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As it happened: Another hectic sprint on Giro d'Italia stage 4

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Buongiorno and w✅elcome to our live coverage of ♊stage 4 of the 2024 Giro d'Italia!

We're just under an hour away from the start of toda𒀰y's stage, which should bring another sprint finish.

Yesterday's third stage also brought a sprint fi൲nish, won by Tim Merlier, his second career Giro stage victory.

Merlier celebrated with a tribute to Wouter Weylandt, theꦑ Belgian Qu🎃ickStep sprinter who died in a crash on stage 3 of the 2011 Giro.

Tim Merlier dedicates second Giro d'Italia stage win to late Wouter Weylandt

Here's a look 🤪back at the results of stage 3 as well as the main classification standings.

And here's our breakdown of the updated GC standings heading into today's stage.

Under half an hour to go until the stage 4 start!

GC contenders Tadej Pogačar and Geraint Thomas were both on the attack late on in yesterday's stage, even if the pair were caught inside the final kilometre.

Five minutes until the stage kicks off...

Off we go! In♋to the neutral zone to start the day.

600 metres to go until the flag drops!

190km to go

Francisco Mu&nti🐟lde;oz🅰 is the man on the move for the Italian team.

A couple more riders head out to chase him.

187km to go

And now Filippo Gan🗹na (Ineos Grenadiers) i💦s on the move and gets across to make it four.

Soudal-QuickStep working at the head of the peloton 12 seconds back🎃.

Now up to 45 seconds for the break.

179km to go

This is the break of the day.

169km to go

Lidl-Trek also on the front of the peloton along wiﷺth So𒆙udal-QuickStep.

1:30 now to the lead quartet.

Ganna now seems to be dropping back from thꦚe breakaway.

It's raining and the small move isn't likely to make the finish, plus the peloton aren't letting them get ve𓄧ry far up the road.

162km to go

Now the p🥃eloton has slowed 📖up and the gap is up to 2:30.

The road is steadily rising during this first half of the stage towards🐬 the high point of the third-category climb, the Colle del Melogno.

A look at the official profile of today's stage.

150km to go

Torstein Træen (Bahrain Vi🐟ctorious)𓆉 is out of the Giro d'Italia.

He joins Bram Welten (DSM-Firmenich PostNL🍸) in heading home, with the Dutchman a DNS today.

Robert Gesink (Visma-Lease A Bike), Simon Cꦛarr (EF Education-EasyPost) and Eddie Dunbar (Jayco-AlUla) had already left the race in rec🉐ent days.

138km to go

No changes in the situation currently as the riders head towards the day's first intermediate sprint at🌌 Calizzano.

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5:30 for the breakaway! T🌜he gap has only gone up since Ganna🧸 departed the move.

After a quick start at around 45kph, the average speed has𒉰 dropped to 38kph in the past half hour.

114km to go

The tri𓃲o are almost at the Calizzano intermediate spri♑nt now.

Muñoz leads the way through and now the sprinters jump from the peloton to battle over the ꦿremaining points on ofℱfer.

Biniam Girmay,🉐 Tim Merlier, Kaden Groves, Martin Marcellusi, and Fernando Gaviria all fighting over fourth place across the line.

Groves led the way for fourth place and five points. Merlier next on four, 🌺then Girmay, Marcellusi, and Ga𝕴viria.

Merlier is now top of the points classification on 67 po🌄ints to Milan's 63.

104km to go

4:15 between break and peloton after that sprint.

Visma-Lease A Bike and Lidl-Trek 📖pushing the pace.

Up front it's Calmejane leading the way over the top🥂 of the climb.

Fabio Jakobsen is๊ suffering🐟 off the back of the peloton on this third-category climb. Teammate Julius van den Berg is back with him.

Fernando Gaviria is also dropping.

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Tha🔯t 9 points for Calmejane boosts him up to second place in the mountain classification.

The peloton at 3:30 after that upping of the pace. Jakobsen at 4:45 down after he was dropped on🐓 the way up.

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Racing downhill for some time now.

There is a small climb on t♔he way down, however, which the break is hitting now.

86km to go

A crash in the peloton for Ethan Vernon and Jhonatan Narváez on the small climb b🐬ut both are back up on their feet quickly.

Lewis Askey now at the rear of the peloton pushing a massive gear. He sticks his hand up for a bike change as he's clearly stuck in the wrong g🐼ear on the way up this climb.

Up at🍌 ꧋the front of the peloton UAE, Visma and Lidl are doing the work.

De Bod, 🥀Calꦦmejane, and Muñoz remain 3:30 up the road.

Narv&aacꦯute;ez and Jakobsen the major casualties off the back. The🥂y're still chasing back on.

76km to go

And now Narváez makes it back to the peloton. Askey is also back i♔n.

Visma and Lidl continue to lead the peloton on behalf of sprinte📖rs Olav Kooij and Jonathan Milan.

1km to go to the Intergiro sprint for the three men out fꦅront now.

Muñoz goes off the front of the move to take theꦚ maximum points there. Calmejane and De Bod follow before getting back up to the𒉰 Spaniard.

