FINAL KM: Tour de Romandie St. 4, Tour of Chongming Island St. 3, Festival Elsy Jacobs St 1.

Four of the top 5 on GC go pedal to pedal at Tour de Romandie Queen stage, the Tour of Chongming Island wraps up with a sprint, and it’s a case of déjà vu at the Festival Elsy Jacobs.

Tour de Romandie Stage 4: Sion to Sion, 149.2km

Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) soloed to victory on the Queen stage. Dropped on the final climb as the battle for the overall reached fever pitch, the Dane returned on the descent and as the GC contenders watched each other chose the perfect moment to attack and swoop to the line. Race leader Primoz Roglic snatched 2nd from Sky’s Egan Bernal to increase his grip on the yellow. Roglic now leads by +8secs with BMC’s Richie Porte third at +35secs.

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What a win!✌️ #TDR2018 pic.twitter.com/ga5dARXCga

— Astana Pro Team (@AstanaTeam) April 28, 2018

Well-deserved win for @Jakob_Fuglsang! A very strong start to the season is finally crowned with a big victory. Especially impressive the way he came back on the descent and then tactically attacked just after top-favorite Rui Costa had put in a huge pull. Class act 👏#TDR2018

— Mikkel Condé v2.0 (@mrconde) April 28, 2018

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Mi día resumido en un par de fotos en la etapa reina. Queen stage captured in a few photos. Team sky guys 👌🏾

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Bernal said it would be difficult to take the seconds he needed to grab the race lead but boy, that didn’t stop him from trying. Every attack was matched my Roglic as they went head -to head on the slopes of the Collon. Just WOW!

Proper mountain duel between Bernal and Roglič, now the Slovenian attacks over the top of the climb, long descent now

— the Inner Ring (@inrng) April 28, 2018

“I gave my best and Primoz Roglic is a very good rider. He’s now stronger than me. I tried for my team because they did a good job for me. Now I’m happy because although I didn’t win I attacked a lot of times. That’s good for cycling.”

Full race report at Cycling News

Race website Twitter #TdR2018

Tour of Chongming Island Stage 3: Chongming Xincheng Park, 126.5km

The Wiggle-High5 squad finally got their stage win with Dutch powerhouse Kirsten Wild. Jolien d’Hoore (Mitchelton-Scott) took second with points winner Cylance’s Giorgia Bronzini in third. Charlotte Becker (Hitec Products) finished safely in the bunch to claim the yellow jersey by 5secs from Shannon Malseed (TIBCO-SVB) with best young rider Anastasia Iakovenko (BTC City Lublianja) third at +13secs. Lucy Garner (Wiggle High5) goes home with the queen of the mountain jersey in her suitcase.

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One podium – all of the joyful jerseys…

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1st on final stage for @kirsten_wild, QOM jersey for @Lucygarner94 and a fun week with a fab team! Thanks China🙌🏼 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/P4cox0Xjr8

— Annette Edmondson (@NettieEdmo) April 28, 2018

Sprinter…. Climber……. Bridge Bomber! You earned those dots girl!! Well Done!! pic.twitter.com/c2pwJP9Mv3

— Rochelle Gilmore (@RochelleGilmore) April 28, 2018

One of my better days as a Team Manager. Not often your goals for a race are smashed like this. So proud of the chicas @MollebroCam @Juliesolvang @ninakessler @SimonaFrapporti @lottibecker

Fun fact: DS @Not_Tone was also the teams mechanic this week pic.twitter.com/wMBgwSHWhh

— Karl Lima (@Karl_Lima_Hitec) April 28, 2018

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Full race report at Cycling News

Festival Elsy Jacobs Stage 1: Steinfort to Steinfort, 97.7km

Just as she did in 2017, Christine Majerus took the stage victory and the race lead in Steinfort. The Boels-Dolmans rider timed her sprint on the rising finish, just pipping Alexis Ryan (Canyon SRAM) and Eugenia Bujak (BTC City Ljublianja) – second and third respectively. Majerus goes into the final stage holding 5secs on Ryan with Lisa Klein and Amy Pieters third and fourth at +8secs.

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Relive 📺📽️1ère étape STEINFORT-STEINFORT🇱🇺@Festival_Elsy https://t.co/FwzwAJsxvC @C_Majerus 🥂🚴‍♀️

— Motomediateam (@Motomediateam) April 28, 2018

Winning on home soil is worth twice!
Thanks @amypieters @jipvandenbos @sky_schneider_ @ancurro & whole @boelsdolmansct for the trust & work! Happy it worked out! Proudly wearing the yellow Skoda jersey tomorrow (sponsorcorrect 👌🏼) pic.twitter.com/GpdmweC1pU

— Christine Majerus (@C_Majerus) April 28, 2018

What a story…

Wiggle High5’s Eri Yonamine is riding for Maaslandster International at this race. The team woke to the news that their bikes had been stolen overnight. The cycling community rallied around, bikes were found and the Japanese champion made the podium at the end of the day as most aggressive rider.

Al @twcmaaslandster have spare bikes for @Festival_Elsy from other teams and eh from me.

My bike is going to race too 😱! #FestivalElsy #Elsy18

Go Femke Geeris!!! pic.twitter.com/JQQD9SU3ea

— José Been (@TourDeJose) April 28, 2018

Today’s summary @Festival_Elsy

• Stolen all bikes of @twcmaaslandster
•Ask & Barrow bikes from some teams
•Start race
•Try to win
•Finally got aggressive rider 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Many things happened in one day…

Just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone helped us 🙏🏻🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/exDIoiGIaZ

— eri yonamine (@YonamineEri) April 28, 2018

Having bikes stolen is a serious blow for any team and in this case thieves targeted equipment owned by the riders themselves. If you’d like to help, all the details are below.

Please help my teammates to replace their bikes and equipment from the terrible theft that took place in Luxembourg. Every kind and every bit of help is welcome. please click here to support GoFundMe campaign, Theft – Womens Cycling Team:https://t.co/m6eQEIcjCP

— Roos Hoogeboom (@rooshoogeboom) April 29, 2018

Full report at Cycling News

Race Website Twitter #elsy18