Tour de Romandie: Tadej Pogačar sprints to stage win and race lead from small breakaway

The world champion attacked and ripped up the field on that climb over Ovronnax and although he didn’t launch into one of his long-range solo raids, he was able to triumph in a four-man sprint down in the valley in Martigny.

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Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was second in that sprint, just ahead of Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), with Jorgen Nordhagen (Visma-Lease a Bike) the final member across the line.

Just 20 seconds later, after what was a tense 23km run along the valley to finish the stage, Albert Withen Philipsen (Lidl-Trek) led a dozen-rider chase group over the line, which included dropped GC hopefuls such as Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).

More to come.