Vuelta starts 26 Aug

[BookWorm45]

For anyone who wants to join on Velogames, the same MN league is present if you've used it before (Mumsnet Marauders). I found I was automatically added to this as soon as I'd picked my Vuelta team.

Is anyone still watching the vuelta. I think all the stuff about who will Jumbo Visma ride for is really interesting. They seem to be being very positive and nice about each other in all the interviews but online discussion is a bit more robust.

I'm still watching, but I'm a day behind becuz I can only get highlights on Eurosport (when avail). For Vingegaard or Roglič to not let Kuss win, if Kuss has the legs to win, just looks bad for them. And Kuss is irrepressibly cheerful. Have you seen the 2022 TdF documentary on Netflix? Seeing the tensions betw van Aert's own ambitions & Vingegaard ... made me see a lot of subtle politics in how the best rider 'earns' their role in each team.

Thomas has touched on this, in podcast with Rowe, what it's like to go from super-domestique (for years) to being a GC contender.

Same episode has comments from Rowe about Pidcock's saddlesores, it's very blokey, I imagine most MNers giving that a swerve.

(only going on yesterday's stage result)

Unreserved unanimity among the 3 ex-pros on GCN that they don't like JV & PR ditching SK like that. I wonder how the 2023 Vuelta Peloton regard the situation. At very least, they must be thinking "divide and conquer"

I personally thought JV wasn't comfortable with the situation himself, and wanted to wait for SK. But would JV actually start to work for SK.....

Who would have thought so much dominance by one team could be so interesting?

The Thomas / Rowe podcast is hilarious. I hadn't come across it before. It's really funny. Geraint Thomas seems pretty unfiltered in what he is saying.