Andre Greipel of Germany won the fourth and longest stage of the Tour Down Under on Friday, increasing his overall lead and trumping a bold play by Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong and Team Radioshack teammate Tomas Vaitkus made a move for a victory with less than nine miles remaining in the 93.5-mile stage. However, they were slowed by strong wind and absorbed by the peleton.
Armstrong tried to win the stage as it swept toward the finish in the crowded main street in Goolwa. But with only two men in his desperate breakaway, he was forced to battle into a gusting sea breeze and couldn’t defend a margin that peaked at 15 seconds.
“That was as hard as I could go,” said Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner. “We knew very obviously it was windy. This stage last year was very, very windy.
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