Vuelta a Espana 2016

Just telling you what Millar said, although they did cut to a shot of the Sky lot riding along, chatting, and generally taking it easy, and then back to Froome looking very distressed and shouting into his race radio, presumably asking where the hell his team was.

After their performance on stage 15 wouldn't the Sky Team riders prefer to be sent home rather than have to continue.

^ the magic of television.

In other news Andrew Talansky seems to be quietly riding his way up the GC like Hesjedal has done. I hope he gets a bit of a break soon and delivers on the promise he showed a couple of years ago.

He went to my old grammar school in Aylesbury for a year or two.

The race director went on record saying "the sponsors would kill us" if they'd cut all the riders which prompted much clutching at pearls from the guardians of cycling purity

Grew up in ex-pat enclave in HK, no? Posh-o-rama

Oi. I was born in Hong Kong.

It was Twitter mostly, outraged 'fans' complaining the rules have been broken for Sky again.

If you had eliminated 90 riders you would have been left with just 70 for the final week. Would have ended the race as a spectacle.

Posh-o-rama

Froome says the 93 riders outside the time limit should have been expelled.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/froome-says-riders-outside-vuelta-a-espana-time-limit-should-have-remained-excluded/

I like it when Millar says 'dream scenario'. All the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37273803
Forest fires close to Friday's TT course.

Wants the bus to himself?

Wait.

71 riders for the final week of the 71 st vuelta?

Iluminati confirmed.

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Columbian plan to get rid of the TT?

Military brat though. Not posh-posh.

Just read his wiki page - he was born in Mtarfa in 77 - which would mean that my old man probably delivered him. CSB.

Not necessarily posh at all.

My uncle was stationed in HK in the navy. I defy you to find anyone less posh than Uncle Barry.

Nobody posh is called Barry.

Res ipsa loquitur

Somebody was very pissed off at his team then...

Today's summit finish looks brutal: 4.3km at 12.4% average gradient...

Froome had better be making his team work their bollocks off today!

they've had about three rest days they should be full of energy

Ha Ha! Not saying that Millar's old man isn't posh - indeed, he probably is, being a pilot - but my Grandad was stationed in Malta in the 1970s as a fitter for the RAF, and he's very far from being posh.

[Actually, he used to moan about how the officers would look down their noses at ground crew like him.]

One for @dubtap - Tejay has just abandoned. Obviously happy with his stage win. Oh.