THEMOVE: 2023 Vuelta a España Mid-Week 2 Recap

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Johan, Spencer, and JB break down the past few stages of the Vuelta, mainly the individual time trial, which saw Filippo Ganna scorch the competition while Sepp Kuss put up a strong defense of his race lead with a surprisingly strong ride. They go over the strength of Kuss' position atop the overall standings coming out of the TT, and how QuickStep and Ineos have potentially mismanaged the past few stages. Afterward, the crew discuss the upcoming mountain stages in the Pyrenees, which feature the most demanding tests the GC contenders have faced so far, and how Kuss’ rivals, mainly Remco Evenepoel and his QuickStep team, should approach attempting to take back time on the climbing specialist over an incredibly mountainous route, before touching on how Jumbo-Visma will handle their new, more complex, intra-team dynamics and how they think the upcoming stages will play out.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Move podcast. Thank you for joining us. We're going to take a look at the
0:10.9	last few stages, 10, 11 and 12. And of the Vuelta Spanien, we're going to look ahead as we get into
0:17.4	the bigger mountains starting tomorrow. Johan, I'm sure we'll break that down for us. But I'm JB
0:22.9	and I'm joined by Spencer and of course, Johan, who will have their insight into these last few
0:28.0	stages and what to look at coming up. So let's jump right into it with you, Spencer, just given
0:33.8	kind of a quick overview. And then we'll do our deep dive. Yeah. So since we last we last recorded
0:41.3	right after Sepkus took the lead, I believe, maybe stage six, stage seven about. So since then,
0:48.0	we've had stage eight, which Primoz Roglich, one extremely hard funnel climb, Remco,
0:53.2	drilled it really at impressive pace. It was like a 13 minute long steep climb. Maybe some mistakes,
1:00.3	made some mistakes where he sat on the front and let everyone pick him off. I think that was the
1:05.3	day of you guys talked about that in your rest day one. George had some some thoughts on that.
1:11.1	And then the other big GC set pieces were well stage nine was supposed to be one, but they move
1:15.9	the finish. No time gets even though there was some spatial distance between riders that it was
1:21.6	some interesting timekeeping there. And then the big headline is the stage 10 time trial, which
1:26.1	Fleet Bugana absolutely roasted. I'd be curious to get your guys a thoughts on if you think he's
1:31.2	still the pre-eminent like gold standard time trialist or that was an upset of Rimcoveniple.
1:36.5	And then Sepkus put an incredible ride to I think most most riders and most experts probably
1:41.6	thought he was going to lose around two minutes. He limited his losses. I think it was a minute 20
1:46.3	to Rimcoveniple kept the jersey by 109. The team was Roglich really good ride Rimcoveniple.
1:53.1	You could say a good ride to be the runner up, but I don't think he took enough time. I think
1:57.6	you need a more time on both Roglich and Kus there. We can debate that. And then yesterday's
2:04.0	stage, Hazus Herada smokes everyone on the stage 11 uphill finish. Ineos let it out with Fleet
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