Your Face When Remco Says the Stage Finish Doesn't Exist | Vuelta a Espana 2023 Stage 9 

9pm's a bit early no? Some riders might still be able to see the road...

For the finishing part, place a well constructed finishing arch at the end of the muddiest road you can find, take a shovel and remove some strips of varying sizes of mud from it, just to make it perfectly ununiform. Place some more arches displaying the distance to the finishing arch, which you already made sure was impossible to reach safely due to the ununiform mud. Then all you have to do is place to cones somewhere close, but not to close to the finish, just when you can see the riders approaching your muddy road. Don't bother communicating that the finish line is moved, only for some riders, because nobody's gonna fcking understand anyway, you might as well send post-pidgeons or something. Then ask the mother of the third cousin of your least memorable elementary school classmate to wait at the cones with a stoppwatch and a clipboard to write down all 150+ riders with their respective time individually. Most importantly, it mustn't be visible, that the cones are the actual the finish line, take all precautions to hide that.

he's the best, but it's no even on the german news because they 1. only care about the Tour de France and 2. only about GC

@@bene4577 exactly

@@bene4577 They only care about football and Tour de France is just lucky, that there is no Bundesliga at that time.

But i am a German and was really Happy about His win. So at least some appreciate it

The new Rafael Maijka.

IMO, Thomas De Gendt still beats Kamna as best break away rider. But Kamna is only 26 years old, so if keeps developing like this he will be the best breakawayrider every.

​@@goozerboozer8543de gent hasn't been great so yeah currently kamna is clear

Please put this in the german newspaper

Caliremco

Dutch calimeros still can't accept Belgium has the biggest cycling history and now the youngest TT world champ. Keep eating cheese

@@apolloniusbeitsman5444 that's cute but no one questioned that

This is the second time they've done it this Vuelta, if you can believe it!

No, same finishing locations for everyone but stage win was still honored. So if someone was leading he had a reason to pedal to the end, all others can stop after 20.5 because the clock stops as well, but they still have to finish the race to the end.

The organisers are just huge fans of cool downs and want to make sure the riders all do one.

@@Vismajor01 Thanks for clearing that up for me,,,,,,,,,,,

​@@Vismajor01 the 2nd part is what doesn't make sense to me tho. Iirc even the tour had on the fly finish changes when roads flooded a few years back so that can happen. But either the road is save for everyone or for no one. Like what wouldve happened if Kämna had a technical in the last section? Would he be listed with the best time yet not be the stage winner?

...or they'll get jealous of how much (negative) attention the vuelta is generating and ramp up the race to the bottom with an even bigger fiasco...

They always have issues, but this year it has gotten unacceptable

This organisation is simply clueless

Stop crying

Vuelta just like the Tour is owned by ASO, so the UCI won’t do anything

some of that,yes..was wrong,but see how they keep climbers safe, that's must be at the Giro and TdF too,Civil Guarda, effective and in professional way,no hitting,beating,just mutual respect and move out drunk ones,i think..no women with big plackets,shame..😅

Whole team hears. But if you want to get the message to your first rider and there is no good signal, and no other riders in the first group, there is no communication.

Yeah, all radio comms is to the whole team. Whoever is talking, everyone in the team hears it.

There wasn't two different finish locations. And yes, a crash could mean your position changed, and it happened for Gebreegzavier that he was 3rd on the time, but 4th on the stage.

Shame Pog's not in the mix this year, to duke it out with the most stacked GC field for a while. He prefers this sort of "Slovenian" weather, to French midsummer temps.

funny to think the Vuelta is owned by the same corrupted people that own the TdF

And also switching cameras before seeing lead riders crest the tops of climbs.

Like the finish on Friday when we got a good 10 seconds of the roadside barriers instead of seeing the sprint in progress!

@@fitzmaurice88 yeah, director isn't great either

They take too may siesta breaks😂

There was no race, my man killed it.

LOL

There is but that takes time to set up. This decision came during the race so they had to improvise

Only at the original finish line it seems.

0:14 haha good spot!🛬 edit: btw my guess would be a sponsor's graphic is about to be overlaid onto the map on whatever coverage LR uses, so some flight company or tourist travel deal/competition eg. win flight tickets & a road bike bundle and fly to spain to see the vuelta in person whilst on a riding holiday (itv4 has similar big comp packages regularly promoted during it's tour coverage)

Giro is nice, vuelta is 🤦‍♀️

They finally gave all riders the same time, pathetic organization

the mud near the finish

2,05km Would have been too round a number otherwise

2.05 km to be exact. So 50 metres from the 2km mark. They said it was too muddy the last 75 metres of the race. They follow a weather protocol. Bad decision imo.

sponsorship innit? at least we haven't got Peter Sagan being interviewed with ski goggles around his neck any more

They are not able to organise anything. It was already bad in the last 10 years, but this year is just unacceptable

yes, they definitely _could_ but live coverage won't start until after last orders has been called, the GC race will hastily be 'neutralised' by serving water for the final round and we'll have to rely on LR to notify us of the echelons forming in the queues for the loos...

that's the first 'week' in inverted commas; all the grand tours start over a weekend (sometimes the fri with a prologue), then have a full mon-sun before the first rest day on the following mon, so then the second 'week' has six race days, the second rest day the mon after then the third 'week' has six again, though five contested & one ceremonial/celebratory run-in with an attached crit & sprint finish. they often have less in that first 'week' if they've loaned out their 'grand depart' to a neighbouring country in europe that then requires a logistical travel day after that opening weekend to get everyone & everything back to the tour's own roads for the remainder of the opening 'week'.

Found the token American fan lol

@@DPH5123 not even American in the political sense, only in the geographical sense, I'm sitting on a nice Caribbean island, THAT makes me sorta 'AMERICAN' nice try though

GC Kuss!

Tbf I’m fully on board the GC Kuss vibes. But the thought of a Roglic, Remco, Vingegaard mano vs mano is too tantalising.

@@DPH5123 actually it's mano vs mano vs mano, 'jus sayin🤭