Vuelta a Pais Vasco ***Spoiler***

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,667
edited April 2015 in Pro race
Not a cobble in sight (there might be), some stage racing this week. Quintana leads as favourite, other than him its the B team GC men and up and comers. 6 stages, all lumpy, 2 uphill finishes and one uphill TT.

Start list: http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Vue ... -startlist

Route map: route-map-640.jpg




Fraile Matrranza, of Caja Rural, up the road solo, 30 Km to go. Saying around 2 minutes.


Stage one live here now: http://www.sportingvideo.tv/20150406/vv ... 42452.html
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Break caught on final climb, 3 riders attacked, Arredondo, an AG2R, and Lotto (red).

    16 to go. Descent to the finish. Sprint likely. Swift or Matthews my choice.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Lot's of attacks before the end of the climb, Kwia, Taarame but Sergio Henao has a gap.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The worst camera work I've ever seen.

    All together 4.7k to go
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Attacks pinging off from about 4k to go.

    Big crash in last 500m.

    Matthews wins.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Did they have a baboon operating the motobike camera?
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  • earthvspace4XTuUWcX
    earthvspace4XTuUWcX Posts: 322
    RichN95 wrote:
    Did they have a baboon operating the motobike camera?

    I was watching on cricfree tv so made the picture quality even worse :lol:
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Spanish camera work is always bad, but this guy managed to beat all comers.
    The Basque Jack Douglas.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Was Ben Swift caught up in the crash or something?

    Hopefully Adam Yates will put in a decent ride.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
    Milton50 wrote:
    Hopefully Adam Yates will put in a decent ride.

    I think he broke a finger in a crash today.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Milton50 wrote:
    Was Ben Swift caught up in the crash or something?

    Hopefully Adam Yates will put in a decent ride.

    Nope. Over 3 minutes down. Surprising, given how he was climbing last week.
    Must have gone pretty deep, trying to hang on for the overall.

    As to Adam Yates:
    67 YATES Adam: right hand fractured
    185 EDET Nicolas: fractures rib + right collarbone
    18 STETINA Peter: fractured right knee cap + tibia plateau + several ribs
    171 PARDILLA Sergio: broken left wrist + head trauma

    So, a pretty catastrophic crash.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
    Caused by a wayward post on the route, with no signage or marshall to indicate it was there I believe.

    Welcome to Spain.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Lecuisinier also broke his elbow in a separate incident today
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Unbelievable!

    https://twitter.com/JeremyPen/status/58 ... 48/photo/1
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    What a joke.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Saw a vid of the crash, last corner, a couple of hundred meters from the line. Unforgivable. Two posts in the road, nothing to pick them out or protect them but a traffic cone on top. Race organizers should be sued.
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    I saw talk of this on twitter last night but hadn't seen the pictures. That is an absolute disgrace.
  • gpreeves
    gpreeves Posts: 454
    The video looks even worse (on the left hand side).

    https://youtu.be/-f0wCkcg8Uw?t=544

    Terrible crash - made even worse by it being entirely avoidable. Ensuring rider safety should be the bare minimum requirement for a World Tour race.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Joelsim wrote:
    Unbelievable!

    https://twitter.com/JeremyPen/status/58 ... 48/photo/1

    Wow that is unacceptable. UCI and the teams need to give these Basque boys a drilling for that.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    WTF? I saw the last 10k last night but couldn't figure out what caused the crash. That is totally unacceptable.

    Couldn't they have put up barriers? It wouldn't be that hard surely?

    If Fabian wants to have a moan about this I'd be fully in support.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    Unbelievable!

    https://twitter.com/JeremyPen/status/58 ... 48/photo/1

    Wow that is unacceptable. UCI and the teams need to give these Basque boys a drilling for that.

    That really is an appalling lack of concern for rider safety. We're asking these men and women to take risks enough for our entertainment, without exposing them to certain accidents through crap like that.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Start of today's stage was delayed due to a (entirely justified in my opinion) rider protest

    http://road.cc/content/news/147708-vide ... ntry-crash

    Just seems completely insane to leave those posts there. Obvious thing to do would surely be to set up the spectator barriers the other side of the posts and remove them from the finishing straight entirely. Road looks plenty wide enough.
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    It is hard to comprehend how the race organiser thought a few traffic cones were sufficient to mark those bollards.

    Between this farce and the Shimano Circus on Sunday, the riders need to get together and formalise some kind of proper rider's representative body that is perhaps funded by the UCI and also receives a donation from all World Tour Teams. Given that the likes of ASO and RCS are primarily concerned with their annual profit margins, the riders have little or no input into how the sport is evolving. No riders, no sport; so the riders have quite a significant bargaining chip in this game. It's time they made their collective voice heard.

    DD.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I'm totally and utterly shocked at the lack of thought that went into this. It's only a matter of time until someone is killed as opposed to 'simply' broken kneecaps and months out of racing.

    It's totally unacceptable.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Some riders comments:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders- ... ntry-crash
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Feline wins, MM still in GC lead.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    edited April 2015
    I saw the crash on the live footage i recorded, I can't believe it was those metal poles with the bollards on!!

    I mean come on, this is the pinnacle of the sport, this is meant to be World Tour Proc cycling ffs!! :x

    It's the equivalent of going to Old Trafford to watch United v Liverpool only to find the goalposts have been replaced with jumpers.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Ashbeck wrote:
    I saw the crash on the live footage i recored, I can't believe it was those metal poles with the bollards on!!

    I mean come on, this is the pinnacle of the sport, this is meant to be World Tour Proc cycling ffs!! :x

    It's the equivalent of going to Old Trafford to watch United v Liverpool only to find the goalposts have been replaced with land-mines.

    FTFY
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Feline wins, MM still in GC lead.

    hipster-cat-win-240x300.jpg
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Nice sprint from Felline.

    Stage 2 Results
    ITA 1 FELLINE, Fabio (TREK FACTORY RACING) 4:32:32
    AUS 2 MATTHEWS, Michael (ORICA GreenEDGE)
    POR 3 FARIA DA COSTA, Rui Alberto (LAMPRE - MERIDA)
    POL 4 KWIATKOWSKI, Michal (ETIXX - QUICK STEP)
    BEL 5 GILBERT, Philippe (BMC RACING)
    FRA 6 REZA, Kévin (FDJ)
    FRA 7 SIMON, Julien (COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS)
    ESP 8 BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA, Pello (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA)
    ITA 9 AGNOLI, Valerio (ASTANA)
    BEL 10 MEERSMAN, Gianni (ETIXX - QUICK STEP)
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Ashbeck wrote:
    I saw the crash on the live footage i recored, I can't believe it was those metal poles with the bollards on!!

    I mean come on, this is the pinnacle of the sport, this is meant to be World Tour Proc cycling ffs!! :x

    It's the equivalent of going to Old Trafford to watch United v Liverpool only to find the goalposts have been replaced with land-mines.

    FTFY

    Cheers Doc! :D

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