Vuelta a España 2019 stage 6 > Mora de Rubielos - Ares del Maestrat 198.9km

MPFGLB

An Ardennes type finish ?

Means one thing really : Valverde
But probably Tuens or Gilbert from the breakaway ?
I guess the break going is all down to Movistar

Paddigol

Sam to do a Tony Martin and reinvent himself as the new Sagan. And Nico to get a tow back into red in his slipstream.

Or, yeah, Valverde to run Nairo off the road before attacking on his escape to victory.

Outside bet, one of those pesky UK riders who are constantly talked up as the next GC great, after slipping up the road because the rest of the peloton completely forgot about them, but never get much stick for flattering to deceive... so Hugh Carthy ftw.

Melodeon

Tom De Gendt was doing as little work as he could possibly get away with yesterday. Just saying...

MPFGLB

Diary Time

https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roche-for-a-long-time-today-i-was-in-the-red-in-more-ways-than-one-38447019.html

c.p.w.g.w

Melodeon wrote: »

Tom De Gendt was doing as little work as he could possibly get away with yesterday. Just saying...

Kirby also said today's stage was a de gendt type stage

Lotto were looking interested but it's Wout Poels and Lawson Craddock up the road at the minute with less than 20 seconds of a gap.

retalivity

Poels...he's really gone off a cliff this year

MPFGLB

MPFGLB wrote: »

An Ardennes type finish ?

Means one thing really : Valverde
But probably Tuens or Gilbert from the breakaway ?
I guess the break going is all down to Movistar

Good shout for Tuens, he's part of the group of 11 thats away now.

MPFGLB

retalivity wrote: »

Poels...he's really gone off a cliff this year

Not as much as de La Cruz.... did a fab Vuelta in 2017 went to Sky and has been buried since

neris

Uran & Carty abandoned for EF

dahat

Roche abandon as well.

dastardly00

F**k

c.p.w.g.w

What happened? Big crash?

dahat

Huge crash apparently, Eurosport should have pictures after this add. It must have been a high speed one to result on this many abandons.

MPFGLB

F*****************************************************************************K


Nico said last night and he was confident he could do a top 10 here
Knew it would be hard but best form in years plus fresher than most Vuelta's in recent years and thought he could get better as days went on
Plus he would have taken time back on some GC guys in the iT


That is the worst luck

c.p.w.g.w

EF have been involved in about 4 crashes already. Uran hit the deck at least 3 times before today

MPFGLB

Nicolas Roche has crashed very heavily before ( Vuelta 2015) and kept going
Crashed in this years Tour and was hurt but kept going

Has to be serious for him to abandon

neris

https://twitter.com/TeamSunweb/status/1167061468543639552?s=19

dahat

Twitter talk has Uran with broken collarbone.

MPFGLB

after all my talk about him it looks like de La Cruz could be riding back into the top 10 today esp with Uran, de La Porte & Nico out

and G Bennett & Higuita on the ground today


and now Formolo not looking great at the back

MPFGLB

What a disaster of a year for Sunweb

MPFGLB

Yep ..de La Cruz is now virtual 5th of GC

Tejay off on a descent.

De la Cruz and Tuens are 1 and 2 on the virtual GC now.

Oliveira looks back and sees Tunes and Herrada coming and mouths the spanish equivalent of FFS

MPFGLB

Yes de La Cruz has gone backwards

Terrible day for EF and Irish hopes

Pogacar looking for seconds here , good on the lad. Unreal how similar his style is to Dan Martin.

MPFGLB

George Bennett said a EF rider went down first in the big crash

c.p.w.g.w

MPFGLB wrote: »

George Bennett said a EF rider went down first in the big crash

Thought he said it was either a EF Rider or Tony that went down first

Tejay managed to finish after his crash, last in at nearly 25 minutes down.

TheBlaaMan

No broken bones fioe Nico, it seems, but pretty badly knocked about...

c.p.w.g.w

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Tejay managed to finish after his crash, last in at nearly 25 minutes down.

Didn't see his crash, but the group he was in was going downhill at some pace, he was very lucky to get back on the road

c.p.w.g.w

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Didn't see his crash, but the group he was in was going downhill at some pace, he was very lucky to get back on the road

He must have been off the front of the group as the others passed him and he was in a bush.

c.p.w.g.w

Deleted User wrote: »

He must have been off the front of the group as the others passed him and he was in a bush.

Yeah he was trying to bridge over to the 2 at the front of the race, wasn't very far ahead if memory serves

letape

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Tejay managed to finish after his crash, last in at nearly 25 minutes down.

Tejay is incredible - such a gutsy, brave rider. He never gives up and fights so hard. Never fails to deliver for his fans.

Lusk_Doyle

letape wrote: »

Never fails to deliver for his fans.

To deliver what exactly?

letape

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

To deliver what exactly?

I was being sarcastic - overrated and never fails to disappoint is more accurate

MPFGLB

Formolo cant start today after yesterdays crash and there a few other guys really badly beaten up

Here is the diary on it. Safety is not an option at this Vuelta

https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicholas-roche-the-crash-that-ended-my-vuelta-was-one-that-really-shouldnt-have-happened-38449807.html

MPFGLB

and what is really upsetting is that todays finale really suited Nico Roche ...the steep Muir