Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2023 (La Vuelta Ciclista a España)

[heywoodu 16,036]

This was the last profile/map, I think?

 

Alright, here we go then, from some minutes ago: Almeida was busy being dropped, TV directors were busy focusing completely on that....and then entirely missed even bigger news, defending Vuelta winner Evenepoel being dropped from the main group, 3km before the top of the Aubisque (which is not even remotely close to being the last bit of climbing). Lost nearly one and a half minute already, he's down and out.

[dodge 1,040]

Remco is clearly ill. There's some very average domestiques still in the leaders bunch. A real, real shame for the race

 

Hopefully Kuss wins now

[heywoodu 16,036]

4 minutes ago, dodge said:

Remco is clearly ill. There's some very average domestiques still in the leaders bunch. A real, real shame for the race

 

Hopefully Kuss wins now

Yep, and one might wonder the same about Almeida. I mean, he's not exactly Evenepoel's level, but definitely not someone who is generally dropped when the group still has 30+ riders in it..

[dodge 1,040]

TV were reporting he had a sour throat - quickly saying it wasn't covid - and yeah, you'd expect him to be in the final 8 every day

 

We're marc Soler away from a Jumbo 1-2-3 and they won't even have had to fight for it

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

Hopefully, this shit was their

 

 

moment for many. Hopefully.

 

[Federer91 3,030]

So we are heading to an all Jumbo podium right  Cycling is quickly becoming from one of the most unpredictable sports to F1. We only need orders from the boxes and a newspaper team photo finish at the end. 

[heywoodu 16,036]

39 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

So we are heading to an all Jumbo podium right  Cycling is quickly becoming from one of the most unpredictable sports to F1. We only need orders from the boxes and a newspaper team photo finish at the end. 

Yeah, this is F1's Schumacher-Ferrari era (or Mercedes-Hamilton, another one where the car was so dominant a second-tier rider could regularly win) all over again  

 

Doesn't help that some of the main challengers don't seem to be on point.

Edited September 8, 2023 by heywoodu

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