La Vuelta a España 2017

Would Sir Froomey fit on his Garmin?

Froome won't get knighted, according to Geoff Boycott, he's the wrong colour.

I've been eyeing up the Asturias for next year. Train to Portsmouth, ferry to Bilbao. Easy. And it looks beautiful and lush there where it can feel a bit stark here. Though the sheer rocky drops off the side of the roads guarded only by foot-high concrete blocks give it a certain excitement. And there is some greenery.

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Jelle Wallays down!

That was a crazy finish, it beggars belief that the race organisation think a final 5 kms like that is acceptable on stage 4 of a GT.

What was crazy about it?

On both the roundabouts at 3 kms and 1 km to go they took them the long way round, when it would've been much, much safer to just turn them left 90 degrees.

weird

(thanks)

And by winning today, Matteo Trentin joins the club of riders who've won stages in all three GTs.

And Kelderman crashed, surprise... (not seen the stage yet so I don't know how it happened)

Edit: 'I was looking to the side to see where my teammates were, didn't see the peloton braking hard in front of me, so I crashed'

Had a bit of a wobble. Hopefully he'll bounce back.

Trentin's English is overwinning

It's excellent, isn't it. English with a hybrid Flemish/Italian accent. It's a bit like Chaves with his Columbian/Straylan mashup accent.

Why on earth are Quickstep letting Trentin go?

Can understand them letting Martin/De La Cruz leave as they don't really have the support for a GC rider.

Can only assume the budget must have been seriously hammered.

It could be to do with leadership at the cobbled classics. Trentin has ambitions there, but he only ever gets a support role at QS.

They drive on the right hand side of the road over there.

I know, but the riders don't have to follow the rules of the road. The roads are closed.

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Yet everyone made it through...

Except those who crashed.

I didn't see anyone crash inside the final 3k

There was a crash but no footage of it just everyone getting back on their bikes.

Today's finish looks brutal. Very similar to the stage on the tour that Froome blew out on and with only a two second lead I bet he has that in the back of his mind.

There was a big crash at 3.5 kms to go, Pozzovivvo lost over 3 minutes and dropped from the top ten to 33rd overall.

Come on Jelly!

Yeah, which is outside the bit you're complaining about.

So I don't think your argument is working.