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Breschel takes stage 4 at Swiss tour
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Matti Breschel (Saxo Bank) triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Tuesday.
The Dane held off Astana's Maxim Iglinsky by a whisker to take his third victory of the year in the 195km ride from Biasca to Staefa.
Tadej Valjavec (Ag2r-La Mondiale) finished third in the nine-man sprint to take the leader's jersey from Saxo's Fabian Cancellara, who crossed 1:03 down on the escapees.
Cancellara had led the race since winning the opening time trial.
Thanks to the bonus seconds awarded for his third-place finish, Valjavec now leads Cancellara's teammate Andy Schleck by two seconds going into Wednesday's 202km fifth stage from here to Serfaus.
Schleck was hunting time, too, pocketing six bonus seconds from the intermediate sprints near the end of the stage, and Saxo Bank will now be expected to throw everything behind him in the race for the yellow jersey.
One of the best climbers in the business, Schleck, 24, won the white jersey for the best placed rider aged under 25 at last year's Tour de France, and this season won the prestigious Liége-Bastogne-Liége classic.
Valjavec, however, is no slouch in the mountains, and finished ninth overall in the Giro d'Italia last month.
The scene is now set for a thrilling battle between Ag2r and Saxo Bank in Wednesday's fifth stage, which includes the climb over the 1793m high Col de Arlberg at the 141km mark and the 10km long climb to Serfaus.
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