Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024, stage 4: Plasencia - Pico Villuercas, 170.4k

[Carols]

The Roglification of this Vuelta has begun!!! Chapeau Primoz!! He says his back hurt a long time before the finish. And he led up the final climb 95% of the way

 

[Miha81]

"nobody asked me"

But hey, why not, eh

 

[Tricycle Rider]

"nobody asked me"

He sounds like he's in a good place, good to see him having some fun!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

All your Grand Tours are belong to Slovenia.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Kuss forgot to get on to Landa's wheel
this time round

 

[Movitrain]

Mas won't ever be the most exciting rider or have any sort of explosiveness in him, but him looking this good in week 1 is very nice to see. He usually gets quite a bit stronger the longer the Vuelta goes on.

 

[Sciatic]

That was the ultimate “OH F$CK” image

 

[JosefK]

The Stomp resurrected.

 

[noob]

He sounds like he's in a good place, good to see him having some fun!

Yes! This was not fake Rogla "happiness", this was Rogla being Rogla high

 

[noob]

The sneaky way Almeida sprinted at the barriers for third to get some bonus seconds!

 

[Scarponi]

Was anyone meant to get away with that flat section at the end? A group of 3-5 would have pulled anyone back with 15 seconds easy

 

[Didinho]

Only saw the replay of the sprint. Even without celebrating Roglic was going to win, he came really fast in the end. A shame for Lenny but glad he’s with the first group here already. He’s gonna take a victory this Vuelta.

 

[yaco]

Well deserved win by Roglic who took it from the front. Yates and O'Connor have never performed well when doing 2 GT's in a season.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Roglič is still alive, while Landismo got killed, resurrected and then killed again.

 

[Andre]

super strong Van Eetvelt...but heart-breaker at the line. 41 seconds down instead of 13 had he won the stage. Hopefully he can make up the time in the next climbs

 

[QueenStagiaire]

super strong Van Eetvelt...but heart-breaker at the line. 41 seconds down instead of 13 had he won the stage.

Smart of him to give it away then.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Big losers:

Yates and Carapaz + 1.29
Lipo +1.36
Cian + 1.38
Arensman + 2.35
Max Poole + 3.43
Felipe Martinez +4.10
Tao + 7.40

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What the *** is 57 year old seeing out his contract George Bennett doing up there

It seems like Woods and Fuglsang are finally ageing out, and OK, they've had some pretty unexpected mid-career type leaps and bounds forward to prominence from Stevie Williams and Derek Gee, but otherwise IPT are seeing their most prominent results largely coming from young and promising riders, which is extremely out of character. They need a relic of the past to run a quiet bottom end top 10 GT bid, therefore, to restore balance to the universe.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

41 seconds down instead of 13 had he won the stage.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Difference could've been that young Lennert was fooled into thinking that it was Jasper Philipsen attacking and not old man Landismo, wheras Roglic wasn't fooled. He did get a little gap and seemed to surprise a bit though so maybe not.

 

[titan31]

super strong Van Eetvelt...but heart-breaker at the line. 41 seconds down instead of 13 had he won the stage. Hopefully he can make up the time in the next climbs

How does that work?

 

[Mayomaniac]

Big losers:

Yates and Carapaz + 1.29
Lipo +1.36
Cian + 1.38
Arensman + 2.35
Max Poole + 3.43
Felipe Martinez +4.10
Tao + 7.40

According to Ciccone Skjelmose is their gc leader, so I didn't have any expectations for Tao.

 

[Miha81]

How does that work?

Everything works in a parallel universe

I think it is a typo and he thought 33.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Rogla is just beaming with joy on the podium, love to see it!

 

[Sciatic]

Thrilling final climb

Yes, this and the Le Tour Femmes final stage were two of the most exciting mountaintop finishes in a while.