Tour de Suisse, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : Jun 15, Schwarzenburg - Wettingen, 192.2 km

1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 4.57.33
2 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank
3 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
5 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Team Katusha
6 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Professional Cycling Team
7 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
8 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank
9 Andreas Kloden (Ger) Team Radioshack
10 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick Step


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+3 Sylvain Chavanel
+3 Ryder Hesjedal
+2 Steve Morabito
+1 Yevgeni Nepomnyachshiy
+1 Yauheni Hutarovich
+1 Wilfried Cretskens
+1 Vladimir Efimkin
+1 Valeriy Dmitriyev
+1 Tom Leezer
+1 Tom Boonen

Biggest losers by position :
-1 Frank Schleck
-1 Jacob Fuglsang
-1 Lance Armstrong
-1 Matteo Carrara
-1 Robert Gesink
-1 Sergey Lagutin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Alessandro Petacchi
+0:06 Matti Breschel
+0:04 Marco Marcato
+0:03 Steve Morabito
+0:03 Ryder Hesjedal
+0:02 Sylvain Chavanel
+0:02 Francesco Gavazzi
+0:01 Sergey Lagutin
+0:01 Karsten Kroon

Biggest losers by time :

Favourites by position :
+1 Marzio Bruseghin
+1 Jens Voigt
+1 Christian Vandevelde
+1 Allan Davis
-1 Robert Gesink
-1 Lance Armstrong
-1 Frank Schleck

Favourites by time :

Top 3 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tony Martin 14:35:37 (unchanged)
2 Fabian Cancellara 0:01 (unchanged)
3 Thomas Lovkvist 0:09 (unchanged)
.....
7 Frank Schleck 0:13 (was 6th at 0:13)
.....
13 Levi Leipheimer 0:19 (unchanged)
.....
18 Robert Gesink 0:27 (was 17th at 0:27)
.....
22 Lance Armstrong 0:30 (was 21st at 0:30)
.....
27 Andy Schleck 0:37 (unchanged)
.....
31 Andreas Kloden 0:45 (unchanged)
.....
55 Roman Kreuziger 1:59 (unchanged)
.....
62 Kim Kirchen 3:13 (unchanged)
.....
72 Jens Voigt 4:48 (was 73rd at 4:48)
.....
123 Christian Vandevelde 18:38 (was 124th at 18:38)
124 Marzio Bruseghin 18:57 (was 125th at 18:57)
.....
135 Allan Davis 21:08 (was 136th at 21:08)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Marco Marcato 32 (was 4th with 16 points)
2 Alessandro Petacchi 25 (was 0 points)
3 Fabian Cancellara 24 (was 3rd with 19 points)
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 23 (was 13th with 10 points)
5 Heinrich Haussler 20 (was 1st with 20 points)
6 Pablo Urtasun Perez 20 (was 2nd with 20 points)
7 Matti Breschel 20 (was 0 points)
8 Frank Schleck 15 (was 5th with 15 points)
9 Bauke Mollema 15 (was 17th with 7 points)
10 Dries Devenyns 14 (was 15th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez 19 (was 0 points)
2 Alexandre Pliuschin 18 (was 1st with 17 points)
3 Mathias Frank 15 (unchanged)
4 Wouter Poels 8 (was 8th with 3 points)
5 Matthias Russ 8 (was 4th with 8 points)
6 Ermanno Capelli 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Pavel Brutt 7 (was 6th with 7 points)
8 Jussi Veikkanen 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
9 Brice Feillu 5 (was 0 points)
10 Ryder Hesjedal 3 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Michael Rogers (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia 4
David Vitoria (Swi) Footon-Servetto 3
Dominique Nerz (Ger) Team Milram 3
Fabio Felline (Ita) Footon-Servetto 3
Joao Correia (Por) Cervelo Test Team 3
Joost Van Leijen (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 3
Pedro Merino Criado (Spa) Footon-Servetto 3
Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Doimo 3
Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 3
Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 2
Total retirements : 10


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DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.


