Tour of Britain Women Stage 4 Preview

Final stage...should be close to a re-run of today's stage.

Stage 4 profile from procyclingstats.com

 

A couple of categorized climbs in the first half of the stage, but nothing that will trouble the bunch too much. Then it's rolling until about 10 km to go; we could see some late attacks in the back half of the stage, but everything should come together for another big sprint finale.

 Contenders

LORENA WIEBES -- Once again the fastest at the finish, and it wasn't close. Should be the same again today. Barring disaster, she should take the stage.

CHARLOTTE KOOL -- Second again...I don't see that changing on the final stage.

Prediction

Lorena Wiebes with another win going away for the SD Worx sweep.

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