2014 Volta Catalunya stage 4: Alp › Vallter 2000-Setcases 166.4 Km

[the sceptic]

2014 Volta Catalunya stage 4: Alp › Vallter 2000-Setcases 166.4 Km

COLLADA DE TOSSES (P.M. 1ª Cat.). 19.6km, avg. 3.8%, max 6%
ALT DE CANES (P.M. 2ª Cat.). 16km, avg. 3%, max 6%
ALT DE OIX (P.M. 1ª Cat.). 7.7km, avg. 5.3%, max 10%
ALT DE ROCABRUNA (P.M. 1ª Cat.). 7.5km, avg. 5.6%, max 14%
VALLTER 2000 (P.M. Cat. Especial). 12km, avg. 7.8%, max 12%

 

[VeloHuman]

Forecast for tomorrow's finish: -1 Celsius, partly cloudy.

I could think of far worse conditions than that.

 

[the sceptic]

Forecast for tomorrow's finish: -1 Celsius, partly cloudy.

I could think of far worse conditions than that.

I am praying for good weather. Would be such a shame if they cancelled the last climb.

Contador to drop Froome again and win the stage.

 

[Netserk]

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Gotta go with J-Rod again.
The cold will "steal" some of the energy again, but action should be better than the previous day.

 

[Parrulo]

Purito seems to be on fire so this should be very interesting.

Hopefully Contador, Quintana and The Dwag will attack early so we can see if today was pure superior power or just a suitable finish for Puritp.

Anyway i am going with Purito for this one.

 

[BYOP88]

More riders dressed as ninjas tomorrow?

 

[Parrulo]

Oh and is this race really only being covered by a moto and an heli?

Or did they pull back a moto on the last few km's today?

 

[Lexman]

No Betancur apparently tomorrow

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[hfer07]

honestly- I'll start watching within 4k to go, because nothing is going to happen until then...

Purito has this in the bag

 

[VeloHuman]

The two Cat 1 climbs before the final summit aren't going to decide the race, but they'll put some pressure on the pretenders. Lots and lots of uphill mileage on this stage. Good for Froome and Contador, and van Garderen, Talansky, Pozzovivo too.

 

[willbick]

One of those colombian climbers will win this. Purito will win final sprint of top guys about 30 secs back

 

[Jspear]

Contador for the win! I'd also like to see Tjay and Talansky do well.

 

[Cimber]

Purito seems to be on fire so this should be very interesting.

Hopefully Contador, Quintana and The Dwag will attack early so we can see if today was pure superior power or just a suitable finish for Puritp.

Anyway i am going with Purito for this one.

Voted Contador but I actuelly think it will be Purito when I think about it Again. He looks great and Berti and Alian will probably ride against eachother mainly.

 

[RiccoDinko]

Contador seems like he wants to mark his competition, not totally impressed. He's much better than last year, but seems very beatable.

Final Podium, Purito, Berto, Nairo

Chris Froome going to be sour grapes.

 

[jens_attacks]

1.contador
2.froome
3. van garderen +15
4. purito +40

froomey will attack big time

 

[VeloHuman]

Quintana said he still has not fully recovered from illness. I'd say he did a pretty good job today if that's the case. Hopefully he's getting better every day, would like to see what he's got on tomorrow's climb.

 

[Ferminal]

Purito looks really good so they will need a nice train to beat him, problem is there isn't one apart from the Anton joke.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Hopefully either Contador or Froome will attack and make a good go of it but it looks like Froome doesn't quite have the legs after his injury and perhaps Contador will just mark everyone as he's recovering from his TA efforts. Maybe I'm wrong but it all points to a Purito win.

Maybe Tejay can surprise and hope Yates continues his good form and can get a good placing.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Hopefully either Contador or Froome will attack and make a good go of it but it looks like Froome doesn't quite have the legs after his injury and perhaps Contador will just mark everyone as he's recovering from his TA efforts. Maybe I'm wrong but it all points to a Purito win.

Maybe Tejay can surprise and hope Yates continues his good form and can get a good placing.

Contador said he just marked his competition today to save himself for tomorrow

 

[Pricey_sky]

Contador said he just marked his competition today to save himself for tomorrow

Let's hope so, I can't handle another 2 hours of boredom just to see 500 metres of racing!

 

[podunavac]

I just hope the stage won't be shortened.
Anyway, Sky doesn't look so convincing this season. More than couple of withdrawals this month. Something's going wrong there.

 

[manafana]

so do we or don't we get a full stage tomorrow the forecast seemed to have calmed from what was predicted.

 

[willbick]

lol at u guys hoping for some massive action. Hope springs eternal.... it wont be much different from today. its just guys riding bikes, they havent got a turbo button - that went out a few years ago

 

[burning]

lol at u guys hoping for some massive action. Hope springs eternal.... it wont be much different from today. its just guys riding bikes, they havent got a turbo button - that went out a few years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJCAnTFolRA