Vuelta Stage 13 *Spoiler*

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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    gabriel959 wrote:
    I thought it was a good stage, probably the best I have seen in this years vuelta.

    It was a half decent stage but it wouldnt be hardto be the best so far given how lacking in excitement this Vuelta has been. GC riders that dont attack doesnt really make for good viewing as Blaze says the yawnfest continues .Still there is always tommorrow.........
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    edited October 2012
    mistake
    Contador is the Greatest
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    Hmmm. Valv predicts Cadel's legs will struggle. Cadel gets a shockingly bad wheel service from the 'neutral' service car. Any connection?

    Great ride from Ezequiel and good recovery from Sammy. Please, anyone but Valv...or Basso.
    Rather thought the same myself.
    There is no such thing as neutral in Spain,ask Robert Millar
    so many cols,so little time!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy... but maybe the neutral service mechanics are working for neutral service because they can't get a gig with a pro team. Anyone remember that day in this year's Tour when Voigt went in the break and had a puncture... by the time neutral service had changed his wheel, Jens was halfway through War and Peace.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I remember that day, he almost ate the cameraman's liver with a nice bidon of Zipvit
  • The emu
    The emu Posts: 347
    Cadels quote on Twatter...
    A puncture in a crucial moment of the #Vuelta I can handle. Useless neutral assistance and media blocking the road I really don't deserve..

    and then
    And I get 10" penalty for getting a bottle after my wheel/bike change yesterday.... We are in Spain...

    and this on his website...
    Phhhhh.... All good until a ridiculous misfortune when I punctured. Puncturing at that moment is bad luck, but the imbeciles from Shimano neutral service COULD NOT CHANGE MY WHEEL! Err...slight problem when the GC group is riding away from you on the second last hilltop finish of the Vuelta. So of course the Tv and photographers want to capture this dramatic moment, so then they blocked the team whilst doing so, leaving Nick the quick thinking team mechanic running up the hill through a traffic jam with my spare bike. Well at least I could continue....1'23" later.... Now i'm 4th at some ~1'23" - by coincidence? After the BS I have been through just to get to this race, i am not so sure i deserved that.
    The long grazed legged one
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    The emu wrote:
    Cadels quote on Twatter...
    And I get 10" penalty for getting a bottle after my wheel/bike change yesterday.... We are in Spain...

    WAAAAAH.

    It was blatantly obvious and the commissaire was about 5 metres away looking directly at him. The same thing happened to Leipheimer in the 2007 Tour de France. Rules is rules.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    By the way, Danielson, Herrero, Moreno and Carrera were also penalised yesterday.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I thought they were lenient in cases where you've been dropped because of a mechanical - bit harsh to penalise him in those circumstances - if he'd just been shelled out for lack of legs then fair enough.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • jim one
    jim one Posts: 183
    afx237vi wrote:
    The emu wrote:
    Cadels quote on Twatter...
    And I get 10" penalty for getting a bottle after my wheel/bike change yesterday.... We are in Spain...

    WAAAAAH.

    It was blatantly obvious and the commissaire was about 5 metres away looking directly at him. The same thing happened to Leipheimer in the 2007 Tour de France. Rules is rules.

    Yes but he didn't exactly hold on for very long did he....was like 3 or 4 seconds and the team manager did not appear to floor it like you see with other teams in similar incidents. Seems harsh to me.

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