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Cycling: van den Berg wins in the sprint for the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, Pogacar still leader

The Dutchman Marijn van den Berg won the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia on Thursday in Lleida, still dominated by the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.

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Cycling: van den Berg wins in the sprint for the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, Pogacar still leader

The Dutchman Marijn van den Berg won the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia on Thursday in Lleida, still dominated by the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.

The 24-year-old runner won in the sprint at the end of a flat stage ahead of the French Bryan Coquard, Axel Laurance and Cyril Barthe, who took fourth, fifth and sixth place. The Cofidis team sprinter, who launched his effort 200 meters from the line, was well placed until the last moment but ended up being overtaken by Arne Marit and Emils Liepins.

“It was a very fast day... the end of the stage was quite hectic with all the roundabouts,” Van den Berg told Teledeporte. “I came here to focus on getting back into shape and see how things would go on stages like today, so I would say I'm back on track!” he assured after suffering a heavy fall in February.

In legs, the double winner of the Tour de France Tadej Pogacar, big favorite for the event, keeps the lead in the general classification after his two consecutive victories in the mountains on Tuesday and Wednesday, with two minutes and 27 seconds over the Spaniard Mikel Landa and two minutes and 55 seconds on the Russian Alexandr Vlasov.

French hope from Groupama-FDJ Lenny Martinez remains fourth and retains the best youngster jersey. Hungry, the Slovenian “cannibal” chose the Tour of Catalonia to prepare for the Tour of Italy (May 4-26), his main objective at the start of the year. He aims to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win the Giro and the Tour de France (June 29-July 21) in the same year.

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