Vuelta stage 16 *spoilers*
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FJS wrote:yes, Froome takes 2 seconds - 18 left
Smart riding, takes him within a stage win bonus of the lead."I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)0 -
J-Rod already 5 minutes behind. Looks like he'll finish, but his GC placing gone.0
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HTC caning it."I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)0
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Cancellara looks like he is going for it.x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
Commuting / Winter rides - Jamis Renegade Expert
Pootling / Offroad - All-City Macho Man Disc
Fast rides Cannondale SuperSix Ultegra0 -
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Bizar - Sagan straight into a roundabout just before the finish :shock:
Haedo takes it
Chaos0 -
Farcical finish.0
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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...0 -
Where were the barriers to stop riders going anticlockwise at that last roundabout?0
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Didn't look like there was a route round the right of the roundabout?? typical Vuelta confusion. :shock:0
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*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.0 -
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...0
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J Rod loses ten more minutes.0
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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...0
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He's Spanish, Spanish race. You don't think it will stay like that?0
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camerone wrote:He's Spanish, Spanish race. You don't think it will stay like that?
Sadly, this is absolutely true.0 -
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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 convenient0
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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)"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
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.'0 -
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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.....0 -
Seems the commisaires decided Froome came 4th in the intermediate sprint so he's not getting those 2 seconds.
1985 all over again?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:So JJ Haedo won.
A win for Leopard, for a change.
psst...or Saxo Bank even0 -
Was it clear he was third?
Edit just rewound it they may be right..... :roll:0 -
RonB wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:So JJ Haedo won.
A win for Leopard, for a change.
psst...or Saxo Bank even
Ah, fair enough.0 -
Haedo becomes first Argentine to win a grand tour stage0
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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 Froome0
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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.0 -
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.0