2017 Vuelta a España

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11 riders now have 36s over the peloton, no list of names yet...

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21 riders in the break

 

another 11 coming across 50s behind

 

Peloton 1m36 behind front of the race

 

Will post names as they become available

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HECTIC start to the race:

 

24 riders at the front, more attacks

13:28

After 41km, Enric Mas and Matteo Trentin (Quick Step), Damiano Caruso (BMC), Antonio Pedrero, Jose Joaquín Rojas and Marc Soler (Movistar Team), Lennard Kämna (Team Sunweb), Pawel Poljanski (Bora-Hansgrohe), Clément Chevrier and Axel Domont (AG2R-La Mondiale), Tom Scully, Toms Skujins and Davide Villella (Cannondale-Drapac), Maxim Belkov and Marco Haller (Katusha-Alpecin), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo), Sergei Chernetski (Astana), Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal), Giovanni Visconti (Bahrain-Merida), Lachlan Morton (Dimension Data), Guillaume Bonnafond and Dani Navarro (Cofidis), David Arroyo (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) and Ricardo Vilela (Manzana-Postobon) are 1'20" ahead of a 11 man chasing group. The peloton is at 1'40" and other riders are still trying to jump ahead.

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37 leaders, Sky chase

13:40

Alexey Lutsenko and Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana) and Guillaume Bonnafond (Cofidis) have joined the front of the race after 53km of hard racing. 
Sky lead the peloton 1'15" behind.

 

[ScottCM]

If he was to go on and win the Giro in 2018, Would that make it a Triple? Or is the cycling community pedantic and require it to all be in the same cycling calendar year?

 

 

I think the only way he will ever go to the Giro is if he has already won the Vuelta. Because no matter how many TDF's he has to his name, there is an even more elite club of riders who has won all three GT's and Nibali is in that club while CF ain't. Highly doubt it would be 2018 though. Personally i would enjoy seeing in at my favourite GT of the year, the Giro. 

[Shebeen]

I think the only way he will ever go to the Giro is if he has already won the Vuelta. Because no matter how many TDF's he has to his name, there is an even more elite club of riders who has won all three GT's and Nibali is in that club while CF ain't. Highly doubt it would be 2018 though. Personally i would enjoy seeing in at my favourite GT of the year, the Giro. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Cycling

 

yes, interesting, and Contador too

 

Winning all three grand tours in a career[edit]

Winning all three grand tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España ) in a career is sometimes named grand tour triple crown.^[14]

In bold the win that achieved a grand tour triple crown.

Cyclist Tour de France wins Giro d'Italia wins Vuelta a España wins  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 1960, 1964 1963  Felice Gimondi (ITA) 1965 1967, 1969, 1976 1968  Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974 1973  Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985 1980, 1982, 1985 1978, 1983  Alberto Contador (ESP) 2007, 2009 2008, 2015 2008, 2012, 2014  Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) 2014 2013, 2016 2010

 

[Shebeen]

quite cool - all the cyclists who have done all three GT in a calender year

Valverde in 2016 was a bit insane, 6,3,12th

Completing all three grand tours in one year[edit] Cyclists who have completed all three grand tours in the same year[edit]

As of 2016, 39 riders completed all three grand tours in the same year:

• 5 times - Adam Hansen (AUS) - 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• 4 times - Marino Lejarreta (ESP) - 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991
• 3 times - Bernardo Ruiz (ESP) - 1955, 1956, 1957
• 2 times - Eduardo Chozas (ESP) - 1990, 1991
• 2 times - Carlos Sastre (ESP) - 2006, 2010

[Shebeen]

Michael Woods featured pretty highly yesterday, here he is at 18

 

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/59265955621e6c1e048b48a6-604/mike%20rusty%20woods%20runner%20cyclist.jpg

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-rusty-woods-runner-cyclist-2017-5

[Oxter]

...

 

Let the others attack you and once they have played their hand throw down some fire and furry like the world has not seen before.

 

...

Fixed it for you

[Oxter]

Michael Woods featured pretty highly yesterday, here he is at 18

 

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/59265955621e6c1e048b48a6-604/mike%20rusty%20woods%20runner%20cyclist.jpg

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-rusty-woods-runner-cyclist-2017-5

i almost stop liking the guy, at first glance i though it was a hair bun on his head. if it was he would have been a trend starter though.

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Two leaders in the front holding on thus far:

 

B. Jungels  

M. Monfort  

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Starting to look more certain that the winner will be coming out of the breakaway group.

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2.31 ahead of the Peloton with 42.4 km to go . . .

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Next summit in 4.3km

[Gen]

40kg to go and Contador is putting some of the guys under a lot of pressure

 

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[Bonus]

Yep. CF had to work to stay on there.