Fougères, June 29, 2021 – La stage 4 of Tour de France 2021 and the 31esima in which to raise your arms to the sky in the Big loop is Mark Cavendish, which crowns the great work of his with a rush of power Deceuninck-Quick Step to resume an amazing Brent Van Moer, on the run from the morning and one step away from what would have been a real undertaking. For the Belgian and for the whole Lotto Soudal, still shaken by the withdrawal of Caleb Ewan following the accident that occurred yesterday, the day is bitter, while it is very sweet for the British, who is Tour not even should have done it: then to get it in the head to head with Sam Bennett it was right Cavendish, who continues to repay the trust of his team by also securing the green jersey. Oddly serene day on the fall front: it could not have been otherwise after the protest (actually more scenic than useful) of the runners in the first km of the fraction. There stage 5 will perhaps propose the first real junction for the general classification of Tour with the stopwatch of 27,2 km gives Exchange a Laval Space Mayenne.
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The fugitives of the day are Pierre-Luc Perichon (Cofidis) e Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal), who started only after a protest by the group due to the rather dangerous path of yesterday’s controversial stage: the fate of the two seems to be sealed but in fact it is only for the French, while the Belgian, already a protagonist in the last Tour of the Dauphiné, it even resists up to the last 200 meters, when it is ‘devoured’ by the sprinter trains. The winner is there Deceuninck-Quick Step, that with Julian Alaphilippe paves the way for the victory of Mark Cavendish, which already on the flying finish line of Window had confirmed that he was in the prime of his second youth: for the British they are 31 the successes to Tour, just -3 from a certain Eddy Merckx, plus the conquest of the green jersey.
Order of arrival stage 4 Tour de France 2021
1) Mark Cavendish (DQT) in 3h20’17”
2) Nacer Bouhanni (ARK) st
3) Jasper Philipsen (AFC) st
4) Michael Matthews (BEX) st
5) Peter Sagan (BOH) st
6) Cees Bol (DSM) st
7) Christophe Laporte (COF) st
8) Mads Pedersen (TFS) st
9) Boy Van Poppel (IWG) st
10) André Greipel (ISN) st
General classification Tour de France 2021
1) Mathieu Van Der Poel (AFC) in 16h19’10”
2) Julian Alaphilippe (DQT) +8 ”
3) Richard Carapaz (IGD) +31”
4) Wout Van Aert (TJV) +31”
5) Wilco Kelderman (BOH) +38”
6) Tadej Pogacar (UAD) +39 ”
7) Enric Mas (MOV) +40 ”
8) Nairo Quintana (ARK) +40 ”
9) Pierre Latour (TEN) +45”
10) David Gaudu (GFC) +52 ”
16) Vincenzo Nibali (TFS) +55 ”
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