Tour de France 2020 | Stage 4 (Sisteron – Orcières-Merlette, 160.5 km)

[Vroome.exe]

I hope Ala gives up on the next mountain stage and doesn't destroy his season like last year. After losing some time he could win a couple more stages.

 

[bambino]

believe so.

He was. Not sure how I missed the biggest guy left, but regardless I did.

 

[perico]

No MOV riders could keep up until the end... Man it's really going to be a long and painful season for them huh.

Mas is the worst sprinter in the peloton. He and Buchmann lost about 6 seconds there in the sprint. His problem is positioning. Awful.

 

[perico]

WHERE'S VALVERDE???????

About 15 seconds behind the group

 

[Big Doopie]

He was. Not sure how I missed the biggest guy left, but regardless I did.

behind pinot and yates.

still on the up and up i would say.

 

[bob.a.feet]

Not a very exciting stage at all, but it is only stage 4. No one was realistically going to go for anything but the stage win here. The big mountains are still to come.

 

[JosephK]

11th

Not bad for Dumo on a sprinty uphill like this early on.

 

[Red Rick]

2 conclusions

1. Roglic did survive that crash
2. Alaphilippe is never gonna happen this year

 

[bambino]

Valverde lost 21s. Not that I'm very surprised.

 

[jsem94]

I seriously dont know what people were expecting here, this was the most obvious sprint MTF ever

Most of us knew it'd be bland. Still an awful stage worth complaining about after the fact.

 

[Mayomaniac]

There was very little anyone could do with JUmbo Visma pace....they have the best riders at the moment

It's not like they bossed a big alpine climb. Quintana being among the best on this kind of uphill finish is bad news for his opponents. All in all I'm just happy about the fact that Pinot didn't pay for the crash on stage 1.

 

[Gigs_98]

To add some fuel to the fire of the topic from earlier. Watching this stage I'd argue Van Aert is a lot more likely to become a TdF winner than Alaphilippe.

 

[movingtarget]

Roglic is so hard to out sprint now in those types of stages, Carapaz lost some time. Stage went as expected pretty much.

 

[RedheadDane]

I hope Ala gives up on the next mountain stage and doesn't destroy his season like last year. After losing some time he could win a couple more stages.

I... wouldn't say Alaphilippe's season last year was destroyed. Especially because he had a pretty good season before the Tour.
Of course this year there - practically - was no "before the Tour", so this year your plan might be quite a good idea.

 

[Pricey_sky]

He was. Not sure how I missed the biggest guy left, but regardless I did.

Yeah Dumoulin, Porte and Bardet were just falling away but Martin slowing with 300m to go allowed them to just get back.

 

[JosephK]

Pinot also with no time loss (except to top 3 with the bonuses). Very good for him after going down hard on stage 1.

 

[Valanga]

2 conclusions

1. Roglic did survive that crash
2. Alaphilippe is never gonna happen this year

3. Dumoulin is not there yet.

 

[ppanther92]

Don't know why Bardet completely lost his spark. Normally he would do what Martin did today.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I seriously dont know what people were expecting here, this was the most obvious sprint MTF ever

True. Hence why ASO should have either beefed up the run-in, or dropped this MTF altogether in exchange for beefing up any combination of Stage 6/8/9.

 

[perico]

Carapaz lost 30 seconds. Looks like that question is answered.

 

[Vroome.exe]

I... wouldn't say Alaphilippe's season last year was destroyed. Especially because he had a pretty good season before the Tour.
Of course this year there - practically - was no "before the Tour", so this year your plan might be quite a good idea.

Sure he had a great season, but after tour he was cooked. I would like to see him in classics and worlds this year.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Remember Roglic may always choose to DNS on the final day.

 

[jaylew]

On same time:

Roglic
Pogacar
G Martin
Nairo
Ala
Lopez
Bernal
Pinot
Landa
A Yates
Dumo
Chaves
Mollema
Porte
Uran
Bardet

 

[Red Rick]

3. Dumoulin is not there yet.

His domestique doing the good work of hoarding up the bonificatinos though.

 

[JosephK]

Pogacar taking 2nd . . . looking ready to go.