Thursday 07 March 2013 at 22h37
Today's stage in Paris-Nice 2013 offered a profile which could have allowed some real battling for the stage victory. However, the leading group of 7 and later 4 riders didn't manage to stay away and a group of 37 riders thus arrived at the finish for a bunch sprint.
The sprint in Saint-Vallier was won by Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEDGE) while the yellow jersey stays on the shoulders of Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp).
The summary of stage 4/ Brioude > Saint-Vallier
199.5 kilometers seperated the start in Brioude from the finish in Saint-Vallier in the 4th stage of Paris-Nice 2013 and the riders had no less than 7 difficulties to climb.While initially all 176 remaining riders started just before 11AM, Angelo Tulik had to leave the roads of Paris-Nice 2013 in the first kilometers, ill:
Abandon sur #ParisNice, malade a fond. Une grosse déception pour cette première sur la course au soleil.
— Angelo Tulik (@Angelotulik) March 7, 2013
In the descent of this first climb which had its highest point at only 11.5 kilometers in the race, Moreno gets behind and the remaining trio continue at the lead of the race, without however easily being able to create a gap.
At the second intermediate sprint in Saint-Romain-d'Ay at 42 kilometers from the finish, the points and bonus seconds are again for Thomas Voeckler as he passes the line ahead of Sicard and Dupont and the gap, which was relatively stable at values above 3 minutes so far, than goes under 1 minute 30 and continue to go down thanks to an accelleration of the peloton led by the Lampre-Merida team.
The climb of the Côte de Talencieux made an end to the points collection for Johann Tschopp with Thomas Voeckler accellerating and Hubert Dupont being the only one able to follow. This new leading duo thus arrived first on top, with the points for Voeckler, followed at 12 seconds by Tschopp and Meersman and at 35 seconds by the peloton. These 4 riders got together leading the race but were taken back by the peloton at 14 kilometers from the finish.
In this sprint Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEDGE) turns out to be the fastest, beating Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) and Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep). The rider wearing the yellow jersey, Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp), finishes at the 6th place at the same time as the winner and thus keeps his precious jersey.
The classifications of Paris-Nice 2013 after the 4th stage
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The result of stage 4/ Brioude > Saint-Vallier
1/ Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEDGE) - 4h55'41"
2/ Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana)
3/ Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep)
4/ Enrico Gasparotto (Astana)
5/ Robert Gesink (Blanco Pro Cycling Team)
The general classification
1/ Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) - 19h35'17"
2/ Andriy Grivko (Astana) - +0'03"
3/ Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) - +0'04"
4/ Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-QuickStep)
5/ Gorka Izaguirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) - +0'05"
Points classification
1/ Elia Viviani (Cannondale) - 55 points
2/ Borut Bozic (Astana) - 43 points
3/ Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) - 41 points
4/ Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) - 38 points
5/ Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) - 36 points
King of the Mountains classification
Johann Tschopp (IAM Cycling) was the champion on the top of the climbs of the day and he thus reached his goal to take the polka dot jersey of the King of the Mountains classification. The rider who wore this jersey before, Martijn Keizer (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team), now dropped back to the 5th place while several riders newly arrived in the top 5:1/ Johann Tschopp (IAM Cycling) - 29 points
2/ Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) - 17 points
3/ Gianni Meersman (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) - 11 points
4/ Andriy Grivko (Astana) - 9 points
5/ Martijn Keizer (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team) - 8 points
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Best young riders classification
At the top of the best young riders classification there were no changes with Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) and Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team) occupying the first two places. Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and Egor Silin (Astana) however leave the top 5 and leave their places to Wilco Kelderman (Blanco Pro Cycling Team) who makes his comeback in the top 5 and Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) who now ends up the top 5:1/ Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) - 14h39'36"
2/ Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team) - +0'16"
3/ Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) - +0'18"
4/ Wilco Kelderman (Blanco Pro Cycling Team)
5/ Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) - +0'21" door Thomas Vergouwen
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Bonjour Jean-Luc,
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