2014 Tour de France Stage 4: Le Touquet-Paris-Plage / Lille Métropole: 163km, flat

[Rollthedice]

Damn, Tinkov and Movistar cars move ahead of Sky's

Froome sprints in the first stage, for car position, covers attacks by doms in the second stage and falls when the car position thing really matters. Brilliant.

 

[go crazy]

Froome sprints in the first stage, for car position, covers attacks by doms in the second stage and falls when the car position thing really matters. Brilliant.

A tactical genius I tells ya!

 

[yespatterns]

Cop should have smacked that idiot posing over GH after his crash.

 

[therhodeo]

Is it tomorrow yet?

 

[clashb02]

OPQS started with 4 km to go. For Renshaw.

That has to be a big fail. Do they not know any other way to ride the finale of a sprint stage?

Renshaw, on Kristoff's wheel, was looking over his shoulder so much at Kittel that he missed the start of the sprint and lost the wheel. If you can look around and focus on other things that much, it's pretty obvious you're not at your max, get out there and race Renshaw.

 

[go crazy]

is greipel the worst bike handler amongst the sprinters? kinda explains why he cant get in the mix if he doesnt have a dominant train

Farrar

10ch

 

[roosters76]

Sagan vs. Greipel > Perfect example that bike handling superior skills can more than offset the superior speed. His zigzag through the peloton all the way from aback the only exciting thing about today's race

 

[indianfanboy]

Kittel looked weak without his lead out men luckily he had the best lead out man in the world Renshaw's wheel

I dont think Kittel can win any sprints without a proper lead out

 

[Afrank]

I think they should put Martin on the front at 3km to go with the rest of the team behind him, then have them all sit-up to give him a gap and go solo.

It'll only work once but it could be amusing.

Trolling the sprint, that's exactly the kind of things I want to see them do.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Kittel looked weak without his lead out men luckily he had the best lead out man in the world Renshaw's wheel

I dont think Kittel can win any sprints without a proper lead out

Who can? And no, not Sagan, he doesn't win flat sprints.

 

[yespatterns]

Ivan Drago wins again. Ah well.

 

[therhodeo]

Farrar

10ch

This x10000

 

[roosters76]

Ivan Drago wins again. Ah well.

Wrong. Chuck Norris does.

 

[indianfanboy]

Who can? And no, not Sagan, he doesn't win flat sprints.

We have seen Cav do it on numerous occasions

 

[Walkman]

Renshaw, on Kristoff's wheel, was looking over his shoulder so much at Kittel that he missed the start of the sprint and lost the wheel. If you can look around and focus on other things that much, it's pretty obvious you're not at your max, get out there and race Renshaw.

No, he did let Kristoff go to force Kittel's hand. Why should he do a lead-out for Kittel?

 

[Rollthedice]

Sagan vs. Greipel > Perfect example that bike handling superior skills can more than offset the superior speed. His zigzag through the peloton all the way from aback the only exciting thing about today's race

Let's not forget the speed the peloton was moving with Tinkoff and Garmin pulling like mad.

 

[sultanofhyd]

We have seen Cav do it on numerous occasions

Are you kidding? Cavendish has had the best leadout train in the history of pro cycling.

 

[King Boonen]

Are you kidding? Cavendish has had the best leadout train in the history of pro cycling.

That does not negate the fact that Cav has won many sprints in the past without his leadout.

 

[roosters76]

It's all Kristoff vs. Sagan tomorrow

 

[Rollthedice]

It's all Kristoff vs. Sagan tomorrow

What about Canc?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I'm kind of glad neither Lotto nor Steppers were successful here. Pathetic plan and tactics.

An ok flat stage, but it could have been better if raced harder.

Anyway the run in was interesting and we got a proper sprint without trains involved at the absolute business end.

Congrats to Kittel. Continues to be the best sprinter here.

 

[clashb02]

No, he did let Kristoff go to force Kittel's hand. Why should he do a lead-out for Kittel?

And we saw how well that worked out for him. Yesterday we saw that it's not going to be possible to win from behind him, so what's the logic in letting Kittel in front of you with 200m to go?

 

[MBotero]

Kristoff could have won this,but he was left alone too early.I still hope that Kittel will make a mistake somewhere and somebody will steal a win for him on the next flat stages.

 

[yespatterns]

It's all Kristoff vs. Sagan tomorrow

Vanmarke, Canc, and Terpstra may disagree.

 

[indianfanboy]

Are you kidding? Cavendish has had the best leadout train in the history of pro cycling.

Not when he was in Sky,last year and even during his time in HTC