Vuelta Stage 4 **Spoilers**

bobmcstuff
bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
edited August 2016 in Pro race
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Most people seem to have gone for Valverde in the PTP, but a decent proportion for Chaves etc. too.

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,513
    Kelly: "Lopez looks like he's been in a fight with Bouhanni"
  • Alex99
    Alex99 Posts: 1,407
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Kelly: "Lopez looks like he's been in a fight with Bouhanni"

    Poor fella. Looked rough after the crash.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Fairly big break at 4 minutes with 9.5km to go.

    Gap is falling fast though.
  • ic.
    ic. Posts: 769
    The road goes up, LadyGarden goes out the back
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    In the break:
    Axel Domont, Enrico Battaglin, Chad Haga, Darwin Atapuma, Andrey Zeits, Thomas De Gendt, Zdeněk Štybar, Cesare Benedetti, Ben King, Pierre Rolland, Nathan Haas, Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin, Lawrence Warbasse, Marcel Wyss, Tsgabu Grmay, Jaime Roson Garcia, Stéphane Rossetto, Scott Thwaites, Angel Madrazo Ruiz, Lilian Calmejane

    Some big names in there, gap at 3'30" with 7.5km

    Someone had Atapuma in PTP didn't they?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Atapuma attacks as they reach the cartoon willy on the road (titter)
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Calmejane is out in front, I know literally nothing about him.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Calmejane wins, Atapuma second taking the bonus seconds - possibly into red jersey
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Calmejane comes across well in interview. 1st year pro hence why I haven't heard of him :)

    Stage top ten:
    1 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Direct Energie 04:05:19
    2 Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 00:00:15
    3 Benjamin King (USA) Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team 00:00:15
    4 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 00:00:19
    5 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 00:00:23
    6 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNL - Jumbo 00:00:24
    7 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team 00:00:33
    8 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant - Alpecin 00:00:37
    9 Jaime Roson (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 00:00:40
    10 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Argon 18 00:00:42
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Atapuma into a different red jersey to his usual:

    GC:
    1 Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 13:23:10
    2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar 00:00:29
    3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 00:00:33
    4 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-BikeExchange 00:00:39
    5 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar 00:00:39
    6 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 00:01:09
    7 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Movistar 00:01:11
    8 Leopold König (Cze) Team Sky 00:01:13
    9 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 00:01:15
    10 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx-Quick-Step 00:01:23
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    News of Van Garderen losing ten minutes on a Cat 2 climb reaches Tasmania

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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    RichN95 wrote:
    News of Van Garderen losing ten minutes on a Cat 2 climb reaches Tasmania

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    He's not going for GC, it was said before it started. He's going for stage wins so it's pretty pointless him spending energy trying to stay with the bunch.
  • Joelsim wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    News of Van Garderen losing ten minutes on a Cat 2 climb reaches Tasmania

    Richie+Porte+Le+Tour+de+France+2016+Stage+q2pAgG4bn9Pl.jpg

    He's not going for GC, it was said before it started. He's going for stage wins so it's pretty pointless him spending energy trying to stay with the bunch.


    From what I have seen, everybody bar the obvious 3 or 4 are going for stage wins.
    Not a bad idea given nobody can be arsed to chase down breaks.
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  • well this is going well....

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,218
    Good stage win that. Surprised that final climb was a Cat 2 in this Vuelta though, it was a bit meh.
  • PuttyKnees
    PuttyKnees Posts: 381
    Calmejane rode our club 10 a few years back. Surprising not amazingly fast at the time, but did smash a local KOM out reach after I'd spent quite some time edging closer to it.
  • PuttyKnees wrote:
    Calmejane rode our club 10 a few years back. Surprising not amazingly fast at the time, but did smash a local KOM out reach after I'd spent quite some time edging closer to it.

    a few years? back - hes 23 now so he was basically 20 and a climber - not sure he's ready for a club 10 :D

    I like hime as he's frpm the Langeudoc and the same height as me with the same shoulders !
    :)