Mechanical costs Thomas as Caruso takes Tirreno-Adriatico lead

ByPA Sport

Published 10/03/2018 at 16:39 GMT

Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas lost the race leader’s jersey on stage four of Tirreno-Adriatico after suffering a mechanical in the closing stages.Thomas and team-mate Chris Froome, who started the day third, lost over 40 seconds to stage winner Mikel Landa, while BMC Racing’s Damiano Caruso took over the blue jersey.Landa, who helped Froome to his …

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Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas lost the race leader’s jersey on stage four of Tirreno-Adriatico after suffering a mechanical in the closing stages.

Thomas and team-mate Chris Froome, who started the day third, lost over 40 seconds to stage winner Mikel Landa, while BMC Racing’s Damiano Caruso took over the blue jersey.

Landa, who helped Froome to his last two Tour de France wins before leaving Sky for Movistar, claimed victory after a frantic finish to the 219-kilometre stage to Sarnano Sassotetto.

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His victory moved him up to fourth in the general classification standings, 20 seconds off Caruso and six ahead of Thomas who drops to fifth.

Caruso leads by one second from Team Sky’s Michal Kwiatkowski, with Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb) another 10 seconds back.

After the break was caught in the last eight kilometres, Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) attacked with just over 5km left, with Rafal Majka (Bora), Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates) and Ben Hermans (Israel Cycling Academy) bridging across to the Colombian from the Team Sky-led peloton.

Majka then attacked from the four-man group with 3.5km to go, while Landa made his move from the peloton.

Froome slipped out the back of the peloton, while Landa passed Lopez and joined Aru, Hermans and Majka with two kilometres left.

But behind them, Thomas suffered a mechanical with just over a kilometre remaining and lost 40 seconds to Landa, with Froome losing even more time after trying to help Thomas recover.

Landa prevailed ahead of Majka and George Bennett (Lotto NL-Jumbo), whose late surge moved him up to sixth in the GC standings.

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