{"id":94537,"date":"2020-10-06T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/?p=94537"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:48:57","slug":"2020-giro-ditalia-stage-4-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/2020\/10\/06\/2020-giro-ditalia-stage-4-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Giro d’Italia: Stage 4 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnaud D\u00e9mare (Groupama-FDJ) claimed his second Giro d’Italia stage win following his victory on Stage 10 to Modena last year. Today he pipped Peter Sagan (Bora – Hansgrohe) and Davide Ballerini (Deceuninck-Quick Step) on the finish line at Villafranca Tirrena, the Giro’s last stop in beautiful Sicily this year. Jo\u00e3o Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step) extended his lead by two seconds in the intermediate sprint where runner-up Jonathan Caicedo (EF Pro Cycling) challenged him.<\/p>\n<p>The stage winner\u00a0Arnaud D\u00e9mare\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cAfter I crossed the finish line I was not sure I had won. I saw Ballerini celebrating, so\u00a0I thought I was second and could not celebrate until my success was made official on the podium.\u00a0I am super happy. It was a special finish, we wanted to keep the high speed at the front as Gaviria and Viviani were 25-30 seconds behind. In the final kilometer, teammate Miles Scotson accelerated very fast and tried to go solo, Cofidis had then to work catch him and I could save some precious energy for the final sprint. Today I had good legs but also some luck on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maglia Rosa\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Almeida\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cWhen I saw Caicedo trying to go for the time bonus at the intermediate sprint, I decided to react and beat him to take the lead. In the end I am very happy it worked and that I can wear the Maglia Rosa another day. Tomorrow we have more climbs to tackle, I expect some riders to attack. I hope I can follow then and be in the GC lead again tomorrow evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maglia Ciclamino\u00a0Peter Sagan\u00a0said: \u201cWhen I crossed the line, I didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d won or if I was second or third. I did my best. In such a tight sprint, sometimes I\u2019ve won, sometimes I\u2019ve lost. Our tactic was to make the race very hard on the climb. I\u2019m satisfied with the team. They\u2019ve done a very good job. I\u2019m in the Maglia Ciclamino now,\u00a0but only by a few points. I just hope it\u2019s going to continue like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maglia Azzurra\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Caicedo\u00a0said: \u201cThe truth is that sprinting is not my speciality. But I was in a situation of getting the lead of a very important race so I tried my luck in the intermediate sprint. It didn\u2019t quite work out but I\u2019ll keep fighting for the Maglia Rosa. I\u2019m very motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">2020 Giro d’Italia: Stage 4 Results<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Arnaud D\u00e9mare (Groupama – FDJ) – 140km in 3:22\u201913\u201d, average speed 41.540km\/h<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Peter Sagan (Bora – Hansgrohe) s.t.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Davide Ballerini (Deceuninck – Quick – Step)\u00a0s.t.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>General Classification After Stage 4<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Jo\u00e3o Almeida (Deceuninck – Quick – Step)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Caicedo (EF Pro Cycling) at 2″<\/li>\n<li>Pello\u00a0Bilbao (Bahrain – McLaren) at 39\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnaud D\u00e9mare (Groupama-FDJ) claimed his second Giro d’Italia stage win following his victory on Stage 10 to Modena last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":94538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111,6482,81],"tags":[20718,17766,22280,20305,22224,20715,5206,20249,21065,20736,20841,21056,24539,22764,6656,7503,18853],"class_list":["post-94537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giro","category-race-results","category-road","tag-arnaud-demare","tag-bora-hansgrohe","tag-davide-ballerini","tag-deceuninck","tag-ef-pro-cycling","tag-general-classification","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-groupama","tag-hansgrohe","tag-joao-almeida","tag-jonathan-caicedo","tag-maglia-azzurra","tag-maglia-ciclamino","tag-miles-scotson","tag-peter-sagan","tag-pro-cycling","tag-quick-step"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bb1ec398-318b-4085-bdb7-69ff7d326e62.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}