Vuelta 2014, **el sp-olé-rs**

[The Couch]

Bertie doing his best Horner 2013 impression, trying to avoid his saddle as much as possible
Froome narrowly avoided a wall in the descend

Valverde puts in the fast 1st intermediate

 

[tug benson]

Contador best at first split

 

[The Couch]

Sanchez has lost about 20s (in total) to Martin at the 2nd point, meaning the 30-ish seconds of Contador or Valverde might be enough to hold on

 

[tug benson]

offt...man down

 

[tug benson]

quintana down

 

[tug benson]

he will be out

 

[The Couch]

Quintana just crashed

 

[Crackle]

Fantastic road.

 

[tug benson]

his nerves will be shot

 

[The Couch]

He'll probably ride it out, but he will lose many minutes in this one

 

[jifdave]

oooh that was a big crash

 

[jifdave]

froome now looking super smooth on the flat stuff

 

[tug benson]

Uran doing well

 

[tug benson]

Contador looking the best so far

 

[montage]

Silly!

It will probably cost him a good 2-3 minutes that. Considering he was struggling already in this TT, this could be a 4-6 minute time loss!!

Froome down on Contador - certainly looks off form, though it is the final time that counts