La Vuelta 2023: Stage 2: Mataró - Barcelona, 181.8km ***Spoilers***

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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268
    rick_chasey said:

    Micky mouse this.

    Anyone doing better with rider ID?

    PCS live feed?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Moto coverage is poor
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    TdG
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Alas not
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Kron with 700m to go.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Kron?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Lotto win with Kron.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    That coverage was a shambles.

    It’s 2023 and it’s a world tour race. We should be able to identify riders better than that.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited August 2023
    The sudden weather change threw them a curve ball ... Were the roads too dodgy to race normally?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Really pleased for Kron, he's been due a result for ages
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Do we have the GC yet?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    mididoctors said:

    Do we have the GC yet?

    I checked a couple of minutes ago and 130 riders were yet to cross the finish line.
    (probably it's just the usual organiser efficiency)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458
    Lol


    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458
    Can't be true.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited August 2023
    That's really bad if they are relying on Spectator phone footage
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268
    PCS has whole peloton given same time, only DNF Oscar Onley, shame.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    I see only top 2 on GC listed?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    orraloon said:

    PCS has whole peloton given same time, only DNF Oscar Onley, shame.

    There should be movement on GC for a few riders because of the time bonus points



    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Also was the peloton together at 9k ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268
    orraloon said:

    PCS has whole peloton given same time, only DNF Oscar Onley, shame.

    Update: now PCS listing all over the place. This has a v Spanish vibe to it 😉
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226
    What's the point of watching if its not a race?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    kingstongraham said:

    What's the point of watching if its not a race?

    I've not watched a minute yet.
    Hopefully that will change tomorrow.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    orraloon said:

    orraloon said:

    PCS has whole peloton given same time, only DNF Oscar Onley, shame.

    Update: now PCS listing all over the place. This has a v Spanish vibe to it 😉
    First 130 riders are ST, after that it's those who didn't make to the 9km mark losing various amounts of time.
    Pierre Latour last and 9 minutes and change.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:

    Rider safety is one thing but a team telling everyone else to slow down because it doesn’t suit one of their leaders p1sses me off. Someone should have told them to FRO.

    Quite.
    As I said at the time and now that the dust has settled. Jumbo bullying the peloton to slow down did cost DSM the leader's jersey.
    The gap to the breakaway, at that time, extended by almost a minute and both Romain Bardet and young Brit, Max Poole now sit just 13 seconds down.

    What irked me further, was when Michael Storer and Santiago Buitrago crashed and got in a tangle, nobody saw fit to drop the anchor in the peloton. Certainly Buitrago could be considered as a GC possible top 10.

    Nothing to do with unwritten rules in that case, just elitism.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Did I hear that Roglic fell off again on Stage 2 or am I imagining that?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Did I hear that Roglic fell off again on Stage 2 or am I imagining that?

    No, he did fall.
    Controversially Jumbo held up the peloton for him, but not for anyone else who crashed.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226
    pblakeney said:

    Dorset_Boy said:

    Did I hear that Roglic fell off again on Stage 2 or am I imagining that?

    No, he did fall.
    Controversially Jumbo held up the peloton for him, but not for anyone else who crashed.
    How can jumbo hold up the peloton if other teams don't let them?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,482
    kingstongraham said:

    pblakeney said:

    Dorset_Boy said:

    Did I hear that Roglic fell off again on Stage 2 or am I imagining that?

    No, he did fall.
    Controversially Jumbo held up the peloton for him, but not for anyone else who crashed.
    How can jumbo hold up the peloton if other teams don't let them?
    They did. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
    They will be reluctant to to it again. Jumbo could have shot themselves in the foot there.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268
    That's a little biased. There were riders from several teams at the front waving 'slow down' after that #n off on that roundabout, where Rog was brought down as was G, if commentators were identifying correctly.

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