Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2025, Stage 4: Susa – Voiron (206.7k)

[yaco]

Pedersen is absolutely awful in full bunch sprints right now, no positioning and no speed.

Turner of all people winning a week one sprint, having been flown in last minute to boot, is also a pretty damning indictment of the field.

At least Turner got a real win after the farce at Poland. It also says something about Ineos' placement of riders. Turner should have been at this race in the first place as he is a decent sprinter.

 

[E_F_]

Incredible botch job from Alpecin today! And just a completely useless Lidl-Trek...

 

[Netserk]

What's wrong with Pedersen?
Peaked too early in Denmark?

He hasn't done a good big bunch sprint since his crash in the Tour last year.

 

[movingtarget]

Congrats to Turner.

 

[Brullnux]

He is getting worse results than in the Giro in a field that is orders of magnitude weaker. No, he shouldn't be expected to win, but he should be a lot closer than this.

He was getting beaten pretty comfortably by Van Uden/Moschetti/Turner/Zijlaard at the Giro.

 

[dgodave]

Im always surprised when the tallest guy wins a sprint.

 

[Rob5091]

Just goes to show I suppose that to win a stage you don't need 2 months at altitude - chapeau Turner! (mention in dispatches for Silva getting another top 10 for Caja Rural).
Where was Big Mads though? Too much broccoli juice?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

One of those 'dont cry because it happened, smile that it's over' type stages. At least we didn't got philepsen or perdersen as the stage winner

I was hoping for Philipsen but Turner winning is great too, always love your misspellings either way!

 

[E_F_]

Jonas getting in the V-LaB special skin suit for tomorrow.

 

[tobydawq]

Never change, RR, never change

Why not?

 

[tobydawq]

Huh, Gaudu has to be specifically at least 8 places ahead of Vingegaard to take red? I thought he just had to be ahead...
But of course, since it all boils down to the 8 places Vingegaard was ahead of Gaudu on stage 1, I guess it makes sense.

Why on Earth would it be anyway different?

 

[E_F_]

Norsgaard on TV2 coverage of the stage, commenting on his future team, looking at the leadout train, he'll take part in next year...

 

[RedheadDane]

Why on Earth would it be anyway different?

Don't ask me. It was a post made the the official Vuelta FB page.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Norsgaard on TV2 coverage of the stage, commenting on his future team, looking at the leadout train, he'll take part in next year...

Probably contemplating whether he should take a page out of Aular's book and start delivering pizzas instead.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Turnr won with a confident margin as substitute: just imagine how much the first pick, Lucas Hamilton, would have won by!!!

 

[tobydawq]

One of those 'dont cry because it happened, smile that it's over' type stages. At least we didn't got philepsen or perdersen as the stage winner

What's wrong with Pedersen if I may be so blunt?

And also; how do you decide where in the word of a bike rider to make the spelling error? At random? Is there a system?

 

[Netserk]

What's wrong with Pedersen if I may be so blunt?

I don't like his attitude.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Nice to see the French crowd go nuts while Gaudu is putting the red jersey on...

And Pedersen looks right in the green.

 

[Cycling111]

The Tour of Denmark has killed Pedersen.

 

[Izzyeviel]

losing a sprint to a rider from Ineos. That's gotta sting.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

George Bennet quiet vocal there
in his interview

 

[E_F_]

The Tour of Denmark has finished with Pedersen.

I'm having a hard time holding myself back from making a @tobydawq style single word and period response here.

 

[Netserk]

Last teams to start tomorrow:

1. Groupama
2. Visma
3. UAE
4. Astana
5. QS
6. RedBull
7. Israel
8. Bahrain
9. Ineos
10. Ag2r

 

[Mayomaniac]

Norsgaard on TV2 coverage of the stage, commenting on his future team, looking at the leadout train, he'll take part in next year...

I mean, as long as they have the big guy leading out Milan, so that he finally gets a decent slipstream to draft...

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Jonas getting in the V-LaB special skin suit for tomorrow.

And the satellite dish helmet