Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2020 (La Vuelta Ciclista a España)

[heywoodu 16,476]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

Should think Carthy will challenge Carapaz for second at least. Not really expecting another Roglič collapse.

But where? There doesn't really seem to be any realistic place for an attack on this climb. Nobody wants to go too early and after that the parts to make significant differences are done.

[Grassmarket 4,321]

Carthy is going for it.....

 

Carapaz now, is getting a gap on Roglič, Carthy.

 

Carapaz has 20 secs...

[heywoodu 16,476]

Carapaz

[Grassmarket 4,321]

Roglič in trouble!  Surely not enough distance....

 

Roglič just does it, keeps it to about 22 secs

[heywoodu 16,476]

Fantastic attempt, great and very deserved show of respect from Roglic to Carapaz after the finish.

[Federer91 3,392]

Oh man, i was seeing Roglic losing another GT in the final day, but it's not to be  

[Grassmarket 4,321]

8 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Oh man, i was seeing Roglic losing another GT in the final day, but it's not to be  

Was feeling sorry for his poor girlfriend at one point, surely no woman has suffered more.  

[heywoodu 16,476]

A little over 10k to go in the Vuelta and with that, the top level cycling season. This whole last week has been a bit of an....anticlimax, after a fantastic start the Vuelta has slowly fizzled out with not much interesting going on except for basically the last 15 minutes yesterday.

 

That was to be expected, considering the choices made by the organizers in terms of the route, hopefully next year they won't decide for a mostly empty last week again.

[heywoodu 16,476]

Ackermann wins it and denies Quick-Step their 6974th chance for the 100th GT stage win  

 

 

Excellent sprint between by far the two best sprinters in this field.

[Grassmarket 4,321]

Ackermann gets the final sprint from Sam Bennett by about a tyre’s width.