Vuelta de Espana
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Noting @nepia's religious tendencies - he'll be delighted to see Spanish Jesus' efforts in getting the job done!
https://www.lavuelta.es/en/stage-13
Uphill mountain stage tonight. I see that the latter parts of the climb up the Camperona are 19.5% and the final km still gains something like 170 metres in altitude.
That might suit the pure climbers - which is George - as well as Quintana and Lopez.
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Geoerge flagged the GC last night and finished 7 minutes behind Yates.
Hopefully, that's because he's switched targets to trying to win a stage and hence purposefully lost time, so that he'll be allowed to escape in a breakaway - and not that he's just gassed.
We'll see, I guess.
His teammate Kruiswijk is up to fifth place and with Roglic's showing in the TdF, George has potentially slipped a bit down the Lotto team pecking order. Needs a couple of good days before the end of the Vuelta - and then a chance to impress at the World Championships.
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Tonight's stage is a flattish one with a climb to the finish - would seem like a good one for George to get into a break away and storm up the final climb. In theory, if he's got two minutes on the peleton at the base of a climb, he should be good enough to hold on - as long as he hasn't had to do too much work.
I gather he managed to get in a break a few days ago, but it got shut down.
Needs to do something - even if it's just helping Kruiswijk, because he's had a pretty disappointing ten days.
