Giro stage 4 Catania-Caltagirone, 198km

neris

On mobile to get this roiling but if anyone can add more route profiles standings etc

After Monday's truncated rest day – a dawn wake-up call for a three-and-a-half flight from Israel rather ate into the allotted recovery time – the gruppo returns to the fray with the first Italian leg of this year's race on Tuesday. Stage 4 is hardly a gentle reintroduction to action; instead, riders face some 198 kilometres across heavy, rolling roads from Catania inland to Caltagirone.

Although the category 4 ascents of Pietre Calde (82.4km) and Vizzi (154km) are the only classified climbs on the route, there are several equivalent hauls 'hidden' throughout the stage, which crosses the hilltop towns of the Monti Iblei. There is scarcely a metre of flat all day long, and there is a rasping sting in the tail to boot, with short and punchy uphill finish in Caltagirone.

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MPFGLB

Hard day for BMC today

Have to catch the breakaway if up the road

Also need to be up there at the end with Dennis as can easily lose jersey to Katusha or Astana or S Yates

Nico will have to work very hard as BMC have sprinters but not puncheurs in the main

dastardly00

Should be an exciting last 10 km or so

dastardly00

I can never remember the time bonifications...

At the finish is it 10, 6, and 4 seconds?

And at the intermediate check points is it 3, 2, and 1 seconds?

dahat

Any rough idea of finishing time?

Melodeon

dahat wrote: »

Any rough idea of finishing time?

Depending on how fast the stage is raced, the road book is saying 5-5:30 local time.
4-4:30 here so.

dahat

Melodeon wrote: »

Depending on how fast the stage is raced, the road book is saying 5-5:30 local time.
4-4:30 here so.

Thanks! Just home to catch last 45mins then.

Wouldn't say no to a pink BMC bike.

MPFGLB

UAE putting the hammer down...Aru must fancy it

But Conti and Ulissi have the better finish ??

3 possibilities for one team ....the whole of Astana are also possibe winners

MPFGLB

Talking of which M Scot have 3 possibles in Chaves, Kreuziger & Yates

But it looks like Yates is their man for today

dastardly00

Conti from UAE has attacked and has a gap.
He's only 30 seconds behind on GC.

dastardly00

Less than 5 km to go and Conti is about to be caught.

Did Sky get caught in the crash?

dastardly00

This is a nuts finish

dastardly00

Gaps opening up everywhere

dastardly00

That was class!
Wellens wins

What about Sam there at the end, good on him.

dastardly00

Cycling news saying Froome lost 23 seconds there.

GC

1 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 14:23:08
2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:01
3 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:17
4 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Fix All 0:00:19
5 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:00:25
6 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:28
7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:28
8 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:34
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:35
10 Carlos Betancur (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:35

TheBlaaMan

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Cycling news saying Froome lost 23 seconds there.

His dropped his inhaler at the bottom of the last climb...:p