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54km to go
The break are around eight kilometres until the start of the next climb now. The Passo della Colma is a third-category climb measuring 7.5 kilometres at 6.4 per cent.
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Ganna and Dani Martínez were briefly in a second group but it s all back together now. The gap to the break is down to two minutes.
There was a bit of a split in the peloton on the descent but nobody big was caught out.
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67km to go
And now Matthias Brändle (ISN) goes on the attack as they reach Stresa. He grabs two points at the intermediate sprint. Pasqualon led the break across.
Primož Roglič was untouchable on his way to stage victory on stage four of Paris-Nice 2021, taking the overall lead in the process.
The Jumbo-Visma rider waited until just 3km remained of the final climb to Chiroubles to launch his enormous attack, taking bonus seconds at the intermediate sprint and powering to the line alone.
Despite a commendable effort from Michael Matthews (BikeExchange) to chase down Roglič, it was the Slovenian who dominated the stage and takes over the leader’s yellow jersey from Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo).
How it happened
The fourth stage of Paris-Nice 2021 from Chalon-sur-Saône to Chiroubles was the first opportunity for the climbers to take back time after the short individual time trial on stage three.