La Vuelta SPOILERS.

[Domus]

Is there anyone at all who can tell me what on earth Movistar are doing?
I'm certainly no expert but......................................?

 

[Mike_P]

Is there anyone at all who can tell me what on earth Movistar are doing?
I'm certainly no expert but......................................?

Trying for team award no doubt aka TdF

 

[Adam4868]

Is there anyone at all who can tell me what on earth Movistar are doing?
I'm certainly no expert but......................................?

I feel there nearly there,it's a tactical balancing act.Today they rode so hard they dropped themselves.Tommorow we regroup and do the same again ?
ps did you know Valverdes 40 🙄

 

[Domus]

I think Valverde must have some kind of hold on the DS . Soller is much more likely to win GC at a grand tour but the way the team go about things is bonkers. I know that Carapaz won the Giro for them last year but they seem to have returned to bonkers ways .

 

[ColinJ]

I think Valverde must have some kind of hold on the DS .

The DS is taking Piti on him...?

 

[Eziemnaik]

I think Valverde must have some kind of hold on the DS . Soller is much more likely to win GC at a grand tour but the way the team go about things is bonkers. I know that Carapaz won the Giro for them last year but they seem to have returned to bonkers ways .

Valverde is forever leader, but he gave us some great racing two days ago, so...

Movi set up Mas yesterday for the win
They have been saying publicly they wanted to make this stage difficult
Mallorquín apparently knows this climb very well, but could not capitalize on it (the fact that it was resurfaced this month, from something resembling almost gravel might have something to do with it) - or he simply did not have legs

TBH chapeu to them - at least they gave it a go, you can not blame them for that, too many teams ride defensively

 

[matticus]

Valverde is forever leader, but he gave us some great racing two days ago, so...

Movi set up Mas yesterday for the win
They have been saying publicly they wanted to make this stage difficult
Mallorquín apparently knows this climb very well, but could not capitalize on it (the fact that it was resurfaced this month, from something resembling almost gravel might have something to do with it) - or he simply did not have legs

TBH chapeu to them - at least they gave it a go, you can not blame them for that, too many teams ride defensively

Yup, and you can't blame them for Rog being the stronger rider.

(but who does Mallorquín ride for?? )

 

[Eziemnaik]

For Movistar?

 

[Adam4868]

To be fair to Movistar they rode the stage to perfection if Mas had the legs to finish it...he didn't.They started the stage with three riders in the top ten and all three lost quite a bit of time.Mas must have lost close to a minute ?
They knew how to put the pressure on yesterday but couldn't finish it.

 

[mjr]

Today they rode so hard they dropped themselves.

A recurring tactic employed by soooo many teams this season.

 

[matticus]

" Adam4868 said:
Today they rode so hard they dropped themselves."

A recurring tactic employed by soooo many teams this season.

No need to remind us that you'd like every team to use the Ineos Train approach.

;-)

 

[mjr]

No need to remind us that you'd like every team to use the Ineos Train approach.

Only so it fails and they learn not to be so boring again!

 

[Adam4868]

No need to remind us that you'd like every team to use the Ineos Train approach.

;-)

Did I say that ? Didn't think so...

 

[Adam4868]

Only so it fails and they learn not to be so boring again!

Absolute load of bollox...again.You telling me the giro was boring ? The tour ?

 

[matticus]

Did I say that ? Didn't think so...

It's probably just the way my nested quote is appearing on your phone/tablet/watch/HUD.