FROOME vince la 4a tappa del Tour de Romandie - QUINTANA leader della classifica generale. pubblicato il 30/04/2016
Tour di Romandia: Chris Froome vince in solitaria in salita, in una giornata dal tempo impossibile.
Il britannico leader del Team Sky va in fuga con Van Garderen sull'ultima ascesa, ma rimane solo con il suo successo. Izagirre secondo e Pinot terzo.  Nairo Quintana rimane al comando della classifica generale. Ancora una tappa ed il colombiano della Movistar entrerà nell'albo della corsa svizzera. 
 
Gutsy Froome wins Romandie stage

Chris Froome demonstrated his impressive form by powering to a resounding solo victory on stage four at the Tour de Romandie.
The Brit went into the day targeting stage victory and attacked early heading into the final 40 kilometres, opening out a decisive gap alongside Tejay van Garderen, before pushing on solo up to Villars-sur-Ollon.

Despite attacks firing in a reduced peloton behind, Froome was able to maintain a healthy advantage, measuring his efforts late on to win the queen stage by four seconds in soaking conditions.
The result was particularly sweet after the two-time winner saw his general classification ambitions deflated on Thursday due to an inopportune puncture.

"It's been a tough race so far," said Froome behind the podium, "so to come and win the queen stage today, especially attacking so far out, is a great feeling. It's nice as a team for us to get a victory here and not come away empty handed.

"It's a road I remember from two years ago, with similar conditions to today in the rain and cold. I thought if I'm going to get away it's going to have to be a long way from the finish.

Tejay van Garderen came with me and the two of us worked together really well. He had the objective for the general classification and I had my sights set on winning the stage. I'm just really happy that it worked out in the end."



Form building
With regards to his current form, Froome reiterated that the big goal is to be ready for the upcoming Tour de France. "I'm not necessarily here to show anything - I'm here more for myself for preparations going forward," added. "Obviously my big goal is to be ready for July. I needed some good racing this week to set me up for that."

Froome and Van Garderen (BMC Racing) held an advantage of close to a minute as they negotiated two ascents of the Barboleusaz climb. The GC battle behind produced a barrage of attacks, with Jon Izagirre (Movistar) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) rounding out the podium positions.
Fifth over the line was enough to ensure Nairo Quintana (Movistar) retained his overall lead, taking a margin of 19 seconds into Sunday's final stage.
Mikel Nieve hung on well in a vastly reduced lead group and was the next Team Sky rider home in 24th.

 

Ordine d'arrivo 4a tappa Tour de Romandie
1    Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky    4:24:44     
2    Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team    0:00:04     
3    Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ          
4    Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha          
5    Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team          
6    Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo          
7    Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida          
8    Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling          
9    Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team    0:00:09     
10    Simon Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha
....          

 

 
Classifica generale dopo la 4a tappa del Tour de Romandie
1    Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team    12:07:03     
2    Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ    0:00:19     
3    Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team    0:00:23     
4    Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha    0:00:26     
5    Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Giant-Alpecin    0:00:57     
6    Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida    0:01:12     
7    Simon Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha    0:01:16     
8    Mathias Frank (Sui) IAM Cycling          
9    Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo    0:01:24     
10    Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team    0:01:2



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