As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front wheel
sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...662924_571.jpg

marco wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.


As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front
wheel sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...662924_571.jpg

If you examine the photo more closely, you can see that it was not
quicksand but actually a rift in the space-time continuum.

Mark J.

On Jun 15, 5:35*pm, "Mark J." wrote:
marco wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.

As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front
wheel sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57...

If you examine the photo more closely, you can see that it was not
quicksand but actually a rift in the space-time continuum.

I think you're onto something as it would explain why later in time
for the photographer,Cavendish's body and Haussler's front wheel,
Cavendish's wheel has gone back a few seconds in time to being whole.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/...-suisse_121246
-MIke


Mark J.

On Jun 15, 1:51*pm, "marco" wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.

As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front wheel
sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57...

That's a really friggin' cool picture. You can see the rim section
lying utterly flat on the road, amazing.

Thank god his fork didn't explode.

Brad Anders

* Mark J. [15-06-10 21:35]:
marco wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.


As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front
wheel sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...662924_571.jpg

If you examine the photo more closely, you can see that it was not
quicksand but actually a rift in the space-time continuum.

And that occured because Cav's got a warp enginge, not such al lame
Gruber motorbike like Cancellara.

On Jun 15, 3:32*pm, Mike Owens wrote:
On Jun 15, 5:35*pm, "Mark J." wrote:

marco wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.

As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front
wheel sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57....

If you examine the photo more closely, you can see that it was not
quicksand but actually a rift in the space-time continuum.

I think you're onto something as it would explain why later in time
for the photographer,Cavendish's body and Haussler's front wheel,
Cavendish's wheel has gone back a few seconds in time to being whole.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/...ish-penalized-...
-MIke

OK, now I'm totally confused. WTF happened here? Marco, did you fake
that shot? I need your software.

Brad Anders

"Brad Anders" wrote in message
...
On Jun 15, 1:51 pm, "marco" wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.

As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front wheel
sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57...
==============

That's a really friggin' cool picture. You can see the rim section
lying utterly flat on the road, amazing.

Thank god his fork didn't explode.

Brad Anders
==============

I don't think TK hangs around here anymore.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

Brad Anders wrote:
On Jun 15, 3:32 pm, Mike Owens wrote:
On Jun 15, 5:35 pm, "Mark J." wrote:

marco wrote:
DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs
Haussler should have been paying attention.
As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front
wheel sunk into a patch of quicksand...
http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57...
If you examine the photo more closely, you can see that it was not
quicksand but actually a rift in the space-time continuum.
I think you're onto something as it would explain why later in time
for the photographer,Cavendish's body and Haussler's front wheel,
Cavendish's wheel has gone back a few seconds in time to being whole.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/...ish-penalized-...
-MIke

OK, now I'm totally confused. WTF happened here? Marco, did you fake
that shot? I need your software.

Brad Anders

Ale-Jet said a prayer to Sprinter Jesus.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...96_7130100.jpg

Fred Flintstein

On Jun 15, 6:59*pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
wrote:
"Brad Anders" wrote in message

...
On Jun 15, 1:51 pm, "marco" wrote: DA74 wrote:
For those interested here's the link to the crash video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFh9GuLYbs

Haussler should have been paying attention.

As shown by the picture below, the crash was caused when Cav's front wheel
sunk into a patch of quicksand...

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...76622662924_57...

==============

That's a really friggin' cool picture. You can see the rim section
lying utterly flat on the road, amazing.

Thank god his fork didn't explode.

Brad Anders
==============

I don't think TK hangs around here anymore.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

It looks to me like Haussler caused the crash. When Haussler came
across, he went into Cav.
http://www.steephill.tv/players/yout...AYR3KPIg&w=640
And how the heck did Cav's wheel bend like that and not break!?!?! Are
those Lightweight wheels?
Coz