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Interesting to see the top 10 on Monday after the three great competitions finished...

Quote from: babygun on November 08, 2020, 11:41:54 AM

Didn't have much time to watch the Vuelta but Roglic deserved the victory. He was the strongest and won 4 stages!
Tim Wellens was also a revelation with 2 wins.

Up to the next season!

Let's go! It is not about time, it is about desire, there is always time when things are wanted, this thread helped me to be updated.
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By the way I liked these data that this user commented on twitter:

Last generals finished by Roglic!!

1º Vuelta a España

2º Tour de Francia

1º Tour de l’Ain

1º Vuelta a España

3º Giro de Italia

1º Romandía

1º Tirreno

1º UAE Tour

4º Tour de Francia

1º Tour de Eslovenia

1º Romandía

1º Itzulia

¡Genio!
Source:https://twitter.com/AlbertoArauzM/status/1325213136371200001

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Primoz Roglic saved his season, good for him.

Also Froome was given the trophy of the 2011 Vuelta he retroactively won, changing all the statistics. He's now the first Briton to win a grand tour instead of Wiggins !

https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/la-vuelta-2020-chris-froome-lifts-the-vuelta-trophy.-nine-years-on-from-his-win_sto7985141/story.shtml

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Didn't have much time to watch the Vuelta but Roglic deserved the victory. He was the strongest and won 4 stages!
Tim Wellens was also a revelation with 2 wins.

Up to the next season!

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La vuelta stage 18 ACKERMANN. Madrid "Zarzuela" with latin flavor.

Primoz Roglic !!
2nd place Carapaz and 3rd place Carthy completed the final podium in La Vuelta.

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Interesting to see the top 10 on Monday after the three great competitions finished...

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Quote from: morvillz7z on November 06, 2020, 09:45:38 PM

Roglic has a comfy lead imo, the first place and La Roja should be out of the question.

Boy, was he close to lose yet another grand tour in the final stage, props to Carapaz for making it interesting in the final kms of the La Covatilla climb.

That's back-to-back Vueltas for Roglic, but he needs to add the Tour de France title to his resume. Not sure how easy is that going to be with Ineos putting a crazy good team next year, Froome will be motivated to shush his critics being that with a new team (Israel Start-Up Nation). Speaking of TdF, the route for the 2021 edition was released earlier this week, double climb of Mont Ventoux (11th stage), 2 x TT and Tourmalet (18th stage)...looks good.

https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-11

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The Vuelta is coming to the end, tomorrow everything will be finished. My favourite Roglic was doing well and he is coming closer to the final win so I hope this will be the final outcome and I'll win the bet. I also hope that the weather forecast for tomorrow is good. Anyway, it was another good race, looking forward for the next one.

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1  PRIMOŽ ROGLIC       64h 20' 31''
2  RICHARD CARAPAZ   + 00h 00' 45''
3  HUGH JOHN CARTHY  + 00h 00' 53''

source: https://www.lavuelta.es/en/rankings

One stage left to go today, if we don't count the one on Sunday which is like in Tour de France, a parade, celebrating the winners if you will.
The riders will have fairly easy job with just one decent climb 11.4km at 7.1% (Alto de La Covatilla), there's another one but it's too early placed in the stage.
Roglic has a comfy lead imo, the first place and La Roja should be out of the question. What remains to be seen is, can EF Pro Cycling and Hugh Carthy take second place, Carapaz has just 8 seconds lead.

I don't know what's the weather forecast for the final climb @La Covatilla but i would like to see some snow. Grin

Riders got through a pretty bad rainstorm the other day, so a little bit of snowing should be the perfect ending to a very chaotic season.

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Quote from: morvillz7z on October 31, 2020, 06:29:27 PM

You guys watching the Vuelta?
Just a quick reminder that we have one of the best and hardest climbs tomorrow, the stage will finish @ Alto de L’Angliru, a must watch!
Contador's win at L'Angliru in 2017 is in my top 5 favorite cycling moments ever, epic solo ride to conclude an amazing career for the Spaniard.

