Vuelta a España 2022 Vuelta a España stage 4(Vitoria-Gastiez-Lagaurdia),152.5 km, Hilly

[Tonton]

I'm happy for Laguardia. This was a very good stage and we have a great winner: Bravo Primoz! I thought that the dash would start with around 500 meters to go and that the winner could get 5-10 seconds on the 10th. A very good stage today.

 

[hayneplane]

Alaphillipe needs to sit down and park his ego after that fiasco of provoking a mini Roglstomp to take the bonus sprint followed by his teammates riding for him in the finale while he disappeared and finished around 50th on the day.

Fantastic performance from Mads P to back up the confidence from his team in working on the cat 3 climb and great to see Roglic do what he does best on these punchy finishes.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Too bad we aren't gonna see more than one tt battle between these two.

Is Roglic retiring?

 

[search]

In the report, Bora says that they were pulling for Bennett to take points at the intermediate sprint, btw: "Our plan was to take points for Sam at the intermediate sprint. [...] Then our second goal was to bring our three GC riders safely to the finish."

This is also confirmed by Bennett in his race diary:

"Last night, our directeur sportif Bernie Eisel came into our room to chat about how we’d approach the stage [...]. In the end, we came to the conclusion that we’d concentrate on the intermediate sprint today and play it by ear after that. I started today 37 points clear of Mads Pedersen of Trek Segafredo in the points classification, but with a maximum of 45 points on offer today I knew I had to keep an eye on the Dane. The plan was to let a group up the road this morning, small enough in numbers to be able to control and bring back before the sprint, which came after 118km and in between the two climbs of the day."

 

[Valv.Piti]

Thats what you'd call terrible tactics 101. Holy ***, thats braindead.

 

[groogster]

Ayuso vs Almeida soap opera already getting the engines starting at Eurosport Portugal
I love all this drama already unfolding

Drama thickens already, Spanish press asking Ayuso if now Almeida should work for him!! Love this, please bring it on!!

 

[Big Doopie]

Almeida regretting the day he left QS.