2012 Vuelta a España: Stage 4:Barakaldo-Estación de Valdezcaray 160.6 Km

[spalco]

Kinda disappointing finish. Nice win for Clark, but too bad Roche, Contador and Froome just gave up.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Valverde/Capecchi at 1m55. So they lost almost 1m

 

[happytramp]

Awwwww, bless

 

[Kazistuta]

Cardoso with a win fail????

 

[Highlander]

Valverde lost just under a minute to the men who matter. It could have been much worst, but his GC hopes are probably over now.

 

[ElChingon]

That was De La Fuente...

 

[Arnout]

Kinda disappointing finish. Nice win for Clark, but too bad Roche, Contador and Froome just gave up.

Wait? We didn't warn you in advance about this stage?

 

[Miburo]

Purito didn't look good, he was lucky that the last 6km weren't steep.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Haha, who was that Caja Rural rider who thought he won? I actually feel really bad for him.

 

[SafeBet]

Hahahaha Caja Rural rider megafail

 

[Descender]

I think the Caja rider was Marcos García.

Poor kid.

 

[Arnout]

Anton with bandage?

 

[The Hitch]

Sierra Nevada? That was Samu Sanchez, he's, I'm sorry to say, in a different universe compared to Anton.

Fixed it for you

 

[Eshnar]

Purito didn't look good, he was lucky that the last 6km weren't steep.

maybe he was the only gc guy who actually took a look at the profile

 

[Arnout]

Fixed it for you

Don't mess with my quotes, you ought to know that...

 

[doperhopper]

maybe this CajaFail guy just got the first spot in the clean jersey classification?

 

[trevim]

Cardoso with a win fail????

Marcos Garcia. Cardoso doesn't fail

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Kinda disappointing finish. Nice win for Clark, but too bad Roche, Contador and Froome just gave up.

The climb was a false flat after the first few km so they didn't have much choice

 

[RedheadDane]

Anyone wanna make a 140 character resume of the stage?

Totally LoLed at that Caja-guy!

 

[Arnout]

maybe he was the only gc guy who actually took a look at the profile

Exactly. Just a click on "Vuelta 2012: Stage profiles and analysis" would've saved a lot of guys a lot of energy

 

[Lanark]

Valverde lost just under a minute to the men who matter. It could have been much worst, but his GC hopes are probably over now.

What do you mean? He never had a realistic shot at winning the Vuelta, losing a minute here probably will result in him finishing one or two places lower on the GC. Never a good thing, but hardly the end of his chances for a podium spot.

 

[BillytheKid]

Wheelsucker wins...damn.

relativism....?

 

[Arnout]

Anyone wanna make a 140 character resume of the stage?

Totally LoLed at that Caja-guy!

Valverde fall, Martin and Clarke survivors of break, interesting begin of climb that ends in uberfail.

 

[CobbleStoner]

I hope all the posters that were talking about the finish in London being so 'weird' were watching the finish of today's stage, same thing, typical cycling move, good job Clark

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

1 Clarke
2 T Martin
3 Bazayev +23

Gr Zeits/Ten Dam/Roche/Garcia etcetera +54s
Favorites +1.03s

Bazayev was so close, SO close to confirm Vino's words that he will win a stage in this Vuelta...

Also kinda interesting that third astana rider to cross the finish was Kash.

It's like Vino is already whipping his compatriots into form.