We don’t play with a breakaway and Warre Vangheluwe, winner of the 4th stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk on Friday, proved it once again. The peloton, significantly reduced by the passage of seven selective cobbled sectors and which led the pursuit behind four men (the Belgian Warre Vangheluwe, the Czech Tomas Kopecky, as well as the French Alexis Gougeard and Samuel Leroux), never succeeded in fact. to return to his last representative, who resisted on the wire.
While the leading group only had a few seconds lead, Gougeard (Cofidis) went out alone less than 2 kilometers from the line. If for a time he seemed to have done the hardest part, Vangheluwe (Soudal Quick-Step) went after him, catching him easily and letting go immediately. In the final straight, while the peloton seemed beaten, the neo-pro raised his arms a little too early, without realizing that the Irishman Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), winner of the two previous stages, was coming back completely on him.
And it was finally at the photo finish, to the millimeter, that Vangheluwe, in tears while waiting for the result to be made official, was declared the winner. His first success among the pros.
