Giro d'Italia 2015: Stage 4: Chiavari – La Spezia 150 kms

[King Boonen]

As much as I appreciate seeing sprinters do their thing, this is what GTs should be about in the first week

 

[RedheadDane]

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Someone wanna make a tweet sumarising everything in this stage?

GIANT break with some relevant GC guys (kreuziger most imporant).

Tinkoff and etixx didn't know what to do. Contador was prob shitting his pants that kreuziger would have 10min on him in GC. Astana were eating some jelly's and then they decided to go full *** and pull back every rider except for a young italian.

Uran lost 40 sec.

Great race.

Way! too many characters.
Yes. I checked!

 

[Kwibus]

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Clarke is this close to cry at the interview XD

Clearly extremely emotional getting to wear pink. Allthough I do think his initial cheer was that he thought he won the stage. Allthough he was reallllly happy with pink so maybe it was just cheering for pink.

 

[ray j willings]

Today was fast. It did not really pay of for Aru and Astana.
No one expected that. Tomorrow will be interesting to see who has recovered,

Ryder will try something if he's legs are good

 

[Andreasjs]

Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

 

[Mozart92]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Definitely Contador. He was capable of beating Cancellara back in 2009.

 

[arvc40]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Contador will crush Aru

 

[The Hitch]

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They said he is nicknamed "Il roccia" -> The Rock!

Oh boy.

FINALLY!!!!!
THE ROCK, HAS COME BACK, TO La Spezia

 

[Andreasjs]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Contador will crush Aru

So contador cn basically ride the wheel of Aru and win the giro

 

[nuvolablu]

Matthews almost OTL. Who knows how many riders are still behind him

 

[etymology]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Contador will crush Aru

So contador cn basically ride the wheel of Aru and win the giro

no.

 

[red_flanders]

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Are you sure he wasn't celebrating the pink?

Yeah, definitely a possibility. But it's funnier if he thought he won!

That would be a fairly odd celebration for pink.

He said he was celebrating Pink in the post stage interview.

Of course he did.

 

[The Hitch]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Contador was until not that long ago one of the best tters in the world. He was the bookies 2nd favourite to win the world's time trial in valkenberg (though failed). He has podiumed like 20-30 tts in his career including at least half a dozen in gts, and won the long tt in the 09 tdf.

Edit, and some may argue he deserves to have an olympic medal from the time trial.

 

[MatParker117]

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Matthews almost OTL. Who knows how many riders are still behind him

Points penalties for everyone.

 

[arvc40]

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Who is best in a longish TT? Contador or Aru?

What tactical options does Kreuziger in third give team tinkoff?

Contador will crush Aru

So contador cn basically ride the wheel of Aru and win the giro

Probably won't be as easy as that !. Porte is the opposition here.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The design of the stage had the potential for some great racing.
The riders delivered.
Welcome to the world stage, Formolo.

Chapeau.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Clarke, what a tool claiming he was celebrating the pink jersey ... the Orica team is full of "losers" and yet, they somehow manage to win races WTF

Your are the tool !!
Orica win races and Clarke was excited ....

 

[Rollthedice]

The monster TT is definitely one of the key stages. It will be between Contador and the little man in the big RV but I think Aru will not loose so much time as some people predict here.

 

[TomasC]

Porte looked so effortless, GC favourite for me now.

 

[max_powers]

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Great stage, fantastic Formolo. I still can't stop laughing after Visconti showed Clarke the man who actually won.

Yes fantastic day all around, even Clarke's salute became legit!

 

[phanatic]

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The monster TT is definitely one of the key stages. It will be between Contador and the little man in the big RV but I think Aru will not loose so much time as some people predict here.

I was really looking forward to Pozzo crushing the ITT.

 

[Arredondo]

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Porte looked so effortless, GC favourite for me now.

We are only in La Spieza. Monte Ologno, Mortirolo, Finestre still to come.

 

[SeriousSam]

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Porte looked so effortless, GC favourite for me now.

He did look very smooth and easy. Probably getting a good nights sleep in his mobile marginal motor home

 

[Gustav93]

When do they update the results on the official giro site?

 

[BigMac]

I'd jump on the bandwagon but...

overrated stage. I guess all it takes is one to scream epic for the label to stick.