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A year later, Australian Caden Groves did it again by winning the stage 4 sprint of the Tour of Spain in Tarragona on Tuesday, his second career victory in the event ahead of Colombian Juan Sebastian Molano.

A year later, Australian Caden Groves did it again by winning the stage 4 sprint of the Tour of Spain in Tarragona on Tuesday, his second career victory in the event ahead of Colombian Juan Sebastian Molano.

Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was the strongest in a very tense final pack, overtaking Molano after a long sprint launched by the Colombian just ahead.

The 24-year-old sprinter took his third Grand Tour win there. Having won the 11th stage of the Vuelta last year, he raised his hand at this year’s Giro (5th stage).

Belgium’s Remko Evenboel, who won last year’s Vuelta, retained the leader’s red jersey after a quiet day for the peloton despite two crashes in the final, which saw French rider Brian Coquard caught. , 8th overall at the start of the stage, just like Bahrain-Victorius leader Santiago Buitrago.

Dutchman Wilco Gelderman, 9th overall and Jumbo’s lieutenant, lost time crossing the finish line 3min 39sec after Groves.

Argentina’s Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto-Destiny), who had already escaped the day before to be swallowed up by a group of favourites, collected six extra points in the mountain classification to take first place.

If he already wore the white jersey with blue polka dots on Tuesday, keeping even the overall leader’s red robe, Sepulveda became the first Argentine to lead the classification during a Grand Tour after this fourth stage.

After three tumultuous first days (bad weather, Evenepoel crash after Monday’s finish), the race took place without major incident on the road.

Spain’s national police announced on Tuesday the arrest of four Catalan separatists: two days after they were arrested they planned to pour motor oil on the tracks of the third phase.

On Wednesday, the 5th stage (186.2 km) will take the peloton from Morella to Barriana, north of Valencia, and will be able to smile at the adventurers, whose summit will be fifty kilometers from the finish.

AFP / Tarragona (Spain) (AFP) / © 2023 AFP