Vuelta stage 20. Corvera → Alto de El Angliru - 119km

I'll miss Bertie's mad beaming face as he shakes his hips up ultra-steep climbs.

Well done Bertie!

Hunterbiker wrote: »

Bonkers stage.
I'd say Kirby is getting emotional at the prospect of Contador taking the stage.

And if he does what a way to end your career.

Thought froome was going to catch him there.

I hope Conor Dunne makes it up. Twould be a sickener to get to the penultimate stage and miss the time cut.

ThisRegard wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Digger_forum/status/906547457999417344

The sight of that acceleration through the corner was what prompted my earlier comment about Poels rolling a cigarette as he paced Froome up. Looked like he could just do whatever he wanted in terms of pace. Handy domestique to have.

Excellent stage to have as the penultimate, onwards to Madrid tomorrow. Shame Contador lost so much time in Andorra, we could have had a 3 way battle between him, Nibali and Froome for the GC. Chapeau to Froome, winning 2 Grand Tours back to back is some achievement. Chapeau to Bertie for rolling back the years and delivering some special performances on Angliru and Los Muchahos where he narrowly missed out to Aqua Blue's own Denifl.

Delighted for Contador. Really thought for a moment that Poels was going to go after him. The way he has finished this race make you wonder if he might reconsider retirement if his initial thought to retire was based on that he could no longer do it at his level.

Sky so strong again. At one stage there were 12 riders in the following group, halfway up the climb, and 6 were Team Sky. Lots of buzz about how Poels and Froome accelerated around that corner and up the slope. It did become a following wind at that point but with everything about Sky it does make you think.

And thank goodness the Eurosport Player came back alive! I found a Danish stream that was pretty stable, but the accent was beginning to grate on me.

Daroxtar wrote: »

Conor Dunne finished 26:27 down on Bertie.

https://twitter.com/AquaBlueSport/status/906557831704399873

Looks like they all made the cut

David De La Cruz abandoned after his crash. Very unlucky.

Fabio Aru was a big loser today. Dropped from 8th to 13th in GC.

Nico moved up one place to 14th overall.

Happy to see Tejay van Garderen finish 10th, good achievement from him

at1withmyself wrote: »

Happy to see Tejay van Garderen finish 10th, good achievement from him

Yes, good work by him, but He was pretty anonymous throughout.

^ Oh to have legs like that... I'm saying no more.

ronoc wrote: »

Can't get my head around his cadence on this ramp

https://twitter.com/cronoescalada/status/906566816801193984

And it's also how relaxed he is to keep looking around to see how Froome is going as he took the front. If you're on the limit, balance-wise, focus, you keep as much of yourself besides your legs still as you can. To be on one of the most brutal climbs in cycling having climbed most of it, to be following an acceleration from your team leader who has dropped everyone else in the group, to accelerate past him on the very, very steep inside of the corner, and do this whilst casting regular looks around to make sure you're not going too fast for that leader . . . pretty insane stuff.