(Reuters) - Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar moved top of the Tirreno-Adriatico overall standings after winning the fourth stage, a 148-km mountain trek from Terni to Prati di Tivo on Saturday. The Slovenian attacked in the final climb, six kilometres from the finish to beat Briton Simon Yates by six seconds and Colombian Sergio Higuita by 29. His gritty performance still left him second overall, 35 seconds behind Pogacar who last month won the UAE Tour. "Today was a very hard stage. "Now I am in the lead, but tomorrow we have another really hard stage, and with the final ITT (individual time trial)anything can still happen," he said.

Source: The Star March 13, 2021 16:18 UTC