Penultimate Taihu Lake finishes in a sprint once again

Like all the other stages, the fourth stage of the Tour of Taihu Lake finished in a bunch gallop. The peloton was once again not content to let a breakaway up the road, as the fast and flat nature of the course is favorable to would-be escapees.

Team Novo Nordisk planned to be part of any possible moves with another eye on protecting Hamish Beadle for a sprint. The New Zealander was the first finisher for the world’s first all-diabetes cycling team in 36^th.

Hamish Beadle:

Today we changed our plan a little and tried our chances for the break. After nearly two hours the break still hadn’t gone, as the lead teams didn’t want anything to go. So we tried for the sprint again, with the boys keeping it calm with 10km to go. Quinten was the last man and he went a bit too early for me, so I was stuck at the front and ended up getting swamped. Tomorrow is the last day, and I think we can do pretty well on this course with the guys.