This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Danny van Poppel finishes second on stage 4 and leaps over Anders Halland Johannessen for second overall Mads Pedersen completed the Lidl-Trek domination of the Deutschland Tour by winning stage 4 and securing the overall title on the final day.  Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) finished second and Luke Lamperti (Soudal-QuickStep) took third in Saarbrücken from the front group of nine riders with Pedersen taking his second stage victory on Sunday to seal the GC His teammate Jonathan Milan won the other three stages "It's always nice to win races and also GC and I am super happy to have another overall victory this year It's nice and shows that after a hard time since the Tour and Olympics that the shape is still there so bring on the rest of the season," Pedersen said in a team statement at the end "The plan today was really dependent on the way the race developed and the condition but the most important thing was to keep the GC I was also racing for that in the last kilometers to keep it together You know maybe one guy attacks and he is the one who is on 25 seconds but it is hard to know when the attacks keep going so I actually just wanted it to be together for the sprint and then hope for the best and luckily it was enough today."  Archie Ryan (EF Education-EasyPost) charged to the front on the 6% incline Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) grabbing his wheel in search for the 10 bonus seconds at the finish and Pedersen closing behind for the final downhill 4km to the finish Florian Stork (Tudor Pro) then attacked with 2.5km to go and Pedersen again went into chase mode pushing Johannessen to third by one second.  Two riders struck out after the opening 2km in the 182.7km final stage Max Walscheid (Jayco-AlUla) along with Joshua Huppertz (Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank) Another 8km on they were joined by Alberto Bruttomesso (Bahrain Victorious) and Oliver Mattheis (Bike Aid) and they charged ahead with 3 minutes to their advantage They carved out a solid lead of close to 5 minutes Once on the climb of Ormesheim (1.8km à 7%) with under 40km to go the breakaway of four allowed Javier Romo (Movistar) to join the fray Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe led the peloton in the chase as the final 50km was underway and the lead was cut in half with Bruttomesso the first one to drop from the breakaway group Passing the finish line in Saarbrücken for the first time with 15km to go the trio of escapees held a gap that had dropped to under 30 seconds Romo surged ahead with Mattheis for the remaining 12km while behind Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) launched an attack from the chasing peloton which spurred a mass reaction to keep everyone on guard causing the home crowd to cheer loudly as Deutschland Tour could be his final competition before retirement The move helped the peloton catch the breakaway Results powered by FirstCycling a sports marketing and public relations agency which managed projects for Tour de Georgia a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast) Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France) CYCLING – TEAM Bahrain Victorious enjoyed fantastic results yesterday in a pair of top-level international road cycling races in Europe Antonio Tiberi maintained his hold on the white jersey for best young rider after narrowly missing out on a podium while leading Bahrain Victorious teammate Jack Haig into the top 10 on the eighth stage of the Vuelta a Espana Matevz Govekar also came up one place shy of a spot in the best three on the third and penultimate leg of the Lidl Deutschland Tour in Germany where he spearheaded fellow-Bahrain Victorious riders Nicolo Buratti and Vlad Van Mechelen into their race’s leading 10 stage finishers is part of the 2024 calendar of the Union Cycliste International (UCI) WorldTour It is the third and final Grand Tour of the year following the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France The Lidl Deutschland Tour is part of the UCI ProSeries which is the second-tier in men’s elite road cycling Tiberi put in an outstanding ride and finished fourth overall in the stage 17 seconds behind winner Primoz Roglic of Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe team who completed the 159-kilometre leg in three hours 38 minutes 34 seconds Bahrain Victorious’ Torstein Traen was 49th he jumped two places to fourth overall on the race’s general classification (GC) in the battle for the yellow jersey currently worn by Ben O’Connor of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team Tiberi stayed on top with a 15-second lead from current second-placer Lennert Van Eetvelt of Lotto Dstny He is also Bahrain Victorious’ top man in the race’s points rankings La Vuelta continues today with a 178.5-kilometre ninth stage Riders depart from Motril and arrive at Granada for the finish Govekar came fourth after finishing amongst the leaders’ group spearheaded by victor Jonathan Milan of Lidl-Trek Buratti and Van Mechelen followed in ninth and 10th places Amongst Bahrain Victorious’ other riders Buratti is the team’s highest-ranked rider on the GC in 27th place Govekar rose 15 positions to ninth on the points rankings for the green jersey while Buitrago dropped one place to sixth in the king of mountain standings The Lidl Deutschland Tour concludes today with the fourth and final stage covering 182.7 kilometres starting from Annweiler am Trifels and ending in Saarbrucken.