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14.12 The inertia changes in Switzerland, with the group which, after having reached the maximum delay of 4’50”, begins to gnaw on something and gets back to 4’30”.
14.09 We continue to go very fast in the race, and when we are now at an hour and a half of racing the average speed is 47.1 km/h, truly impressive.
14.06 Ricordiamo chi sono gli otto fuggitivi: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché – Wanty), Torstein Træen (Bahrain – Victorious), Gerben Kuypers (Intermarché – Wanty), Michael Matthews (Team Jayco AlUla), Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Jan Sommer (Swiss Cycling) e Silvan Dillier (Alpecin – Deceuninck).
14.03 Just over one hundred kilometers to go to the finish line!
2.00pm The lead at the head of the race increases slightly again, with the group following at 4’40”.
1.57pm We’ll start to get serious after the flying finish line of Gotthardstrasse, the road will start to climb to first arrive at the Schöllenen GPM (6 km at 7.4% average gradient, with peaks of 11%) and then to the closing at the San Gottardo (9.5 km at 7% average gradient), without interruption.
1.54pm It will be a long wait until the final 35 kilometers now, which are made up of two almost adjacent climbs, and in any case the road will be upwards until the finish line.
13.51 The number of victories per team among those represented in today’s attack:
Team Jayco AlUla 9
Intermarché – Wanty 8
Bahrain – Victorious 5
Cofidis 4
Tudor Pro Cycling Team 4
Alpecin – Deceuninck 13
1.48pm The lead for the pacesetters rises to 4’10”.
13.45 Ricordiamo chi sono gli otto fuggitivi: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché – Wanty), Torstein Træen (Bahrain – Victorious), Gerben Kuypers (Intermarché – Wanty), Michael Matthews (Team Jayco AlUla), Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Jan Sommer (Swiss Cycling) e Silvan Dillier (Alpecin – Deceuninck).
1.43pm 120 kilometers to go to the finish line!
1.40pm Together with LIdl-Trek, Bettiol’s EF Education – EasyPost also arrive to lend support.
1.37pm With this margin obviously the virtual leader of the ranking is the Frenchman Coquard, but the last 35km uphill today will turn all the cards upside down again.
1.34pm Now the advantage of the eight men in command increases dramatically, reaching over three minutes.
1.31pm Lidl-Trek, leading the group, set out to dictate the pace.
1.28pm Finally the group has given up, several runners are going to the flagships and the pace drops drastically. This translates into the almost two minutes that the pacesetters suddenly find themselves.
1.25pm We started again from this ranking at the dawn of the fourth stage:
1 BETTIOL Alberto EF Education – EasyPost 0:00
2 HAYTER Ethan INEOS Grenadiers 0:06
3 KELDERMAN Wilco Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:06
4 WILLIAMS Stephen Israel – Premier Tech 0:06
5 ALMEIDA João UAE Team Emirates 0:09
6 FISHER-BLACK Finn UAE Team Emirates 0:09
7 SKJELMOSE Mattias Lidl – Trek 0:09
8 YATES Adam UAE Team Emirates 0:10
9 CHRISTEN Jan UAE Team Emirates 0:11
10 ADRIÀ Roger BORA – hansgrohe 0:13
1.22pm 140 kilometers to go!
1.20pm These are all the gaps in the rankings of the eight in command, a general classification that will undoubtedly be revolutionized today.
56 COQUARD Bryan 1:02
64 MATTHEWS Michael 1:27
89 CALMEJANE Lilian 6:18
91 DILLIER Silvan 6:22
93 SUMMER Jan 6:55
119 THALMANN Roland 11:18
138 KUYPERS Gerben 15:37
146 THE TREE Torstein 17:02
1.17pm This is the sun that welcomed the runners at the start, with Alberto Bettiol looking really good dressed in yellow.
Beautiful Jerseys❤️
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1.15pm Yes, but not too much space, with the group not moving away from the 30″ delay.
13.12 Ecco la composizione dell’attacco odierno: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché – Wanty), Torstein Træen (Bahrain – Victorious), Gerben Kuypers (Intermarché – Wanty), Michael Matthews (Team Jayco AlUla), Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Jan Sommer (Swiss Cycling) e Silvan Dillier (Alpecin – Deceuninck).
1.10pm The margin for the attackers is thirty seconds, and now we can say that the escape has finally started, when more than twenty kilometers have passed and half an hour of full running.
13.07 Among the eight in front, the closest to the leader Bettiol is the transalpine Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), who is 1’02” behind.
