The Vuelta!

[Warnesy]

Starting tonight, is anyone else excited? It always seems to be the most interesting of the three for me. Jumbo go in clear favourites, but end of the season tour always throws up some surprises.

Timing is a bit ordinary. I think SBS on demand in the morning will be in order.

[MichaelB]

Weather has been pretty damp and dark.

Will watch St2 highlights tonight.

The TTT looked like a horrible stage to ride !! Lotsa water and quite dark in the end

[fat and old]

The young bloke, Evenepoel, is really starting to assert his inner Boss! Shades of Hinault or….. dare I say it……Armstrong .

[familyguy]

Their motto so far appears to be "Safety: Optional".

[MichaelB]

Thomas was the big loser last night. Haven’t watched it yet but Remco’s stack past the finish line made me snigger a bit

[warthog1]

It was an ill timed celebration that caused it. Still it was GT stage win, there should be room to celebrate over the line.
He seemed to interview ok afterwards however, and put it behind him quickly, it appeared. Pretty good for such a young fella to recover his composure that quickly I thought.

[Mr Purple]

Apparently the lady he hit was a reporter.

Why are you a reporter at a cycling race if you're not even watching the winner cross the line?

Seems pretty dumb. Though ultimately it's crowd control's fault.

Good to see some Australian success!

[fat and old]

Their motto so far appears to be "Safety: Optional".

It's the Spanish Way!!!

No, really!

[warthog1]

Apparently the lady he hit was a reporter.

Why are you a reporter at a cycling race if you're not even watching the winner cross the line?

Seems pretty dumb. Though ultimately it's crowd control's fault.

Good to see some Australian success!

If he didn't hit her, he was hitting the barrier at speed.
He was lucky she was there imo, but yes she should have been paying attention.

[timbo]

At the end of any stage of any tour, it seems that half of the road after the finish line is blocked off with photographers wanting to take the same photo. When a cyclist passes by at 60-70kph, something wrong may happen. Just saying the obvious.

[davehirst]

Great race tonight, so happy to see a tireless worker get his time in the spotlight.

[am50em]

Yes,just watched the last few kilometres, very interesting!

[AUbicycles]

It was said that the lady hit was a journalist… though the quick footage I saw was that she had a big backpack on like the team siogners. Journos typically wear vests if they are in tgat zone and are mainly photographers OR TV… the writers have other opportunities so rarely hang out there.

When you are waiting, everyone include team staff edge over and it gets a bit crazy but yes, everyone needs to watch out more including the riders who know they need to slow.

On the following stage the team staff and second group of photographers and tv were much further back.

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Shane for Jay Vine… knocked out of the vuelta again.that is bad luck. I caught 5 abandons but didn’t catch the race end.

But has been good with the two Australian stage wins I saw.

[stevenaaus]

What are JV going to do now?!

[MichaelB]

Just watching stage now.

Gutted for Vine

[find_bruce]

What are JV going to do now?!

Jumbo Visma or Jonas Vingegaard?

[MichaelB]

What are JV going to do now?!

Jumbo Visma or Jonas Vingegaard?

I guess they will play “who do you want to chase ?” game on some of the key stages.

In reality, Kuss will not win, but you can’t assume that and if he attacks, the other GC guys have to follow.

Really well played by TJV

[find_bruce]

It's a great result for Kuss, but given his huge workload in the Giron & Tour, his chances of a high GC finish are slim, but as you say he's a quality rider that the other contenders won't be able to ignore

[stevenaaus]

TJV are a pretty happy bunch, and i'm sure they'd love for Kuss to win, but i agree that it's unlikley. I think i saw Jonas and Primoz came up the hill 30 seconds faster than Sepp.

But anyway you look at it. it's a big headache for Remco.

[Warnesy]

Great stage all those time gaps to the big favourites should keep it interesting for a while yet.

[stevenaaus]

I'm nor sure why Remco is whinging about not knowing the race situation today. Looked to me like he was sprinting full gas.

Eurosport's Adam Blythe reckons he's just playing mind games.. But regardless, gotta feel something for the young kid - up against three hill smashing Goats.

Mebee Remco thought he was strong enough to lead out for the win, but found out he was mistaken, and was just making excuses. Pretty ballsy to drag those guys to the finish.

[MichaelB]

It’s been interesting so far.

Some of the std/expected GC guys are not faring well and some of the youngsters are excelling.

Too many nasty crashes, so hope people heal well

[Sharkey]

What are JV going to do now?!

Jumbo Visma or Jonas Vingegaard?

Jonathan Vaughters? He was known as JV in cycling before either of those two.

[MichaelB]

On a side note, my favourite bike in the peloton are the MMR’s of the Caja Rural team. That metallic green pops and looks schmick !

[davehirst]

On a side note, my favourite bike in the peloton are the MMR’s of the Caja Rural team. That metallic green pops and looks schmick !

Mmmm, not quite my cup of tea.