Basque language: Santiago Buitragok irabazi du Mont Brouillyn, Paris-Nizan, and Luke Plappek for the current jersey

The Colombian cyclist of the team Bahrain-Victorious Santiago Buitrago ha cattle this wednesday fourth stage of Paris-Nice in 2024the first mountain day of the 82nd edition of the race, while the Australian runner of the Jayco-AlUla Luke Plappwho was second in the stage, was placed as leader of the general classification and he has put on the yellow jersey. Buitrago has obtained ten seconds over the new leader, who leads him by thirteen overall, 37 over the Dane Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and the Belgian from Soudal-Quick Step Remco Evenepoel and 39 over the Slovenian from BORA-Hansgrohe Primoz Roglic. Pello Bilbao (Bahrain) is eighteenth overall, one minute and thirteen seconds behind Plapp, and Gorka Izagirre (Cofidis) has had to abandon the race.

Buitrago has won alone at the top of Mont Brouilly, 2nd category, and has shown that he is in a remarkable moment of form to fight for the final victory. The good Colombian climber, double stage winner in the Giro d’Italia (in 2022 and 2023), and tenth overall in the 2023 Vuelta a España (in the Giro he finished thirteenth), has a 30-second advantage over Evenepoel , which gives the impression of becoming the main candidate to win Paris-Nice.

Plapp, 23 years old, current Australian road and time trial champion, tried to confront Buitrago, who was the first to attack at the last pass, less than a kilometer and a half from the finish. Behind them, Evenepoel has been the one who has sought to take a step forward the most, and has achieved several seconds with respect to Roglic, Pello Bilbao, Bernal (Cofidis), Jorgenson (Visma) or McNulty (UAE).

In the general classification, Pello Bilbao, as has been said, occupies 18th position, 1:13 behind the leader, and Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) is 24th, 3:21 behind, with Jonathan Castroviejo (INEOS Grenadiers) 32nd, at 7:15. Gorka Izagirre (Cofidis) had to abandon the race.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE 4TH STAGE

1 – BUITRAGO Santiago (Bahrain) 4:25:52

2 – PLAPP Luke (Jayco) +0:10

3 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) +0:37

4 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) mt

5 – BERNAL Egan (INEOS) +0:39

6 – GALL Felix (Decathlon AG2R) mt

7- ROGLIC Primoz (BORA) mt

8 – JORGENSON Matteo (Visma) mt

9 – TEJADA Harold (Astana) +0:43

10 – MCNULTY Brandon (UAE) +0:46

GENERAL RANKING

1 – PLAPP Luke (Jayco) 13:15:04

2 – BUITRAGO Santiago (Bahrain) +0:13

3 – MCNULTY Brandon (UAE) +0:27

4 – ALMEIDA Joao (UAE) +0:29

5 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) +0:30

6 – BERNAL Egan (INEOS) +0:40

7 – HARPER Chris (Jayco) +0:46

8 – JORGENSON Matteo (Visma) +0:52

9 – URÁN Rigoberto (EF Education) +0:54

10 – RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (INEOS) +1:02

Source: Eitb

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