La Vuelta a Espana 22/8 - 13/9 2015 (here be spoilers)

[deptfordmarmoset]

Sergio Paulinho hit by motorbike and out, 17 stitches... They are taking Tinkoff riders out one by one!

And Oleg Tinkov is thinking of withdrawing the team.

 

[tug benson]

Aru attacks

 

[tug benson]

Dumoulin doing ok

 

[smutchin]

I ummed and ahhed over which 2nd Astana rider to pick for today's stage in the punditry and ultimately went for Rosa rather than Landa... pah!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Froome is reported to look "not good" whilst climbing into team car

 

[JMAG]

He could barely stand, nevermind walk.

 

[Mattonsea]

An Astana one ,two. Nope don't believe that performance .

 

[rich p]

An Astana one ,two. Nope don't believe that performance .

To be fair, the only 2 who looked good, were the only 2 of the contenders who hadn't done the tour. The others looking exhausted made the Astana pair look correspondingly better.

 

[SWSteve]

Just sat down to watch the highlights on Eurosport. I'm feeling that this combined with Sean Kelly being in the cycling podcast I may earn myself an Irish accent before long

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Froome is reported to look "not good" whilst climbing into team car

On highlights he looked completely fecked.

 

[Mattonsea]

To be fair, the only 2 who looked good, were the only 2 of the contenders who hadn't done the tour. The others looking exhausted made the Astana pair look correspondingly better.

Yep taken account for there quiet July , it looked to good to be true, a brilliant plan , well executed but not believable.
On a stage that was heralded as the hardest this year , they mocked its toughness . No one in the tour put in a performance like that.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

An Astana one ,two. Nope don't believe that performance .

Maybe when Landa is riding for Sky it will be more believable. Boswell looked like he was coping very well.

 

[Crackle]

Boswell looked pretty good and I didn't really see a problem in Aru and this Landa who seems a different Landa to the Giro. Rodriguez rode the Tour too and he's doing well but still not too well.

 

[themosquitoking]

Boswell looked pretty good and I didn't really see a problem in Aru and this Landa who seems a different Landa to the Giro. Rodriguez rode the Tour too and he's doing well but still not too well.

He did that in the tour too the nobber.

 

[smutchin]

On a stage that was heralded as the hardest this year , they mocked its toughness . No one in the tour put in a performance like that.

Did you actually watch the stage or are you just trotting out a prepared line?