Lampre's Allesandro Pettachi won the fourth stage of the Presidental Tour Of Turkey this afternoon.
Stage four was from Marmaris to Pamukkale. There were three main groups on the road with eight escapees getting two minutes clear of a chasing group but the peleton lagged a massive thirty two minutes behind.
Julien Fouchard of Cofidis and Svein Tuft of Team Spidertech broke from the leaders with twelve kilometres to go on a long straight road, dotted with Roman theatres.
They stayed clear until 3kms to go but despite being nineteen seconds ahead, the pair seemed to realise it was not their day and dropped the pace as they went up the final hill.
Fouchard made a push with a kilometre go the finish but on a roads with as many pot-holes as we saw in Coventry over the winter, they were caught by Anthony Roux.
The FDJ rider was caught and right on the line, Lampre's Allesandro Pettachi snatched the win by half a bike length on the line from Poland's Bartosz Huzarski. with Efimkin third.
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In the Tour of Romandie today in Switzerland, Katusha's Pawel Broutt won the second stage.
A group of four riders got over seven minutes clear on the stage from Martigny, where Coventry City played Romanian side FC Brasov in a pre-season friendly under Chris Coleman and ended up some 172.6km later in Leysin on a very wet afternoon.
Movistar's Branislau Samoilau and Katusha's Pavel Broutt went off the front followed by Leopard Trek's Linus Gerdemann.
Broutt went up the road with Samilau unable to follow him. Lampre's Oleksandr Kvachuk caught up to the Movistar rider and then set off after Broutt in what proved to be a very tough final kilometre.
He could not catch the Russian who won in a time of 4hr 27 mins and 41 seconds. Kavachuk did indeed finish second some 55 seconds down, Samoilau with Jack Bobridge in fourth.
Cadel Evans (pictured below) and Team Sky's Chris Froome were in the race from the peleton, finishing seventh and eighth whilst yesterday's winner came in 2 mins and 55 seconds back. 
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