06.10 - Dauphiné-Libéré: Stage 4

Geoffroy LeQuatre needs his bike fixed while still in the neautralized zone...

The race emerges from the official start into some brutal winds - the peloton splits up...

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LeQuatre has just realised it was not a good time to change bikes...

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LeQuatre stops again a few minutes later to change to another bike...

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Rein Taaramae changes bikes as well - at least the peloton has slowed down now...

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Danny Pate and Stefan Denifl have been allowed to go away into the strong headwind...

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The peloton is under the control of Radio Shack, but there's no urgency to the racing...

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The Dauphine is somewhere between Provence and the Alps in the middle of a very long day...

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Denifl and Pate descent towards Gap with a lead of about eight minutes...

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Radio Shack has accelerated now, about 70-kilometres remain...

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Pate and Denifl have just a TV camera for company on their extra-long ride today...

And there at last are the Alps - it'll be a while longer before the climbing starts though..!

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The two leaders cross the Serre-Poncon reservoir with a min-convoy in their wake...

The peloton is dwarfed by the bridge at Serre-Poncon - in fact there are about 165 cyclists still in the group...

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Rabobank and Liquigas has come to the fore with about 40-kilometres to go...

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At last the final climb begins - and it's Sky leading the chase with Boasson Hagen for Geraint Thomas...

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Denifl has gone away from Pate and now looks a potential stage-winner...

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Laurent Lefevre and Santaromita have gone after Denifl...

Jani Brajkovic looks concentrated as his first test as race-leader begins...

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Artem Ovechkin has caught Lefevre and sets off after Denifl with about six-kilometres to go...

Ivan Velasco is chasing as well, trying to close the gap for teamate Sicard...

Denis Menchov has attacked and caught Ovechkin and Lefevre with four-kilomeres to go...

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Alberto Contador has gone after Menchov, taking Brajkovic with him...

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Nicholas Vogondy has taken advantage of his rivals hesitancy and attacked with less than two-kilometres to go...

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Contador and Brajkovic head a group of chasers 15-seconds behind Vogondy...

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Nicholas Vogondy wins stage four to Risoul!

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Jani Brajkovic finishes 2nd ahead of Contador and proves to be a valid race-leader for another day...