Vuelta 2022

[Vetplant]

Meintjies in a good place position on the road. Could make big moves on GC. Top 3 finish on the stage is within reach. 

['Dale]

Thymen Arensman, heading to the highest budget team next year, takes his first win after Marc Soler ran out of gas up this mighty mountain. 
Another good defence by the red jersey as many thought, including myself, he would capitulate after yesterday’s performance. It’ll be a suspenseful final week, hey.

[Vetplant]

Louis suddenly a good bet to achieve back-to-back GC top 10s in Grand tours!

Enough climbing left for him to take the required 5s on Hindley or for someone else in the GC battle to blow up unexpectedly.

GO LOUIS!

['Dale]

Meanwhile, on the island

[DJuice]

20 hours ago, Vetplant said:

Louis suddenly a good bet to achieve back-to-back GC top 10s in Grand tours!

Enough climbing left for him to take the required 5s on Hindley or for someone else in the GC battle to blow up unexpectedly.

GO LOUIS!

Is there are riders that is doing TDF/Vuelta double?

 

[Vetplant]

1 hour ago, DJuice said:

Is there are riders that is doing TDF/Vuelta double?

 

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Funny you should ask. Yes there are some riders that are doing the Vuelta after doing the TDF this year. They are:

DEGENKOLB John

DURBRIDGE Luke

FROOME Chris

JUNGELS Bob

KIRSCH Alex

KUSS Sepp

LUTSENKO Alexey

MAS Enric

MCNULTY Brandon

MEINTJES Louis

MÜHLBERGER Gregor

O'CONNOR Ben

OLIVEIRA Nelson

OWSIAN Łukasz

PEDERSEN Mads

PINOT Thibaut

ROGLIČ Primož

SÁNCHEZ Luis León

SOLER Marc

URÁN Rigoberto

VAN BAARLE Dylan

VAN POPPEL Danny

VERONA Carlos

WOODS Michael

WRIGHT Fred

 

Disclaimer: This is only the list of the ones that were on the startlists for both events. I'm not going to go through the list to see who stands to complete both this year. I know Roglic didn't finish TDF, so there are bound to be more like him.

[milky4130]

22 hours ago, Vetplant said:

Louis suddenly a good bet to achieve back-to-back GC top 10s in Grand tours!

Enough climbing left for him to take the required 5s on Hindley or for someone else in the GC battle to blow up unexpectedly.

GO LOUIS!

it would be great but I doubt it will be Jai or Ben, maybe Thymen or Joao 

['Dale]

Met eish. Waarheid.

Edited September 6, 2022 by 'Dale

[lechatnoir]

Ai, poor old Rog. He looked quite beat up at the end yesterday. Daniel Friebe had a look where he crashed and it looked like a lump of plasticene.

I can't quite believe the luck of both Remco and Primoz yesterday

[TheoG]

14 minutes ago, lechatnoir said:

Ai, poor old Rog. He looked quite beat up at the end yesterday. Daniel Friebe had a look where he crashed and it looked like a lump of plasticene.

I can't quite believe the luck of both Remco and Primoz yesterday

I completely missed this, since it was 'n plat soos 'n pannekoek stage, I didn't watch.

What happened to them?

[lechatnoir]

4 minutes ago, TheoG said:

I completely missed this, since it was 'n plat soos 'n pannekoek stage, I didn't watch.

What happened to them?

it wasn't pancake flat at all. After the intermediate sprint, the bunch caught a 2-man break and crested a decent climb, then inside the last 3km Rog attacked and 4 guys went with him. Then Remco punctured. This invoked the 3km rule, then in the final sprint, Rog crashed and got the same time as the winner, Pedersen, while Remco got the time of the bunch, 8s behind. Rog looked like a dazed pavement crayon. It was eina just to see the image.

Anyway, questions were raised as to how punctured Remco's puncture was. Afterwards, he said he's not the type to fake a puncture and actually had eyed a stage win.

[TheoG]

41 minutes ago, lechatnoir said:

it wasn't pancake flat at all. After the intermediate sprint, the bunch caught a 2-man break and crested a decent climb, then inside the last 3km Rog attacked and 4 guys went with him. Then Remco punctured. This invoked the 3km rule, then in the final sprint, Rog crashed and got the same time as the winner, Pedersen, while Remco got the time of the bunch, 8s behind. Rog looked like a dazed pavement crayon. It was eina just to see the image.

Anyway, questions were raised as to how punctured Remco's puncture was. Afterwards, he said he's not the type to fake a puncture and actually had eyed a stage win.

Just saw it was not flat but also not a mountain stage, hence I didn't expect Primoz to take any time, but then he actually did !!!

At what penalty, we have to wait and see, he looked VERY eina.

[Johan A Marais]

Sad

[Gr3mlin131]

What a way for Louis to make it into the top 10 😅

1 minute ago, The Commuter said:

Sad

 

[Vetplant]

7 minutes ago, The Commuter said:

Sad

Aaag F%k!

[Vetplant]

5 minutes ago, Gr3mlin131 said:

What a way for Louis to make it into the top 10 😅

 

Silver linings hey...