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"Angliru starts off relatively easy - the average gradient on the first 5 km is 7.6 %, enough to hurt but well within the realms of rideable for a professional. The sixth kilometre is easy, flattening for a while and even descending for a short way. From then on, it gets tough. Very tough. The average gradient for the last 6 km is 13.1 %, beginning to stretch the boundaries of what can be done - but, as if that wasn't harsh enough, there's the Cueña les Cabres 3 km from the top with a gradient of 23.8 %."

source: http://killingmontezoncolan.blogspot.com/2012/03/alto-de-langliru-vuelta-alto-de.html

I've never watched the Vuelta, as the Tour de France already takes a lot of my time in the year. I found a quick video of stages 11&12 of this year's Vuelta : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_w3Uc2oeS0

Indeed that Angliru looks very nice, I will find a fuller video to watch the climb in full.

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I can't say I watch Vuelta very carefully but I drop an eye from time to time.
Roglic is my favourite although he might not have the biggest chance to win the race but this year Tour the France showed us that everything is possible. But the most important is the good and exciting race.

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I only got to watch very few unfortunately and had basically no bets, because there are so many other different things going on and watching/following Cycling is really time-consuming. The Vuelta has strangely always been my favourite GT, because it used to take place when there was also the Tennis US Open running and NFL started as well around that time always. Were always super busy, but very exciting weeks, where I would watch the Vuelta 3-4 hours, then switch over to Tennis and later that ~~day~~ night add some NFL, amazing Grin

Looking at the GC, it's the skijumper's to lose with the TT coming up on Tuesday and the rest of the week not being super demanding at least profile-wise. Only obstacle will be the Alto de la Covatilla (11.7k @6.9%), where you won't lose a lot of time normally. But there is the Angliru today as you mentioned, which is one hell of a climb.

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You guys watching the Vuelta?
Just a quick reminder that we have one of the best and hardest climbs tomorrow, the stage will finish @ Alto de L’Angliru, a must watch!
Contador's win at L'Angliru in 2017 is in my top 5 favorite cycling moments ever, epic solo ride to conclude an amazing career for the Spaniard.

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"Angliru starts off relatively easy - the average gradient on the first 5 km is 7.6 %, enough to hurt but well within the realms of rideable for a professional. The sixth kilometre is easy, flattening for a while and even descending for a short way. From then on, it gets tough. Very tough. The average gradient for the last 6 km is 13.1 %, beginning to stretch the boundaries of what can be done - but, as if that wasn't harsh enough, there's the Cueña les Cabres 3 km from the top with a gradient of 23.8 %."

source: http://killingmontezoncolan.blogspot.com/2012/03/alto-de-langliru-vuelta-alto-de.html

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Quote from: aesma on October 26, 2020, 09:45:42 AM

Congrats Tao Geoghegan Hart for winning the Giro ! Now how do we say your name again ?

Congrats also to Arnaud Démare (funny name in French) for winning the points classification !

It was kind of surprise to me but congratulations, of course. And it was good Giro despite all circumstances with pandemic and everything. Although I bet on cycling quite often this time I didn't have much luck. But this is also the beauty of gambling and although things don't always turn how we play it's fun.

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Congrats Tao Geoghegan Hart for winning the Giro ! Now how do we say your name again ?

Congrats also to Arnaud Démare (funny name in French) for winning the points classification !

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Quote from: tyKiwanuka on August 10, 2020, 05:33:30 AM

Cycling was for a long time my favorite sport to watch and to bet on. I always adored the cyclists for their dedication, idealism, and willingness to suffer. And cyclists are tough as nails - I always laugh at footballers lying on the pitch, screaming and doing Hollywood with minor injuries Cheesy

When there is some crash, the first thing these people do is to look for their bike, because they want to keep going and not lose any time.

That's true, that is how a good cyclist will act after having a crash, even though they are already injured with the out blood they will continue the race until they finish the line, that is why I always want to watch a bike race because it is very entertaining and I admired every cyclist and that is also one of my favorite sports to bet, I want to enjoy while having a bet, it would be a great feeling winning the bet and watching the race, maybe this what would you feel if you are also a cyclist.

About tough cyclists, here is a tweet from Chloé Dygert, don't look if you're queasy : https://twitter.com/chloedygert30/status/1309342151034261504

She crashed and got a deep and large laceration on her leg, yet her first thought was to climb back on her bike and still try to win, until she saw the injury.

