Is UAE's Playing the Long Game? | Vuelta a España Stage 4 Analysis & Stage 5 Preview | THEMOVE+

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Ben Turner's surprise win on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a España, where David Gaudu narrowly took the race lead from Jonas Vingegaard on an otherwise quiet day for the GC. Before they go, they preview tomorrow's critical stage, which features what will be a hotly contested team time trial, and discuss how they think the race will unfold and who presents the best betting value.

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0:00.0	Man, Jonas and Vizma are really putting a lot of energy into this.
0:04.3	And you know who's not putting as much energy into this?
0:07.0	UAE.
0:07.8	And then you look at the second half of the route and you think, would I really want to invest any excess energy outside of those stages?
0:16.3	Because I know I'm the second sky.
0:18.6	I'm always saying every second counts.
0:20.6	You know, I understand. And modern cycling'm always saying every second counts. You know,
0:20.9	I understand. And modern cycling, 10 seconds is a lot. But you look at those stages.
0:24.8	Yeah.
0:25.7	Will 10, 12 seconds on stage two really matter? Probably not. I think the same way as you say now.
0:36.1	Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus.
0:37.8	I'm Spencer Martin.
0:38.6	I'm here with the Johan Brunio.
0:39.7	We are breaking down stage four of the Valta,
0:42.2	Espania, won by Ben Turner over Jasper Philipson and Edward Plankart.
0:47.3	And we, after we break this down, we will preview tomorrow's stage five,
0:51.0	a critical team time trial that I'm actually quite interested to see.
0:55.5	But just a quick primer on what happened during today's stage.
0:59.2	We had mountains.
1:00.1	If you looked at the profile, it kind of looked like a mountain stage, but it really was always going to be a sprint stage because we don't really see the mountains on TV.
1:08.1	They cross the Alps like Adrian.
1:14.0	We don't see it. And then the breakways caught with 90K to go quite early. Mads Pedersen wins pacing from Little Trek. And then Mads
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