Pro Cyclists Get Angry about Half Wheeling Too | Vuelta a España 2022 Stage 2 

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Yeah, I saw that headbutt after the finish (not shown in this video) and nobody seems to be making a big deal about it. Usually something like that earns a relegation.

Tell me that you watched Merlier come into to McLay and box McLay between himself and Bennet. McLay held his ground and they drifted wide around the corner which opened the place on Ackermann’s wheel for Bennet.

Is he like from dsm? Or the guy in yellow

@@LittleBU96 Yellow

I'm guessing you've never been in a high level bunch sprint @Michael richards

Agreed, Patrick is da Bomb!

The only GCN I look at are older tech vids. I liked Simon.

Butterfly

To be fair, Chris Horner’s butterfly effect is pretty good just a bit too long

@@luisbretonv yeah shorter than watching it but all the details. Road racing is boring, especially flat days. To be honest, I can’t understand wtf these guys are saying.

Wow, you're right about his closing speed in the last 100m. It looked like everyone else was in slow motion. He made Bennett look slow, and that's not easy If TJV had a lead-out man for him, he could do some damage. But I get it, all in for Primoz is a better plan

Jesus he was flying down the shoot that would have been a amazing steal if he won lol

jeeeeeezus man so hectic. good reflexes from Jala

Yeah, his legs trailing as the view changes and then he flips over. Would never have spotted that.

Yes that was Thijsen the young Belgien sprinter who won a sprint stage in the latest Tour of Poland. Sadly I did play Thijsen as a joker in most of my Vuelta pools. D.Impey was also part of that crash by the way. I hope he will recover because the first stage in the Basque Country is really made for him.

Why weren't they given the same time if the crash happened in the last 3km?

@@andylovell1990 i think the riders that were part of the crash were given the same time. But it is a little weird in the end result because some people who were dropped before the 3k mark finished before the riders im the crash so they have a time penalty and than somebody who finised later doesn't. So for example Thijssen came 177th at 0.00 from the winner and De Marchi came 173rd at 2.22

Wouldn't be surprised if JV is trying to let as many dutch riders as possible riding in the red these first few days. Afterall with the time gap on everyone else, why not? Maybe Oomen tomorrow? Could ofcourse also just have been Teunissen taking the opportunity.

I am Dutch and Gesink said if Roglic was safe that is what he cares about mostly. Teunissen could go for his own success if Roglic was safe in the last 2 km said the team to him

Alaphilippe

Came to point these near disasters out as well. If this is a non-WT level race the whole bunch is getting taken out because Alaphillipe goes down.

He got the ok if Roglic was delivered safely into the 3 km

I guess he got the Wout treatment "if Roglič is safe, you can go". Although it is a bit strange looking at the interviews for sure.

And that is not strange at all, if you follow cycling long enough you will know that they will ALWAYS do the opposite of what they are telling in front of a tv camera, or in any press release for that matter. (After the race Teunissen said that this was already discussed at the team meeting before today's stage. He will of course never say such thing before a race does start, therefore the answer he gave the Dutch and Belgian press before the stage. But that's normal, all cyclists do this. So next time you hear a rider say something, do know that he will probably do the opposite. (I'm do only follow cycling since 1974/75 ✌)

Exactly, because he hs had a bad year

Also because of his age/declining phisicall abilities.

@@kraknoix0075 well as a leadout man if you consider both his sprinters won from behind him, you can hardly consider that a bad year. Compared to the heights he used to go, it is a down year, but most leadouts in the peloton can only dream of having of their sprinters win a stage thanks to them.

Honestly, LR doesn't like Sam Bennett & tends to find ways to discredit him, that could be the reason. I remember he used to completely overshadow Bennett's sprints at QS by focusing entirely on Morkov

@@eoinsmith1996 If you look at the week Van Poppel had i dont See the Argument for anyone else. Just look at the European Championsship and stage 2 + 3 of the Vuelta.

peloton politics. make too many enemies and its going to be a bad 3 weeks.

Probably easier to be magnanimous when you have a horse like DVB coming in to replace him

He is usually the one doing the chopping, he has one of the most erratic riding styles in the tour.

It makes sense on a sprint stage, everyone is ramping up so don't coast, simply stay at the same pace until you are swamped and then coast.

@@marcfarrelly5944 Yeah, treat it like a track sprint, you don't just stop pedalling (because you can't with a fixed wheel), you slowly wind down.

I still don't understand why the Bahrain rider was mad. Maybe I don't know what half-wheeling is

He didn’t want Quickstep increasing the pace. Bahrain preferred to stay level with the other teams on the front at a lower speed. As Quickstep accelerated forward they’d have to match their pace.

@@rosscads I get that but QS doesn’t infiltrate Bahrain’s train or mess with it by any mean, so if QS wants and is capable to up the tempo, they are free and fair to do so in a safe manner imo. It could be their race tactic and what not so I just can’t understand why it is making Bahrain mad, unless Bahrain felt toasted and just raged out of desperation...Or is it some etiquette involved that I am unaware of?

weak and slow BAH getting mad if other teams are faster ;)

@@kv8824 I have the same question. If one team wants to go faster then the other teams need to deal with that. Was he just being upset for no reason

yeh probably because Cavagna was going balls-out at 10km, burning everyone in his team and pissing off the rest of the peloton

He was really flying there for a bit.. just so far back it didn't matter.

Because they have the fastest sprinter (On paper) in this years Vuelta. Merlier is top favourite by all bookmakers. Merlier did of course already win stages at the Giro and Tour also, and is the current Belgian champion. But I do fully agree that it was not necessary to chase like that at 100km from the finish, that was just stupid and dumb, and the reason why he did have no leadout at the finish anymore.

@@swissbiggy yes shouldn't they focus more on having an actual leadout/being in decent position. Now they just wasted energy catching the break 50km's early

Maybe they wanted their TV time while everyone is still looking pretty? Gotta make the sponsors happy!

been spending too much time in the pub with Sean Kelly

It’s the Hollandse pannenkoek!

Is to keep the harmony in the peloton.

They don't, period

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