Jay Vine accelerates at the top of the race. He is followed by Lenny Martinez and João Almeida.
The Belgian loses ground. He no longer appears in the head group eight kilometers from the finish.
19th of the general at 1 “14 of the leader, Aleksandr Vlasov, winner of the Tour de Romandie 2022 and second last year, is forced to let the peloton slip.
Passing at the moment in front of the panels indicating the arrival at 10 kilometers. The peloton is still made up of around thirty runners.
More than 20 kilometers at more than 7.5%: Thyon 2000, the kind of ascent found on the big towers. Less the rest of the season, or at least at this time of the year. It is the first time in 2025 that a race has ended more than 2,000 meters above sea level.
Julien Bernard is taken over by the peloton, now made up of around forty runners. We are 13.7 kilometers from the goal.
The carrier of the yellow jersey, a member of the Decathlon-AG2R team, is distant by the peloton. There will be a new leader this evening in Thyon.
The Pocket Climber Lenny Martinez team, second Friday in Cossonay, comes to lend a hand to the Lotto training.
- Louis Barré – 10 points
- Julien Bernard – 6 points)
- Logan Currie – 4 points)
The runner of the Lidl-Trek team distant from train Louis Barré, taken up by the peloton. It has a minute in advance 16.6 kilometers from the finish.
The Lotto team of the third in the general classification Lennert Van Eetvelt took over from the UAE training and now takes the peloton.
The Frenchman will get on the podium in just over an hour in Thyon. He has ahead of his compatriot on the line materializing the price of combativeness.
The two French people have a 35 -second advance at the foot of the Thyon 2000 climb. They should be able to play the price of upcoming fighting spirit in a few hectometers.
And this, 27 kilometers from the finish.
After the start of the stage run in the greyness, the sun appeared on the road to the Tour de Romandie. A particularly sunny tour in this 2025 edition. And even if the runners are preparing to find the clouds and fresh temperatures at more than 2,000 meters above sea level, they should meet much better conditions compared to the previous arrivals in the Valais station.
The German lost contact with Julien Bernard and Louis Barré in the descent of Suen. Only the two French people now open the road, with an advantage of 1 “20 on the peloton 33 kilometers from the finish.
- Zwiehoff – 5 points
- Bernard – 3 points
- Barred – 1 point
The breakaway lost twenty seconds in the ascent of Suen. She now begins the long descent leading the runners at the foot of the final climb.
This is the third time in five years that the French race has arrived at Thyon 2000. Michael Woods had established itself in dantesque conditions in 2021, benefiting from the fall in the sprint of Geraint Thomas. Adam Yates had done as much in the rain two years later. The two winners are not present on this edition.
They are already in the fourth ascent of the day: the rise of Suen (5.8 km at 5.1% – 3rd category), which followed almost immediately, and after a short descent, that of Nax. The summit is already three kilometers away, the arrival at 47.
- Ben Zwiehoff – 15 points
- Louis Barré – 10 points
- Julien Bernard – 6 points
- Ivo Oliveira – 4 points
- Felix Großschartner – 2 points
The three men have just ended the ascent of Nax. There are 52 kilometers left to go.
This is not the first time that Julien Bernard and Ben Zwiehoff have been on the attack since the start of this Romandie Tour. They were among the escapes Thursday during the stage of the Grande Béroche, while the German was already at the front Wednesday between Münchenstein and Friborg. Thanks to his offensive behavior, he appears in the lead in the mountain classification.
The only Swiss team present on this Tour de Romandie, Tudor has already lost four runners since the start of the event (Jacob Eriksson, Arthur Kluckers, Joel Suter and Maikel Zijlaard). It only remains Mathys Rondel, Sebastian Kolze Changizi and the Swiss Roland Thalmann in the race.
The leading men are in the third ascent of the day: the rise of Nax. They have two minutes ahead of the peloton led by the UAE Team Emirates team.
Sam Watson (ineos grenadiers), winner of the inaugural prologue, Loe Van Belle (Visma-Lease A Bike), Rune Herregodts (UAE Team Emirates), Oscar Riesebeek (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tom Paquot (Intermarché-Wanty) abandoned during the stage.
- Zwiehoff – 5 points
- Barred – 3 points
- Bernard – 1 point
Very active during the classics campaign, and fourth Friday on arrival in Cossonay, the French of the Intermarché-Wanty team was the first to truly detach from the peloton in the rise of Anzère, joined by Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek) and Ben Zwiehoff (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). The trio first crossed the summit of the rise of Anzère with about a minute ahead of the peloton.
They were 117 at the start in Sion this afternoon, Nicolas Debeaumarché (Cofidis) having been announced not partner by the organization.
They left Sion at 12:10 p.m. very exactly.
First because the stage is short (127.4 km), then because it has few kilometers of “valley”. But also because the main favorites are required to attack, after being trapped Thursday in the final leading the runners to the Grande Béroche. Very enterprising during this stage, Remco Evenepoel is for example 9th in the general classification, 52 seconds from leader Alex Baudin.
- Anzère (14.6 km at 6.9% – 1st category)
- Lens (3.5 km at 6.5% – 3rd category)
- NAX (11.4 km at 6.9% – 1st category)
- Suen (5.8 km at 5.1% – 3rd category)
- Thyon 2000 (20.8 km at 7.6% – 1st category)
This 4th stage – the only mountain in this Tour de Romandie – promises to be difficult. Not only do runners only go up and down, but in addition, they must face more than 4,100 meters of elevation gain, while the arrival will be deemed at more than 2,000 meters above sea level.
And welcome to this commented direct dedicated to the 4th stage of the Tour de Romandie, the queen stage of this 2025 edition. It leads the Peloton de Sion to Thyon 2000.
