![]() "I'm here to support the team, our big goals coming here were a stage win, which we have not achieved yet, but we've had Kristian come close a a few times and we've still got a few chances left," he tells Cyclingnews. Speaking to Spanish radio station Cadena Cope, Sky rider David Löpez said, "I'm liking the race, but just look at last week when all the gruppetto when all the bunch finished outside the time limit."įarrar himself battles on, with his own objectives in the race. Other riders have attacked the Vuelta route directly for being, they claim, excessively hard. Do they double down on it or do they kind of go, apparently that's the line now." "I'll be interested to see what the course looks like next year. On stage 14, where Alberto Contador (TInkoff) and Nairo Quintana (Movistar) blew the race apart in a joint attack and 93 riders finished outside the time limit, Farrar said, "We saw it in the second week, 90 guys just riding from point A to point B."įarrar is not directly critical of this development, rather he feels it's a trend that opens up a wider debate that needs to be resolved. The rest of the peloton, he says, "is kind of on its breaking point." You see Quintana and Froome (Sky) and Contador (Tinkoff)." Of course, the very best climbers can race day in day out. "I think what you see is, there is a limit to what the peloton can do. Every race gets a little harder every year, they add another mountain stage, they add another climb, they add this, they add that," he argues. "I think cycling has to decide what it wants from bike racing. I did Vueltas eight years ago where there were eight true sprints out of 21 days - not 3,000 metres of climbing and by chance it ends in a sprint."įarrar feels that the tendency for increasing toughness of races is far from being limited to the Vuelta, and has affected the style of racing. "If I look at the book, I think there have been two stages that actually qualify as a sprint stage. ![]() 2,500 metres of climbing used to be considered a medium mountain stage, now they call it a sprint stage. "Everyone underestimates the sheer metres of climbing every stage. ![]()
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