Vuelta a España 2023 stage 1 highlights. A 14.8km team time trial starting and finishing in Barcelona. The route through this famous Catalan city is technical, with 18 corners for the teams to navigate.
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29 Comments
Oh Remco!………………………………………….
Maybe with lights it would be good enough, but you could also just go indoors then.
Evenepoel is absolutely right to be angry. Very dangerous out there. Put a few of the organizers on a TT bikes in darkness and rain and see what they think.
Also UCI: Super-tuck and resting arms on handlebar are too dangerous….
If it's not putting padding on the barriers at the corners now is not putting a bright lighting system at the last patr of the race
Barcelona was having a heat wave all week (35C) so a later start would have been a good idea it it wasn't for the freak thunderstorm (see the lightning streak in the opening clip).
There was no rain in the forecast all day and then it just started to pour just as the first team rolled off. We stood at the finish line and it was definitely dark by the time Remco and the final team rolled through (about 8:20pm)
People complaining about Remco’s reaction, please think twice. Safety should be the top priority in cycling. We already lost many riders in the past few years. Riding in the dark, with no lighting is complete madness, and should be seen as such by all cycling fans.
Not fair, quickstep would have won a lot more time on jumbo if they started in same condition
Get some lights for the bikes eh. That should be a rule you have to have a light when it's dark
Excellent report !!! Yes , there should be worries if there is continued rain in Spain !!! Definitely not proper racing with puddles and darkness. Should the next stage be postponed ?
If all 5 DSM teammates are tied in time why does only Milesi get the red jersey and not everyone on the team?
La Vuelta proves that they can organize a Grand Tour even worse than Il Giro. Rain and night or day and intense heat, this race already has big problems written all over it, not to mention COVID and bad crashes – the curses of previous races.
I mean these recaps are sooo boring
What a daft time to have it they may as well have nipped into the local bike shop while doing the TT and asking for a few sets of lights.
Yep no racing in darkness.. they have to start early, and it is raining so much – they could postpone it by a day. It is too risky for riders falling hard on that gravel,
I really thought it was starting on the 28th.
😲 One day in, and it’s already full of drama!
Hah awesome race!
A very short (9 mile), technical course in the pouring rain and, later, darkness. They should have cancelled the stage. Dumb and risky to the riders to hold it. And clearly the early teams with the weather advantage. Never seen a team time trial that short.
Day-night TTT 🤣 what a joke 🤦
Terrible and shameful amateur operation. Organizers should've rerouted the stage onto Zwift.
A bit of unforeseen drama is always cool.
those organizers… they say they have riders safety in mind…. they need to do a better job. insane that they had to ride in the dark. Who the heck thought this was good enough? whoever that is should be fired. Are there any riders on the organizing committee? I would hope that one of them would speak up and say “what? riding in darkness full on? Are you out of you f* mind?”
Anyone else goes out in those conditions and its full fenders and lights mandatory
A TTT in the rain and darkness? Madness? 🤔
Surely the alleged "organisers" have GOT to give all Teams an EQUAL chance? And SAFETY must be paramount…
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The UCI just doesn’t care about riders safety
UCI should be ashamed of themselfs…
Weather is weather and riders should just have to deal with that !? but teams finishing in the dark is just ludicrous
TTT un the dark is a joke. Organisers expected sun and beautiful sunset but got rain and darkness. Knowing the weather forecast, they should have started an hour earlier.