Tour de Romandie (2016) Photos Apr 26 - May 1

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Call it a surprise win, Spain's Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR) wins the cold 4 km prologue in 5:33 with a cat 3 climb in La Chaux-de-Fonds	Bonus shot of the prologue winner, Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR)	2nd Tom DUMOULIN (GIANT - ALPECIN) + 6s
3rd Michal KWIATKOWSKI (SKY) + 7s	4th Geraint THOMAS (SKY) + 7s	5th Gorka IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR) + 8s
6th Moreno MOSER (CANNONDALE) + 9s	7th Reto HOLLENSTEIN (IAM CYCLING) + 11s	8th Louis VERVAEKE (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 11s, best young rider
9th Tejay VAN GARDEREN (BMC RACING) + 11s	10th Martijn KEIZER (LOTTO NL - JUMBO) + 12s	11th Thibaut PINOT (FDJ) + 12s
18th Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) + 16s	And here comes Chris Froome laboring up the Cat 3 climb complaining about the cold conditions	60th Chris FROOME (SKY) + 26s
Nice shot of Ryder HESJEDAL (TFS) too bad he finished 65th + 27s	Your Prologue winner, Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR)	and of course, the first race leader, Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR)
8th Louis VERVAEKE (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 11s, best young rider

Stage 1:  La Chaux-de-Fonds → Moudon, 169 km  Full Results and Report

BMC during the chilly, morning's teams presentation before stage 1	Pierre Rolland (Cannondale) figures his performance has improved by 10% since joining his new team	Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) keeping it upright prior to Stage 1
Chris FROOME (SKY)	Futile solo attack by Sander ARMEE (LOTTO SOUDAL)	Four minutes later, the peloton
		Sprint finish in Moudon after a shortened stage due to bad weather
Marcel Kittel front and center as expected	Marcel KITTEL (ETIXX - QUICK STEP) beats Niccolo BONIFAZIO (TREK - SEGAFREDO)...	... by half a wheel. The finish photo
	Kitten looks good for the upcoming Giro d'Italia	Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR) retained his 6s race lead
The winner post race	Your Stage 1 winner, Marcel KITTEL (ETIXX - QUICK STEP)	Points leader too

Stage 2:  Moudon → Morgins, 174 km  Full Results and Report

2nd at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday and 3rd yesterday, Michael ALBASINI (ORICA GreenEDGE)	Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) during the Stage 2 Moudon sign-in, we'll see him again at the finish...	After passing Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR), Ilnur ZAKARIN (KATUSHA) cut him off (slightly) in the final corner of the Morgins summit finish
Ilnur ZAKARIN'S celebration was short lived as his minor infraction resulted in a relegation to second		3rd Rui COSTA (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 26s and 4th Rigoberto URAN (CANNONDALE)
5th Thibaut PINOT (FDJ) + 26s, the morning race leader, 6th Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR), 7th Rafal MAJKA (TINKOFF), 8th Mathias FRANK (IAM CYCLING), 9th Pierre ROLLAND (CANNONDALE)	98th and 99th, Sky's Mikel Nieve and Chris Froome + 17:30	Your Stage 2 winner after the relegation of Ilnur ZAKARIN, Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR)
New race leader, Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) by 18s

Stage 3:  Sion, 15.1 km  Full Results and Report

Winner of the Stage 3 Sion 15 km TT with a cat 3 climb in the middle was Thibaut PINOT (FDJ) in 20:21	2nd Tom DUMOULIN (GIANT - ALPECIN) + 2s	3rd Bob JUNGELS (ETIXX - QUICK STEP) + 9s was the early leader
4th Christopher FROOME (SKY) + 9s	5th Jerome COPPEL (IAM CYCLING) + 9s	6th Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) + 9s
7th Ilnur ZAKARIN (KATUSHA) + 17s	8th Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR) + 18s	9th Steve MORABITO (FDJ) + 22s
10th Manuele BOARO (TINKOFF) + 25s	11th Tejay VAN GARDEREN (BMC RACING) + 25s	Looking good for the Tour de France, Quintana tied Froome on time today
Thibaut PINOT (FDJ)	Your Stage 3 winner, Thibaut PINOT (FDJ)	Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) extended his race lead to a healthy 23s today

Stage 4:  Conthey → Villars-sur-Ollon, 173 km  Full Results and Report

Yesterday's Stage 3 TT winner, Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) rolling into Conthey	Tejay VAN GARDEREN (BMC RACING)	Ilnur ZAKARIN (KATUSHA)
ETIXX - QUICK STEP's Marcel KITTEL and Bob JUNGELS	Bauke MOLLEMA (TREK - SEGAFREDO) was 6th + 4s today	Rui COSTA (LAMPRE - MERIDA) was 7th + 4s
Tom DUMOULIN (GIANT - ALPECIN) was 11th + 11s	Race leader, Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR)
Rigoberto URAN (CANNONDALE) 8th + 4s	Rafal MAJKA (TINKOFF) was 19th + 1:49	A cat 3 and three cat 1 climbs on today's Queen Stage
	Today's main break attacked with 40 km to go	Chris Froome (Sky) and Tejay van Garderen (BMC) were joined Pavel Kochetkov (Katusha) and Bob Jungels (Etixx-QuickStep)
Cannonade was part of the chase	Sole break survivor, Chris FROOME (SKY) hung on to win by 4s over the GC group	In the background, the bunch sprint among the GC contenders for second
2nd Jon IZAGUIRRE (MOVISTAR) + 4s, 3rd Thibaut PINOT (FDJ) and outside of the bonus seconds was 4th Ilnur ZAKARIN (KATUSHA), and race reader 5th Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR)		Finishing in the same time as the GC group, 8th Rigoberto URAN (CANNONDALE) + 4s
BMC teammates 9th Tejay VAN GARDEREN + 9s and 12th Damiano CARUSO + 11s	23rd Damien Howson (Orica GreenEDGE) + 2:10
He certainly didn't hold anything back	Your Stage 4 winner, Chris FROOME (SKY), redeems his Tour de Romandie
He lost a few seconds due to bonus time at the finish, but Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) will take a 19s lead into the final stage

Stage 5:  Ollon → Geneva, 177 km  Full Results and Report

Geneva, the finish host for the fifth and final stage	Bunch sprint in Geneva	Michael Albasini (Orica GreenEDGE) looks around to confirm he's won the stage
Michael ALBASINI (Orica GreenEDGE), indeed, wins Stage 5	2nd Andrey AMADOR (MOVISTAR) and 3rd Wilco KELDERMAN (LOTTO NL - JUMBO)	Your Stage 5 winner, Michael ALBASINI (Orica GreenEDGE)
Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR) wraps up the overall	Your 2016 overall winner, Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR)	2nd Thibaut PINOT (FDJ) + 19s and 1st overall Nairo QUINTANA (MOVISTAR)
Man on the rise, Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) won the young rider's competition by almost 2 minutes	Sander Armée (Lotto Soudal) won the mountains classification	Christopher Froome won the combatively today
With 1st and 3rd on GC, Movistar won the team competition