Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 4 (Dunkerque – Calais, 171.5k)

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Lol Philipsen.

 

[markene2]

Very strange tactics by JV unless it wasn't planned. One can well argue that Wout is pointless getting tired to be a late support for Roglic or Vingo.

If i am Jumbo im going to question if i can trust wout to wait for Jonas and Roglic and be a team player tomorrow. honestly he rode his own show last year also the stage roglic crashed. He wins stages and brings awarnes for the sponsors but for the team cohesion i would question how good it is.

 

[Poursuivant]

Yates looked great btw. He will probably fade as he often seems to do but he looked very strong

 

[Elos Anjos]

Atm Vingegaard looks clearly stronger than Roglic. Beat him in the TT and better than him on a short, punchy climb that should really suit Roglic.

TT is not a good gauge as it was raining and time differences were mainly due to risk taking.
Assessing the climb as a measure of form will also take us to strange places...where was Pogacar?

 

[gregrowlerson]

Okay, that wasn't quite so boring. What a rider.

 

[dgodave]

Looked too chaotic in that attack moment for instant strategy decisions. Just goooo.

 

[Potomac]

Phillipsen with a sense of humor

 

[Ricco']

Philipsen clearly celebrating keeping the Benelux domination of 1st and 2nd places going for one more day.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The Wanty guy who almost took out Philipsen should be relegated.

 

[kingjr]

Is Philipsen blind? Van Aert was very clearly in sight...

He came from quite far back, I think his vision was blocked.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Greatest cyclist of our age. Simple as.

No, Not even as good as Ballan

 

[valentius borealis]

Who doesn't want to be 2nd?

It seems that Philipsen does.

 

[spalco]

Nice sprint by Philipsen to be fair, but very stupid celebration regardless.

 

[ppanther92]

Laporte almost made it a 1-2 after leading out on the climb. Wtf...

 

[Salvarani]

Lol at Laporte telling Philipsen he didnt win after the line

 

[Aimar16]

 

[red_flanders]

Oh man, Daniel Lloyd just buried Philipsen…

 

[RobertCrawley]

If i am Jumbo im going to question if i can trust wout to wait for Jonas and Roglic and be a team player tomorrow. honestly he rode his own show last year also the stage roglic crashed. He wins stages and brings awarnes for the sponsors but for the team cohesion i would question how good it is.

I think it was the team plan for WVA to launch from the climb and take the win.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Oh stop it, Vingegaard and Roglic just needed to follow and couldn't. Unlucky. Dont expect Wout to wait for you on a stage like this after 3 2nd places in a row. It was close form Vingo, but no cigar.

Worlds best rider? Close one between him and Pogi.

 

[titan31]

I do assume JV had a plan to do a Paris Nice move and have multiple of their guys off but I think they changed their mind. Vingegaard doesn't bother trying to get back on to WVAs wheel and he could have imo. I'd say they made the call themselves for WVA just to go at that point.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Philipsen is clearly celebrating taking second from Wout

 

[ppanther92]

Looked too chaotic in that attack moment for instant strategy decisions. Just goooo.

True but they had, after Laporte dropped out, a very select group of WvA, Vingegaard, Roglic, Yates, Thomas. But yeah, since they were not able to go as fast as WvA (especially Roglic and Thomas), the gap might have not been enough (maybe none at all, since Pogacar and Vlasov actually closed in Roglic and Thomas over the top).

 

[Mayomaniac]

TT is not a good gauge as it was raining and time differences were mainly due to risk taking.
Assessing the climb as a measure of form will also take us to strange places...where was Pogacar?

Pogacar had no team around him and was probably caught behind when the 2 armadas started drilling it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I turned away to prepare dinner, but at least I got back in time to see the predictable bunch sprint won by Philipsen. Chapeau!

I didn't miss anything important did I?

 

[markene2]

I think it was the team plan for WVA to launch from the climb and take the win.

Nah Vingegaard said so at the finish to wout that it was not. Bruyneel would leave him at home the next tour. if i am roglic or jonas im not happy. dont care if he won, he took out his earpice before he went also,