Après trois journées relativement calmes, les coureurs affrontaient la 4e étape et "étape reine" de ce Tour de Slovénie. Et à la surprise générale, c'est Kyrylo Tsarenko qui s'est imposé au sommet de l'ascension de Golte (13km à 7,5%). Parti dans l'échappée matinale, L'Ukrainien de la Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini a distancé son compagnon de fugue Samuele Zoccarato (Polti VisitMalta) et a réussi à résister au retour des favoris dans l'ultime montée pour venir chercher en solitaire la victoire. 3e du jour et premier du groupe des favoris, Anders Haaland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) s'empare lui de la tête du classement général.
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00:00...to save for the back end of this time, isn't it?
00:06Oh, it's absolutely brute. Just look at the gear that he's in.
00:09He's still keeping a pretty decent cadence, though.
00:11Do you see the way on the last bendy, rather than cut the apex,
00:14he kept as wide as he can just to shave a little bit of percentage of the gradient
00:18as now Grosh Hartner goes clear.
00:21Grosh Hartner taking with him at Johanesson.
00:23Oh, a great job being done by Anders Holland.
00:26We think of him as, he's certainly of the two, the Johanesson brothers,
00:31Holland Johanesson brothers, maybe not quite as good a climber as his brother,
00:35but he's very, very good indeed.
00:37Stage win in the Tour de l'Avenir a few years ago, of course,
00:39and Theo Gaggenhardt coming back after a long layoff is struggling to stay in contention here,
00:45albeit he is in front of his teammate Juan Pedro Lopez,
00:48who seems to be the not-quite-climbing with the same efficiency of Theo Gaggenhardt.
00:53And so the preferred option at the moment for the Lidl Trek squad would be Theo Gaggenhardt,
00:56but he's fighting a rearguard action.
00:57Things looking good at the moment for UNOX and indeed for the UAT membered squad
01:02with Felix Grosh Hartner starting to move clear.
01:05And riders increasingly, they're hitting this gradient,
01:08and now the rider up front, Sorenko, we can get a basis for comparison.
01:12And he looks as if he's doing as well as they are behind the favourite riders,
01:17not going a whole lot quicker than him.
01:18Yeah, they're only about, I mean, he passed that,
01:21they're probably only about 200 metres behind him at the moment,
01:24but that could equate to the best part of three quarters of a minute.
01:26The gap has come down dramatically as Johanesson now sweeps past the rider
01:31that attacked earlier on.
01:33And as Groshartner hasn't given up as well, but this is brutally steep here.
01:36Really, as Theo Gaggenhardt also fighting,
01:39good to see the Brit back in some decent form.
01:41This race is not over.
01:43The GC up for grabs here.
01:45Well, they're fighting the bike desperately.
01:48Jose Felix Parra in the company of Theo Gaggenhardt
01:52to try and stay in contention for a little while longer.
01:55Meanwhile, up front, he's, well, they've picked up the cameras,
01:58but he's still at some distance from the finish line yet,
02:01well inside the final kilometre.
02:03But this has been a brave bid from the early break of the day
02:07until Sarenko of Ukraine and Team Solution Tech Vinny Fantini.
02:11We haven't seen Zocorado because I can only think
02:13that he has been overhauled at this point.
02:14Well, we make no assumptions.
02:17Anders Halland Johansson either second or third on the climb at the moment
02:20in just a small amount of space between him and the rest of the favourites.
02:25So Anders Halland Johansson starting with an advantage
02:27over the rest of the favourites, starting second, of course.
02:31But the man who led into this fourth stage
02:34is currently some distance removed on the climb.
02:37So heading towards the overall race leadership,
02:40UNO-X and Norway at the moment.
02:42Kulset there as well, won't assist with the chasing.
02:45Castillon is trying to fight to stay ahead of the rest of the favourites.
02:49Theo Gaggenhardt potentially moving to second overall here
02:52if he can stay in, but this is a real scrap.
02:55All the way to the line is Zocorato.
02:57So he is second on the hill.
02:58Yeah, great ride by a good fighting performance there by the Italian.
03:01The gradient starts lesson.
03:02Looks like Theo Gaggenhardt trying to wind things up a little bit.
03:05Yes, Johansson just in front of Grosh Hartner also accelerating clear now.
03:10And so Johansson rounds this corner.
03:12It's going to be a real scrap for the minor place, you can say,
03:15which will determine the outcome of the GC.
03:17But what a ride technically by this young man here.
03:19Kirino Sarekko from Team Solution Tech, Vinny Fantini can hardly believe what he is about to achieve
03:26because he went in the early break.
03:28He's been up there all day and he is going to survive on one of the most brutal climbs
03:33in recent history of Tour of Slovenia.
03:36He can have a little look around and compose your victory celebration
03:38because he's shaking his head.
03:41It's an absolutely massive victory.
03:43Kirino Sarekko takes the win on stage four.
03:46And while he's not going to move up significantly on general classification,
03:50it nonetheless is a huge, huge win.
03:52He's managed to fend off all of the breakaway riders and the favorites behind.
03:57Samuele Zoccarato is going to do enough to take another significant result in his career
04:02for Team Palti visit Malta.
04:04The Italian rider vanquished on the climb,
04:06but nonetheless a commendable performance for Zoccarato.
04:11He gets second and now we crane an X to see who's coming up next.
04:14It's Anders Halland Johansson racing to glory, racing to green here.
04:18Felix Groschap, they're not quite able to stay on terms.
04:21Third, some bonus seconds to go with it.
04:23And a little bit of a detachment between himself and Theo Gegenhart
04:27and Anders Halland Johansson there as well.
04:30And Castellón surviving from his effort.
04:33And they're coming up this hill in ones and twos.
04:35And we're going to have to wait a little while, I think,
04:37for the erstwhile race leader.
04:40As we see the latest young Slovenian to put in your notebook, Jakub Omerzel.
04:48Starting the day sixth overall, it's going to keep that position, I think.
04:51Yeah, that's a great ride by the youngster.
04:54Pompey Lopez just rolling across the line.
04:56Keplinger.