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VULETA STAGE 6 - MOVISTAR POISED TO STRIKE

10:12·19 August 2021

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

Movistar's smartest move is sending López or Valverde up the road to force Jumbo-Visma into burning domestiques chasing.
Watch how Roglič races — he rarely blows rivals apart; he bleeds small time gaps and lets compounding do the work.
Breaks are countering the peloton's timing calculation by surging when the bunch surges — hold something back for the final 40km.
Before betting on Bernal for a grand tour, check how he moves on the bike — a visibly uncomfortable position under fatigue is a real red flag.
Roglič carrying Tour de France legs plus Olympic TT efforts into the Vuelta is a genuine question mark, even if he looks sharp early.

Movistar have stacked the GC after today's stage. Tactically perfect and now can Roglic defend?

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KEY QUOTES

“Two years ago none of us knew who he was. Now as of today he is the highest paid rider in the world, a reported 6 million Euro a year contract. We have Sagam's on 5 million year, Froome's on 4.5 million a year.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

“For a long time, well, forever, until yesterday, no one had ever broke the 4 minute mark, it was really like Roger Banister's four minute mile. Four minutes for four kilometers looked like an unbreakable barrier.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

“That's what Roglatch does. He chips away, chips away. You never see him taking, you know, 10 minutes, five minutes, four minutes. He takes 10 seconds here, 20 seconds there, and that's kind of his MO.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

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Pogačar's Payday and Lamby's Pursuit Record

It's stage 6 of the Vuelta España, let's cue that intro! The big question is this, how do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our long changes? That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch, and welcome to the Roleman Podcast. Well man, welcome back. It is stage six of the Vuelta Aspania. We are going 158.3 kilometers. We're starting out in Rokwina and finishing it up in a nice little kicker, Alto de la Mountania, the cholera. You like that? A bit of culture there, that pronunciation. Some cool news before we even started. Tage Polgacha, we all know who he is, household name. Two years ago none of us knew who he was. Now as of today he is the highest paid rider in the world, a reported 6 million Euro a year contract. We have Sagam's on 5 million year, Froome's on 4.5 million a year. It's great to see the lads starting to get paid what they're worth. They're bridging that gap to sports like football, which is unbelievable. Also Also in other non-welta news, I love track cycling, I'm an unapologetic track nerd. If sports are an aspect of track cycling that I've been fascinated with for a long time, just for its purity, its individual pursuit, it's just covering 4km as fast as you can, man against clock. For a long time, well, forever, until yesterday, no one had ever broke the 4 minute mark, it It was really like Roger Banister's four minute mile. Four minutes for four kilometers looked like an unbreakable barrier. Felipe O'Gannard gone close, but yesterday, gravel roiter, track roiter, American sensation Ashton Lamby went under the four minute mark, three minutes 59 over in Mexico at altitude, absolutely brilliant feet, follow him over on Instagram, and you can see all the details, boyky's riding, dropped 30K on the boyky's riding, epic boy. a nice set of zip wheels and argon frame, some watch out pamble bar extensions, it is pimped out if you're a tech geek. Go check that out. Today our 158 kilometer really dominated by a large, small, large to medium to small. Sounds like the weather here in Ireland. Sony, Whitrain, scattered showers but mainly dry. It was a medium-sized break. I think there was six lads in it but the main protagonist in it were Case Ball from Bora, Magnus Court Nielsen, Linderman, Ryan Gibbons and they're working all day in the break but what we're seeing is the break's getting a little bit smarter. The break's node is very formulaic game that gets played out now especially in grand tours where they let a break go. The big teams come, they close the road down, the break get a big lead, the palatons have done the calculation so they know that they need one minute per 10k or whatever it is to reel them in so they just start working at the right time to catch them just before the line. The reason for this is if you catch them with 20k to go, now you have a fresh set of breaks going again that you have to deal with. So they're making the calculation to catch them just on time, but the breaks have started getting smarter. So lads are holding a bit back in the break, so when the peloton start winding it up with 40k to go, the break also start winding it up with 40k to go, and they've done that perfectly today. So we see movies start doing a lot of the work, and when 8k to gold they had the peloton absolutely lined out but today's stage was all about one thing and it was that finishing kicker. It was a 1.9 kilometer climb wound up through a little town stunning scenery. The Vuelta and actually the grand tours in general, the tour of Vuelta de Jiro, they are just an ad for his tourism board.