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Imagine if we had this at Tour de France before the final stage... Shocked

source: https://www.giroditalia.it

I don't want jinx Tao Hart like i did Geraint Thomas, but he has to crash two or three times, and he will probably still beat Hindley.

I'm still wondering what could have happened if Sunweb had Hindley wait for and help Kelderman @Stelvio, maybe those 2+ min loss of time could have been avoided somehow.

Anyway, Ineos and Filippo Ganna should let Rohan Dennis win tomorrow's TT, he deserves it 100% after what he did Thursday and today.

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Quote from: Alucard1 on October 19, 2020, 04:54:56 AM

Quote from: tyKiwanuka on August 10, 2020, 05:33:30 AM

Cycling was for a long time my favorite sport to watch and to bet on. I always adored the cyclists for their dedication, idealism, and willingness to suffer. And cyclists are tough as nails - I always laugh at footballers lying on the pitch, screaming and doing Hollywood with minor injuries Cheesy

When there is some crash, the first thing these people do is to look for their bike, because they want to keep going and not lose any time.

That's true, that is how a good cyclist will act after having a crash, even though they are already injured with the out blood they will continue the race until they finish the line

They are astonishingly tough. But it's not just this ability to jump back on the bike after having a crash, it's also the ridiculous levels of bravery they exhibit. They've all had big crashes before, but it doesn't slow them down one bit. You see them pedalling as hard as they can whilst riding steeply downhill on a wet mountain road. It takes a lot to be a top cyclist... the combination of physical ability and mental attitude that are demanded are perhaps unmatched in any other sport.

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Such a beautiful shot, 10/10!
It was a pretty entertaining stage from start to finish, you can't expect anything less when you have a famous and brutal climb like Stelvio.
Rohan Dennis was exceptional today, a TT specialist like him outran most climbers and GC guys, too bad Tao Hart couldn't capitalize completely by taking the pink jersey in the end.
The top 3 riders are within 15 seconds, but it's between Kelderman and Hart for the Giro win, i think Hindley will lose time on the last TT on Sunday.
I've read that dell'Agnello is removed from the 20th stage, interesting to see if Ineos can set up the pace like today and make it tough for Sunweb.

Hindley and the jacket Grin

https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/giro-d-italia/2020/giro-d-italia-jai-hinley-almost-crashed-trying-to-get-his-jacket-when-climbing-stelvio_vid1373859/video.shtml

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Quote from: tyKiwanuka on August 10, 2020, 05:33:30 AM

Cycling was for a long time my favorite sport to watch and to bet on. I always adored the cyclists for their dedication, idealism, and willingness to suffer. And cyclists are tough as nails - I always laugh at footballers lying on the pitch, screaming and doing Hollywood with minor injuries Cheesy

When there is some crash, the first thing these people do is to look for their bike, because they want to keep going and not lose any time.

That's true, that is how a good cyclist will act after having a crash, even though they are already injured with the out blood they will continue the race until they finish the line, that is why I always want to watch a bike race because it is very entertaining and I admired every cyclist and that is also one of my favorite sports to bet, I want to enjoy while having a bet, it would be a great feeling winning the bet and watching the race, maybe this what would you feel if you are also a cyclist.

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Quote from: aesma on October 18, 2020, 03:00:32 PM

So, Kelderman seems to be the favorite to win this. However, being the favorite these days is not necessarily a good thing, what do you think ?

Well, the Giro is known for crazy stages and we still have 3 mountain stages plus an ITT. Add some bad weather and 3-4 minutes are not a lot. And we have a new round of Corona tests on tomorrows rest day....although during the week everyone was negative. But it's really a strange edition this year and we will most likely have a winner, who would have never won under normal circumstances. The field was pretty weak from the start, because most riders chose to do the Tour/Vuelta double this year (or just the Tour). And then the two best riders had to leave the Giro Tongue

The Vuelta will start on Tuesday btw with quite some climbing on first stage already.

Quote from: tyKiwanuka on October 17, 2020, 05:06:34 AM

Castroviejo tb De Gendt @2.15

Lost. Castro did was he supposed to do and finished 8th, while TdG had one of his better days and only missed the podium by 2secs.

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So, Kelderman seems to be the favorite to win this. However, being the favorite these days is not necessarily a good thing, what do you think ?

@morvillz7z : more importantly these "old" riders have shown their limits.

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