Extraordinary CHAOS! | Ned Boulting and David Millar Review Stage 20 of the Vuelta a España

Hello, David Miller.

Uh, that is, um, that is...

That was...

I don't even know where to begin.

That was one of the most extraordinarily chaotic days of racing in recent Grand Tour, Grand Tour history, wasn't it? It really was.

I mean, again, we haven't seen something like that in a while.

I- we said yesterday when we were speaking about it, that it felt like everybody was keeping their powder dry for today because, I mean, it really was the queen stage regards the, the, the difficulty of it.

Nearly five thousand met- meters of climbing.

But it was only when I watched it that I realized just how savage those climbs were.

Yeah.

I mean, they were on just these tiny little tarmacked goat paths, and it just looked awful.

And I, I turned it on for about two and a half hours before the finish, three hours, and I'd been dipping in and out, and I was just... had no idea what was going on.

It was just everywhere.

And I was messaging you, I was like, "Where's Odner?" 'Cause I could see him on the thing.

I was like, "What happened?" It was just there were riders everywhere, and I...

and Carapaz obviously doing his thing.

But it was just, I mean, yeah, as you say, it was just felt like an absolute storm of a race.

Five hours or thereabouts in the saddle for Mikel Landa, who won the stage.

An average speed of, what was it, thirty-eight kilometers an hour over five thousand meters of climbing?

Thirty-seven point six.

Yeah.

There you go.

I mean, that just makes very little sense in itself.

Hello, David Miller.

Uh, that is, um, that is...

That was...

I don't even know where to begin.

That was one of the most extraordinarily chaotic days of racing in recent Grand Tour, Grand Tour history, wasn't it? It really was.

I mean, again, we haven't seen something like that in a while.

I- we said yesterday when we were speaking about it, that it felt like everybody was keeping their powder dry for today because, I mean, it really was the queen stage regards the, the, the difficulty of it.

Nearly five thousand met- meters of climbing.

But it was only when I watched it that I realized just how savage those climbs were.

Yeah.

I mean, they were on just these tiny little tarmacked goat paths, and it just looked awful.

And I, I turned it on for about two and a half hours before the finish, three hours, and I'd been dipping in and out, and I was just... had no idea what was going on.

It was just everywhere.

And I was messaging you, I was like, "Where's Odner?" 'Cause I could see him on the thing.

I was like, "What happened?" It was just there were riders everywhere, and I...

and Carapaz obviously doing his thing.

But it was just, I mean, yeah, as you say, it was just felt like an absolute storm of a race.

Five hours or thereabouts in the saddle for Mikel Landa, who won the stage.

An average speed of, what was it, thirty-eight kilometers an hour over five thousand meters of climbing?

Thirty-seven point six.

Yeah.

There you go.

I mean, that just makes very little sense in itself.