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Heavy rain and other difficult climbs. The next day, riders in Switzerland examined both the nature and the weather and the difficult stage profile.

First, the cyclists climbed a 24-kilometer climb to Klausenpass, where in 2008 Roman Kreuziger set out for the overall victory. After that, they were totally wet and frosty, and made a dangerous technical descent into the valley. And they topped the finish line in Amden-Arvenbühl.

“Normally I don’t mind the rain, but this is a little too much. I look forward to the World Championship in Qatar, ”commented Petr Vakoč on Twitter on track conditions.

There were two races in one on the Alpine slopes.Refugees from the 15-member group initially fought for stage victory, with Pieter Weening, the leader of the Roompot team, moving forward.

The former winner of the Tour and two stages at the Giro in 2011 even dressed in maglia dew in Italy. Now he was pedaling for the biggest triumph of his stable, which is only two years in the midst of the second-class.

The goal was to drive the second-most Maximilian Richez of Etixx, the winner of Stage Four.The Argentinian sprinter took Peter Sagan’s black jersey from the leader of the scoring competition. Two riders from second-class stables finished in the top three, Maciej Paterski of the CCC team in Poland came third.

Za Gorka Izagirre of Movistar fought for a long time alone with other refugees, losing only 27 seconds in total. Twenty-five miles ahead, he made a four-minute lead over a group of favorites. But he gradually lost it until he lost it, even though his team mate Sütterlin withdrew from it.So he did not fulfill his dream of getting dressed in the yellow jersey of the race leader. On the contrary, Wilco Kelderman, the seventh man of Gira 2014, won the race.

On the finish climb to Arvenbühl, whose passages reached 12 Percent, Tejay van Garderen, BMC team leader, and then a man in yellow, Pierre-Roger Latour of AG2R, dropped off.

Twice he tried to attack the title champion Simon Spilak, but his attempts were eliminated by others. >

Nine riders stayed in the group of favorites together, with Geraint Thomas of Sky, one of the big candidates, unexpectedly lagging behind in the final passages. The exhausted Latour was able to overtake him.

Kelderman, on the other hand, brought the elite group to the finish and could celebrate.Instead of the yellow-white-black jersey of his Lotto NL-Jumbo, he will wear another one on Friday, which will be dominated by yellow.

He is now 16 seconds ahead of Warren Barguil of Giant and 19 seconds ahead of Andrew Talansky of Cannondal . Latour came down to sixth, Thomas eight to eighth and van Garderen disappeared from the top ten at 2:09 in the 13th position.

Petr Vakoč of Etixx, this time he came 35th with a loss of 8:06 minutes, three and a half minutes after the favorites. Overall, he just scored one place and is eighteenth.

Again, Leopold König, working for his leader Thomas, at 58.Karel Hník, who was taken away a day earlier after falling to the hospital, fortunately said no more serious injuries, according to his team’s Verva.

Numerous riders surrendered during two days of duel with cold weather, not even the best home representative of Matthias Frank from the IAM team, sixteenth in the race, came to the stage on Thursday.

Those who continue in the race are waiting for a royal stage on Friday.

Leaving Switzerland and heading for Sölden, Austria, and then beyond, to the Rettenberg Glacier.