Vuelta a España stage 7:

mr spuckler

This sounds a bit dramatic...
Double ascent of 'gear-wrecker' Orduña tests Vuelta a España peloton

Itziger

19k left till the end at the top of that. Doubt there'll be too much action but if you're isolated going up the second time and a strong team (Yes, Jumbo, or Ineos maybe now that they seem to have refound their jiffy bag, er mojo) were to distance you, those 19k could be costly.

Cartman78

Well lads....I'm looking for Vuelta highlights but not having much luck apart from the 5 min Eurosport ones on YouTube.

I know ITV4 have an hour long show in the evenings but the time is awkward and I'm with Sky so can't record it.

Cheers cm

mitchelsontour

Try NBCSports on youtube they usually have about a 20min highlights package

stage 6 below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HyLSzARKhk

breezy1985

Cartman78 wrote: »

Well lads....I'm looking for Vuelta highlights but not having much luck apart from the 5 min Eurosport ones on YouTube.

I know ITV4 have an hour long show in the evenings but the time is awkward and I'm with Sky so can't record it.

Cheers cm

I'm very quickly starting to hate that song that is at the start of Vuelta highlights

Late tuning in, how the hell did some of these guys get in the break. Must have been chaos?

Boscoirl

that Bora rider look seriously hurt, his bike is some distance off the road, did they catch what happened?

breezy1985

The break has 3/4 riders from some teams. It's about 1 GC man away from being a reduced peleton

mr spuckler

Boscoirl wrote: »

that Bora rider look seriously hurt, his bike is some distance off the road, did they catch what happened?

Yeah that looked pretty bad alright, the replay didn't seem to capture what happened, camera seemed to be quite a way behind.

Dodge

I know some don't want any commentator talk but Kelly being so happy with his Paris Cheese joke (in for Paris Camembert) made my day

Mefistofelino

Godon is some unit - like a latter-day Eros Poli

Dodge

Wow, Ineos have nobody in the peleton. Jumbo's big domestiques are in the break. Don't think there's any Israelis either. Are EF going to make a move for McCarthy?

Edit: Forgot Carapaz is in Red. Still looks like only 2 per team in the peleton

retalivity

no bother for old man valverde

mewso

Remind me never to play the Sean Kelly "yes, well" drinking game.

breezy1985

retalivity wrote: »

no bother for old man valverde

He just keeps rollin

dastardly00

Chapeau to 'Mick' Woods on the win.

Before the Vuelta I only ever heard him being called 'Michael'.

Dodge

Ended up being a classics kinda race. GC lads not interested. Big day tomorrow

redlead

Why do the RTE reports always tell you where Sam Bennet is placed in the overall standings as if it is of any relevance? I don't know why, but it's starting to annoy me.

Another entertaining race today I have to say. I never really watched the Vuelta before but there aren't too many dull races in it if this is anything to go by.

dastardly00

redlead wrote: »

Why do the RTE reports always tell you where Sam Bennet is placed in the overall standings as if it is of any relevance? I don't know why, but it's starting to annoy me.

That's par for the course for RTE. The concept of stage races & Grand Tours is not that difficult to understand but they don't seem to have a clue unfortunately.

neris

redlead wrote: »

Why do the RTE reports always tell you where Sam Bennet is placed in the overall standings as if it is of any relevance? I don't know why, but it's starting to annoy me.

Another entertaining race today I have to say. I never really watched the Vuelta before but there aren't too many dull races in it if this is anything to go by.

TodayFMs news report at 5pm was "Not a great day for Dan martin who finished 34th" and then went something like,, but holds 3rd and finished with the gc group. Do the sports depts of our radio and tv stations think frrome was top 3 on every stage he rode in his 3 in a row

Daroxtar

redlead wrote: »

Another entertaining race today I have to say. I never really watched the Vuelta before but there aren't too many dull races in it if this is anything to go by.

In the past 10 years, I'd say the Vuelta has been the most entertaining of the GTs for about 7 of them. There's nearly always some drama and unpredictability. Long range attacks and ambushes like Fuente De or Formigal have gone down in legend. Leadership changing hands in the last day or two is nearly the norm. Rarely ever does one team manage to put a dominant train in front to kill the excitement so you get real head to head battles and finally there's the pure brutality of some of the climbing.

breezy1985

dastardly00 wrote: »

That's par for the course for RTE. The concept of stage races & Grand Tours is not that difficult to understand but they don't seem to have a clue unfortunately.

I remember an interview with Cavendish years ago on Eurosport where he is talking about how angry he gets when people start asking him why he hasn't been able to win the Tour yet

Finnrocco

neris wrote: »

TodayFMs news report at 5pm was "Not a great day for Dan martin who finished 34th" and then went something like,, but holds 3rd and finished with the gc group. Do the sports depts of our radio and tv stations think frrome was top 3 on every stage he rode in his 3 in a row

I heard that and when they started with "not a great day ..." I assumed he was out the back.

Finnrocco

dastardly00 wrote: »

That's par for the course for RTE. The concept of stage races & Grand Tours is not that difficult to understand but they don't seem to have a clue unfortunately.

Actually it is a difficult concept for some people, I've often been asked if the leader gets an odd based on the fact that he's leading the race i.e. he starts 34 seconds (or whatever) ahead of the bunch.

Also people cant understand how the lad who comes in last in the bunch gets same time as the winner.

dastardly00

Finnrocco wrote: »

Actually it is a difficult concept for some people, I've often been asked if the leader gets an odd based on the fact that he's leading the race i.e. he starts 34 seconds (or whatever) ahead of the bunch.

Also people cant understand how the lad who comes in last in the bunch gets same time as the winner.

That's true for joe bloggs... but if people working in sports media/journalism are not grasping the concept, then they should have a think about switching careers.

Macy0161

It's worse with "Off The Ball"/ Newstalk/ TodayFM. Seem to have enough grasp of cycling to turn every conceivable good news story into one about doping. Even managed to do that with Sam's Green Jersey win - a couple of days after decide to have Whittle on.

Can grasp the nuances of the history of the sport, but not the concept of how the GC and stages work?

breezy1985

Finnrocco wrote: »

Actually it is a difficult concept for some people, I've often been asked if the leader gets an odd based on the fact that he's leading the race i.e. he starts 34 seconds (or whatever) ahead of the bunch.

Also people cant understand how the lad who comes in last in the bunch gets same time as the winner.

That's grand for regular folk but RTE and the likes pay people to know about sport but yet would be put to shame by half the multi sport enthusiasts that you would find in any pub in the country