Vuelta Stage 12 SPOILER

avoidingmyphd
avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
edited September 2009 in Pro race
Where is everyone? I get to start the thread!

There's a big break 6:30-ish up the road. Vino's in it.
So we get the two stories I guess we expected today.

1. Can he stay away?
2. Can Valverde postpone his off day and keep the gold for one more day at least?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
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    The latest non-starters:

    Farrar
    Marco Marcato
    Vitaliy Buts
    Alberto Fernandez
    Gerdemann

    ...175 left.

    Breakaway:

    DURAN DAROCA Arkaitz (105), HESJEDAL Ryder (114), RAMIREZ ABEJA Javier (027), FREIRE GOMEZ Oscar (151), GARCIA DA PENA David (215), VINOKOUROV Alexander (039), FERNANDEZ BUSTINZA Bingen (076), BOZIC Borut (202), EL FARES Julien (075), SANCHEZ PIMIENTA Julian (081), FEDRIGO Pierrick (041) and O'GRADY Stuart (198)

    7 minutes.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    God, Gerderman really took Big Sean's comments to heart, eh?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    3 summit finishes in 3 days. Survival of the fittest.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    iainf72 wrote:
    God, Gerderman really took Big Sean's comments to heart, eh?

    Poor Linus :cry:

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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Apparently Gerdemann still has the effects of a crash in the 11th stage to Murcia. He crashed because he couldn't brake: after a puncture the team mechanic gave him a spare wheel with aluminium rim while he had brakes for carbon rims....
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    hmmm. Vino is the first not able to follow the pace of the breakaway on the second climb. Freire, Hesjedal, Bozic and O'Grady dropping Vino?
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Respect for Adam Hansen not chucking a water bottle on the road. "A little bit left leaning" according to the commentary :?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    On here live with half the race left!
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    What a difference a pint of blood makes
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Just beat me to it! :wink:
    Disco Tom still riding towards the front of the group, which says a lot.
    Valverde has gone into those awful "chicken shorts".
    Vino, badly needs some 4 star plasma. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Is the Aussie commentator Nathan O'Neill again?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Is the Aussie commentator Nathan O'Neill again?

    You are joking :shock:
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Matthew Keenan.

    The pace is really slow.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The Aussie knows his riders, he can spot who is who a mile off.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Tommy D looking good 8)
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    where the heck is Cadel Evans?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    donrhummy wrote:
    where the heck is Cadel Evans?

    Still lurking. Gesink looks kinda puffed already... but maybe that's his style.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    donrhummy wrote:
    where the heck is Cadel Evans?

    He's in the white jersey
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Vino DNF... HAHA :lol:
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    afx237vi wrote:
    Vino DNF... HAHA :lol:

    You've made my day!
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    RichN95 wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    where the heck is Cadel Evans?

    He's in the white jersey

    LOL, no I meant it more like: why is he in such a bad position, so far back in the peloton.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    There's only 5 KM left and no one's doing much
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Cunego with a big attack... J Rod following.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Now Mosquera.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    I think the next two days are in their minds and no one wants to wear themselves out.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Apparently Mosquera has got 15sec from the rest of the favourites group.

    The two at the front have got 2km to go!
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    go gesink!!!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Well, Pokerface will be happy
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    RichN95 wrote:
    Well, Pokerface will be happy

    Damn straight!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Gesink. Lighting things up once again. Missed him in the Tour. Is an overlooked challenger to Contador and he can TT better than Schleck.
    Contador is the Greatest

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