Tour Down Under - Stage 4: Norwood - Strathalbyn, 124km

[auscyclefan94]

I am going tip for the break to survive with Meyer winning.

Who are you all tipping?

Can people keep me updated as I have no radio feed.

Hehehe, I finally got something right even if it was 15 minutes a go.

 

[ingsve]

Wonder what the gap is...? Meyer could be back in contention for overall. Ten Dam didn't make it?

Yeh waterloo - classic.

He was only 21 secs behind so unless they won by less then 11 seconds he will take the lead.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Waiting for Ferminal to go nuts in 5...4...3...

 

[Moondance]

Wow... They stay away.

Brilliant work. Meyer and ten Dam were equal at +21 secs on Goss at the start of today. This may put them 1st and 2nd overall respectively.

 

[cyclingfanatik]

Time to take a 8 hour nap and come back for full standings. what a joke!

 

[Moondance]

Hmmm... They only stayed away from the peloton by "a few seconds". Probably wont be enough the catapult Meyer into the overall lead.

 

[auscyclefan94]

ONly survived by a few seconds according to the twitter feed.

 

[ingsve]

Did they not end up having a gap? Ah ok...

 

[jaylew]

They're saying Goss still in ochre.

 

[Moondance]

Australia is doing good this year on home soil. Last year, only 1 stage win out of 6 for the Aussies. Already this year they're on 3 out of 4. Should be helpful in bigging this race up even more for the locals.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

meyer wins eh?

 

[cyclingfanatik]

McEwen wins 4. stage

what?
...............

 

[Ferminal]

Australia is doing good this year on home soil. Last year, only 1 stage win out of 6 for the Aussies. Already this year they're on 3 out of 4. Should be helpful in bigging this race up even more for the locals.

Probably wrapped up our 9 riders already

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Originally Posted by Grzdylu
McEwen wins 4. stage

what?
...............

wishful thinking or joke

 

[Njbb1995]

Does he man the Intermediate Sprint?

 

[Ferminal]

CyclingAus Cycling Australia
Santos Tour Down Under - Provisional GC after Stg 4: Cameron Meyer is in Ochre tonight! #tdu #cycling
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Now I'm just ****ed off he's not in my CQ team

 

[cyclingfanatik]

Im surprised they only took 20mins to figure out if Cam Meyer was the new leader.

 

[Ferminal]

Im surprised they only took 20mins to figure out if Cam Meyer was the new leader.

The guy with the stopwatch on the line must have fallen asleep.

 

[Moondance]

If Meyer is leading this means ten Dam should be top 5 at least (provided there wasn't a time gap between Meyer, De Gendt and ten Dam at the finish).


Either way, nicely done Laurens.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Well HTC and radioshack stuffed that up...nice to see Cam Meyer win. He is a really humble nice guy!

 

[Moondance]

CyclingAus Cycling Australia
Santos Tour Down Under - Provisional GC after Stg 4: Cameron Meyer is in Ochre tonight! #tdu #cycling
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Now I'm just ****ed off he's not in my CQ team

Oh noes!



With the 50 points from stage win + leader's jersey, Cam Meyer should already be closing in on his score from last year. Going to practically be in profit with my 2nd CQ Team rider after young Bobridge. Ka-Ching!

 

[Moondance]

General Classification: Top 10:
1: Cameron MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO 12:54:30,
2: Laurens ten DAM (NED) - RABOBANK @ 0:10,
3: Matt GOSS (AUS) - HTC-HIGHROAD @0:12,
4: Robbie McEWEN (AUS) - TEAM RADIOSHACK @0:15,
5: Andre GREIPEL (GER) - OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO @0:16,
6: Michael MATTHEWS (AUS) - RABOBANK @0:18,
7: Ben SWIFT (GBR) - SKY PRO CYCLING @st,
8: Blel KADRI (FRA) - AG2R @0:26,
9: Francisco VENTOSO (ESP) - MOVISTAR TEAM @0:27,
10: Allan DAVIS (AUS) - ASTANA @0:28

Apparently Meyer and De Gendt finished with the same time on the stage. Ten Dam 3 seconds back. Wilson at 10 secs, and the bunch, led by Goss, finished at 24 seconds down to Meyer.

You go Laurens!

For the purposes of my CQ ranking team Meyer and Matthews may also go!

 

[badboyberty]

Provisional Jerseys:

Santos Ochre Leader's Jersey Cameron MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO. Jayco Sprint Jersey - Thomas de GENDT (BEL) - VACANSOLEIL DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM. Skoda King of the Mountain Jersey - Luke Roberts (SA) - UNI SA-AUSTRALIA.Hindmarsh Most Aggressive Jersey - Thomas de GENDT (BEL) - VACANSOLEIL DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM. Cycle Instead Young Rider U26 - Cameron MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO (worn tomorrow by Matthew Goss). Briliant Blend Teams Classification leader - Garmin - Cervelo

 

[Ferminal]

General Classification: Top 10:
1: Cameron MEYER (AUS) - GARMIN-CERVELO 12:54:30,
2: Laurens ten DAM (NED) - RABOBANK @ 0:10,
3: Matt GOSS (AUS) - HTC-HIGHROAD @0:12,
4: Robbie McEWEN (AUS) - TEAM RADIOSHACK @0:15,
5: Andre GREIPEL (GER) - OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO @0:16,
6: Michael MATTHEWS (AUS) - RABOBANK @0:18,
7: Ben SWIFT (GBR) - SKY PRO CYCLING @st,
8: Blel KADRI (FRA) - AG2R @0:26,
9: Francisco VENTOSO (ESP) - MOVISTAR TEAM @0:27,
10: Allan DAVIS (AUS) - ASTANA @0:28


You go Laurens!

For the purposes of my CQ ranking team Meyer and Matthews may also go!

This should make it good tomorrow, Garmin (and probably Rabo) smashing on the pace to avoid a bunch sprint tomorrow. Goss/McEwen/Greipel need to podium tomorrow (Greipel needs top2) otherwise it's curtains for them.

At least my bet on Cam looks good now.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I have made the Stage 5 thread so discussions about tommorow can take place in that thread.