Tour de Romandie - Stage 4
Bob Jungels is on the attack from the very word Go..!
No sun, no rain - yet - but a peloton in full flight after Jungels...
Marcel Kittel is leading an escape that has developed around Jungels...
Sander Armee takes the escape on to the Col des Planches...
Davide Formolo leads a Cannondale assault from the peloton, disturbing the Movistar train...
Mikel Cherel has attacked and taken Joe Dombrowski with him...
Dombrowski is pulling away from the peloton and will soon drop Cherel...
Jungels heads for the summit with just Kochetchkov and Armee with him...
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Movistar has assumed its control of the peloton on the Col des Planches...
Dombrowski is passing riders dropped by Jungels - but he's still three minutes behind the leaders...
Nairo Quintana shows the way to the top, followed by Jon Izaguirre...
Damien Howson is the sole flier for Orica-Green Edge in the main group...
Movistar is chasing hard, and it's starting to hurt them...
Chris Froome leads Howson on the Col des Planches, just behind Movistar...
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Movistar lead the way up the 3rd-category La Rasse climb...
Dombrowski is now chasing Jungels with Ludvigsson and Rovny tucked in behind...
Strangely, Cannondale now has Talansky and Navardauskas chasing their own man along the valley..!
Jungels leads Kochetkov and Armee up the Barboleusaz ascent - and they are still two-minutes in front...
Dombrowski has been called back to lead a Cannondale squad in pursuit of Jungels...
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Jungels has just Kochetkov for company halfway up the penultimate climb...
Froome has escaped from the peloton with Tejay Van Garderen - and no-one's chasing them...
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Van Garderen leads Froome in what seems to be the perfect escape...
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The famous railway lines of Villars confront the peloton on a very wet day in the Alps...
Andrey Amador leads Quintana who almost crashes on the slippery rails...
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Froome has caught Jungels and Kochetkov and now leads the three men along the wind-blown valley...
Simon Spilak has attacked on the final climb in a ploy designed to help teammate Zakarin...
Romain Bardet makes an attack as well, but he cannot get away...
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Pierre-Roger Latour is the next to try, but he too fails...
Van Garderen and Froome are about one-minute ahead of the stalling chasers...
Rui Costa launches an attack, but even he cannot get away...
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Froome is about to drop Van Garderen with seven-kilometres to go...
Quintana himself makes a move, but without any conviction...
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Thibaut Pinot is starting to look aggressive, but every move he makes is chased down...
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Rigoberto Uran attacks with four-kilometres to go - but he too cannot get away...
Chris Froome wins stage four by a slender margin - but it's a big win for him all the same...
Nairo Quintana has protected his race-lead and now seems the virtual winner of the Tour de Romandie