Vuelta 2017: Stage 16: Circuito de Navarra - Logroño 40.2kms ITT *Spoilers*

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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Contador looked to set off a fraction before the countdown had finished.

    Did that mean you had to choose between Channel 4 and Eurosport?
    So did Lopez.
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  • RichN95.
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    r0bh wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bardet crashed. He's fine.

    Video of Bardet's crash: https://twitter.com/Eurosport_ES/status ... 9995807744
    If only there were some arrows there to warn him there was a bend coming up.
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Looks like he got a pedal strike and lifted the back wheel.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    RichN95 wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bardet crashed. He's fine.

    Video of Bardet's crash: https://twitter.com/Eurosport_ES/status ... 9995807744
    If only there were some arrows there to warn him there was a bend coming up.

    Hit the gas just as he thought "ah, it's even tighter than I thought."
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Contador sets the fastest time at the first check point.
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  • silvergrenade
    silvergrenade Posts: 79
    Red on the Team sky car behind Froome?
    Celebrating too early or is there something I'm missing?
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    silvergrenade wrote:
    Red on the Team sky car behind Froome?
    Celebrating too early or is there something I'm missing?

    https://twitter.com/TeamSky/status/905060973115039746

    Looks more pink than red in this photo
  • Dialatron
    Dialatron Posts: 1,101
    From Cycling News

    16:56:24 CEST
    Contador is flying! He sets 15:18 at the first intermediate pint after 13km. That's the fastest time so far!

    Intermediate pint - back to the 90's?
    Old, fat and that's just the bike.
  • silvergrenade
    silvergrenade Posts: 79
    r0bh wrote:
    silvergrenade wrote:
    Red on the Team sky car behind Froome?
    Celebrating too early or is there something I'm missing?

    https://twitter.com/TeamSky/status/905060973115039746

    Looks more pink than red in this photo
    Ohh...Okay.
    Orange it was. :D

    Contador really getting a great moto slipstream. Annoying.. :cry:
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Wonder how they'd get on with intermediate pints (surely cycling would insist on 500ml to keep it metric?) every 15 minutes. They'd all be falling off like Bardet.
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  • grenw
    grenw Posts: 804
    larkim wrote:
    As usual, live timing on http://racecenter.lavuelta.es/#/stageprofile shot to pieces, stuck with no updates since before Adam Yates set off (for me at least anyway!).


    Same here but this one's working :

    http://www.letour.fr/la-vuelta/2017/us/ ... -1600.html
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Kelderman up by 18 seconds.
    Froome slow at the mo.
    Chaves a full minute slower than Bertie.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Contador was once upon a time the best 3rd week TTer around (with a little moto drafting), so he ought to still be alright today.
    _
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    larkim wrote:
    Looks like he got a pedal strike and lifted the back wheel.
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bardet crashed. He's fine.
    Video of Bardet's crash: https://twitter.com/Eurosport_ES/status ... 9995807744
    If only there were some arrows there to warn him there was a bend coming up.
    Hit the gas just as he thought "ah, it's even tighter than I thought."
    Don't think there was a pedal strike, rather simply his centre of gravity changed (and he jerked the bike a little) when he decided to start pedalling again - too soon considering his angle, a novice's mistake
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,031
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Contador was once upon a time the best 3rd week TTer around (with a little moto drafting), so he ought to still be alright today.

    He rode a decent one in the tour this year. His engine seems fine. Tank less so.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Kelderman has just about caught Chaves.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    Zakarin 2nd fastest 16" behind Kelderman.

    Froome 4th at 23"
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,031
    Froome +23s at the first check point.
  • silvergrenade
    silvergrenade Posts: 79
    Kelderman
    Zakarin + 16
    Contador + 18
    Froom +23
    Nibali +25
    MAL +46

    Kelderman goddamn!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited September 2017
    Kirby notes that Contador's outriders are having difficulty keeping ahead of him.
    The others don't seem to have the same.....................problem.

    Froome starting to reel Kelderman in.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Come on Contador; don't nuke 10km from the finish...
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Kirby notes that Contador's outriders are having difficulty keeping ahead of him.
    The others don't seem to have the same.....................problem.

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    _
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Froome pacing it far better than everyone else, as usual
  • silvergrenade
    silvergrenade Posts: 79
    According to GPS, Froome is closing the gap to Kelderman, only 10s
    Also, Contador and Guardia Civil doing an amazing job! Ridiculous!
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Bertie sat up on the hooks and dying on his ar*e
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Aru mare
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Poels seems to be going pretty well
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,611
    Nibbles doesn't look to have a moto in front to tow him, whereas Contador and Wilco have two to tow them.......
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Carlton totally failing to recognise the actual timing point and thinking Kelderman had taken 1.5 mins out of Ludvigsson.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Keldermerckx almost half a minute quicker than Contador, but Froome is now ahead on the GPS.
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