LIVEBLOG | Stage 2 Volta a Comunitat Valenciana & Etoile de Bessèges - Evenepoel head to head with Almeida for the GC
CyclingThursday, 05 February 2026 at 10:50
Welcome to the stage 2 Volta a Comunitat Valenciana and Etoile de Bessèges 2026 Liveblog. In Spain we have a 17 km ITT that will determine a new yellow jersey, while on French roads we have a 163 km stage. Join us and follow all the action from both races here, live and up to the minute..
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- That sucks
ChillingCyclist05-02-2026 - If a bit more of cycling money was available for organisers to invest in security, it wouldn’t be so bad. Counting on volunteers is getting harder every year and it’s understandable. I have no problem sacrificing my time for amateur events where we are all equal but it’s very different making the same decision for pros when I see events depend more and more on ever less people sacrificing and suffering (try dealing with hotheaded car drivers on the road when given zero authority or tools before questioning that) while knowing it’s for an elite bunch earning more and more and who rarely show any appreciation or respect towards volunteers (understandably in the heat of racing but they would do well to think about this a bit in their time off, a tiny gesture would be all that’s needed to motivate volunteers to continue).Mistermaumau05-02-2026
- Statistics are useful but don’t tell the whole story and it would be very tedious to discuss and compare wins which are not all equal. Remco’s wins will be transferred this year but almost all of “PL”’s wins were sprints and have nothing to do with teaching a rider tactics for tours. This season the results may level out a bit. That said, CH is hit and miss (and quite a lot miss) but so tedious to follow I cannot be bothered to read all his contributions and I’ll give this one a miss, and, as I’m no hypocrite, everyone is welcome to do the same with me :-)Mistermaumau05-02-2026
- If he’s doing this EVERY round, what was happening on the parts he couldn’t see?Mistermaumau05-02-2026
- Especially since we now know he’s not a great fan of long indoor trainer sessions. Going to be real hard for him. Might make Tour stages more interesting though if he has to skip most of the spring.Mistermaumau05-02-2026
- No strong man can hold off a coordinated peloton for a long distance. The problem is convincing the peloton to work together. There's no way another team want to burn their matches just so you can jump on them when they have burned their matches closing the gap.
KerisVroom05-02-2026 - this will be fun to watchmij05-02-2026
- yeah, love the questioning of tactics. they are the current greatest grand tour team. Tadej is the greatest GT rider. there is a difference. I don’t think anyone should question TVLmij05-02-2026
- Horner is such an idiot and blowhard. and I think basic facts prove him to be very wrong. a quick google search reveals “In 2025, Soudal Quick-Step achieved 54 victories. Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe secured 23 victories in 2025.” Considering PL’s team had over double the wins of Denk’s, I would argue PL knows tactics pretty well. and when it comes to competing against MVDP and Tadej, all the tactics in the world don’t matter when you are simply ridden off the wheel.mij05-02-2026
- this really sucksmij05-02-2026
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