He is being underestimated, look how he destroyed wva, remco and Tom D. At the Olympics TT

@@Queen-be6md he's not underestimated.

@@clayvianwilliams6125 isnt he? even expert jens voigt puts tao g, simon y, carapaz and hindley above him for grand tours.

@@Queen-be6md yeah but is he a pure climber from your point of view?

@@clayvianwilliams6125 i dont think he is a pure climber as his set of skills is wide, climbing, TT, puncher..

To je to! Kralj!🤴

@@bojalino28 King Indeed!

You mean that amateur Kirby? Nobody watches that

MEATHEAD🤡

He was shooting for his tiktok probably

That is my prediction that Roglic will attack in the final stage

And another police officer with an assault rifle at 6:12 😂

he even did some turns at the front!

@@MrBradfordchild Yeah, QS inexplicably chased him, they didn't get 10 minutes, so he had to work.

This. People who downplay the effects of even a minor crash have never tasted pavement. It’s hard to sleep, and thus impacts recovery. It distracts mentally. And obviously there’s an impact to performance. Even if that impact is very small, this is a game of tiny percentages.

I 👍 agree. Good insight

Agree, but I think if you want to win a grand tour you have to be able to get over it. This means over the mental stress and minor injuries, if he is severly injured it is something different. I think top 3 gc riders in this years tour had their bad/unlucky moments, but were not majorly affected by them or found a way out. Don't want to make that a remco is not tough enough reply, but I think you won't win a grand tour where every day is going for you. If he is majorly injured it is a different story. Today I think he made the best out of a bad situation.

And if there's anyone that knows this it's Roglic, lol

Agree and when in a grand tour the body is already right on the limit. The smallest issues health wise are magnified. Impact to sleep, soft tissue, rib and joint pain. That crash in a moment of distraction might well have cost him the GT.

Blue shoes = thermonuclear attacks

Too bad it's a rest day then

It's looking good for Roglic. He had a difficult back injury on Tour and now he's better and better every day. On top of all, he didn't have any training on height in comparison with Remco. Rogla underestimated by the masses, he's still one of the best overall.

@@HARDSTYLEy indeed, and tomorrow its a good ol climb to +2200 m elevation, tomorrow well see who are the climbers that are most fit in this vuelta and the best opportunity for primoz to bridge back those 2 minutes on remco, he still has a couple of climbs to gain assuming remco is indeed cracked... or just had a bad day today.

@@HARDSTYLEy he still will never win a TDF though, as great as he was he always choked in the decisive moment, imo he starting to fade, don't see'm competing against the top dogs anymore, the Vingegaards,pogis, van aerts and so on...

@@JOSEANTONIO1979 you mean the Van Aert who ended up over an hour behind on GC? What a utterly stupid comparison. - a WVA fan

@@Xinergy I’m all fairness, WVA didn’t try for GC so why not give up some time when he rode for Green and Jonas? But obviously, WVA a bit too heavy for a podium

Yo también

same

Impossible for LR, he puts much more work in his videos

@@henrikf0507 He could push the podcast till after the highlights

It will never be possible to publish first, I am also slower now because I am tired at the back end of summer. Good point re the pod though

@@LanterneRougeCycling Yours is the only one I watch. Great work!

He's called LR for this reason. Always worth waiting for.

Remember Remco went down and is probably feeling it today. We'll see what happens tomorrow. Should be exciting!

Remco isnt strong on the 12%+ parts, today he will show u why

he didn't completely crashed and next stages fits him more tbh, so we will see in 3 stages imo

This 1 might cause him to lose time if remco has good legs tomorrow. He went very deep

Remco immediately paced himself. That was the smart thing to do

Roglič said hes getting in better shape day after day...

@@davorlj83 i know. And if this is what bad days look l8ke for remco he's literally copying froome

@@de4ds1ghtcsgo94 Hope not. Would love to see a grand tour decided by a few seconds!

stage 20

Rogla... Cringe

He doesn’t need to bring back 2 mins on Nevada he needs to take a minute from remco and then 30 seconds on 18&20 more than doable especially if remco shows the same form he did today primoz will easily take a minute or more

That is just complete bullshit though, Remco on Pico Jano did a performance Roglic never did, not even at his best times. Remco with such form doesn't just stay in Roglic's wheel today, but again rides away. Remco just cracked today, simple as that. The main question now is whether this will happen again or if it is just one bad day. What is interesting is that once the gap was established, Remco barely lost time on the easier going section, exactly what the Sierra Nevada is after that first hard 5km. It is actually funny that people keep doing the same thing. First with Pogacar they said it is over after the first TdF week, then they said the same with this vuelta after Remco being so dominant and now again people act like Remco is done after one bad day. It is the equivalent of saying that Roglic was completely done after Pico Jano. We now first need to see how Remco is tomorrow to say anything usefull, does he crack again or not?

