Vuelta a España 2019 Stage 21 Highlights: Madrid | GCN Racing

The 21st and final stage of the Vuelta a España is quite like the final day of the Tour of France, largely ceremonial until they get into Madrid. It’s a flat one and the winner of La Roja (The red jersey) celebrating the tenth anniversary of it’s introduction, will be crowned. It’s a sprinters dream stage to bring the curtain down on the 2019 Vuelta with a stage win on the final day of the final grand tour of the year.#LaVuelta19
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Rank your favourite Grand Tours this year - Giro, Tour, Vuelta

[@na1chaca889]

1: Giro 2: Tour 3: Vuelta

[@gcnracing]

Also, 5th stage win for Deceunink. My apologies, it's been a long three weeks. Lloyd.

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Tour Vuelta Giro

[@joskoevoet9569]

Vuelta, Giro, TdF.

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Tour Vuelta giro

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Big thanks for covering the vuelta - and other races obviously - so consistent and well... Best on KZbin rn hands down!

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Thanks Harald.

[@bostjan-sj]

Agreed, Dan's coverage is always awesome!

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Movistar got the team prize 🤣🤣🤣. Must be for tactics. Or team spirit. Or sportsmanship. 😱 Thanks GCN racing for the awesome coverage!

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🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭....🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesambrocio]

Definitely sportsmanship...

[@gauloisrefractaireenexilvo4366]

Best Directeur Sportif / DS. They have the riders, but they are lacking the brains. What a waste!

[@beniamincolta709]

Dan I really love you style! Finally a commentator who’s expressing freely sarcasm,jokes,facts and anything in between! Great job ! Thank you @gcnracing

[@raytheron]

Thank you for your amazing highlights packages every day, GCN Racing. Chapeau!

[@gcnracing]

Thanks Ray

[@aminostruth3494]

Been a great tour and have loved the GCN presentations, especially Lloydy's personalised input.

[@ukaszwaszczyszyn2141]

Best Vuelta ever, great job GCN for valuable content delivered, and well done RMajka. #6 in GC sounds like a good reason to get some time off. Rafał, It will be hard to beat this season's result but I hardly belive next season will be even better!!! All the best for GCN and your supporters.

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Big thanks to Dan and the whole team for bringing daily highlights and other content from la Vuelta and so many other races free of charge

[@ltu42]

Thanks so much for these race highlights of Le Tour and La Vuelta! You've nailed the format, much more entertaining and insightful than Eurosport's summaries and more timely and regular than How the Race was Won.

[@heliumtrophy]

A hearty Gracias for providing the highlights in everything. It's been a blast.

[@gcnracing]

Thank you! Dan

[@paulisaasta]

Thank you Dan ! It's been a pleasure listening to you through the Vuelta ! 👌🙏

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Thanks for alle the highlights! You make it possible to check all the races next to work 💪💪💪💪👏👏👏👏🥰

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Thanks for watching Jöel. Dan

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Super Nice coverage of la vuelta. Thanks GCN!

[@miropribanic5581]

thanks for the quick uploads, the very knowledgeable coverage ....and for the correct pronunciation of the riders' names (cheers Sean Kelly) ;-)

[@ageary]

Thanks Dan great to have these stage summaries every day......and not a pair of white shorts to be seen anywhere.....lol

[@bobfitzsimmons3490]

Want to add my thanks for bring a very consistent well done package to the Grand Tours for those of us in the still dry coverage land of Canada. (But I did see the Quebec City and Montreal warm ups for the worlds .................double thanks) Our (your ?) Canadien commentators need a bit of help however 😇)

[@jelongchen2445]

HUGE thank you for the consistent highlight! Hoping Dan's predicting game is better next year hahaha

[@TheQuikMix]

wonderful highlights. The last couple of months have been glorious. between the TDF and Vuelta

[@grale78]

Great job GCN of covering this year GT. I count on you next year. Congrats to Slovenians from neighbor Croatian 👏👏👏

[@lifeofkan]

Dan you were absolutely fantastic throughout this race. Really enjoy your commentating, well-executed. Look forward to your next race commentary

[@ronroman3536]

These race summaries have been fantastic. The length has been long enough to cover all the important moves without being too long to quickly fit into my day. And they were posted with incredible speed after the stage. It’s clear Dan now rides for the Cervelo BEST team!

