Tirreno-Adriatico stage 4 Live - A lumpy stage with a likely bunch sprint awaits the riders

The riders have started the next climb of the day, the Valico La Crocetta. 

UAE Team Emirates-XRG have come to the front of the peloton and have started to reduce the gap to the breakaway. Maybe they have some plans on the upcoming Valico La Crocetta. 

100km to go

The breakaway have continued to extend their advantage with the gap now at over six minutes to the peloton after two hours of racing. 

There's just under 10km to go until the riders start the second and final categorised climb of the day, the 12.4km long Valico La Crocetta which has an average gradient of 5.6%. 

Breakaway times on GC:

Jonas Rutsch (Intermarche-Wanty) +1'52"
Mirco Maestri (Polti-VisitMalta) +2'38"
Gijs Leemreiz (Picnic-PostNL) +3'07"
Jorge Arcas (Movistar) +6'22"
William Blume Levy (Uno-X Mobility) +9'33"

Making Rutsch comfortably the virtual GC leader on the road at the moment. 

120km to go

As the riders near the top of the uncategorised climb to Sella di Corno, the gap has stretch even further to 5'45" between the break and the peloton with the race really settling down into the day. 

There's been a big update on the time gap and it has rocketed. We have our breakaway! They now have a gap of 3'25" on the peloton. 

Break of the day:

Jonas Rutsch (Intermarche-Wanty)
Jorge Arcas (Movistar)
Mirco Maestri (Polti-VisitMalta)
Gijs Leemreiz (Picnic-PostNL)
William Blume Levy (Uno-X Mobility)

130km to go

The riders have reached the bottom of the descent with the leading five riders holding a gap of 48" over the peloton as the races heads onto an uncategorised climb to Sella di Corno. 

The gap to this five man break is growing and is now at 40". Will this finally be the break forming and getting a good gap?

A new five man group forms:

Jonas Rutsch (Intermarche-Wanty)
Jorge Arcas (Movistar)
Mirco Maestri (Polti-VisitMalta)
Gijs Leemreiz (Picnic-PostNL)
William Blume Levy (Uno-X Mobility)

140km to go

The 10 rider break has been caught and so the attacks immediately kick off yet again as the race nears the bottom of the descent. 

The carnage continues but the 10 riders are still just about clear of the peloton for now...

Abandon

Lorenzo Conforti (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizane)

He was in the break yesterday and won two KoM sprints and sat in third place in that competition. 

This new group of ten riders has just over 10" on the chasing peloton. This could possibly be a day for the breakaway if they get the right composition and it is clear that multiple teams think that too. 

New breakaway

Valentin Ferron (Cofidis)
Gijs Leemreize (Picnic-PostNL)
Mirco Maestri (Polti-VisitMalta)
Dries De Bondt (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale)
Rui Costa (EF Education-EasyPost)
Lucas Hamilton (Ineos Grenadiers)
Damien Howson (Q36.5)
Rui Oliveira (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X Mobility)
Jonas Koch (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

Counter attack

Mirco Maestri (Polti-VisitMalta) launches into the gap to try and join the leading duo. He really is one of the many kings of the breakaway in the Italian ProTeam squads. 

Attack!

Valentin Ferron (Cofidis)
Gijs Leemreize (Picnic-PostNL)

One attack caught and another one goes. Another strong duo goes up the road. Ferron won the GP La Marseillaise earlier this year but has had a few recent DNFs and Leemreize has had multiple Grand Tour stage top tens and podiums at the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España. 

Adrià and Donovan both caught. 

The race is over the first climb and the small kicker not long after it and have now just begun the descent down to Antrodoco where they will start an uncategorised climb.

170km to go

Current situation reported to be happening...

Leader:

Roger Adrià (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

Chase +6":

Mark Donovan (Q36.5) 

Peloton +22"

Those two points for Tarozzi means that the VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizane man will be in the green mountains jersey again tomorrow as he extends his gap over Polti-VisitMalta's Davide Bais to 11 points. 

KoM Sprint (Forca della Civita)

1. Roger Adrià (ESP) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe 5pts
2. Mark Donovan (GBR) Q36.5 3pts
3. Manuele Tarozzi (ITA) VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizane 2pts
4. Kamiel Bonneu (BEL) Intermarche-Wanty 1pt

Adrià has dropped Donovan in the break. The breakaway is still trying to form. 

Riders are now starting to lose touch at the back of the peloton. 

Attack!

Roger Adrià (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
Mark Donovan (Q36.5)

They have a small gap over the peloton of around 20". 

The peloton is very stretch out on this first climb of the day but no reports of any riders being distanced yet. 

Peloton currently still all together. 

The attacks continue with the likes of Pepijn Reinderink (Soudal-QuickStep) and Jonas Rutsch (Intermarche-Wanty) being involved in the moves.

Tarozzi has seemingly been caught but there are multiple attacks in the peloton as a breakaway tries to form. 

And straight onto the first climb of the day they go. The 14.3km long Forca della Civita that has an average gradient of 4.1%. 

Attack

Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizane)

The new leader of the mountain standings took the maximum points on the final climb yesterday taking 15 very important points that put him 9 points clear of former green jersey wearer, Davide Bais (Polti-VisitMalta).

190km to go

Racing begins on stage four of Tirreno-Adriatico 2025! 

Neutral zone

The riders have started the neutralised zone after sign on was completed. The rain is continuing from yesterday, unfortunately for the riders. 

The length and terrain of yesterday's stage, even the weather felt a lot like Milan-Sanremo with both Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) heavily involved in the attack on the final climb...

>>> Ganna and Van der Poel play Milan-San Remo cat and mouse in cold and wet six-hour Tirreno-Adriatico stage 

It was a good day for Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) on stage three as the Yorkshireman continues his form from Strade Bianche with another second place, this time behind Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale)...

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Yesterday's stage was horrific for the riders with rain for almost the entire 239km of racing. Read about some of the reactions with the link below...

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Today's stage is a bit shorter than the monster length of yesterday's stage. Today the riders are covering 190km between Norcia and Trasacco with two categorised climbs along the way as well as several little lumps before the final 55km on flat roads to the finish. 

Hello and welcome to the CyclingNews live report of stage four at Tirreno-Adriatico 2025.