Roar Guru
Paris-Nice continues tonight with stage four taking the riders on a 200 kilometre ride from Brioude to Saint-Vallier on the banks of the Rhone in south-eastern France. We’ll have live updates
American Andrew Talansky of Garmin-Sharp will start the day in the leader’s yellow jersey after the time bonus he received for winning stage four catapulted him to a three second lead.
He takes the slim margin into the stage ahead of Andriy Grivko of Astana and Davide Malacarne of Europcar, all of whom were part of the seven man breakaway that held off the peloton in yesterday’s stage.
Local hope, and always combative, Sylvain Chavanel of Omega Pharma-Quick Step, is four seconds behind Talansky, with Euskaltel-Euskadi’s young gun Gorka Izaguirre a further second back.
There are four category two climbs and three category three climbs in store for the riders today, and you can expect those targeting the overall victory to make sure the pace is high on the climbs.
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