http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/horner-set-for-vuelta-a-colombia-with-team-illuminate/

Montana is an American state; montaña is the Spanish word for mountain. Subtle but distinct.

K.......

Is it break day? Unleash the KUSS day?
SEP! I like every bike racer I know named Sep.

Not looking good for break today, Sepp will have to wait for a stage with more Montanas.

Oh wow. I hope he's independently wealthy or has a rock-solid plan for a career starting basically age 50 because living like a 20 year-old neo-pro has to pay basically nothing.

you are a pedant, and manage to be wrong, too...

https://www.britannica.com/place/Montana-state

good one.........

I upgraded my Xfinity package in the Spring for $10 more and get the Olympic Channel, they are showing 2 hours of coverage every day. So I am able to watch online at work. Commentators are Paul Sherwen & Bob Roll. Coverage works for me instead of TIZ cycling with sketchy pop ups and player always freezing.

Tomorrows stage should be good!

I know race started but I am cheering for Uran to win!

Speaking of good ones, and Viviani bagging another today, why would any sprinter in their right mind ever leave QS? Like Sky grows stage racers, Lefevere shows fast finishers how to win.

Sheesh. This Vuelta is harder to pick than the Final Four! When Porte and Nibali said they weren't in it for the GC, they apparently were NOT sandbagging! While Kwiato's still holding onto red, I still say Sky does not win this one.

I went through the stage profiles again last night. My thoughts:

• I forgot that Vuelta only categorizes climbs HC-3.
• Only three stages without rated climb, all in the last week, two of which are the time trial and the finale in Madrid...so 18 stages with at least a cat 3 climb.
• They are very stingy with declaring an HC, so some of the 1's are quite possibly underrated.
• There are buckets of climbs throughout the race that would be cat 4 (maybe 3) in Tour and Giro that are all pain, no glory for the Vuelta riders.

Tomorrow should be interesting to see who is fit right now but I bet not decisive. I'm starting to think Uran could content for win. He's got the most established all-around GC game of those left in contention.

Charlottesville boy Benny King in the break and the virtual lead. Operative word is virtual, but Sky is not going to chase the break down to keep him off the GC lead. He may be American but he's no Chris Horner......in a good way. Would be cool to see him in the jersey.

Lotto in the break. It's not Sep! Kuss (pronounced KOOOOOOOOOOS!).
He punked my friend Joe on Snowbird. I say he gets a stage or comes very close.

Why indeed?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

She's way too young to have seen the Zep. But really, I've got no truck with the shirt. Or anything else. I don't know why I brought it up. Thank you.

Day for the break. *Ben won’t get red jersey*.

 


BENNY!

What? They don't have Hot Topic in Belgium?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Awesome win for Ben!

well i'll be ...

1 Benjamin King (USA) Dimension Data 4:33:12

that's pretty cool
good for him

and yea, Kwi is enjoying himself (first weeks are great)

Yeah, that was sweet. He needed it and so did team

Mabra represent!

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The good guys get one! I think his dad is still riding some Masters races.

pretty sure his brother was at a local race in 2016

can still remember him repping the Commonwealth at 2015 Worlds, well deserved

I wonder how Nibali's spine is doing and if he just lost fitness or he has lingering pain. He was 11 minutes back. I guess it's build for a chance at stage hunting in week 3 and then go for it at World's. Our home guy Woods is not having a great Vuelta this far.

From what I hear Woods is on the "build for World's" program that quite a few other riders are doing, and has said he's hoping to stage hunt in week 3. We'll see how much domestique duty he does for Rigo in the meantime.