Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) gained stage 4 of Paris-Good atop Mont Brouilly, whereas Luke Plapp (Jayco-Alula) held on for second place to maneuver into the yellow jersey of race chief.
Plapp sparked the profitable transfer when he pressed away from the yellow jersey group on the penultimate climb of the Col du Fût d’Avenas, with Buitrago bridging throughout to him shortly earlier than the summit.
The pair had only a dozen seconds or so in hand on the chasers with 20km to go, however they prolonged their benefit to 40 seconds by the point they hit the 3km climb to the end.
Remco Evenepoel set his Soudal-QuickStep teammate Ilan Van Wilder to work halfway up the climb and the Belgian champion later launched two rasping accelerations, however these efforts didn’t suffice to convey again the 2 leaders.
Buitrago danced away from Plapp with 1.3km nonetheless to climb, however the Australian champion managed his assets nicely within the finale to return dwelling in second place, 10 seconds down.
Evenepoel kicked for dwelling for distance, however he was pipped to the final of the bonus seconds by Matthias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), who took third at 37 seconds.
Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe) misplaced a few seconds to the Belgian within the closing metres, whereas in a single day chief Brandon McNulty (UAE Group Emirates) positioned tenth at 46 seconds.
Within the general standings, Plapp holds a lead of 13 seconds over Buitrago, with McNulty third at 27 seconds, whereas Evenepoel strikes as much as fifth, 30 seconds off the yellow jersey.
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