Tour de Suisse Stage 4: Aarberg > Trimbach, 189kms

Movistar leads out stage four from Aarberg and its sheltered wooden bridge...

Sergei Lagutin has crashed on slick roads as the race leaves town at full speed - a bigger crash takes down Leipheimer and Duggan a short while later...

Michele Albasini has got away in a dangerous escape, hence the frantic pace behind...

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Tom Boonen is having a tougher day than expected as the peloton splits into three clear pieces...

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Maxime Monfort is also in this escape - and pushing its potential as much as possible..!

Levi Leipheimer chases back the the second peloton after his fall and subsequent bike change...

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US champion Tim Duggan is also in this second group with Gesink and a few other 'stars...

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Movistar is having to chase down the Monfort-Albasini escape, making it torturous for the chasing groups behind...

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Ten Dam and Brescehl are gradually getting the Gesink-Leipheimer-Duggan group closer to the Movistar group ahead...

A new escape gets underway after the inevitable regroupment - this one has Rast and Minard in it...

Fabian Cancellara collects bottles as the pace in the main peloton settles down...

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Steve Cummings collects red bottles for the BMC team...

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The compact peloton climbs the impressively steep Scheltenpass a few minutes behind the new escape...

The descent of the mountain is no easier than the ascent on these wet roads...

Rast leads the escape on to a series of climbs in the last 40-kilometres...

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Stuart O'Grady is on the warpath for Green Edge as the heavens open and everyone gets a free drink...

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Linus Gerdemann looks tough at the head of a Radio Shack group containing Fuglsang, Schleck and Laurent...

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Albasini has taken a flier from the peloton and goes after the escape...

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Dario Cataldo jumps away from the escape just as Albasini makes contact on a steep, steep, hill...

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Rui Costa chases this move for a while before waiting for his teamates to regroup around him...

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Lars Petter Nordhaug makes a stinging attack with 25-kilometres to go...

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It's a scary sight when sprinter Peter Sagan emerges ahead of a group of favourites on a very steep climb..!

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Martin Elmiger and Greg Van Avermaet have gone after Cataldo and are now chasing Nordhaug...

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Alejandro Valverde is chasing like crazy for Rui Costa...

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Tom Danielsoncloses a gap on the last, and very treacherous, descent of the day...

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Nordhaug has been caught by Elmiger and Van Avermaet with six-kilometres left...

Peter Sagan wins stage four into Trimbach at the end of a remarkable day's racing in the rain..!

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