Ben Turner won stage 4 of the Vuelta a España in a surprising sprint into Voiron, celebrating with champagne before refocusing on team duties. Ineos Grenadiers target the Wednesday team time trial with Filippo Ganna anchoring their effort while balancing support for Egan Bernal's general classification ambitions. Rival squads such as Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates-XRG present strong opposition. Management and coaching emphasize using Ganna's power selectively by increasing his workload to lift group speed while ensuring the rest of the team can cope, since final results depend on the weaker riders' ability to sustain pace.
Fresh off the back of super-sub Ben Turner's surprise win on stage 4 of the Vuelta a España, Ineos Grenadiers are eyeing more success in Wednesday's team time trial, with former ITT world champion Filippo Ganna at the helm of their train. Turner fought back tears and choked up after beating Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in the hard-fought sprint into Voiron, but after the sparkling wine, or cava, is poured out tonight in celebration, he'll have to refocus on contributing to Ineos' TTT ambitions.
With the likes of Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates-XRG bringing stacked teams, Ineos aren't overly bullish that victory is possible, but believe they can and should be in the fight, whilst also looking after Egan Bernal's GC ambitions. Ganna will be vital to Ineos competing, but how Ineos utilise his strength is equally as important, with the adage of only being as strong as your weakest rider- or in this case, fourth weakest, as Ganna's coach Dario Cioni puts it -
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