Tour de Romandie

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There is a group of 10 chasers now 2:36 behind the leaders with the peloton at 3:12 behind.

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Gendt has now been dropped from the chasing group and he'll be making his way back to the peloton. The riders left in this chasing group are Winner Anacona, David de la Cruz, Michael Albasini, Alexis Vuillermoz, Diego Ulissi, and Tanel Kangert. So that's a very strong group of six bridging across.

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At present, the five leaders hold a 2:13 advantage over the six chasers, who are in turn 43 seconds ahead of the peloton.

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The peloton isn't allowing this chase group have too much of an advantage. There are some very strong climbers in there and with Albasini and Ulissi up there and just 14 seconds back in the overall classification Trek-Segafredo is wise to this. De La Cruz, Anacona, Vuillermoz and Kangert are all within 30 seconds of the race lead too.

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Team Sky has confirmed that Gianni Moscon used racially abusive language towards FDJ’s Kevin Reza at the Tour de Romandie. Team Sky’s DS Nicolas Portal called the incident ‘unacceptable’ and a team spokesperson said that the incident would be dealt with internally.

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36km remaining from 163.5km

 

Trek-Segafredo has start pushing the pace on the front of the bunch. They have had their hand forced by this chase group going up the road. There are 30 seconds between the peloton and the chase group. The leaders are still 2:44 up the road.

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Team Sky has confirmed that Gianni Moscon used racially abusive language towards FDJ’s Kevin Reza at the Tour de Romandie. Team Sky’s DS Nicolas Portal called the incident ‘unacceptable’ and a team spokesperson said that the incident would be dealt with internally.

Yet they keep him in the squad to have that extra man for the team. [emoji53]

 

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['Dale]

Albasini has been dropped from the chase group which is now only 11 seconds up the road from the peloton. The five leaders still hold a two-minute advantage over the chasers.

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Snowladen slopes all around

 

Gonna be an interesting finalè

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Michael Schar is doing the work on the front for BMC and he's got a train of four Team Sky riders on his wheel, with Froome the fourth of those. The rest of the BMC squad is sitting just behind Team Sky.

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It is splitting up at the front as Cherel strikes out. Armee is chasing but it is very laboured. He's got Kochetkov in his wheel as Van der Sande and Clarke struggle a bit further behind.

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Zakarin is now having a go off the front of the bunch. The leaders are just 1:30 up the road so there's everything to play for right now.

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(For those that want to Tom Says Thanks will be streamed live a from about 17:30 https://nieuws.vtm.be/sport/livestream-tom-says-thanks.. in the ex pro race a little earlier Musseeuw beat Zabel on the line)

 

https://twitter.com/VTMStadion/status/858314978893467652

 

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And Porte goes with 4 clicks to go

 

Froome Dawg is spat out at the back, studying his stem

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And Porte passes the leaders of the stage while dancing on them pedals

 

A real display of power by the BMC leader

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Porte looks at Yates, who is the only rider left with him, as if to ask if he can work. Yates shakes his head and Porte continues to set the pace.