@@MDP1702 FACTS, I honestly don't see Roglic beating Remco, Primoz not what he used to be anymore

Yeah, Lopez not really losing time in the time trial was surreal. I mainly remembered him from the 2020 Tour when he started the final time trial in 3rd and got passed by both Pogacar and Roglic. His form is insane.

@@stefanjoeres7149 He's had a couple of time trials like that, he should be a regular GT podium finisher, but he needs to figure out how to avoid his regular bad days

Superman was flying today, he’s come into this second week looking fresh. He’s the best high altitude climber in the world tour.

Lopez is 6 minutes behind. He can get this against Remco in 19km long climb

Gorgeous

I'm not so sure. The main part is yet to come :)

@@HARDSTYLEy going to be a great stage, was remco saving himself for the harder stage, or can he just not handle these steeper gradients like the established gc men can, interesting to see what his week 3 performance will bring as we’ve never seen him in races this long

@@ethanfoy4264 He lost like 50 seconds. I doubt he saved himself for tomorrow. He probably did not feel that good. To win GC, Roglic has to crack him tomorrow and gain like 2 minutes on him. Seems close to impossible to me.

@@ethanfoy4264 exactly... But i really doubt he was saving himself for other stages and letting lose time to his main competitor for GC. Idk, we'll see. It'll be fun :)

@@HARDSTYLEy with remco you simply never know. so happy i have the day off work to watch it happen

G has a podcast?!?! tactic makes sense from peak sky days

@@Slow.Smooth yep with luke rowe. WATTS Happening

2 more similarities: · Hot day · Exposed climb THERE IS ONE DIFFERENCE - Remco might've been going slow because of tomorrow

The difference is that Remco got his pace and therefore limited the damage. Losing 20 seconds to Mas is no problem and 48 seconds to Roglic isnt Grand Tour defining either.

@@DanArnets1492 remco said he didn’t have the legs in the post race interview. Don’t think it was strategic

@@DanArnets1492 He cracked....

But tomorrow there is one of the hardest stage ever over 2000 meters and incredible difficult stage with Remco who isn't that expert

I smiled and thumbed up your comment before clicking the timestamp as I knew exactly what bit you'd be referring to (without knowing/remembering where that was in the vid).😄

"Repsol is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company"

@@ManWalksDogs Maybe that's was a purposeful 'mistake' on his part, given the energy output of the youngster from Aalst? 😉

Yeah but if he gets bodied today, the rest day comes too late.

You never know. Some dont get better with age

The last four Tour winners 2019: Bernal, 22 2020: Pogacar, 21 2021: Pogacar, 22 2022: Vingegaard, 25 Doesn‘t seem like young age is a problem.

It wasn't Almedia but Juan Ayuso the one with the neutral bike.

The kid still has a lot to proove honestly. Idk why these folks called him as if better than Roglic or Poga or any other .

@@nielcutter3804 He is really good with power-to-weight, but he may not have the endurance for a three-week stage race that is packed with long, steep climbs. He also burns his matches too freely and that costs anyone over time without having an extended rest period.

@@nielcutter3804 Depends, is this a one off bad day or a trend? Is it a normal bad day off or maybe caused by the injury from the crash? Still too many unknowns to say for sure. He definitely did great w/kg performances last week (better or as good as Pog and Rog at peak) and he has a better ITT. Endurance is still the question mark with him currently, but even if that isn't there yet, it can still come.

Keep in mind this is remco's 1st grand tour with a legit year of training behind him not like the giro last year. This will be a good learning curve for future grand tours.

Doubt he'll have good GC battle again

Doesn't matter, he's always in for some unexpected and exciting racing. Olympic road race win was epic. His TT is his weakness compared to all other GC contenders right now, so unlikely to win another GC

@@madmonkeycycling9098 That’s kinda my point.

It's the 'Slovenian Edge' (as Gotcha has this as well!). It must 'trip' the air in just the best way, even when only going uphill at 20 KPH to give them an advantage! LOL

That could pose a problem if he ever wants to try for the Hour Record on the Aguascalientes wooden bowl, unless he acclimates to that altitude over time. (Or just go to much lower elevation Grenchen for the attempt, like others have. 😉)

Better to take as much time as possible when you have good legs than to wait for others to take time on you

Over a minute and a half ahead… and behind

99.9% of people watching this know the result already

@@mmmbass6068 I wasn't looking for this video, it appeared in my KZfaq suggestions

@@losFondos Then why would you care? If you cared that much you'd be watching live, if you couldn't but still cared then you wouldn't be coming to YT to catch-up, you'd be on the GCN+ app or something. If all you wanted was brief highlights/analysis then how can it spoil it for you, as you're not about to watch the final climb uninterrupted? Besides, knowing what the title gives away hardly covers much of what went on in a stage, let alone in this case who even won it.

