PREVIEW | Etoile de Bessèges 2023 stage 4 - Queen stage to Mont Bouquet to decide GC

The opening stage-race of the year in France will be the Etoile de Bessèges and every year it delivers quite a lot of spectacle in central France. Stage 4 will see the riders go up to Mount Bouquet for the queen stage. Neilson Powless, Thibau Pinot, Pavel Sivakov and Pierre Latour will be amongst the favourites.

The fourth day of racing could be considered the queen stage. The new main location of the race when it comes to differences for the overall classification, the short stage will see the arrival at Le Mont Bouquet, the toughest climb of the race at 4.5Km at 8.9%, and where the climbers will really have to work to get themselves within a shot of winning the race.

*** Neilson Powless
** Mattias Skjelmose, Pavel Sivakov
* Pierre Latour, Thibau Pinot, Ben Tulett

Pick: Neilson Powless