Vuelta Stage 7 *spoiler*

andyp
andyp Posts: 10,549
edited September 2010 in Pro race
Flecha has abandoned due to the same illness that saw Swift and Augustyn quit.

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Meanwhile in the race, a break of 4, Dominik Roels (Milram), Martin Pedersen (Footon–Servetto), Vladimir Isaichev, (Xacobeo Galicia) and Jorge Montenegro (Andalucia Cajasur), have about 4 minutes with 45 kms to go.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Beautiful day. Nice climb, pointlessly positioned, unless you are
    Juan Antonio Flecha.
    Sky's Vuelta goes from bad to worse.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    16.5 KM to go. 1:37 lead for the break.


    SHould be brought back just in time.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    9km and 38 seconds
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    14 seconds at 7 kms.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Catch is made with just under 5KM to go.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Petacchi gets it.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Petachi ahead of Cav?
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Cavendish 2nd.
  • StefanP
    StefanP Posts: 429
    Pettachi for the win, but that looked a little dodgy to me!
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    That finish came very quickly
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Cav just boxed in. Had the speed but no shot.


    Now - if the situation was reversed and Cav did that to Petachi - Cav would probably get DQd
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    So, what happens there?
    Given what we have seen this season, Petacchi will be DQF'd and the win will go to Cav.
    Good to see the Manx man didn't get all hysterical and start waving his hands about, like a few others, recently.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    1. Petacchi
    2. Cavendish
    3. JJ Haedo
    4. Stauff
    5. Farrar
    6. Forster
    7. Bennati
    8. Gaspaotto
    9. Hutarovich
    10. Gilbert
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Petacchi should be Dq'd...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Cavendish will get to pull on the points jersey as a consolation prize.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Chalk another one up for the Teflon Don, assuming the commissaires don't DQ him. He did seem to veer a bit towards the barrier
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    That looked as bad as what Cav has been DQ'd for in the past.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    I would think because he drifted 'gradually' rather than sharply - he'll get away with it.
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    That looked as bad as what Cav has been DQ'd for in the past.

    Don't think it was that bad to be honest more of gradual drift to the right a bit unlucky for Cav to be boxed in as Harmon says.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • The Jack
    The Jack Posts: 52
    Cav simply didn´t have the legs.
    Or: considering the fact that he "only used 85 percent" in the Tour, this probably is some kind of sneaky tactic as he obviolusly uses only 75 percent...
    "Wo ist mein Fahrrad?"

    -Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk waking up from a coma after a crashing with his bicycle-
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Sprint was fine. Cav had the legs but allowed himself to get boxed, he didn't really have to slow down but just had no way out. Probably needed to give himself more room on the barrier side.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Overhead from 2.30:
    http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/201 ... 7272.shtml

    Petacchi tends to deviate from his line quite a lot. For sure he blocked the clear path for Cav, not dangerously, but enough for the close out. Cav wasn't even out the saddle so my guess would be that Cav would have taken it had he been clear.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Petacchi tends to deviate from his line quite a lot. For sure he blocked the clear path for Cav, not dangerously, but enough for the close out. Cav wasn't even out the saddle so my guess would be that Cav would have taken it had he been clear.

    Petacchi's sprinting has gone off line for years. In the Renshaw stage in the Tour he went from barrier to barrier, cutting off Farrar. But he never crashes, so no-one really notices.

    I think sprinting infringements in sprints might be becoming like fouls in the penalty area in football. If you make a conspicuous fuss, you get the decision and if you don't, you don't.
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