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• Wout Van Aert used a stunning late attack to solo to victory on stage four of the Tour de France and extend his lead in the yellow jersey gaming
  
  Van Aert’s Jumbo-Visma team made their move on the final short climb of the 171 gaming
  
  5km stage from Dunkerque to Calais and he rode away on the descent, covering the final 10 kilometres alone as a fractured peloton trailed in his wake gaming
  
  After finishing second in all three opening stages of the Grand Depart in Denmark, Van Aert gave himself time to celebrate on the line as he won by eight seconds, Jasper Philipsen also punching the air as he led the pack home seemingly unaware that Van Aert had been a few hundred metres up the road gaming
  
  Van Aert had lamented it was “not funny anymore” after being beaten into second in back-to-back sprint finishes over the weekend, so he made sure there was no bunch gallop here gaming
  
  “I didn’t want to take the risk anymore,” he said with a smile gaming
  
  “These stages most likely end with a sprint in a bigger group, so it’s one of the most difficult things to do to go it alone gaming
  
  RecommendedWimbledon: Nadal cruises into quarter-finals while Kyrgios battles to win in five setsCobbles provide treacherous test on stage 5 of Tour de FranceTour de France on TV: Channel, start time, highlights and how to watch stage 4“I could only do it with the help of my team-mates gaming
  
  They did half the work and it was up to me to finish it off gaming
  
  ”Van Aert, whose long-term goal in this Tour is the points classification and the green jersey, extends his lead in yellow to 25 seconds from Yves Lampaert gaming
  
  Defending champion Tadej Pogacar is third, now 32 seconds down, while the Ineos Grenadiers’ Adam Yates is eighth, 48 seconds back gaming
  
  Jumbo-Visma’s attack on the Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez, the last of the six category four climbs on the first French stage of the race, seemed to catch unawares a number of the general classification contenders as small gaps appeared gaming
  
  Only Van Aert’s team-mate Jonas Vingegaard and Yates were able to stay close to the Belgian, with Geraint Thomas, Pogacar and Van Aert’s own team leader Primoz Roglic left behind, though they regrouped before the finish gaming
  
  Jumbo-Visma appeared to be trying to pull off a repeat of the opening stage of Paris-Nice, when a co-ordinated late attack saw three of their riders go alone to the finish, Van Aert finishing third behind Christopher Laporte and Roglic gaming
  
  This time Roglic could not keep up, joking afterwards that Van Aert is “half human, half motor” gaming
  
  Van Aert, having seen the splits behind, pushed on alone gaming
  
  “There was a bit of doubt whether to wait for Jonas and Yates, but by going full I also put Jonas and the others in a good position,” he said gaming
  
  “They didn’t have to ride, so I decided to go alone and the last 10 kilometres was all out suffering gaming
  
  ”With Van Aert not considered a threat for yellow in the long term, Geraint Thomas, 50 seconds down in 12th, played down the gaps that did appear gaming between the main contenders on that final climb gaming
  
  “I think a lot of it was positioning,” the Welshman said gaming
  
  “Obviously you had to have decent legs, but I think you can read too much into it gaming
  
  It was really only a one or two-minute blast and that doesn’t necessarily win you the Tour gaming
  
  “But that type of effort at least shows we’re going all right gaming
  
  ”RecommendedTour de France: How to watch stage 4 gaming online and on TV todayOn this day in 2014 – Mark Cavendish crashes out of Tour de France on first dayTour de France leader Wout van Aert ready for ‘really demanding’ stagesMagnus Cort Nielsen had been part of a two-man breakaway and made Tour history, leading over the first five of the six categorised climbs to make it a record 11 out of 11 to start this race, and ensuring he will wear polka dots until at least Friday, with the feared cobbles to come on Wednesday gaming
  
  Following Monday’s transfer from Denmark, the day started with riders taking part in a tribute to victims of Sunday’s shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, in which three people were killed gaming
  
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  Tottenham’s deadline-day arrival Pedro Porro has been described as a “great player” but he still may have to be content with a place on the bench for Sunday’s visit of Manchester City gaming
  
  Porro completed a loan switch from Sporting Lisbon during the final minutes of the January transfer window after a month of speculation and talks gaming between the two clubs gaming
  
  Spurs had held a long-standing interest in the Spain international, who will join permanently in the summer for a 45 million euro (£39 gaming
  
  5million) fee gaming
  
  Porro has faced Tottenham twice in this season’s Champions League and trained with his new team-mates for the first time on Wednesday but is likely to follow the path of other recent signings by biding their time before forcing their way into the starting line-up gaming
  
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