Now Jakobsen🐻 gets back to the peloton after a long chase.

Three minutes later and the s💝p🦂rinters come out to play again. Kooij, Girmay, Groves up there again.

It looks like Kooij beat Groves acro🥀ss the line there.

10km now until 🌳the riders hit the final intermediate sprint of the day.

65km to go

The trio൩ among several riders going down on a wet right-han💧d bend.

Girmay has taken the longest to get going again. He's hurt his right hip and is slowly riding offꦛ.

Up 🌸front, Calmejane has sat up from the break, leaving Muñoz and De Bod in the move.

Girmay crashes again!

He slides out on a leftไ-hander this time and falls on his left-hand side.

Girmay has a conc🌄ussion check and he's still being checked out at the side of the road.

Biniam Girmay looks🐠♓ to be out of the Giro d'Italia.

57km to go

Jens Voigt of Eurosport reporting that Gi🌳rmay is heading out of the race in an amꦫbulance.

Meanwhile the peloton has split at the front! There ꦓwas a high pace heading into the final intermediate sprint as Cian Uijtdebroeks snagged a single bonus second in thid place.

No full information on who has made the cut and who has mis🧜se🐼d it just yet.

Lidl-Trek and Visma-Lease A Bike lead the fron𒁃t group, so🃏 the likes of Milan and Kooij are in there.

The race has hit the Ligurian coast now and it's pretty much all flat to the finish. The Capo Mele, which features on the Milan-San Remo🥀 route, comes just 3km from the line.

Around 30 seconds between the split peloton.

Just over two minutes between the re🌞maining two breakaway men and the first part of the peloton.

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The peloton is back together now. Crisis averted for those who mis♛sed the split.

35km to go

Vism💟a💦 and Lidl on the front as they have been for a large portion of the day.

The gap is coming down steadily but Muñoz and De Bod continue to battle𓆏 on.

1:20 is the gap now.

It's sunny and dry now after the earlier rain.

23km to go

Another 10 seconds ꧑o🍌ff the breakaway's lead and it's down to 1:10 now.

20km left to run now.

Bike change for Magnus Sheffield in the peloton.

And n🦹ow the pace is only going up. 58 seconds to the two leaders.

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It's still largely the same mix of teams working to bring back Muñoꦬz and De Bod.

15km to go

We're in Milan-San Remo territory here.

The break won't make it to the fini🧜sh but we've still yet to see who will make one last bid to stay away and take the combativity prize in the process.

Juan Molano (UAE Team Emirates) is at the rear of the peloton with🌸 a mechanical problem. He👍 was caught up in the first Girmay crash earlier, too.

Lidl-Trek with three up fr🔴ont ahead of Milan here.

Kooij, Groves, Ewan, Van Poppel,🧜 Merlier all positioned up at the front along with Milan.

11km to go

The two breakaw♋ay survivors are coming to the end of t෴heir day's work.

10km to go a🅰nd 5km to the bottom of the Capo Mele.

8km to go

Thomas and Pogačar are right up there.

19 seconds to the breakaway.

6km

It's almost over for 🎀the break – eight seconds.

5km to go

De Bod makes one last push but it's over for the 🔯break.

4km to go

He was in the breakaway ear♎lier on before dropping back.

Tudor are leading the chase.

Ganna has a haꦇndful of seconds on the chasing peloton.

Danny van Poppel is attempting to counter!

Andrea Pasqualon is also on the move!

3km to go

Van Poppel and Pasqualon caught.

Filippo Fiorelli attacks now.

The peloton is strℱung𒁃 out behind Ganna. Lidl-Trek lead it.

Ganna is over the top and h♊eading down into Anꦅdora.

2km to go

Now Fiorelli is caught.

Alpecin-Deceuninck join Lidl-Trek in the chase.

1km to go

Dani Martínez stops with a🀅 mechanical as Ganna is caught!

Consonni sets up the final sprint.

Laporte comes through now.

Milan hits the front.

Merlier is coming up alongside him.

But the Belgian can't get up alongside Milan.

Finish

Kaden Groves came through for second place at the death. Phil Bauhaus and Olav Kooij were third and fourth after Tim Merlier faded to ✱fifth in the final metres.

Grov💎es came in with a fast finish bu🦂t nobody came close to Milan there.

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2023 points classification winner Mꦗilan will be back in charge of the maglia ciclamino tonight. He's on 113 points to Tim Merlier's 81 now.

That was Milan's fourth win ♌of the season and ninth ofꦯ his career.

Milan celebrates with his teammates, including Juan Pedro López on the lܫeft, after his victory.

Here's what Milan had to sa👍y after his win today...

Groves finished in second place, his best result so far in this year's ﷺGirꩵo. Here's what he said after that finish...

Today's stage winner takes to the podium and celebrates the victory p𝓡lus getting back into the points jersജey.

Elsewhere, Tadej Pogačar retains the GC and mountain jerseys while Cian Uijtdebroeks is still in the best young rider jersey.

That's all from us today at stage 4 🅰of the Giro d'Italia. Be sure toﷺ check back tomorrow for more live coverage!

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