Sánchez goes close as van Garderen crashes
It was a mixed day for BMC’s general classification contenders on stage 4 of the Vuelta a España with a late attack from Samuel Sánchez and a crash for Tejay van Garderen. Sánchez took a flyer off the front of the bunch with just under two kilometres to go as the road dipped down before the final ascent to the line. The Spaniard took Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) with him and they made it inside the final 500 metres before the charging pack caught them.
“I tried from far out but there were still 300 metres to go. I didn’t know the final, only from references, photos and the road book. Nothing is the same when you are on the bike with 200 kilometres (in the legs), the heat, the hammering we took was really hard,” Sánchez explained to Biciciclismo after the stage.
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Sánchez’s American teammate van Garderen wasn’t so lucky as he crashed on a bend with just over 30 kilometres remaining. The incident took out several others including Cannondale-Garmin’s Ben King, who had his power metre stolen as he picked himself off the ground. “My bike slipped away in a roundabout because of the dirty road,” he explained.
He was forced to chase for the next 20 kilometres but managed to finish on the same time as the stage winner Alejandro Valverde (Movistar).
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