mystery what's going on in the race, even the race radio has gone down. Too bad, because right about now they should be on a pretty awesome part of non-asphalt