Roman Kreuziger – Unofficial
“Those four riders rode away at the 15km mark. We had there our Di Gregorio who pulled off a great performance but, unfortunately, he missed the podium. Despite this, the team is happy because he spent the whole day in a breakaway,” Roman described.The Thursday´s stage is likely to be the most difficult one with two hors-category climbs. “Today I tried to save as much energy as possible. I look forward to the tomorrow´s stage. Kiserlovski is in good shape as well and it would be great if we both stayed at the front and helped each other out. The stage is really hard, especially the last climb before the finish. It is 7.6km long and has a gradient of 8.5 percent, then a short descent follows and then a 4-kilometer gradual climb completes the route.” 4th stage (191 km): 1st Voeckler (Fra/Europcar) 5:04:20, 2nd Pauriol (Fra/FDJ), 3rd De Gendt (Bel/Vacansoleil), 4th Di Gregorio (Fra/Astana), 5th Haussler (Aus/Cervélo), … 32nd Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Astana) both +13.Overall: 1st De Gendt (Bel/Vacansoleil) 19:26:46, 2nd Voeckler +10, 3rd Pauriol +16, 4th Goss (Aus/HTC-Highroad) +21, 5th Di Gregorio +24, 6th Haussler +27, … 21st Roman Krteuziger +37.