Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) claimed a last-ditch bunch dash win on a rainsoaked stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico, as a severely lowered peloton snapped up the remnants of a day-long break and late attacker Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) agonisingly near the road.
Second was Rick Pluimers (Tudor Pro Cycling), with Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claiming third. Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) retained the general lead for a fourth straight day.
A collection of splits within the remaining third of an action-packed 190 kilometre stage from Norcia to Trasacco, together with one six-rider GC assault that includes race chief Ganna and key rival Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), all didn’t consolidate. Then, nonetheless, a harmful transfer by Healy with 4 kilometres to go, scorching throughout to the remnants of the early break, pressured Ineos to chase onerous behind.
Once Healy and co. had been caught nearly on the final second attainable, the broadly anticipated bunch dash lastly materialised, however with such a small lead group, it was a really uncontrolled affair.
Young French sprinter Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) opened up the sprint for the road from fourth within the string and Van der Poel rapidly overhauled him. However, Kooij got here dashing up on the best hand aspect of the group to say his third win of the season, and first ever stage victory in Tirreno-Adriatico.
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