Volta Cataluna *Spoilers*

[brommers]

Looking forward to this race which starts tomorrow.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

looooonnnnngggggg TTT today

 

[mjr]

Still only 2 seconds in it though

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And BMC riders and staff are now on social media accusing Movistar of cheating in the TTT by pushing their riders - I think they mean pushing each other, as Rojas did seem to be at the back pushing some others along into the line

Interesting times.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Rojas gets a 3 minute penalty

Amador and Oliveira also penalised

Valverde takes the race lead

 

[mjr]

Slap in the face for BMC there? The bare minimum penalty if there was video evidence, surely? Plus it puts Valv.piti in the lead.

 

[rich p]

Very odd.
I still don't like TTT's having so much influence on the GC personally but others may disagree.

 

[themosquitoking]

They're also boring to watch, except for when wheels disintegrate.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Rojas gets a 3 minute penalty

Amador and Oliveira also penalised

Valverde takes the race lead

Very harsh IMO. The footage I saw wasn't a push, more of a 'on you go' guiding hand, I'm very unhappy with BMC for raising their complaint - bad losers. I hope they have lots of misfortune in the days to come.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Very harsh IMO. The footage I saw wasn't a push, more of a 'on you go' guiding hand, I'm very unhappy with BMC for raising their complaint - bad losers. I hope they have lots of misfortune in the days to come.

I think they'd better be very wary of "sticky bottles"...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

BMC have now declared the stage winners.

BMC spokesperson states "nah nah nah-nah nah, we won the stage..."

Childish bell-ends, they have gone on my list of teams I hope f*ck things up big time.

 

[roadrash]

^^^^^^^I know hes not in this race but ,any team with Richie porte stands a chance of f***ing things up in the future^^^^^^

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

BMC made a lot of enemies yesterday, I hope they suffer the consequences sometime soon. Good to see Movistar's win today.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

BMC - Big Moany Children

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Today's stage has been shortened with the race starting at the 60km point, now only 134km in length, due to weather (snow)