Vuelta Stage 4 ***Spoiler***

sonny73

Break with 8'03" over peloton containing 7 riders:
Bonnafond. Toribio. Bagot. Vogranov. Rohregger. De Kort. Busche.

sonny73

http://www.lavuelta.com/11/es/online/pelidin.html

frenchfighter

23km at 5.7% average.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/09/ ... eads_97751

afx237vi

Cavendish retirado.

jibberjim

Cavendish climbs off...

cal_stewart

cav out

FCE2007

Cav abandoned..

FJS

Now, sprinters tend to leave the Vuelta early, but this is very early...

cal_stewart

great minds

cal_stewart

double post

rick_chasey

Seems very early.

How will this affect his world's prep?

afx237vi

The morale more than the legs, perhaps. Can't be easy racing for a team that won't exist in a few weeks.

FJS

And what is Rabobank riding for at the front?

camerone

why did Goss withdraw? ill I think, any chance this is linked?. Cav has been out of sorts since the start of this race

FJS

afx237vi wrote:

The morale more than the legs, perhaps. Can't be easy racing for a team that won't exist in a few weeks.

The only chance to become world champion for many years, maybe the only chance of his career?

slimreaper

So Cav pulls out. 3 GT's too much to ask then. Can't imagine the other two have been particularly easy for sprinters, then the vuelta to follow. Rather him than me.

tailwindhome

I'd thought he would have abandoned on the rest day.

frenchfighter

Wow, nothing like Cav to spark a hundred posts.

Too hot.

LeicesterLad

Me thinks Illness has struck HTC camp.

afx237vi

FJS wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

The morale more than the legs, perhaps. Can't be easy racing for a team that won't exist in a few weeks.

The only chance to become world champion for many years, maybe the only chance of his career?

That's what makes it odd. He needs permission off the UCI to race elsewhere now, doesn't he?

Neil McC

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me thinks Illness has struck HTC camp.

Could be a likely reason, Goss abandoned through illness and they were rooming together.

FJS

And in the meantime, still, what is Rabobank riding for? Even if Kruiswijk or Mollema feel good, a bit bizarre

pat1cp

Cav tweeted last night something like "If that was a cat 3 climb at the finish this is going to be a savage Vuelta".

No indication that he may climb off today.

rick_chasey

FJS wrote:

And in the meantime, still, what is Rabobank riding for? Even if Kruiswijk or Mollema feel good, a bit bizarre

Punishment for yesterday's poor effort?

LeicesterLad

pat1cp wrote:

Cav tweeted last night something like "If that was a cat 3 climb at the finish this is going to be a savage Vuelta".

No indication that he may climb off today.

If he was ill he wouldn't have tweeted about it, He's always saying he can never show any sing of weakness to his oponents.

rick_chasey

Who was the last rider to win the worlds without riding at least a week in the Vuelta?

emadden

Neil McC wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Me thinks Illness has struck HTC camp.

Could be a likely reason, Goss abandoned through illness and they were rooming together.

a la PDM ?

sonny73

Very strung out already, quite a pace the Rabobank boys are setting!

FJS

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who was the last rider to win the worlds without riding at least a week in the Vuelta?

TommekeTommeke?

FJS

Rick Chasey wrote:

FJS wrote:

And in the meantime, still, what is Rabobank riding for? Even if Kruiswijk or Mollema feel good, a bit bizarre

Punishment for yesterday's poor effort?

Perhaps. Bit old-fashioned

sonny73

Kloden looking cooked, he did say he didn't have the legs for anything amazing at this Vuelta.