Vuelta 2017, Stage 6 :Villareal to Sagunto 204.4 km

dastardly00

Nico could lose a chunk of time as Teejay is the Froome group.

EDIT: Teejay now dropped from Contador & Froome?

EDIT #2: It was Teejay who crashed!

Teejay's off

Gutted for him.

Inquitus

dastardly00 wrote: »

Nico could lose a chunk of time as Teejay is the Froome group

Didn't TJ go down?

It was bizarre there had already been 2 off there and he came down at the same spot.

dastardly00

Inquitus wrote: »

Didn't TJ go down?

Look at all my edits

dastardly00

Froome/Contador only 17 seconds ahead of the other GC favourites group.

dastardly00

21 riders in the Froome group now including Nico.
There's gotta be some GC guys missing.

retalivity

Ah bertie...what would we do without you

Looks like Yates and Del La Cruz should be ok to get back on there.

EDIT: Wait clock has them 30 second down now and not 10.

GetWithIt

dastardly00 wrote: »

21 riders in the Froome group now including Nico.
There's gotta be some GC guys missing.

Thanks. La Vuelta always seems to make a point of ignoring Nico. Listing the entire race card before him

MPFGLB

GetWithIt wrote: »

Thanks. La Vuelta always seems to make a point of ignoring Nico. Listing the entire race card before him

KIrby hardly mentions him as well

and ITV4 have totally ignored him crossing the line yesterday

Maybe he going for the LA Zubeldia award

jack01986

The official tracker timings are all over the place. Good to hear Nico is with Froome.

pelevin

Seems amazing that the chasing group of Contador, Froome, etc would get to within a handful of seconds, & then let them get away again.

MPFGLB

Nico cant ride as TJ is behind

Pity as I think he could have gotten bonus seconds

Inquitus

pelevin wrote: »

Seems amazing that the chasing group of Contador, Froome, etc would get to within a handful of seconds, & then let them get away again.

Well Froome, Contador, Chaves and the GC crowd don't really care, it's more down to whoever else is in that group who fancies a stage win.

Ouch bet Sanchez is kicking himself now

pelevin

Inquitus wrote: »

Well Froome, Contador, Chaves and the GC crowd don't really care, it's more down to whoever else is in that group who fancies a stage win.

But the group cared enough to get within a few seconds of them! And everyone likes a stage win!

MPFGLB

Climbing wise Froome & Contador are way out ahead

GetWithIt

I reckon Nico will pop off the front in the last k for a couple of seconds.
Won't get a mention mind you.

What was the on screen graphic there for TeJay? Mechanical?

pelevin

Yeh big eejit Van Garderen.

Irish flag flying large there at the end .

Inquitus

I think Contador wasted a lot of energy for little or no gain in the end, it certainly made the racing exciting, but I don't think today was the day for him to make it stick.

MPFGLB

Inquitus wrote: »

I think Contador wasted a lot of energy for little or no gain in the end, it certainly made the racing exciting, but I don't think today was the day for him to make it stick.

Yes...but then again he is may think he cannot win the Vuelta (which is true) so just make it exciting instead

retalivity

Inquitus wrote: »

I think Contador wasted a lot of energy for little or no gain in the end, it certainly made the racing exciting, but I don't think today was the day for him to make it stick.

Ye could also say he made the others waste energy as well chasing him...he seems to have the legs again anyway

Edit: bardet and pozzovivo lost over 6mins...stage wins it is so

MPFGLB

Nicolas Roche is riding so strongly...this is hard hard racing and he was I think 6th on the steepest part of the climb behind Contador & Froome, Chaves, Tejay & one other ....not bad at all . he went backwards for a while but then came back ..he fights and fights and deserve much admiration for that

Inquitus

MPFGLB wrote: »

Nicolas Roche is riding so strongly...this is hard hard racing and he was I think 6th on the steepest part of the climb behind Contador & Froome, Chaves, Tejay & one other ....not bad at all . he went backwards for a while but then came back ..he fights and fights and deserve much admiration for that

Sadly Angliru is like Roche's Kryptonite, highly impressive so far, perhaps a smash and grab on the red jersey is possible before the first rest day.

MPFGLB

Inquitus wrote: »

Sadly Angliru is like Roche's Kryptonite, highly impressive so far, perhaps a smash and grab on the red jersey is possible before the first rest day.

Stage 11 is also a dreadful stage for Nico

But all you can do is fight every day and see what happens...his TT is better than alot of riders in top 10


Wont get the red off of Froome unless Froome is isolated and its a sprint or an uphill (not long) finish..and then its doubtul...today was ideal if GC guys were alone up front ...its a long shot but anything can happen ...makes the Vuelta so good

MPFGLB

Aru looked in trouble on the climb ...but came back later

godtabh

It appears the BBC arent fans of nico either

ritain's Chris Froome extended his Vuelta a Espana lead by one second as Tomasz Marczynski claimed victory on stage six.

BMC's Tejay van Garderen, who began the day second overall, 10 seconds behind Froome, was involved in a crash and lost time on the Team Sky rider.

Orica-Scott's Esteban Chaves moves up to second, 11 seconds behind Froome.

Froome, 32, is aiming to become the third man to win the Vuelta and the Tour de France in the same year.

Van Garderen crashed when descending the day's final climb, on which Froome had defended himself from several Alberto Contador attacks.

At one point Van Garderen was almost two minutes behind Froome's group, but the American managed to reduce that gap, finishing only 17 seconds slower, despite suffering a second crash in the closing kilometres.

He is now in fourth place overall, 27 seconds behind Froome.

Spaniard David de la Cruz, who started the day in fifth, also lost 17 seconds on Froome, and he fell to sixth, with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali moving above him.

Poland's Marczynski was one of three breakaway riders contesting a sprint finish at the end of Thursday's 204.4km ride from Vila-real to Sagunt, in Valencia province.

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The Lotto-Soudal rider's countryman Pawel Poljanski of Bora-Hansgrohe was second, with Spain's Enric Mas of Quick-Step Floors in third.

With just under 14km to go it appeared the breakaway was about to be reeled in and the lead group's fourth rider, Luis Leon Sanchez, rejoined the peloton with the split down to six seconds.

However, the three remaining riders managed to break clear once again, and Spaniard Sanchez eventually finished fourth, eight seconds off the pace.

Froome's group finished 26 seconds further back.