Tour de France 2018 Stage 4 : Gaviria doubles up by a wheel

It was Stage 4 of the 2018 Tour de France and Fernando Gaviria took full advantage of a perfect delivery by his slick Quick-Step train to take victory number two in a three-way sprint-royale for the line. The Colombian hotshot had to give an extra kick to keep ahead of a flying Andre Greipel. Peter Sagan just squeezed past the German to nab second place and more points for the green jersey. Greg Van Avermaet stays in yellow, but a crash with 5km to go left Rigoberto Uran scrambling back to the peloton for a second team time trail in two days. Ilnur Zakarin wasn’t so lucky, losing nearly a minute as he was left to ride in alone while Katusha-Alpecin were working for Marcel Kittel.

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Tour Tweets of the Week: Chava, Sagan, Lawson and the Tao of cycling

It’s on! And we’ve got the first Tour Tweets of the Week for 2018. We have a rider whose name is so smooth to say … Sylvain Chavanel … we have the yellow jerseys from the past few days, a 160km swansong, a big Texan heart, a sausage king (yes, indeedy!) and a lion that wants to kiss us. And that’s just for starters …

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