Team Sky's Geraint Thomas keeps his lead in the Tour Of The Alps after Matteo Montaguti of AG2R took the win on the fourth stage.
With Geraint
Thomas in the leader’s jersey, stage four saw 134 riders starting on a 165.3km
trek from Bolzano to Cles.
Frankiny Kilian,
Jeremy Roy, Simone Andreetta, Stefano Pirazzi took a lead of 1.16 after
twenty-one kilometres and were joined by Davide Vilella who worked with them to
increase the lead to 2.34.
Roy was
first over the Mendola Pass as the gap continued to go out with Kilian taking
the Sarnonico Sprint.
The gap was still at 3.52 when Pirazzi
attacked and was first over the Forcella di Brez before Kilian joined him
again.
Stage one winner Michele Scarponi crashed
but got back on his bik and going into the closing kilometres, it was Kilian and
Pirazzi, who were joined by Dupont.
They were caught just outside the flam
rouge and Matteo Montaguti of AG2R took the win ahead
of FDJ’s Thibaut Pinot and BMC’s Rohan Dennis.
Geraint Thomas of Team Sky finished safely
and keeps his leader’s jersey.
By Kev Monks for Digital Sports Group
Source: DSG