1.05pm Maybe we can be there, eight riders come out forcefully and take about ten seconds of advantage, let’s see how the issue evolves now.
13.03 Today All the main favorites are expected at the start: from Adam Yates to Joao Almeida (UAE Emirates), passing through Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Enric Mas (Movistar), Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Lenny Martinez (Groupama – FDJ). Almost dress rehearsals for the battle for the top-10 at the Tour de France.
13.01 This umpteenth attempt bounced immediately, the battle to escape continues. Although, with the arrival being so demanding, how many chances will the attackers have of containing the big teams?
1.00pm A few meters ahead for a group of six runners, but they still can’t get up behind.
12.59 And obviously the group attacks start again, with the race now facing around 120 kilometers of flat terrain before the final thirty-five kilometers all uphill.
12.58 This is the result on the third category GPM of the Albispass, but as mentioned we now start from scratch:
1 VERVAEKE Louis 3
2 BADILATTI Matteo 2
3 LUTSENKO Alexey 1
12.56 The other attackers have also recovered, a compact group after 12 km and everything to do again.
12.55 Meanwhile, the group has absolutely not let go and has rejoined its pursuers. All 163 cyclists in the race are still separated by a few seconds.
12.53 Gil Gelders and Felix Engelhardt are the first to regain the lead, in a decidedly chaotic and very eventful start to the race.
12.52 New reversal in the race, Matteo Badilatti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) and Louis Vervaeke (Soudal Quick-Step) are the couple in the lead, the two chasing groups have joined behind them and there are 11 at their heels.
12.51 The top three are: Jesus Herrada (Cofidis), Felix Engelhardt (Team Jayco AlUla) and Hannes Wilksch (Tudor Pro Cycling Team).
12.50 Two small groups are forming in front, three riders in the lead with 10″ on a group made up of about ten units, a little further behind the group.
12.48 We are practically at the top of the first GPM of the day, tackled with all our might and with an incredible scattering of runners.
12.46 The Swiss Matteo Badilatti and the Belgian Louis Vervaeke try to get back to the first two, but the platoon does not allow space, returning to all four.
12.45 Great excitement in these first kilometers with sprints and counter sprints from the group, the advantage of the two pacesetters is increasingly diminishing.
12.43 About ten seconds of margin for the two attackers, who immediately approach the Albispass.
12.41 The delays are immediately broken and there are two who immediately try to escape from the group, the Belgian Gil Gelders (Soudal Quick-Step) and the Italian Walter Calzoni (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team).
12.39 THE FOURTH STAGE OF THE TOUR OF SWITZERLAND 2024 HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED! Have fun and happy cycling everyone!
12.38 We start again with Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) in the general lead, even if today it will be almost impossible for the Italian to defend the leader’s symbol.
12.36 Then it will be a long approach to the final 35 km, with a lot of plains and some ups and downs. The last abundant hour of running will leave no breathing room, the road will begin to climb to first arrive at the Schöllenen GPM (6 km at an average gradient of 7.4%, with peaks of 11%) and then at the end of the San Gottardo (9.5 km at 7% average gradient), without interruption.
12.34 The first GPM of the day, the Albispass, will start immediately. A third category climb of five thousand two hundred meters at an average gradient of 5.9%.
12.32 There will be 171 kilometers to cover today from Rüschlikon to the San Gottardo Pass, for one of the most anticipated stages of the week, which could completely rewrite the general classification.
12.30 Good morning friends of OA Sport and welcome to the LIVE Live broadcast of the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland 2024.
Good morning friends of OA Sport and welcome to the LIVE Live broadcast of the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland 2024a short stage race that precedes the highlight of the month of July, the Tour de France on Swiss roads.
In this fraction you will go from Rüschlikon to the San Gottardo Pass, for a total of 171 km. A stage that will last all day with small and constant ups and downs, until 35 km from the finish line, when the road will then begin to climb to first arrive at the Schöllenen GPM (6 km at 7.4% average gradient, with peaks at 11%) and then at the end at San Gottardo (9.5 km at 7% average gradient).
We start again from the shirt of provisional leader of the general obtained by Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost). Will it be the turn of the “Bigs”? The word on the street. Many are expected: from Adam Yates to Joao Almeida (UAE Emirates), passing through Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Enrique Mas (Movistar), Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) e Lenny Martinez (Groupama – FDJ).
OA Sport offers you LIVE Live coverage of the fourth of the eight scheduled stages of the Tour of Switzerland 2024. To ensure you don’t miss anything from today’s stage, updates will arrive from 12.30pm. Don’t miss a moment of the stage with our LIVE Live broadcast, we are waiting for you!
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