Ewen wins final sprint as Rui Costa wins Abu Dhabi Tour
Rui Costa gives UAE Team Emirates an important home victory. Mark cavendish won the Green Sprinters jersey.
The last stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour was won by Australian Caleb Ewan of Orica-Scott as Rui Costa of UAE Team Emirates celebrated, securing the overall victory.
The fourth and final stage took place on the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit. The weather was particularly wet which saw a few crashes as the peloon picked up the pace.
Rafa Valls (Lotto-Soudal), Alex Dowsett and Jorge Arcas (Movistar), Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe), Kirill Sveshnikov (Gazprom-Rusvelo) and Dylan Teuns (BMC) formed the breakaway of the day.
The breakaway was desperate to stay away, Teuns and Dowsett were the last men standing in the breakaway and were reeled in with 30 kilometers to go.
No attacks were made in the final kilometres as the sprinters' teams maintained a high pace to avoid any surprises.
In the final sprint, Ewan was perfectly launched by his teammates and finished ahead of Dimension Data's Mark Cavendish and Lotto-Soudal's Andre Greipel.
UAE Team Emirates' Rui Costa finished safely in the pack and was confirmed the overall victor ahead of Ilnur Zakarin of Katusha-Alpecin and Tom Dumoulin of Team Sunweb.
Rui Costa won the important Stage 3 Queen Stage, the Portuguese rider beat Ilnur Zakarin of Katusha-Alpecin in a sprint of two on the final tough climb up the Jebel Hafeet mountain in its finalet o take the overall clasification.
2017 Abu Dhabi Tour Stage 4 Results Top 10
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-Scott 3:03:06
2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
3 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
4 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
5 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
6 Roger Kluge (Ger) Orica-Scott
7 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors
8 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
9 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
10 Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
2017 Abu Dhabi Tour Overall General Classifcation after Stage 4
1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 15:42:21
2 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:04
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:16
4 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:38
5 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:53
6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:56
7 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
8 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team
9 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:07
VIDEO: 2017 Abu Dhabi Tour Stage 4 Last Kilometres
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17:37 GMT: 2017 Abu Dhabi Tour Overall General Classification after stage 4. Rui Costa wins.
17:35 GMT: Stage 4 Results Top 3. Ewen wins final sprint!
17:20 GMT: Final Sprint Caleb Ewen wins sprint. Rui Costa win GC
#AbuDhabiTour LIVE: Caleb Ewen wins sprint. Cavendish keeps Green Jersey! Watch Here --> https://t.co/EyhOyyLq2c pic.twitter.com/msvDPyL17a
— GranFondoGuide (@GranFondoGuide) February 26, 2017
17:18 GMT: Caleb Ewen wins sprint. Cavendish keeps Green Jersey!
17:13 GMT: Final lap 5km to go! Viviani, Kittel, Greipel, Ewen or Cavendish?
17:09 GMT: 10km 10 go. Viviani, Kittel, Ewen or Cavendish?
16:49 GMT: Alaphilppe wins intermediate sprint and moves up to 5th place on GC!
16:38 GMT: 32 km to go. Intermediate sprint lap. Cavendish or Kittel for the final sprint?
Quick-Step Floors bringing break back. Kittel looking to get sprint points. Cavendish is 9 points ahead of Kittel.
16:35 GMT: 36km to go. Rui Costa looks likely to win the GC.
16:31 GMT: Three leaders (Dowsett, Arcas and Teuns) are 16 seconds ahead of the bunch. 39km to go!
16:15 GMT: Situation, 6 leaders have a lead of 15 seconds. a few crashes due to the rain.
16:11 GMT: LIVE video now available. Please refresh this page to update video player and then press play!
16:00 GMT: Stage 4 situation. 66km to go. breakaway 35 secs
16:02 GMT: Doesn't rain like this when there's F1!?
#AbuDhabiTour LIVE: VIDEO: Stage 4 Looks mighty wet! Watch LIVE Here --> https://t.co/EyhOyyLq2c #RideToAbuDhabi #livestream pic.twitter.com/uRgQFRKkDh
— GranFondoGuide (@GranFondoGuide) February 26, 2017
15:50 GMT: Live video should start in 10 minutes above!. Can Rui Costa hang onto the lead? Looks mighty wet out there!
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