Cycling: After another mountainous 150 km through Liguria, the 22-year-old Italian Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) wins in an impressive manner in his first Grand Tour participation. Shortly before the final climb, he was able to break away from the leading group and save his lead on the following descent to the finish. Second is Simon Clarke (Orica-GreenEdge), who at first cannot be happy about the maglia rosa that he will wear starting tomorrow.
22 seconds after Davide Formolo, Simon Clarke crosses the finish line at the head of the chasing group, raises his hands and celebrates exuberantly. Right up until the moment when fourth-placed Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to Formolo, who was jubilant further up the field. Clarke clasps his hands over his head, which he had just held up in the air to cheer. Shortly afterwards he can laugh again - the Australian had probably lost track for a moment. No wonder, because the stage was as varied as on the previous days and marked by a hard-fought and nervous leader.
Immediately after the starting signal, a leading group of almost 30 riders formed, from which Amael Moinard (BMC) and Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani) managed to pull away after a while. The latter also secures the second intermediate sprint of the day - after that the large leading group delivers a really gripping and entertaining fight. Again and again there are attacks that succeed for a short time, but are quickly stopped again. In hot summer temperatures, the peloton behind the leading group also set a remarkable pace. The pacemaker is the team from Astana around their captain Fabio Aru, but Tinkoff-Saxo (Contador) and Sky (Porte) are also working hard for their classification drivers. Only Rigoberto Uran (Etixx-QuickStep) has big problems keeping up the pace and is struggling at the end of the field.
At the foot of the final climb up to Biassa, it is then, surprising to many, Cannondale-Garmin's young Davide Formolo who takes heart and launches an irresistible attack. After a short time he has already closed a big gap to his pursuers and can keep up the enormous speed up to the top of the partly extremely steep ascent. He has a lead of about half a minute before the descent down to the finish in La Spezia - with a carefree and enormously concentrated descent and after mobilizing the last of his strength, he finally saves the lead to the finish. What an achievement, what an achievement for such a young rider.
In the chasing group, Simon Clarke was able to assert himself in the sprint against Yonattah Monsalve (Southeast) and Giovanni Visconti (Movistar). The classification favorites Aru, Contador and Porte also finish at the same time as Clarke. Only Rigoberto Uran lost 42 seconds to his fellow competitors after a really hard fight for him. With his second place, Clarke takes over the maglia rosa from his teammate Michael Matthews. So after the fourth stage we have the third pink jersey wearer, they were all Australians and all Orica-GreenEdge riders. Will it continue like this tomorrow? We will see.
[tab:Result]Final result, Stage 4 Giro d'Italia 2015
[easy table th=“0″]1., Davide Formolo, ITA, Cannondale-Garmin, 3:47:59
2.,Simon Clarke,AUS,Orica-GreenEdge,0:00:22
3rd,Yonattah Monsalve,VEN,Southeast,
4th, Giovanni Visconti, ITA, Movistar,
5.,Esteban Chaves,COL,Orica-GreenEdge,
6.,Fabio Aru,ITA,Astana,
7.,Amael Moinard,FRA,BMC,
8.,Dario Cataldo,ITA,Astana,
9.,Alberto Contador,SPA,Tinkoff Saxo,
10th, Richie Porte, AUS, Team Sky,
[/easytable] [tab:Preview]The start of the 4th stage of the 2015 Tour of Italy will be in Chiavari, also in the Liguria region. And also the destination, La Spezia, is a Ligurian town. Here the Giro d'Italia sets clear regional accents and shows the beauty of this region with the numerous stages in Liguria in 2015.
There is a race distance of 150 kilometers between the two cities, which must be mastered on May 12, 2015. From the province of Genoa, in which Chiavari is located, it goes to the La Spezia region, which was also named after the place where the stage arrived.
Stage 4 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia is good for a bunch sprint as the climbs are manageable. But who knows, the smaller hills of a stage like this always offer good opportunities for breakaways to pull away from the peloton.
For many German cycling fans, La Spezia should not be unknown. The milestone is linked to Bayreuth in a town twinning. At the same time, one of the most well-known Italian sprinters comes from this city: Alessandro Petacchi was once born here. The successful professional cyclist was able to win a total of 48 stages in his career in the three major tours, the Giro, the Tour de France and the Vuelta.
TV and streaming
This year, Eurosport will broadcast live from every stage of the Giro. There is also a stream or two on the Internet.
TV broadcast
Tuesday, May 12, 13:30 p.m. – 17.30:XNUMX p.m
internet stream
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