La Vuelta 2013 (24 Aug - 15 Sept) **SPOILERS**

[Noodley]

He's feckin older than me.
He's gotta be thinking one last hurrah.

His age is definitely one of the things that's sending out alarm bells; the oldest EVER. That's EVER! EVER...including all the "greats" of doping.

 

[Slaav]

Without draggin up old the old stuff yet again.... if someone's performance is a 'surprise' as it is really quite extraordinary, where does one draw the line?

i.e., Horner's age and performance? Wiggo's TdF win? Froomey's riding away in the mountains a la Pharmstrong?

If an exceptional performance signifies CERTAIN PEDs, then where does the line get drawn???? Either it is eyebrows raised = definite doping? Or it is 'let's wait and see'? or even 'finally he got it right'?

Difficult - thanks Pat!!! (Get that fat F****** out of post)

 

[montage]

Without draggin up old the old stuff yet again.... if someone's performance is a 'surprise' as it is really quite extraordinary, where does one draw the line?

At jokes about saints

 

[Crackle]

At jokes about saints

The mountain bike groupset, is it that good?

 

[thom]

Without draggin up old the old stuff yet again.... if someone's performance is a 'surprise' as it is really quite extraordinary, where does one draw the line?

Is he foreign...?

 

[Stonechat]

Gilbert has pulled out today - this is last man standing

 

[Noodley]

Are there problems with live coverage again? The link I can get for eurosport is yesterday's stage

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Are there problems with live coverage again? The link I can get for eurosport is yesterday's stage

Aren't you a bit early for the live coverage? I thought it was at 3pm.

 

[Noodley]

steephill had "live now" but maybe I am too early.

 

[smutchin]

That was a brutal stage, made to look quite easy by that cheating nobber Horner.
Everyone else was on the limit whilst he just seemed to glide along - he's either on the juice or I'm Mother Teresa

Possibly a case of seeing what you want to see?

If anyone made that look easy, it was Nibali, who seemed to be toying with Horner on that last climb. He looks like he's going to win this race at a canter.

Plus Horner did crack a bit - Nibali was finally forced to do some work in the final km and the gap to Purito and Sanchez was reduced to only a handful of seconds by the finish.

The way Valverde flew up the climb after he'd had his magic beans was perhaps more "interesting".

 

[smutchin]

Terrifying descending by Geniez!

 

[smutchin]

And Pinot is going well too. Definitely got his downhill mojo back. Hurrah!

 

[smutchin]

"@mrconde: Dani Moreno is killing it right now. Only 14 riders left in the peloton. Wait, Horner is there too. He is rider 15. #LaVuelta"

 

[Noodley]

Chapeau Geniez!

Allez FDJ!!!

 

[smutchin]

I'm trying my hardest to give Horner the benefit of the doubt but... increasingly, I'm ignoring the advice of my gut to do so.