Vuelta a España 2014 Stage 16 *Spoilers*

RichN95.

Only about ten left.

Le Commentateur

Froome attacks.

adr82

Froome kicking it off

The_Boy

Froome ditches everyone bar contador.

adr82

Aru catching up to Valverde and J-Rod, who are 20-30s behind Froome and Contador

adr82

35s now, Contador valiantly wheelsucking ( :P )

Edit: 40s now, Froome headed for 2nd at least

Macaloon

Gladiators. +39 to Valve

gsk82

where's the coverage? AAAAARGH!!

philwint

this is great

adr82

1k, 40s, Contador glued to his wheel

adr82

Contador takes off, Froome can't follow him

The_Boy

Bert puts froome to the sword.

Macaloon

Alberto goes. Convincingly.

adr82

Froome about 13-14s back in the end

Meanwhile Valverde jumps J-Rod in the last few hundred metres, +53 and +57 respectively I think.

Froome 2nd on GC now?

Macaloon

Great win for the miraculous Contador +15s Froome +55s Valve.

Valve 2nd on GC by 3s

"What a beautiful final" - Sean Kelly

frenchfighter

BOOM

Le Commentateur

Nice podium battle set up now.

type:epyt

frenchfighter wrote:

BOOM

More of a 'pfft' wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, AC rode the stage perfectly given his lead over Froome but it wasn't exactly a champions win.

Macaloon

type:epyt wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

BOOM

More of a 'pfft' wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, AC rode the stage perfectly given his lead over Froome but it wasn't exactly a champions win.

Settles the question of who's second best to Quintana for this GT.

What a season that nearly was.

frenchfighter

type:epyt wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

BOOM

More of a 'pfft' wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, AC rode the stage perfectly given his lead over Froome but it wasn't exactly a champions win.

What is or was your other username?

type:epyt

frenchfighter wrote:

type:epyt wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

BOOM

More of a 'pfft' wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, AC rode the stage perfectly given his lead over Froome but it wasn't exactly a champions win.

What is or was your other username?

Eh? No idea why I would need another username to comment that AC's win wasn't all conquering like your multi-coloured, enlarged type faced, capitalised 'BOOM' indicated.

Or am I not allowed to contribute/comment on the days racing?

frenchfighter

Macaloon wrote:

type:epyt wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

BOOM

More of a 'pfft' wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, AC rode the stage perfectly given his lead over Froome but it wasn't exactly a champions win.

Settles the question of who's second best to Quintana for this GT.

What a season that nearly was.

Quintana and Contador have never gone toe to toe properly in a GT. Hopefully that will be in the Tour next year but would be nice if they both raced.
In TA this year Contador beat him convincingly. Beat him in Catalunya.
In fact over the 6 mountains this year, Contador has placed ahead of him on all 6.

Macaloon

frenchfighter wrote:

Quintana and Contador have never gone toe to toe properly in a GT. Hopefully that will be in the Tour next year but would be nice if they both raced.
In TA this year Contador beat him convincingly. Beat him in Catalunya.
In fact over the 6 mountains this year, Contador has placed ahead of him on all 6.

Pub talk for the off-season. If Contador can keep this up, Froome stay up, Quintana turn up, and World Champ Nibali be bothered, well 2015 ...

When was the last time there were 4 serious, equal, contenders for GTs?

Anonymous

This Vuelta has made me question not believing in God, after the miraculous Contadors ride.

RichN95.

All Froome has to do now is get Pete Kennaugh to ride alongside Contador poking him until he punches him.

(It has to be Kennaugh as he is small and I image he has the capacity to be really annoying)

type:epyt

Oleg and Pat having an interesting conversation on twitter.

Oleg also channeling his inner fan(tasy)boi with a 'shame on you' and 'true champion' thrown into the mix.

adr82

RichN95 wrote:

All Froome has to do now is get Pete Kennaugh to ride alongside Contador poking him until he punches him.

(It has to be Kennaugh as he is small and I image he has the capacity to be really annoying)

Wouldn't even have to poke him... could just constantly make this noise and Contador would crack and thump him pretty soon! Then it'd look unprovoked :P

blazing_saddles

Finally catching up.
A very enjoyable finish to a very tough stage.
This was always going to be more like a Froome type stage.
However, when he finally goes on an alien attack, the one legged gimp
manages to make him look more Clark Kent than Superman. :P

Bertie is definitely back to his pre ban climbing levels.
His words of warning yesterday, to his two compatriots proved prophetic.
They didn't work to distance the Sky man and today paid the price.

The battle for second is now what this race is about,

type:epyt

RichN95 wrote:

All Froome has to do now is get Pete Kennaugh to ride alongside Contador poking him until he punches him.

(It has to be Kennaugh as he is small and I image he has the capacity to be really annoying)

How many times do you think he'd have to ask 'Is your leg still sore?' before he got pistoleroed?

The_Boy

RichN95 wrote:

All Froome has to do now is get Pete Kennaugh to ride alongside Contador poking him until he punches him.

(It has to be Kennaugh as he is small and I image he has the capacity to be really annoying)

I'd go for the Snowman - could probably throw in some intra-Iberian bad blood.