Magnus Cort Wins, Roglič Takes Red

That's why it's so gutting that the tour of oral must cancel because it was visually spectacular. 1.9km climb, it looked made for a pickock but pickock left his legs back in Tokyo so he wasn't a factor at all. Innyos took it up heavy with 3k to go like they hit the front so much so that Karapaz couldn't follow his own domestic. They must have taught Bernal was on a super day. As a torn down he wasn't. Who was on a super day? It was unbelievable. It was a friend of the show, Bling Matchus, Hadaman, few months back. GENT of a man, climbing unbelievable, climbing up there with all the hitters as he'd expect. Red jersey, race leader, King Kenny Ellison from Trek was dropped on the climb and he's no longer race leader. But the drama played out when we say Magnus Kort Nielsen going on the attack from the break and the GC guys getting the calculation wrong. Magnus Kort Nielsen held on for a famous victory at the top of this climb. Rogloch came and he cruised into second, he looks super. And that's what Roglatch does. He chips away, chips away. You never see him taking, you know, 10 minutes, five minutes, four minutes. He takes 10 seconds here, 20 seconds there, and that's kind of his MO. With a lot of, I'm gonna be completely honest. I don't know who he is, Baglioli from the corner, Quickstep in Second. The Quickstep just churned him out. Italian from the sounds of him. Sounds like something I would put maybe on my pasta dish. Having a bit of the Baglioli. Last off from Astana and Tord, Inertk, Massen Fjord, Bling Machu's fifth insane ride from Bling. Like with that sort of ride, it's hard to bet against them in races like Milan Cinremo, next season. Bernal, round it out to top six. Movies started with a big movers today. They committed a lot of energy to the chase today and they've notoriously been going for team prizes. They've a new director sport team, so it's mainly changed to focus and we're hoping they're gonna play this tactically a little bit better. So GC at the moment is Primus Roglic Leidner and now look at 3rd, 4th, 5th are all movie stars. Sorry, 2nd, 4th are all movie stars. So Einerkmas is at 25 seconds. Superman Lopez is at 36 seconds. But Verde is at 41 seconds. Bernardo Den is back in 5th. So we have 2nd, 4th all movie stars behind Roglic. And the next upcoming tree stages are all super hard before we go into the rest day. So regardless of movie star being poised, we were gonna see a GC shake up the coming days. But what I think you're gonna see with this new director, I think you're gonna see movie star, sending Reuters up the road. And they're gonna send Reuters up the road. This obviously seems a no-brainer. If you have Reuters in second toward Fort on GC, send guys up the road. But they're gonna send guys up the road to give Yumbovism a debt by a thousand cuts. We know Yumbovism are gonna try and control the race. Premus Roglage is the favorite for the race, a bona fide champion in the making. Yumbovism are so seasoned. start like we see in Sky do through Wiggins in 3-0 years, they're brilliant at roiding this 10-0 kilometer after kilometer. So that's what they're going to do. But movie stars are going to tour the mail by fire and get Lopez into the break. By fire and valverity into the break. And these are breaks, move that Yumba Vismar going to half the chase. So by chasing these, they're going to expand energy and then whichever rider is most preserved or best placed, you're going to see him go on the attack, maybe two tree stages from now.