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Tour,Vuelta,Giro. Thanks GCN Racing😎

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Thank you, GCN for the grand tours coverage! And all the other races!

[@oryx3333]

Fantastic highlights for the entire Vuelta. Well done GCN, top marks!

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Thank you Dan and the GCN Racing KZbin Team for a wonderful 3 weeks of updates and commentary. Always professional and informative, being a subscriber and bell ticked is an easy decision to make. Chapeau 👍

[@T_Mo271]

Excellent coverage of the entire Vuelta, thanks very much!

[@chrisko6439]

Thanks for three weeks of highlights! Good idea to start with a short summary of the previous stage, good job!

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Thanks for covering all cycling events👍🏻 I Love it

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Thanks to GCN for covering the Vuelta! Been checking in every day to get the highlights :)

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Thanks for watching!

[@christopherfranklin972]

Many thanks,enjoyable as always,Deceunik and Jumbo Visma have been excellent,looking forward to cyclo-cross!

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Thanks GCN for coverage!!!

[@0311johannes]

A big thank you GCN and Dan for excellent coverage! Go ahead and enjoy your non non-alcoholic beer, job well done!

[@anirai1516]

Congratulations to Jumbo!!! Their team has worked hard in two grand tours and now they have won this one. Congrats to Valverde and Pogacar the new young rider to look out for.

[@louissiow]

Thank you for all the updates

[@global_nomad.]

thanks for providing a consistent review....a little longer would be perfect, sometimes feels a little rushed, keep up the good work...

[@gcnracing]

If we could bring you longer, we would. Hopefully at some point soon.... Dan

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@@gcnracing thanks Dan

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love this, best there is, thanks GCN!

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Great job covering the Vuelta, thank you.

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Love the backgroud sound

[@paulestorey]

Well done team, getting better every tour!

[@chrisko6439]

What a handsome smile by Roglić!

[@reddannywambalam]

Really well done! If I had one request it would be to talk more about the tactics of the teams as the race progresses. It might be obvious to you, but I'm not really sure why the Vuelta seemed over almost 10 days ago. That being said, your summaries were a pleasure to watch.

[@gauloisrefractaireenexilvo4366]

All 3 Grands Tours were open, exciting, and GCN did a terrific job with their daily highlights. A new generation of pro riders has the ambition to take the helm but the old guns are fighting fiercely to keep the lead. Ranking for 2019 = 1/ La Vuelta (not won by a Colombian) 2/ Le Tour (bravo Alaphilippe for the show) 3/ Il Giro (Roglic training camp). GCN best comments by Dan.

[@duncanking5272]

One can only describe pogacar’s rise as meteoric. Almost unbelievable 😉. Must be in the form of his life

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Thank you !!!!!

[@shane-irish]

Unluck sam what a talent

[@davepratt9909]

Dan, great job presenting the highlights. One question, how many predictions did you get right?

[@gcnracing]

Only one! Roglic in the TT. Dan

[@goodvibebiker4776]

Love these highlight videos! One question though, at the final sprint there were two blue, what I would call noise makers, that fall onto road and then find their way back under the barriers. It almost seems like there was a string attached and they were purposefully placed and dragged back... or could it be that fans dropped them (accidental or not) and the breeze caused by the riders swept them off course? #askGCN

[@fernandog.aguirre2791]

Congrats to P. Roglic!!!!! Lets wait 2 years for the UCI to release the dopping results for A. Valverde and Max Ricese..........

[@mikedickerson3944]

fernando g. aguirre Quintana, model teammate that he is, will be the one to leak the results so he can get 3rd. That’s quintessential Movistar-swap 2nd for 3rd.

[@renegonza4327]

At his age , valverde is impressive

[@_TeXoN_]

I think the Sprint classification of the Vuelta is broken. Bennett should have won, because he was the best finisher of this tour, but instead all the GC leaders are also on the top of the sprint classification.

