Vuelta Espana 2017

[mcelliott]

Well, PHers favourite grand tour starts on Saturday. This promises to be a humdinger. All the usual protagonists doing battle in the final GT of the year, not forgetting Bertie's swan song. Route looks pretty brutal - Froome along with Bardet must be the two favourites but I fancy Nibbles, should be a little bit fresher. Let the racing commence.

[mcelliott]

Great win by the Quick Steppers there, beautifully set up. An improvement on yesterday's mickey mouse TTT course - what the course designer was thinking god only knows. So far Carlton Kirby has only mentioned Chris Froome's name about a thousand times. Fully paid up fan boy there. Apparently there are other GC contenders in this race.

[mcelliott]

It's fkin brutal....

[mcelliott]

Lopez, what a beast! Not afraid to take it to the robots, if he can come out of the TT with less than 4 minutes on Froome, it could still be all to play for. Sky are killing this race and what the fk is Froome on the blower for every 5 minutes, Twot.

[mcelliott]

Nibbles da man!

[mcelliott]

Wow what top drawer action today - Bertie rolling back the years and Aru going on the rampage and good old Froomy sucking wheels. Spanish gonna love him - he's the new Abraham Olano.

[mcelliott]

Tomorrow is going to be epic. Contador to light everyone's asses, Nibali likes this climb too. No more hiding behind team mates tomorrow. Rain forecast too.

[mcelliott]

The Boss.

[mcelliott]

okgo said:

Really needed Tom D this race.

Next years tour hopefully