Key Questions Heading Into Rest Day

To movie stars work if they play it as well won't be visible until maybe the day before the rest day. It's a fascinating setup for this Vuelta at the moment and I'm super excited to be bringing you guys the podcast on it. The big questions in my head going into these tough stages ahead. Movie star, how are they going to play this tactically? Will they do it as I suggested or will they focus like they've done for almost a decade on that almost meaningless team prize? Next big question, how is Aegon Bernal's back? He's complained for the last two seasons about his back, he said it was going to be an ongoing issue. I don't know, he just looks twisted, he doesn't look right on the bike to me. And then Primo's Roglage, he looks super at the moment, but don't forget he's rolled the tour and then straight into the Olympics where he's Olympic time trial champion. How well recovered is he from those exertions? They're a big question to my mind to gotta get answers. Fascinating stuff in the days ahead folks. Looking forward to the next few days, I'll be bringing you a podcast again tomorrow on it. for that one. Do all this good stuff, roadmap to keep growing the podcast. You can obviously catch it on video form if you're watching it on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. But if you want to throw it in your ear where it's really intended to be consumed, you get it obviously over on Apple, Spotify, anywhere you get your podcast, wherever you're listening to it, like it and review it. Drop on over to Instagram. It's roman.soichl. I'm always putting cool shit up on Instagram. That's probably the easiest place to go and get me, but obviously you're in all your places that you need to be these days Twitter and Facebook. Row men, enjoy yourself, enjoy the ride tomorrow, ride safe and I'm gonna chat with you again tomorrow to unpack what is going to be a fascinating stage. I'll chat to you then Row men. Okay, stop what you're doing. It's Anthony again. I want to talk to you for one second about the next step in the roadman journey. I'm laying down a challenge for you. It's called the eight-week challenge. So for eight weeks, I'm challenging you to be the very best version of yourself. whatever that is. For eight weeks I want to take you under my wing and I want to personally build for you the customized training plan on our analytics platform. This plan is going to be laser focused on your goal and I'm going to navigate around your life, your work, your social commitments so don't worry about what your circumstances are right now. I remember after I took some time out of cycling and I went off and taught I was a Billy Big Businessman. I came back and I realized I wanted to get into cycling but I knew after a bit to try it on a loan it actually wasn't making me any fitter. I needed an entire system it needs a 360 overhaul. So for the first time ever I want to share with you this exact system I used to get back in shape. I'm talking stuff like I'm going to give you my morning routines, the cold therapy I used, the cookbooks and recipes I used and even the motivational audios I listened to get back on track. So right now what I What I want you to do is pause this audio, go to www.roadmancycling.com forward slash eight week or check out the link in the bio, click that. So one more time it's roadmancycling.com forward slash eight week. Chatty all soon.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Who won Vuelta a España Stage 6 2021?+

Magnus Cort Nielsen won Stage 6 of the 2021 Vuelta a España, holding off the GC group after surviving from the breakaway on the 1.9km Alto de la Montaña de Cullera finish. Primož Roglič moved into the red jersey as the race leader following the stage result.

Who leads the general classification after Vuelta 2021 Stage 6?+

Primož Roglič took the red jersey and leads the general classification after Stage 6. Movistar placed three riders in positions two through four, with Enric Mas, Miguel Ángel López and Alejandro Valverde all sitting within striking distance of Roglič.

What is Movistar's strategy at the 2021 Vuelta a España?+

Movistar's strongest tactical option is to send riders up the road in breakaways, forcing Jumbo-Visma to chase and drain their domestiques before the race reaches its hardest mountain stages. With three GC threats on the same team, they can apply pressure from multiple angles that Jumbo-Visma cannot easily cover.

Can Roglič defend the red jersey at the 2021 Vuelta a España?+

Roglič and Jumbo-Visma face a significant tactical problem because Movistar have three riders capable of winning the race in Mas, López and Valverde. Anthony Walsh argues that protecting the red jersey against that depth of opposition will stretch Jumbo-Visma's squad, particularly once the race reaches the high mountain finishes after the rest day.

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KEY QUOTES

“Two years ago none of us knew who he was. Now as of today he is the highest paid rider in the world, a reported 6 million Euro a year contract. We have Sagam's on 5 million year, Froome's on 4.5 million a year.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

“For a long time, well, forever, until yesterday, no one had ever broke the 4 minute mark, it was really like Roger Banister's four minute mile. Four minutes for four kilometers looked like an unbreakable barrier.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

“That's what Roglatch does. He chips away, chips away. You never see him taking, you know, 10 minutes, five minutes, four minutes. He takes 10 seconds here, 20 seconds there, and that's kind of his MO.”
Anthony Walsh — Roadman Cycling podcast host

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Who won Vuelta a España Stage 6 2021?+

Who leads the general classification after Vuelta 2021 Stage 6?+

What is Movistar's strategy at the 2021 Vuelta a España?+

Can Roglič defend the red jersey at the 2021 Vuelta a España?+

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