Vuelta a Murcia stage 4 – Lance Armstrong 8th

Vuelta a Murcia stage 4 – Lance Armstrong 8th
Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong

Saturday’s fourth stage of Vuelta a Murcia saw the riders compete in a 13.7 mile time trial. Though Team Radioshack’s Lance Armstrong did not get the expected top 3 placement, he did crawl up to a seventh place in the general classification. Lance Armstrong did not talk to the media after today’s time trial but Team RadioShack spokesman Philippe Maertens said the Lance was “not happy but not unhappy either.”

However Armstrong sent out a couple of tweets after the time trial:

“TT finished here in Murcia. Tough one in that it was out/back. Pedaling 99% of the time. You forget how corners help in recovery!”

“And Rabon smoked the TT – very very impressive. Putting serious time into Menchov, Wiggins, and Klodi aint easy my friends”

Andres Kloden came in fourth in the time trial that was won by the unstoppable Frantisek Rabon who was 33 seconds faster than Menchov who came in second.

Andrea Kloden is now fourth overall.

By Jens Christensen, editor

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(Photos: TeamRadioshack.com)