Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek) claimed his second consecutive victory within the Tour de Hongrie on stage 4, out-sprinting Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) on an uphill end in Etyek. Yannis Voitard (Tudor) was third on the stage.
“I do not know if I ever had this sense in my legs earlier than,” Nys mentioned after his victory. “I used to be dying utterly within the final 150 metres. I appeared again and I noticed Hirschi coming and I used to be a bit afraid that he was going to return over. But I feel we felt the identical and we stored additionally the identical tempo.
“I can not describe how a lot I need to thank my staff. They did every part so good to place in the appropriate place and since in addition they gave me this confidence with this teamwork, and I can end it off. I’m only a small half on this victory and it is simply a lot from the staff as it’s from me.
“We went fairly quick already at first of the climb and I feel it put everybody on the restrict already. And in an ideal state of affairs, I wished to have my dash a little bit bit extra explosive however the tempo was so excessive that I might not likely speed up sooner. And it was an extended strategy to the end line. It was actually exhausting. It was painful,” Nys mentioned.
The 166-kilometre stage was quick and livid, with no breakaway in a position to go clear till nicely into the second hour or racing.
Salvatore Puccio (Ineos Grenadiers), Niklas Märkl (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL), Dusan Rajovic (Bahrain Victorious), Cees Bol (Astana Qazaqstan), Diego Sevilla (Polti Kometa), Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5), and Sergio Meris (MBH Bank Colpack Ballan) ultimately opened up a spot and fought to remain away till 2.2km to go when the street tilted uphill.
Nys leapt away with 200 metres to go and solely Hirschi might reply however the Swiss rider was unable to match the tempo of the race chief.
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