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[ENV_PRISER] After a straight finish that looked like a runway, Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step) won the 4th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday in Sarzeau. As at Fontenay-le-Comte on Saturday, the sprinting Colombian took the best on Peter Sagan in Rhuys Peninsula. The Flemish Greg Van Avermaet is still dressed in yellow and will even be one of the favorites on Wednesday in Quimper.
Finally, here too, there was a match. Between France and Belgium for nearly 200 kilometers and, especially, between the escaped and the pack. Sarzeau's "postcard" stage, which seemed so much in advance, all of a sudden created a (suspenseful) suspense up to the red flame. Four hundred meters before, the courageous Jerome Cousin (Direct Energie), Anthony Perez and Dimitri Claeys (Cofidis) had surrendered and it was the turn of the great Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) to throw in the towel. ultimate straight line (four terminals all straight!) that never ended. The roads of Brittany can also be cruel.
Gaviria: two out of four
Ball in the center and directly in the feet of the sprinters as it was written from La Baule-Escoublac. The Tour 2018, in this special caste, could therefore be Fernando Gaviria's, since after having won at Fontenay-le-Comte in opening, the former world champion of the omnium reoffended on the wire in the Gulf of Morbihan. Without his fall (with the yellow jersey on the back), Sunday in La Roche-sur-Yon, the young South American may already have up to three. "Greipel surprised me by coming out of far enough, but I had enough strength to pbad and resist the return of Peter Sagan," he confided in a press conference. "Fernando, it's the next generation," commented, on his side, handsome player, the Slovak Bora-Hansgrohe training, again forced to bow before the pbadion and legs of fire of the Colombian. "The secret to beat him is to wait until he makes a mistake or there are ribs."
The regrets of Démare
The world champion (in green) did not even look distressed in Morbihan, unlike Arnaud Démare, only 11th of the final package. "I could not express myself, I'm disappointed. We will have to discuss the tactics to follow (within the Groumapa-FDJ team) because four (riders), it is not obvious, "confided Picard, frustal since the Vendée. The former double champion of France will have other opportunities in the week and why not, from this Wednesday afternoon, even if it could prove a bit too complicated for him.
A favorite yellow jersey in Quimper?
The stage Lorient – Quimper, beyond the beautiful beaches of Ploemeur and Guidel, in any case fantasizes all the runners and the yellow jersey in person evoked it with greed on the arrival of Sarzeau. "It may be a mini Liège-Bastogne-Liège, it will be like a little clbadic," said the Belgian Greg Van Avermaet, specialist in the field. "The course looks really tough, we will have several goals," he added, speaking about himself and Richie Porte, his leader. The latter knows the place (almost) like his pocket: in April, the Australian BMC training had played the 33rd edition of the Tour Finistere (which borrowed the last 36.7 kilometers of this 5th stage of the Tour 2018) in anticipation this Wednesday. With an idea behind the head?
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