Team Sky’s man Geraint Thomas sadly lost his leader’s jersey after suffering sudden mechanical issues on fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico.
The incident which took place only a couple of hours ago, was the last thing Thomas needed to experience in one of the closing stages.
Along with four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (who took third place), had to lose 40 seconds to fourth stage winner Mikel Landa, one of the main men to help Froome seal the last couple of Tour de France victories right before deciding to leave the Team Sky’s family and move to Movistar.
Thomas’ mechanical issue took place only one kilometer away from the finish line losing precious seconds and a jersey to stage winnner Landa.
Stage four Results
Stage 4: 219km, From Foligno to Sarnano Sassotetto
Mikel Landa (Esp) Movistar, in 6-22-13
Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo, at same time
Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy
Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto-Soudal
Romain Bardet (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale
Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First-Drapac
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— Movistar Team (@Movistar_Team) March 10, 2018
General classification so far
Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing, in 17-14-49
Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky, at 1 seconds
Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
Mikel Landa (Esp) Movistar
Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky
Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First-Drapac
George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo
Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto-Soudal
Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
