Vuelta a España general stage 2

I did not see a thread so here it goes...

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Good morning

I was about to make a thread, thanks user.
>No switzerland allowed.

please dont start again

Hopefully it will be less dead after the Olympics is over.

Im a bit dissapointed with field in this race desu, seems like a second-tier race. I hope the racing is good at least.

>Vuelta
Not likely. Me myself won't be able to meme during week days because I'm not a NEET.

Im going to be watch our guy in the olympics later tbqh

So does anyone have a recommended VPN for watching the eurosport player? Unblock-US came up in a search.

I used unblock-us for netflix before they blocked it.
Worked fine, no issues.

I use a paid one, but nobody seems to want to pay.

Who /eurosport/ here?

Always.

>ad breaks
Never

What are you watching on?

Danish tv

>The Vuelta A Espana 2016 has a total of 54000 meters of climbing

just fuck my knees up

>brazilian espn just started showing images with no commentary
>put eurosport audio on
DAMN THAT'S COMFY

>eurosport sign up page is blank

Guess it's the potato restreams then. Fugg u sbs

Whos the fav for the Points this year?

Any good Vuelta/cycling sweepstakes going on right now?

>sweepstakes
No idea but you're missing out if you didn't make a Velogames fantasy game with you're lads.

I think the GC winner and points winner will be the same person because there are hardly any opportunities for sprinters to gain points.

Today's stage is considered a """flat""" stage. Pic related is the next """flat""" stage. There are 4 """flat""" stages including the final stage, so expect to see a climber win the points

Knowing Spain's geomorphology, that's pretty flat, user.

vuelta and mountainbike later
mfw

Just looked at all the stage profiles

this is going to be great

whens mountainbike starting?

17:30

>what is GMT

Ugh.

I almost wish to have Dennis Ritter back. Michael Stærke is disgustingly bad.

why would I answer in gmt when he's in my timezone

thanks m8

Please allow me to post following collage showing the comparisons between this year's vuelta and the vuelta 6 years ago.
Cavendish was able to win the points jersey then, finishing with 156 pts, before Farrar of 149 pts and then the first GC rider Nibali with 119 pts

See also that they hang around much more in hilly stages now, they've banished flat stages and sprinters, a guy like Cavendish would never make it anymore, Sagan might not even make it because of the extreme elevation.

I think Spain are trying to make their Grand Tour more spectacular to try and claw back some popularity on the Giro, which is a lot closer to the tour than the vuelta right now (although both the Giro and the Vuelta have been more fun than the tour recently, it's still the tour)

Don't you have a green text version of that?

>tejay rides with 31 but sanchez is the gc leader

what did they mean by this

Im all for this

Does the race ever cross over to Portugal, or the spanish cities in north africa?

It will visit Portugal.

Is this Carlton Kirby with Mr. Magnus?

>they've got bigger fish to fry
>probably from this river

Yup. Sean Kelly returns in a few days.

Mountains classification sprint coming up. This is their finish line.

carlton makes boring races great desu, I dont know how he comes with that shit but he seems to be an endless source of quality shitposting

good stream please

cyclinghub is actually running well today

Pichon takes it.

>doing a track sprint for 3, 2 and 1 points

lel. I get it though, it is the KOM jersey

Friendly reminder that this happened last year

youtube.com/watch?v=zi24TVdZFyc

BASED cyclinghub.

It doesn't sound like he's taking this especially seriously.

And I don't mind that at all.

He barely does, many people dislike him for being too banterous. Sour people who cant enjoy life.

Comfy commentary for a comfy sport.

>quintana close to froome
HE'S GONNA ATTACK LADS
WITH HIS SHORT LEGS

he's waiting for the alps

oh, okay.

why no aru this year

>bouhanni disqualified again

lel

I didn't exactly expect anything to happen today but this is incredibly boring

Welcome to La Vuelta.

Gilbert is here for you.

he heard my pleas

>Vuelta flat stages
you only do it once

Say hi to Sean for me

Oi lad.

allez phillipe

based Gilbert

2agan mtb thread where

Lopez >Quintana

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There is nothing wrong with this post

No Geraint :^(

Finnish Eurosport has for all the GTs. Not sure what the prices are for the vuelta this time around. Last year it was CX bikes and some gift cards to bike shops.

you did well gilbert

who hyped here for mass-sprint with a dozen semi-sprinters?
litterally half of the riders could win today

TRANSITIONS TYLER SPRINT WIN INCOMING

F

goodnight sweet prince

another one ded.

We did it lads, Gianni Meersman

another rip
but we did it

oh fuck

holy fuk dat car stopping so short of the downed rider.

I was sure I was going to watch a man get crushed on live tv

How can one country be so shit? For fucks sake, Canada.

based stybar

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wew

I still tensed up

any webms of the first fall