[@JMise]

Yeah, Jakobsen is even better example. Two sprint stage wins and 12th position in the final ranking. In front of him is Majka with 0 wins and a single third place.

[@nolketasma4061]

The 'sprint stage' that Nairo won cost the sprinters the win. If Bennett/Jakobsen scored points there it would have been entirely different. That was just hard, offensive racing, not a broken classification.

[@Draregkoeliekalie]

Its nog a sprint classification. Its the points classification and its exactly how it was originally intended to be, the Rider that finished highest on average every stage, obviously winning giving most points.

[@_TeXoN_]

@@Draregkoeliekalie In this case you dont need another classification. If the winner of the Gc should also win the points classification, then one of these could be dropped.

[@nolketasma4061]

@@_TeXoN_ It's the only classification where the climbers and sprinters can go head to head. I think that's a valuable asset and usually great to watch.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Hope Roglic is enjoying the rooftop after party. I have a feeling Rob Hatch wasn’t invited judging by how much he was mentioning it 😂😂

[@ultratrump8189]

👏😎

[@BlueEmulsion]

3:55

[@brunospasta]

Roglic is the Yates of last year.

[@shuonanzhao6395]

Lol @ the comment about Gaviria and Astana.

[@dunigan3320]

I felt so sad how Dan talked about Fernando Gaviria he really did not had a good season☹

[@0311johannes]

The greatest team led by the greatest team managers won another undisputed win!!! And yes, I'm being sarcastic! ;)

[@fahim113]

Never go full polkadot!

[@gaj5701]

Come on, give us a wild prediction for someone doing something, anything.. 😀

[@ulrimi30]

I finished the Vuelta, and all I got was this sh***& non-alcoholic beer

[@allanvirimai7823]

Why didn't team Sky ineos field a GC guy for this tour?

[@sinuosalice-1434]

Wait... How did valverde gain time on primoz?

[@pm35886]

SinuoSalice - yeah... I thought I was the only one noticing..

[@fernandog.aguirre2791]

Valverdde on the juice master!!!!

[@ernestpaul6444]

Yeah but did you know that Primoz Roglic was a former ski jumper? Haha, I bet you didnt. Heres another one, did you know that the well known ski jumper Primoz Roglic is also a professional cyclist?

[@mrp1374]

Me: *opens youtube.... Sees stage 21 highlight video.... Gets excited.... Sees video thumbnail... Gets angry... Because obviously Bennett won and you've just given it away... Watches video anyway.... Not so angry anymore*

[@jeffreywilliams3646]

So it looks like the GCN curse has been lifted. How many of your folks picked the winner?

[@gcnracing]

A lot, but not me, I went with Pogacar. Dan

[@jamessporttalks8414]

1 TDF 2 Vuelta 3 Giro

[@cedarcanoe]

Shame on Movistar

[@angelf.5367]

Porque tontolaba? Movistar campeón de Giro, Tour y Vuelta ... INEOS ... NOTHING OF NOTHING

[@everythingexplored5233]

Thought this year has been the worse for grand tours in some time. Whatever the reasons but mainly due to the wrong combinations of top riders doing the tours all three lacked real battles and excitement. Hopefully next year there will be no injuries, Thomas, froome and egal will all be on different teams, Movistar will drop Quintana and choose a leader the Yates brothers will stop messing about and target the tour helping each other and van der poel will have a ding dong battle with Sagan for green. But unlikely given the in fathomable team ta tics and continued use of radios which has ruined racing like we used to see. Bring back pantani and Hinault, jalabert, kelly and excite us once more. 2019 when the highlight of all three tours was a mudslide it shows how poor the cycling was.

[@paulwendon-blixrud8397]

I do think that even though Roglic was fit, he didn't particularly ride well, eg. In the right places at the right time. It takes more than being fit to win a tour / race and therefore I think he was lucky to win (ie no gentleman's agreement and he would have lost). There are so many factors that influence a race I think there is a good argument for the 'agreement'to be scrapped - discuss!