Vuelta stage 16 *spoilers*

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    FJS wrote:
    yes, Froome takes 2 seconds - 18 left :lol:

    Smart riding, takes him within a stage win bonus of the lead.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    J-Rod already 5 minutes behind. Looks like he'll finish, but his GC placing gone.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    HTC caning it.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Cancellara looks like he is going for it.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    What a ridiculous place to put the finish!
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Bizar - Sagan straight into a roundabout just before the finish :shock:

    Haedo takes it

    Chaos
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Farcical finish.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    edited September 2011
    Completely stupid to put the exit for cars there


    Still - you'd think teams with sprinters would have done their homework and informed their riders...
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited September 2011
    Where were the barriers to stop riders going anticlockwise at that last roundabout?
  • rajMAN
    rajMAN Posts: 429
    Didn't look like there was a route round the right of the roundabout?? typical Vuelta confusion. :shock:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    *rolls eyes*

    Mass pile up in week 3 (how often does that happen!) tips the thread into 3 pages.


    The odds were long, but they prevailed nonetheless.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    So a 3 week race with pretty much all the big name sprinters at the start, with only 3 proper sprinter stages (not uphill) has one of those messed up through organizational incompetence...
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    J Rod loses ten more minutes.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Provisional results give a 2 second gap between Cobo and Froome, and a further 3 seconds to Mollema and I guess Wiggins. That would be those 2 seconds Froome got at the sprint back... Can't imagine they let that stand with that finish...
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    He's Spanish, Spanish race. You don't think it will stay like that?
  • rocksteadyeddie
    rocksteadyeddie Posts: 294
    camerone wrote:
    He's Spanish, Spanish race. You don't think it will stay like that?

    Sadly, this is absolutely true.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So who crossed the line first?
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  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    Gc showing froome at 22 seconds? So he lost four seconds to COBO at end? Originally the result showed COBO at 2 seconds. So the organisation altered this to give COBO same time as winner. How convenient
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    camerone wrote:
    Gc showing froome at 22 seconds? So he lost four seconds to COBO at end? Originally the result showed COBO at 2 seconds. So the organisation altered this to give COBO same time as winner. How convenient

    No: Cobo still at 2 and Froome at 4 on the official site.
    Probably haven't added Froome's bonus seconds yet, 'tis all.

    Result could well stand, since the finish was clearly marked in the roadbook.(Harmon confirms book)
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    camerone wrote:
    Gc showing froome at 22 seconds? So he lost four seconds to COBO at end? Originally the result showed COBO at 2 seconds. So the organisation altered this to give COBO same time as winner. How convenient

    Probably haven't added Froome's bonus seconds yet, 'tis all.

    Result could well stand, since the finish was clearly marked in the roadbook.(Harmon confirms book)

    Basic (if occasionally f&*ked-up) rule of racing - onus is on the rider to know the correct route. Cobo finished 10th in the gallop - he was obviously paying attention to the road book. (or had been tipped off)
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    So JJ Haedo won.

    A win for Leopard, for a change.
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  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    LangerDan wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    camerone wrote:
    Gc showing froome at 22 seconds? So he lost four seconds to COBO at end? Originally the result showed COBO at 2 seconds. So the organisation altered this to give COBO same time as winner. How convenient

    Probably haven't added Froome's bonus seconds yet, 'tis all.

    Result could well stand, since the finish was clearly marked in the roadbook.(Harmon confirms book)

    Basic (if occasionally f&*ked-up) rule of racing - onus is on the rider to know the correct route. Cobo finished 10th in the gallop - he was obviously paying attention to the road book. (or had been tipped off)

    My beef was the four second gap at finish between COBO and froome, which was reported as two seconds. I hope blazing is right and froomes 2 seconds bonus have
    yet to be added.. If not they have closed COBO to same time as winner.....
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Seems the commisaires decided Froome came 4th in the intermediate sprint so he's not getting those 2 seconds.

    1985 all over again?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    So JJ Haedo won.

    A win for Leopard, for a change.

    psst...or Saxo Bank even :wink:
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    Was it clear he was third?

    Edit just rewound it they may be right..... :roll:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RonB wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    So JJ Haedo won.

    A win for Leopard, for a change.

    psst...or Saxo Bank even :wink:

    Ah, fair enough.
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Haedo becomes first Argentine to win a grand tour stage
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Yes, official (not provisional) results give Monfort instead of Froome as third at that sprint (and Haussler 2nd - why did he contest that sprint anyway?), and maintains the 2 second gap between Cobo and Froome
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Spanish incompetence or conspiracies aside, Froome and Wiggins should have ensured Cobo didn't gap them.

    Cobo deserves to keep those seconds as he was switched on and the Kenyan and the Belgian weren't.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Stunned that this is the first GT stage win for Haedo. I could have sworn that he'd won one 5 years ago.
    Delighted for him.

    Wonder if it'll make the Argentinian news.

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