Vuelta a Espana Stage 5 *SPOILER*

DeadCalm

Today's stage is 188.7km from Granada to Roquetas de Mar. Apologies for the paucity of the thread but I'm busy today. If anyone can add further information, feel free.

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Dorset_Boy

Is the last climb selective enough to ditch the sprinters?

inseine

Dorset Boy wrote:

Is the last climb selective enough to ditch the sprinters?

Probably, but will they try, knowing that there's 26k afterwards to get back on? It's true that the weakish sprinters field means there might not be many teams chasing.

TheBigBean

Kirby is commentating on a possible Simon Clarke victory.

TheBigBean

Alessandro De Marchi, Simon Clarke and Bauke Mollema with 1km to go are playing games. Chasers are 15s behind

TheBigBean

Joy for Kirby!

Rudy Molard will take red. (He was in a group of three behind the leading three)

tim000

terrible coverage . 700m to go and they are showing the peleton 6 mins down . :roll: :roll: :roll:

specialgueststar

TheBigBean wrote:

Rudy Molard will take red. (He was in a group of three behind the leading three)

Very pleased for him

ShutupJens

Sounds like another riveting day on the Vuelta.. I like the mental mtfs that they usually have but the rest of the race is pretty nondescript isn't it

pat1cp

Yesterday was good, Lotto Jumbo looked ace. Stage 3 and today, meh. But I'm pleased for Mollard.

Lanterne_Rogue

ShutupJens wrote:

Sounds like another riveting day on the Vuelta.. I like the mental mtfs that they usually have but the rest of the race is pretty nondescript isn't it

Made up for by everyone accepting this is what a grand tour does, rather than decrying it as the end of all cycling and demanding Dave Brailsford's head on a stick because whatever. Vuelta mainly suffers from being at the wrong end of the season, when people are on holiday or getting excited about football again
Personally I'm happy put to learn I'm not missing much, as the only racing I've seen from my tent is the local sailing regatta
and I'm not even sure the boats knew what was going on.

ddraver

As a keen sailor I am totally happy to admit it makes zero sense to any spectator. It doesnt even really make sense on the boat usually...

I can't understand why I can never get excited about the Vuelta. It's not like I watched much cycling this year, it cant be spectator burnout...I ve even cancelled my ES Player as I just wasnt gonna use it...

RichN95.

The last time FdJ led a Grand Tour was the 2004 Giro

RichN95.

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

V2018 FdJ
V2018 Sky
V2018 BMC
T2018 Bora
T2018 Quick Step
G2018 Mitchelton
G2018 Sunweb
T2017 Astana
G2017 Movistar
G2017 Lotto Soudal
T2016 Dimension Data
G2016 Lotto Jumbo
V2015 Katusha
T2015 Trek
G2012 EF Education
G2012 UAE (as Lampre)
T2009 AG2R

mamil314

Zomg team Cannondale won a GT stage, very nice!

bobmcstuff

RichN95 wrote:

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

T2009 AG2R

But I thought Bardet was the Next Big Thing (tm)!!

Or is that Latour now on that team?

DeadCalm

I thought the stage was okay. Not great but certainly not terrible. A typical GT transition stage really.

DeadCalm

bobmcstuff wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

T2009 AG2R

But I thought Bardet was the Next Big Thing (tm)!!

Or is that Latour now on that team?

Think you'll find, even to his biggest fans, Bardet was never the Next Big Thing. He was the Great French Hope which is quite different. The Next Big Thing, according to many on this forum, is apparently Bernal and at the time Bardet was emerging would probably still have been Quintana.

AG2R's lack of recent leader jerseys is partly down to their focus on the Tour. An on-form Bardet would have a great chance of winning this Vuelta for example.

richard_t._biscuit

TheBigBean wrote:

Kirby is commentating on a possible Simon Clarke victory.

Stopped clock and all that.

Vino'sGhost

mamil314 wrote:

Zomg team Cannondale won a GT stage, very nice!

Missed it!

takethehighroad

RichN95 wrote:

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

V2018 FdJ
V2018 Sky
V2018 BMC
T2018 Bora
T2018 Quick Step
G2018 Mitchelton
G2018 Sunweb
T2017 Astana
G2017 Movistar
G2017 Lotto Soudal
T2016 Dimension Data
G2016 Lotto Jumbo
V2015 Katusha
T2015 Trek
G2012 EF Education
G2012 UAE (as Lampre)
T2009 AG2R

I went through these trying to name the rider for each of these, but couldn't remember the Lotto Soudal rider.

It's a fun game that killed 2 minutes

blazing_saddles

Many thanks to Dead Calm for taking up the baton. Much appreciated.
Catching up with the race and the teams and riders who have come to play at the season's last chance saloon.

ddraver

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

V2018 FdJ
V2018 Sky
V2018 BMC
T2018 Bora
T2018 Quick Step
G2018 Mitchelton
G2018 Sunweb
T2017 Astana
G2017 Movistar
G2017 Lotto Soudal
T2016 Dimension Data
G2016 Lotto Jumbo
V2015 Katusha
T2015 Trek
G2012 EF Education
G2012 UAE (as Lampre)
T2009 AG2R

I went through these trying to name the rider for each of these, but couldn't remember the Lotto Soudal rider.

It's a fun game that killed 2 minutes

I'm rubbish at this...I'd hazard a guess at Greipel (from a 1st stage sprint victory), or Thomas de Gendt doing what he does best...

RichN95.

ddraver wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

The last time each Grand Tour team led a Grand Tour (Bahrain are yet to do so):

V2018 FdJ
V2018 Sky
V2018 BMC
T2018 Bora
T2018 Quick Step
G2018 Mitchelton
G2018 Sunweb
T2017 Astana
G2017 Movistar
G2017 Lotto Soudal
T2016 Dimension Data
G2016 Lotto Jumbo
V2015 Katusha
T2015 Trek
G2012 EF Education
G2012 UAE (as Lampre)
T2009 AG2R

I went through these trying to name the rider for each of these, but couldn't remember the Lotto Soudal rider.

It's a fun game that killed 2 minutes

I'm rubbish at this...I'd hazard a guess at Greipel (from a 1st stage sprint victory), or Thomas de Gendt doing what he does best...

Yeah, Greipel

DeadCalm

Lolz, Bouhani, who finished dead last and 25:26 down, given a 20 second time penalty for punching his own team car.

Molard also given a 20 second penalty for taking a feed inside the last 20km so his lead is down to 41 seconds.

m.r.m.

DeadCalm wrote:

Lolz, Bouhani, who finished dead last and 25:26 down, given a 20 second time penalty for punching his own team car.

Bouhanni's penalty was for incorrect feeding as well. Probably had a knuckle sandwich.