The Vuelta with spoilers

[semakof]

So tomorrow, into the Mountains. Lets see how the classification will end. I am certain the Leaders Jersey might change. Lets see.

 

[rich p]

Pissing down while JV show their strength

 

[roadrash]

Bernal having a go with roglic following

 

[mjr]

Bernal and Rogliĉ 40 seconds ahead of peloton, Eiking 50 seconds out the back. Not sure where Martin is.

So is Bernal likely to break Rogliĉ enough today or will this mainly be to the detriment of Mas and Lopez? Did anyone see why neither has followed?

OMG Rogliĉ actually looks like he's working!

 

[mjr]

Rogliĉ back in virtual red, 5 seconds ahead of Martin who is probably in the peloton 50s back then... yep, just shown hanging on the back.

Bernal is smiling. He is still not alone, though.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Yep - here are the times:

Primoz Roglic leads the virtual standings of La Vuelta
14:33
The gap to the Martin group is up to 45'', and Eiking trails by 1'45''.

 

[mjr]

Rogliĉ was handed a rain jacket. He dropped it to the floor. Not sure if intentional. Then he takes a newspaper from a fan and shoves it down his jersey. Not seen Bernal take anything yet. I wonder if this descent is long enough and fast enough to get cold. Bonus seconds on the summit and I think Bernal took most of them.

 

[mjr]

Vlasov and Eiking both crash on the same corner. Eiking low-sided, probably due to extra braking trying to to avoid the Vlasov group whose crash was off-camera.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Ouch! Vlasov and a couple of others down, nasty

 

[roadrash]

thats nasty

 

[mjr]

The sad thing is that I have to step away for a while now but I stayed because I thought that wet descent was going to cause some problem. At least I thought it would be missed-rain-jacket-related again, rather than crashes. Still no news on whether Vlasov and co have got up. Eiking is rolling again but lost a bunch more time.

Rogliĉ and Bernal now 90s ahead of a small peloton led by Haig's team. The Movistar duo are in there but have no helpers.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Two most boring teams in pro cycling

 

[mjr]

Two most boring teams in pro cycling

Not much of an exciting team move, was it? It looked like the usual boring tactic: run a train on the front to grind your opponents, then launch your leaders. The excitement may come if others in the peloton can do anything on the final climb, but so far, TBV were trying to imitate TJV and IGD and sitting on the front but failing to catch the two escapees and now they seem to have run out of engines.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Nope, it wasn't. Nevertheless Jumbo and Ineos are too often panned as play it safe, grind them down teams - yet so far today is up there with Majka's attack in terms of excitement in this arguably fairly boring vuelta (certainly way worse than last year's).

 

[Adam4868]

Was allways going to be today and tommorow....great attack by Bernal to light the stage up ! Is Roglic going to feel it in his legs tommorow