@@ManWalksDogs because I wanted to catch up on Sunday. I came to KZfaq for a completely different reason. Spoiling the results/content of anything on the same day it's a dick move, there could me plenty of reasons why someone is not able to watch it immediately. Time zones, for example. It's not up to you to decide when I need to watch cycling and I don't want to argue further with you. Enjoy the rest of this Vuelta.

@@losFondos fair enough you were on YT for something else, I wasn't arguing about when, my issue was where and also that it doesn't spoil anything anyway!!

And hopefully on another team 😅

@@EgelundB Goes to Ineos next year.

@@EgelundB Called it haha

@@RubenTheCartographer Those 2 or 3 years went quite fast haha, that victory had to come sooner or later. What a rider!

@@EgelundB I am still trying to figure out how ANY great climbers come out of The Netherlands! Yes, they have had a few in the past (Joop comes to mind going way back), but it is a bit perplexing, even given the 'proper' pure climber's power to weight, and 'build'. I guess enough training/training camps in the mountains will do it given everything else being great (said build and power to weight), even coming from a dead flat country??

Don't underestimate Roglic. He near fractured three vertebrates and was attacking Pogacar for stage win

@@Shadowboost He was feigning leadership, didn't have the legs to win

Remco is due to throw a fit soon

@@Mitchwk 😂

Mas was literally on his limit. Lopez helped at the end. Ayuso has no reason to work with Remco imo

You will never see Mas pulling. That’s the way he is. He’s just a top 5 Vuelta a España rider.

There's this new guy - Vingo - you might want to check him out.

Roglic en Remco have no chance against Pogacar and Vingegaard

Because in the Youth Classification after Remco who's wearing the red Jersey, it's Rodriguez who choses instead to wear his national champion jersey, which is allowed by UCI rules, so in this case the white jersey passes to the rider who's 3rd overall, Ayuso.

@@pedrovitorut ah okay, that makes sense!

Don't be so sure, unless he his already at the top of his game, which i doubt being only 24 years old. He is not even at his peak form at this Vuelta, just like every single GC rider that is doing Giro/Vuelta this year, in fact he's the stronger rider of them all, not counting MAL, because he only did 4 stages at the Giro before DNF. Besides he had covid and only started resuming his training 1 month after the end of the Giro. He could win a GT if he's on peak form and doesn't have to fight against the 1st class tier of GC riders (Poga, Vinge, Roglic) and perhaps Bernal (not sure after his injuries) and Evenepoel (not proven yet in 3 weeks). All the other top GC riders (Carapaz, Hindley, Landa, Bardet, Yates brothers, Gaudu, O'Connor, MAL, Vlasov, Thomas, Almeida) are at some extent, very close in potential, so the diference between them is made by the form that they have in the moment they are competing and their teams strength, so it can go anywhere.

Because it's just Evenepoel and Roglic and the Spanish riders, Mas, Rodriguez and Ayuso. Don´t forget we're in La Vuelta so everybody else unless in the break or winning stages deserve much coverage. Even LR in his summary overlooked Almeida, said that nothing changed after this stage at GC standings when Almeida took the 6th place from Kelderman so...

@@pedrovitorut It makes no sense for me, don't understand. This was the most amazing stage with all that gaps and 0 cameras...

@@XavierHipolito Yes sure it was, but there isn't a bike with a camera for every single rider, so they have to chose, it only makes sense that they would focus in Carapaz, Roglic and Mal and the red Jersey. Almeida ended up being in no one's land riding alone between Roglic/Mal and Evenepoel/Ayuso. In the last 3k. We also didn't have much coverage from Rodriguez for the same reasons.

@@pedrovitorut true

By being in the wheel?

Hot days and cold nights too. They can deal with temperature changes. I've seen 29 C during the day and dropping to -4 C in the wee hours at 4.200 m amsl.

oh no. remco can lose his house tomorrow, and the third week is stuffed with tricky stages

@@daniellinanmolina1044 tomorrow will not be any change in top 5.

@@ivanstrle346 they said the same with pogacar haha keep your confidence for yourself

​@@daniellinanmolina1044 No it isn't. The only tricky stage is 20

@@Queen-be6md Primož is not Jonas and also TJV in TdF was stronger than on Vuelta.

What??