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

[TourOfSardinia]

Who doesn't want to be 2nd?

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Why on earth would he not let Yates and Vingegaard join him?

Yeah this was madness. Surely Ineos would've given Yates the thumbs up to work with Pogacar behind. Maybe no communication from his team how big the gap was over radio?

 

[F_Cance]

lots of moto help after the hill, but still this is super ridiculous

 

[ppanther92]

Yes, they caught Pog out and several other GC riders but they burnt Rog and then he burnt Vingegaard. There was a move for time here.

I guess the initial plan was to have a group of WvA, Vingegaard and Roglic. But Roglic exploded at the same time as Thomas. And well, then WvA decided to drop Vingegaard

 

[dercuforever]

Tomorrow WVA goes with kung, Sagan and MVDP and put 10 min to all favorites. Then goes on to win the tour.

 

[RobertCrawley]

WVA increasing the gap.

 

[ppanther92]

Pogacar isolated? UAE exposed on the first hard paced CAT4 of the race.

AND badly placed. That could have gone quite wrong.

 

[spalco]

Why on earth would he not let Yates and Vingegaard join him?

They were too slow. Who cares, this is awesome, I love it. *** team tactics, just go go go!

 

[woodburn]

Why on earth would he not let Yates and Vingegaard join him?

Because they couldn't follow him and their prescence would have got everyone else organized. Nobody is really chasing Wout because he isn't GC contender.

 

[Poursuivant]

That was special from WVA. Absolute demonstration of raw power.

 

[Eclipse]

Well, looks like he will take the stage at least so not a completely idiotic move.

 

[Billie]

Tv moto should stay behind

 

[red_flanders]

Yeah this is over.

 

[Bolder]

Nice team tactics. Plus Wout is in the shape of his life. Bravo!

 

[ontheroad]

The sprinters teams looked like they completely gassed out after that last climb, nobody taking a pull. Show of strength from JV. Looks in the bag for WVA now.

 

[ppanther92]

Well, looks like he will take the stage at least so not a completely idiotic move.

Still think, since they actually were on WvA's wheel, that Vingegaard and Roglic were supposed to follow. But well...

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yeah this was madness. Surely Ineos would've given Yates the thumbs up to work with Pogacar behind. Maybe no communication from his team how big the gap was over radio?

Not to mention the fact that Vingegaard didn't give Yates any help after they went over the top of the climb only a few meters behind Wout.
With an Ineos rider with them they could have gained even more time.

Oh well, Wout only rides for Wout in this Tour, at least that's what it looks like...

 

[Stelvio]

I was hoping Jumbo would try something like this. This is not van Aert being selfish, he just had his sprint train do their work 10k from the finish.

 

[Boes]

Impressive WVA but I think there was something to do for GC for Vingegaard to...
But as a huge WVA fanboy, I'm overjoyed

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Oh, now the motor moves behind...

 

[Netserk]

What should he have done? Wait for Jonas? They surely would have got caught.

No. On the top of the climb, Yates and Vingegaard had a bigger gap to the rest than up to Van Aert. If the latter had gone more steadily on the climb, he would have pulled them away.

 

[sir fly]

Brilliant.

A classy way to honor the home arrival of the race.

 

[spalco]

I am completely awed what a beast this man is.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

I don't get why Vingo tried to follow if all this was supposed to just launch Van Aert's big solo. But OTOH I don't get why Van Aert dropped him if they were supposed to work together.

Well I guess it doesn't matter when you can just power your way to the stage win. He was tired of second places...

 

[Elos Anjos]

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.