The Days they Don't Tell You About in Pro Cycling | Vuelta a Espana 2024 Stage 17 

You know it was a sleepy stage when Patrick starts to think out loud about possible holiday destinations in the north of Spain during the recap.

Lanterne Rouge: The Rain in Spain Ben O'Connor Stage 18: Still Reign in Spain Wout van Hurt: The Pain in Spain Carapaz: The Strain in Spain Team Visma: The Train in Spain Pablo Picasso: Michelangelo of Spain Mexican Embassy🇲🇽: Claim Del Torro is not from Spain Mal Tiempo: Indurain in Spain Pogacar: Refrain from Spain Seep Kuss: Not Again in Spain Primoz Roglic: The Brain in Spain Bald Chris Horner: Rogaine in Spain Alberto Contador: Wheel Remain in Spain The Red Jersey: The Stain in Spain Rice: The Grain in Spain Cathedral of Burgos: Ordain in Spain Missing Boeing: No Plane in Spain SRAM: Dropped Chain in Spain The UCI: Complain in Spain The UCI: The Migraine in Spain The UCI: Disdain in Spain EPO: Easily Obtain in Spain

I like how a third of the way into the video (2:25) Patrick starts daydreaming about his upcoming vacation to Northern Spain 😄

3:00 This is what the world looks like if you’re near sighted if anyone ever wondered.

It's like someone turned the lights off on the Vuelta yesterday...

The second last rider from Alpecin with No 72 who chased down the late attackers is Maurice Ballerstedt, a young and super-strong German rider, he's the ssecond last man in their leadout (edit: he's also the guy celebrating in the shot from behind)

man it realy just aint the same now 😞

Stage 6 started in a supermarket. Stage 17 finished in a bank

Hearing Kaden Groves say 'catched' made me think that I probably shouldn't come down so hard on my three year-old for saying the same thing🤣

I was so worried primoz would crash

Unbelievable that there are 2 sprinters in the race and only 4 teams go in the break. Shameful

I think the lack of people pushing it is because they're saving themselves and trying to recover for bigger days!! Horrendous weather with WvA out, would have highlighted how quickly it can change - all adds up to a more chilled out stage (sort of)

Groves doesn't even know how the race played out-when the original break was caught and that a counterattack even went. Perfect sprinter! He has literally one job: to win the field sprint. It's his team's job to worry about everything else, to ensure that winning the field sprint equals winning the stage.

Can‘t believe Roglic didn‘t Roglic

The only thing saving these boring stages in the invetable dropping of new LR lore. Hope you manage to get that spain trip!

In North of Spain it seems to rain even more than West of Ireland!

Boring without Wout

Aussie in red. Aussie in green. Aussie in polka dots. Could be the first time ever?

I know you have more important and interesting things to cover with this very exciting race in Spain, but I would really appreciate some insight into Ineos Grenadiers. Steve Cummings has been sidelined once again as DS, this time at the Tour of Britain, in favour of Kurt Bogaerts. The Ineos thing has gone beyond being a relative lack of success to become a toxic shitshow. At least that’s how it seems. What is going on there?

I think the real Alpecin MVP was Ballerstedt today. Catching those 3 guys (ok, only Schmidt) was impressive and Panckaert really didn‘t have to do much

Victor Campenaerts is going to have a great year next year at Visma. He seems to be doing everything at this Vuelta.

3:46 how to loose stage you just start to look behind you when you bridge over to cooked break-away contenders with steam-train legs and waits for fresh peloton sprinters

260w avg zone 1-2 ride ez

Especially in this weather they could have avoided a sprint.

Visma Lease-a-bike paced for Wout van Aert, guess they had to ride really slow then 😂

thats the vuelta done for me:)

next time take care of the leader of 2 jerseys and give breakaway a heads up about dangerous wet curves with rocks on the side

I'm sorry, who controlled for whom?

As Oconnor is boarding the plane leaving Spain, will he need to explain the pain of not receiving the winner's bottle of champagne?

Rogahn Forks

lol the reporter at the end was kinda brutal 😂😂

Doing 65 kph in pouring rain is butt-clenching to say the least.

For a big race I'd expect a bit better camerawork/footage

No wva Ugh

Play stupid games win stupid prize.😂

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Quite the day! A slog in treacherous conditions. No crashes, thank goodness... M 🦘🏏😎

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